Classics professor Johnson to speak on Roman elegy for Assembly Series

Critically acclaimed W. Ralph Johnson, the emeritus John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and Comparative Studies at the University of Chicago, will lecture at 4 p.m. March 18 Women’s Building Formal Lounge for the Assembly Series. Johnson’s talk, titled “The D/Evolution of Love: The Origins of Roman Elegy,” will serve as the John […]

Kid Peculiar at the Coral Court Motel to debut at Hotchner

October 1992. St. Louis and the nation await the Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential debate at the University. An estranged mother and son reunite for perhaps the last time at a fading St. Louis icon. The stage is set for Kid Peculiar at the Coral Court Motel, by Carter W. Lewis, playwright-in-residence in the Performing Arts Department in […]

Assembly Series: Sontag to address effects of violent images

Do images of the injured and dead have any effect on their viewers? Do images of suffering and violence generate compassion, arouse hunger for revenge, or do nothing? More than a quarter-century ago, preeminent writer and cultural critic Susan Sontag wrote a seminal work on the power of imagery that established her as one of […]

Media satirist Rocca to speak for the Assembly Series

Media gadfly Mo Rocca will deliver a multimedia presentation, “Making It Up as I Go Along,” for the Congress of the South 40 Lecture at 4 p.m. March 30 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. Rocca is best known for mixing the serious with the absurd as a news reporter for the […]

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Photo by Kevin LowderFifty-eight students presented exhibitions at the Graduate Student Research Symposium April 3 in Whitaker Hall.
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