The Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, in conjunction with the Olin School of Business and the School of Law, will present a tax ethics forum Oct. 29. “An Ethics Forum for Tax Practitioners” will be held from 8:45-11:30 a.m. Oct. 29 in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium. Conference topics include the standard […]
This year marks the 50th and 100th anniversaries, respectively, of the deaths of Charles Ives and Antonín Dvořák. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, more than 20 St. Louis musicians — drawn largely from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will present A Chamber Music Concert Celebrating Anniversaries of Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives. The concert will feature songs and rarely performed works by Ives and Dvorák’s beloved “Serenade for Winds in D minor.”
Acclaimed fiction writer Tony Earley, visiting Washington University as a Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, and will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.
Photo by David KilperAndrea Heugatter, one of the newest faculty fellows in the South 40, enjoys a conversation wtih freshmen Kevin Tang and Shi Su.The goal of the faculty fellows program is to help integrate academic and residential life by having professors live in the residence halls.
Gerald Torres, co-author with Lani Guinier of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, a treatise on race in America, will speak for both the Assembly Series and the School of Law. The lecture, “Knowledge, Power and Democracy: Insights From the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements,” will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 28 […]