In conjunction with the performances of “Ragtime,” the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will present a faculty colloquium on the issues brought to light in the award-winning musical.
Gary S. Wihl, Ph.D., dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, will present a paper titled “Doctorow, Civil Disobedience and Unenumerated Rights” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Edison Theatre.
“Ragtime” the musical — and movie — is based on “Ragtime” the novel by E.L. Doctorow. Published in 1975, the novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel and won the 1975 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the Arts and Letters Award. Time magazine included the novel in its 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
Panelists will be Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences; Stephan Schindler, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences; director Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the PAD; and Robert Henke, Ph.D., chair of the PAD and professor of drama in Arts & Sciences.
The colloquium is free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-5858. To see the Record story on PAD’s production of “Ragtime,” visit http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/14829.html.