The Record Happenings

Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021

Tune in to Department of Music’s ‘Musical Lunch Box’

Six students from the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will perform works by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt at noon Friday, Feb. 26, as part of the department’s new “Musical Lunch Box” series. Intended to simulate the live concert experience, the performance will be filmed in a single take from the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee stage. The series will continue with short recitals at noon on Fridays throughout the semester.

Upcoming events

FEB

Discussion on American contempt toward Black women

12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25

The Brown School will host a discussion on Black women’s experiences with contempt in America. WashU’s Kenly Brown, Adrienne Davis, Matifadza Hlatshwayo, MD, and Hedy Lee will lend their insights to the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.

FEB

Immigration policies under the Biden administration

6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25

Katie Meyer of the School of Law and Jaqueline Cruz Arroyo of the Migrant & Immigrant Community Action Project will address immigration policy changes and their impact on various populations. The Institute for Public Health’s Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration and the Immigration Law Society student group are hosts.

MAR

Conversation on the St. Louis response to the COVID-19 vaccine

12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 3

Mary McKay, dean of the Brown School, will moderate a conversation between government leaders and physicians on the successes, challenges and opportunities of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Assembly Series on ‘Meaningfulness’

6:30 p.m. Monday, March 1

Susan Wolf, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life.” An Assembly Series event, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture will analyze the importance of living a meaningful life.

Looking ahead

MAR

Leadership Perspectives: ‘She Suite’

4 p.m. Monday, March 8

MAR

Assembly Series: climate change mitigation in the U.S.

5 p.m. Tuesday, March 9

MAR

‘Environmental Racism and the Arts’

6 p.m. Tuesday, March 9

Exhibits and ongoing events

‘Spy and Suspense’: Taiwanese-language film festival

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Arts & Sciences has partnered with the U.K.-based festival “Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema” to present a series of film screenings through Saturday, Feb. 27. The films will highlight the Taiwanese experience of the 1960s.

MAR

Save the Date

‘The Dark Side of the Universe’ lecture

7 p.m. Thursday, March 25