Author: Neil Schoenherr

Photo by Mary ButkusKeith Boykin, J.D., keynote speaker for the Feb. 28 Cultural Competency in the Legal Profession Symposium at the School of Law, speaks with Deanna Atchley, a third-year law student and conference organizer.

More than 200 WUSTL students will be using their spring breaks not for lounging on the beach but for serving communities around the globe. Eighteen groups of students will travel to places as close as suburban St. Louis and as far away as Hanoi, Vietnam, to help with service projects ranging from home building and urban renewal to college mentorship and medical assistance.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Junior Nick Prickel is hoisted onto his competitors’ shoulders after being crowned the new Mr. Wash U Feb. 26 in Edison Theatre.

Numerous prominent researchers will gather at WUSTL March 12-14 to discuss the nature of human sociality. The conference, titled “Man the Hunted: The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being,” is the first of its kind to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism and sociality in primates and humans.

Fiction writer Kate Bernheimer will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program Reading Series.

Courtesy PhotoThe Performing Arts Department and the African & African American Studies Program, both in Arts & Sciences, will host a residency March 13-22 for a nine-member touring ensemble of the internationally known Kenyan performance group Haba na Haba.

Photo by David KilperThe Washington University Opera, led by director Jolly Stewart, will present Dominick Argento’s “The Aspern Papers” at 8 p.m. March 20 and 21.

The annual Washington University African Film Festival will be held March 26-29. The event will feature films that emphasize movement and migration and their impact on African’s shifting identities. All screenings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. each evening in Brown Hall, Room 100. A postshow discussion and reception will follow Saturday’s films.

The Performing Arts Department and the African & African American Studies Program, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will host a residency March 13-22 for a nine-member touring ensemble of internationally known Kenyan performance group Haba na Haba. Group members perform acrobatics, music, dance and drama to educate their communities on topics such as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, reproductive health, women’s issues and violence. The residency will culminate March 20 with a performance, titled “Co-existence,” based on the recent ethnic conflicts in Kenya following disputed elections. The event, free and open to the public, takes place at 8 p.m. in the 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave., in University City.

Davis Fiction writer Lydia Davis, the Fannie Hurst Visiting Professor in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will present a craft talk, titled “A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked: Writing Outside the Mainstream,” and a reading from her work at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, and Thursday, March 19, respectively, in Hurst Lounge, Room 201, Duncker Hall on Washington University’s Danforth Campus.