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Listening to the Loas': The Haitian Revolution's Effect on Southern Literature
Mar 2 2010 - 4:00pm / Hurst Lounge (314) 935-5190
John W. Lowe, an Americanist specializing in Southern literature, Southern Studies and humor, is the Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Comparitive Literature at Louisiana State University and the visiting Hurst Professor in the Department of English. Lowe will deliver two talks which focus on books that he is completing: the first is titled "Listening to the Loas': The Haitian Revolution's Effect on Southern Literature.
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Assembly Series: Kip Fulbeck
Mar 2 2010 - 7:00pm / Graham Chapel
Fulbeck uses art, film, photographs and words to explore the meaning of racial identity. His own mixed heritage is Cantonese, English, Irish and Welsh, which qualifies him for the term “Hapa,” the once derogatory slang word for “half,” as in half Asian or Pacific Islander. His Hapa Project, an exhibition and book featuring more than 1,200 portraits, is featured in the Missouri History Museum’s new exhibition, “RACE: Are We So Different?” which runs through April 4. The museum is co-sponsoring Fulbeck’s talk, “What Are You? The Changing Face of America”.
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New Directions in Faulkner Scholarship
Mar 4 2010 - 4:00pm / Hurst Lounge (314) 935-5190
John W. Lowe, an Americanist specializing in Southern literature, Southern Studies and humor, is the Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Comparitive Literature at Louisiana State University and the visiting Hurst Professor in the Department of English. This second of two talks Lowe will deliver is titled "New Directions in Faulkner Scholarship."
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Department of Music Graduate Student Colloquium
Mar 5 2010 - 4:00pm / Music Classroom Bldg., Rm. 102 935-5566
Dept. of Music Graduate Student Colloquium. "The Origin of Civil War Melodies in Southern Collegiate Fight Songs."
Michael Lanford, graduate teaching asst. “Musical and Syntactical Relationships in the Sequences of Hildegard of Bingen.”
Karen Olson, university fellow. Music Classroom Bldg., Rm. 102. 935-5566.
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Recapturing My Heritage: A Lecture by Gail Milissa Grant
Mar 17 2010 - 4:00pm / McMillan Cafe in the Danforth Center 314-935-6543
Gail Milissa Grant will talk and sign copies of her book AT THE ELBOWS OF MY ELDERS: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights. She was born in St. Louis and is a 1972 graduate of Washington University. Her book was published by The Missouri History Museum in 2008 and in 2009 it was named the Benjamin Franklin Book of the Year in the autobiography/memoir category.
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Assembly Series: Matisyahu
Mar 18 2010 - 4:00pm / Graham Chapel assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call (314) 935-4620
Matisyahu is a cultural icon, whose unique blend of Hasidic, reggae and hip-hop music has sold millions of records and garnered fans around the world. An acclaimed singer/songwriter Matisyahu will make a special appearance in a program featuring an acoustic performance as well as a discussion about his development as an artist, his latest record, “Light,” and the fusion of his philosophies and various musical styles. Seating will be limited.
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Isidore Silver Memorial Lecture: Laughter at the Limits: Brantome's Lesbian Love Dilemma
Mar 18 2010 - 5:00pm / Eads 207-followed by reception in Ridgley 310 935-5175
Professor Dora Polachek, Binghamton University, will present this year's Isidore Silver Memorial Lecture. Her area of specialization is French Renaissance literature. She has published extensively on Marguerite de Navarre and Montaigne and her other research interests include French Renaissance theater and issues relating to gender and power in the early modern period.
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UM-KC MFA Program Reading-Poetry and Fiction
Mar 19 2010 - 7:00pm / Hurst Lounge, 201 Duncker Hall rcshapiro@gmail.com
Our very own Writing Program will play host to the MFA writers of the
University of Missouri, Kansas City. These intrepid visitors will share
their poetry and fiction with us. The readers will include three poets
and two fiction writers.
