Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, activist, and humanitarian, Angélique Kidjo presents a lecture focused on her passion for freedom and social justice. With the strength of her voice, the power of her words, and the intensity of her performance, Angélique creates music that not only transcends language, it connects the entire world. One of The Guardian’s 100 most inspiring women in the world, she was the first woman on Forbes’s list of the Most Powerful Celebrities in Africa. As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and OXFAM campaigner, Angélique speaks out for human rights and female empowerment including in op-eds for CNN and The New York Times. Cole Memorial Chapel, 7:00 p.m.

Current scholarship on medieval stained-glass windows has allowed us to appreciate more fully how they were engaged in the devotional life of the buildings they illuminate. But rose windows, which are the very large circular apertures on the terminal arms of Gothic structures, have not been included in these analyses. The conservation currently taking place at Chartres Cathedral allows us to consider rose windows with new eyes, and grasp their materiality, legibility for their medieval beholders, and meaning within the larger glazing cycle.