Arts & Culture

She’s a professor of Romance languages & literatures and of comparative literature; other speakers are Peter Kastor, Martha Sandweiss, Erin McGlothlin & Mariët Westermann.

He’s been described by CBC Radio as “one of the leading Baroque oboists in North America whose fine instruments are played around the world.”

The University will host a group of Japanese activists, filmmakers and scholars touring the nation to promote the documentary film project.

A highlight of the event will be a rare performance of the complicated Herzgewächse by students and faculty in the Department of Music.

Peter Kastor, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and American culture studies in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “An Accurate Empire: How American Explorers Described Their Country and Themselves” at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 9. Kastor is the third of six speakers appearing this spring as part of the Faculty Fellows Lecture and Workshop Series, presented by the Center for the Humanities Arts & Sciences.

Garber has authored four books devoted to the Bard; the most recent, Shakespeare After All, makes him more accessible to the common reader.

“Like all Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado deals with love and marriage,” says director Henry I. Schvey “But it’s also about misunderstanding, misinterpretation and disguise.”

She’s the author of three collections of poetry: Fire in the Conservatory (1982); The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996); and Waterborne (2002).

“30 Years of Sisterhood,” a documentary film on the 1970s genesis of Japan’s women’s liberation movement, will be in the campus spotlight Feb. 28 as Washington University hosts a group of Japanese activists, filmmakers and scholars now touring the nation to promote the project. Plans call for a special screening of the film at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 in Room 201, Crow Hall, followed by a panel discussion and reception. Sponsored by the Visiting East Asian Professionals (VEAP) program and the Women and Gender Studies program, both in Arts & Sciences.

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present a symposium and concert dedicated to the work of Viennese composer Arnold Schönberg. The symposium will focus on Schönberg’s relationship with Kandinsky and the Expressionist movement, while the concert will feature a rare performance of his famously demanding Herzgewächse (Foliage of the Heart) by music students and faculty.