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Opera Production: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
Mar 19 2010 - 8:00pm / Edison Theatre music@artsci.wustl.edu
Celebrate the final production of Jolly Stewart, Director, Washington University Opera
John Stewart, Conductor
Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
March 19 and 20.
Tickets: $18 General Public, $12 Faculty/Staff/Seniors, $7 Students
Edison Theatre Box Office (314) 935-6543 or MetroTix (314) 534-1111.
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Opera Production: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
Mar 20 2010 - 8:00pm / Edison Theatre music@artsci.wustl.edu
Celebrate the final production of Jolly Stewart, Director, Washington University Opera
John Stewart, Conductor
Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
March 19 and 20, 2010
Edison Theatre 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $18 General Public, $12 Faculty/Staff/Seniors, $7 Students
Edison Theatre Box Office (314) 935-6543 or MetroTix (314) 534-1111.
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Movements in Baroque
Mar 21 2010 - 7:00pm / Ballroom Theater, 560 Music Center music@artsci.wustl.edu
Elizabeth Macdonald, viola da gamba, Charles Metz, harpsichord and virginal, Jeffrey Noonan, theorbo, lute and baroque guitar with the Ashleyliane Dance Company.
French music of the renaissance and baroque combined with the creative individuality of the Ashleyliane Dance Company.
Music of Couperin, Royer and featuring the Folies d'Espagne of Marin Marais.
Free Admission.
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A Site of Blessings, Dreams, and Wonders: The Egyptian Saint's Shrine as Crucible of Christianization, ca. 400-700 CE
Mar 22 2010 - 12:00pm / Women's Building Formal Lounge 314-935-8677 or relst@artsci.wustl.edu
Prof. David Frankfurter, Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of New Hampshire, will present the 2009-2010 E.G. Weltin Lecture in Early Christianity. Since Peter Brown's evocative Cult of the Saints (1981), the saint's shrine has become a major topic in the study of early Christianity: pilgrims' goal, ceremonial center, meeting place for communities and their heavenly patrons. In most places across the late antique world, the saint's shrine defined Christianity. But in the process these shrines also became sites for the assertion of older religious traditions-for "syncretism." Focusing on late antique Egypt (while drawing on comparative materials), this lecture will look at ways that local cultures came to appropriate saints' shrines to express Christianity in traditional terms.
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Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Series Lecture
Mar 23 2010 - 6:00pm / Women's Building Lounge Romance Languages 935-5175 Professor Cindy Brantmeier
Dr. Russell Berman, Stanford University, will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in Women's Building Lounge with reception to follow.
The title of his talk: " Student Learning and the Languages: or How Foreign is the Foreign Language Question."
This series is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Psychology, The Teaching Center, and The Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
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The Craft of Poetry
Mar 23 2010 - 8:00pm / Hurst Lounge, 201 Duncker Hall (314) 935-7130 or dschuman@wustl.edu
Poet Frant Bidart, Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the English Department and The Writing Program. Bidart will speak on the craft of poetry. He will present a reading of his work on Tuesday, March 25. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Assembly Series: Naomi Klein
Mar 24 2010 - 11:11am / Graham Chapel Assembly Series: Naomi Klein
Since writing the 2000 best seller “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies” and following it up with the explosive and equally popular 2007 book “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” Naomi Klein has become a symbol for the anti-globalization movement. Klein’s talk, “The Present and Future of Capitalism,” will be followed by a discussion at 2 p.m. with a panel in the Women’s Building Lounge. Chancellor’s Fellows Lecture.
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13th Annual Paul Rava Memorial Lecture in Italian
Mar 25 2010 - 4:15pm / Lab Sciences 250 Kathy Loepker 935-5175
David Kertzer, the Paul Dupee Uniersity Profesor of Social Science and Provost at Brown University will deliver the annual Paul Rava Lecture. The title of the lecture is: "Mussolini and the Pope: Vatican Influence in the Fascist Regime." A reception in the Rettner Gallery, Lab Sciences Building, will follow talk. Professor Michael Sherberg in charge.
