Arts & Sciences

Robin D.G. Kelley, Ph.D., one of the country’s pre-eminent scholars in African-American history, will serve as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Washington University Feb. 28-March 1. During his visit, he will give two public talks. Kelley, who is professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC), is a leading scholar of the modern civil rights movement, jazz studies and African-American music and culture.

Feb. 23 marks the world premiere of “civil disobedience” by Carter Lewis, playwright-in-residence. The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences commissioned the drama.

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff will deliver the keynote address for the national symposium “The Dred Scott Case and Its Legacy: Race, Law and the Struggle for Equality.” The lecture, part of the Assembly Series, takes place at 4 p.m. March 1 in Graham Chapel.

Linda Babcock, co-author of “Women Don’t Ask: Negotiations and the Gender Divide,” will discuss her book and research in a community forum on “societal factors that hold women back from asking for what they want” that runs from 7 – 8:30 p.m. March 5 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser Busch Hall, Danforth Campus of Washington University.

Michael Kimmel, a leading expert in the study of American male identity and behavior, will give a talk on “Mars, Venus, or Planet Earth? Women and Men in a New Millennium,” as part of the Assembly Series. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, February 28 in Graham Chapel, on Washington University’s Danforth campus. Co-sponsored by the WUSTL student group, Reflections.

Photo by David KilperLeonard Green plays tough with students and leaves a lasting impression

Jeffrey MarlowJeffrey J. Marlow, a senior in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 20 students nationwide named to the 2007 All-USA College Academic First Team, USA Today’s recognition program for outstanding undergraduates. Two other Washington University students were named to the third team and one student received honorable mention, resulting in Washington University tying with the University of Alabama for the most students selected in the newspaper’s competition.

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff will present “Race, Law, and the Struggle for Equality: Missouri Law, Politics and the Dred Scott Case,” the keynote address for the 150th anniversary symposium covering the Dred Scott Case.

Terrell CreativeTo commemorate the 150th anniversary of the infamous Supreme Court decision, Washington University will host a national symposium on “The Dred Scott Case and its Legacy: Race, Law, and the Struggle for Equality,” on March 1-3. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will begin with a keynote address by the Honorable Michael A. Wolff, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, at 4 p.m. on March 1 in Graham Chapel. Wolff will discuss “Race, Law, and the Struggle for Equality: Missouri Law, Politics, and the Dred Scott Case.” Panel discussions on Friday and Saturday in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall will examine the case and its legacy, from the Civil War to the present.

Courtesy photoJo LabanyiJo Labanyi, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, will speak on “Facts and Fictions: Knowledge, Delinquency and Madness in Late 19-Century Spain” Feb. 27 as part of the Center for the Humanities’s 2007 Faculty Fellows’ Lecture and Workshop Series. The following day Labanyi will lead a workshop on the rigid ordering of gender in 19th-century Spain.