Author: Liam Otten

The new academic and administrative unit will bring together nationally ranked programs in art and architecture and the Kemper Art Museum.

Richard J. Smith, the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, will serve as its chair.

Effective immediately, he will serve as special assistant to the current dean, Cynthia Weese; she’ll step down June 30 and return to private practice.

Courtesy photoJohn DaltonFiction writer and St. Louis native John Dalton will open Washington University’s Writing Program Spring Reading Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27. Dalton is the author of Heaven Lake. His short fiction has appeared in Story, Alaska Quarterly Review and other journals.

WUSTL Photo Services*The Trojan Women*Widely considered the greatest anti-war play ever written, Euripides’ The Trojan Women (415 B.C.) remains both timeless and timely, a poignant meditation on the aftermath of battle. Ron Himes — the Henry E. Hampton Jr. artist-in-residence at Washington University as well as founder and producing director of the St. Louis Black Repertory — will direct a new production of Euripides’ enduring parable for the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences Jan. 28-30 and Feb. 4-6.

Washington University’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present “What is a Child?,” a conversation with University of Iowa education experts Gail Masuchika Boldt and Cynthia Lewis, at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Internationally renowned organist James Kibbie will showcase the newly restored Roland Quest Organ in historic Graham Chapel with a free concert Jan. 23. The program — selected to highlight the organ’s renewed versatility — will include music of Bach, Franck and Widor.

The Washington University Chamber Orchestra — under the direction of Elizabeth Macdonald, director of strings in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will present a concert titled “Viva Vivaldi,” at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, in Karl Umrath Hall Lounge.

The Tango Group at Washington University will begin its spring season from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21, with a tango/swing/salsa dance featuring the band Farshid Etniko.

Carmen is perhaps the ultimate operatic femme fatale, a beautiful yet unfaithful Gypsy who maddens her Spanish lover, with tragic results. On Jan. 30 and 31, the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present a two-day symposium on “The Many Faces of Carmen” as part of it’s 2004-05 Translation Series.