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Poet Frank Bidart reads from his work
Mar 25 2010 - 8:00pm / Hurst Lounge, 201 Duncker Hall (314) 935-7130 or dschuman@wustl.edu
Frank Bidart, visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature and The Writing Program, will read from his work. This event follows a lecture by Bidart on Tuesday, March 23 on the craft of poetry. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Performing Arts Department presents FABULATION
Mar 25 2010 - 8:00pm / A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre 935-6543
The Performing Arts Department presents FABULATION by Lynn Nottage and directed by Bill Whitaker on March 25-27 at 8 PM and March 27-28 at 2:00 PM.
Years ago, Undine disowned who she was and where she came from. Even her name is an acquired thing. Now, at the height of her success, she loses everything, her exotic husband, her glamorous job, and all her celebrated Manhattan friends. The only place she can go now is home to Brooklyn, to the family and friends of a former life she would rather forget. Part satire, part moral fable, FABULATION is a humbling comedy with a sharp, unforgiving eye aimed at affectation and pretense of any kind.
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5th Annual African Film Festival
Mar 26 2010 - 1:00pm / Brown Hall, Room 100 (School of Social Work) wtoliver@artsci.wustl.edu or (314) 935 -7879
Experience Africa and the art of African filmmaking by attending the Saturday matinee of the African Film Festival at Washington University, in its 5th year. The festival will feature 8 films from 8 different countries in Africa focusing on a variety of themes. The festival is free and open to the public. Sponsored by African and African American Studies, Film and Media Studies, African Students Association, and funded in part by grants from the Washington University Women's Society and the Dean of the Faculty in Arts & Sciences. For more information, visit wupa.wustl.edu/africanfilm or call 314-935-7879.
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5th Annual African Film Festival
Mar 27 2010 - 1:00pm / Brown Hall, Room 100 (School of Social Work) wtoliver@artsci.wustl.edu or (314) 935-7879
Experience Africa and the art of African filmmaking by attending the Saturday matinee of the African Film Festival at Washington University, in its 5th year. The festival will feature 8 films from 8 different countries in Africa focusing on a variety of themes. The festival is free and open to the public. Sponsored by African and African American Studies, Film and Media Studies, African Students Association, and funded in part by grants from the Washington University Women's Society and the Dean of the Faculty in Arts & Sciences.
For more information, visit wupa.wustl.edu/africanfilm or call 314-935-7879.
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5th Annual African Film Festival
Mar 28 2010 - 1:30pm / Brown Hall, Room 100 (School of Social Work) wtoliver@artsci.wustl.edu or (314) 935-7879
Experience Africa and the art of African filmmaking by attending the Saturday matinee of the African Film Festival at Washington University, in its 5th year. The festival will feature 8 films from 8 different countries in Africa focusing on a variety of themes. The festival is free and open to the public. Sponsored by African and African American Studies, Film and Media Studies, African Students Association, and funded in part by grants from the Washington University Women's Society and the Dean of the Faculty in Arts & Sciences. For more information, visit wupa.wustl.edu/africanfilm or call 314-935-7879.
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Democracy & Citizenship Initiative Spring Lecture Series
Mar 31 2010 - 4:00pm / Hurst Lounge/ Duncker Hall tmillner@artsci.wustl.edu
The Democracy & Citizenship Initiative presents the second talk in its Spring Lecture Series: "The Humanities, Liberal Education, & Democracy Citizenship". Panel Chair Christine Johnson (History), Panelists: Eric Brown (Philosophy), Matthew Erlin (German), Marina MacKay (English).
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Science on Tap: Six Years on Mars: An Update
Mar 31 2010 - 7:00pm / Schlafly Bottleworks, Maplewood MO sciontap@artsci.wustl.edu
Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Moderated by: Cynthia Wichelman, M.D.
Science On Tap is a place where, for the price of a beverage, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place outside a traditional academic context, in the Crown Room at Schlafly Bottleworks.
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