Assembly Series: Faludi to discuss gender roles
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi will give an Assembly Series lecture titled “Gender Roles: A Generation of Change” at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 in Graham Chapel. The lecture, also the keynote address of the 30th annual Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Conference, will be followed by a panel discussion from 2-4 p.m. in the […]
Campus Authors: John Sprague, Ph.D., the Sidney W. Souers Professor Emeritus of Government, Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences
He recently co-authored Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks.
19th Century French Studies Colloquium hosted by University Oct. 28-30
Its largest event of its type ever hosted by the French section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences.
Nobel Prize awarded to Washington University visiting professor
CiechanoverAaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc., visiting professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Research Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, was selected Oct. 6 to receive the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Top Bush/Kerry advisers to debate candidates’ economic plans
The top economic advisers for President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry will debate at 8 a.m. Oct. 8, the day of the second presidential debate, which will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. The event will be held at Lee Auditorium in the Missouri History Museum, Lindell Boulevard at DeBaliviere Avenue in St. Louis’ Forest Park. John Berry, columnist for Bloomberg News, will moderate the debate between the two advisers.
Susan Faludi to discuss changing gender roles at the Assembly Series
FaludiPulitzer Prize-winning author, Susan Faludi will present “Gender Roles: A Generation of Change” at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13 in Graham Chapel. Faludi is the author of two books. Her talk is the keynote address of the 30th annual Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin conference.
On Translating Opera
Hugh MacdonaldHugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will launch the Center for the Humanities’ 2004-05 Translation Series with a talk “On Translating Opera” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Conservative Kristol to discuss presidential election
His presentation “The 2004 Election: What’s at Stake?” at 11 a.m. Oct. 7 is part of the Assembly Series.
Physics lectures aimed at general audience
The talks will focus on a series of papers published in 1905 by Albert Einstein and will be held at 10 a.m. each Saturday in October.
Exhibitions, book trace development of comics
Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.
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