Arts & Sciences

Dancer, choreographer and creative/performance artist Liz Lerman, together with Washington University faculty, will participate in a panel discussion on the intersection of art and community. The Assembly Series program “Still Crossing: Expressing Identities, Building Communities” begins at 4 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Panelists are Sunita Parikh, Ph.D., associate professor of […]

Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, will deliver the inaugural Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in Room 100, Brown Hall.

Poet Jean Valentine, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23.

Tenor Dominic Armstrong will perform an intimate Liederabend for the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences Oct. 26.

Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor and chair of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will head the seismology research team of an ambitious international effort to map and analyze an unknown part of Antarctica. The project is called AGAP (Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province) after the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, which are the main feature of the region. Wiens, Patrick Shore, computer specialist in earth and planetary sciences, and graduate students David Heizel and Amanda Lough will install 26 seismographs on the frozen surface of central Antarctica, a part of the world that is a geological mystery.

Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University, will deliver the inaugural Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in Room 100, Brown Hall, on the university’s Danforth Campus. Arvidson, who has played key roles in NASA’s missions to Mars, including the current Phoenix Mars Mission, will discuss “Mars: Environments, Habitability, and Life” during the free lecture that is open to the public.

Dancer, choreographer, and creative/performance artist Liz Lerman, together with WUSTL faculty, will participate in a panel discussion on the intersection of art and community called “Still Crossing: Expressing Identities, Building Communities” for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, October 30 in the Women’s Building Lounge, on the Danforth Campus. The panel discussion, free and open to the public, includes Sunita Parikh, Ph.D., associate professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, and Robert Hansman, associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. Lerman created the dance, “Still Crossing” to address issues of immigration, transition and the meaning of “home” and “community.” Lerman will be in residence at Washington University to restage this now-classic dance for a student performance in December as the end piece of this project (see accompanying announcement for details.)

Dominic ArmstrongTenor Dominic Armstrong will perform an intimate Liederabend for the Washington University Department of Music in Arts & Sciences Oct. 26. The program will feature Romanzen aus Tieck’s Magelone, Op. 33 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), a set of 15 loosely knit romances that comprise the composer’s only song cycle.

The recent meltdown in financial markets around the world, government rescue plans and the future of the global economy will be the focus of an international panel of economic experts Friday, Oct. 17, 2:30 p.m., at Washington University in St. Louis. Free and open to the public, the event will be held in the Lab Sciences Building, Room 300 on the Danforth Campus.

Photo by David KilperThough the vice presidential debate may be over, the political fun continues at WUSTL with the Friday, Oct. 24, opening of the PAD’s “Of Thee I Sing,” the classic musical satire of American public life.