Arts & Sciences

He was “not only a major influence on Washington University’s academic strengths, he was also a national leader in science and research,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

Charles Dill of the University of Wisconsin will speak on Rousseau and the Language of Opera Criticism for Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at 4 p.m. Friday, March 26.

Some of the world’s top scholars on modern human origins will gather March 26 at Washington University in St. Louis for the last of a four-part series of “Conversations” on key issues that will affect the future of the university, the community and the world. Arts & Sciences is sponsoring the “Conversations,” which are free and open to the public, as part of the university’s 150th anniversary celebration. The “Modern Human Origins” Conversation will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Graham Chapel.

Bust of NefertitiDuring the Age of Imperialism, historical pieces such as the Bust of Nefertiti were taken from their home countries and installed in major museums throughout the world. Leading academics, authors and curators will examine whether these works of art should be returned to their source nations at the “Imperialism, Art & Restitution” conference March 26-27 at the Washington University School of Law.

Seth Carlin, professor of music and director of the piano programRenowned pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music and director of the piano program in Arts & Sciences, will perform music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28, in Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

The Washington University Chamber Winds will present a free concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, in Holmes Lounge.

Do images of the injured and dead have any effect on its viewers? Do images of suffering and violence generate compassion, arouse hunger for revenge, or do nothing? These are the questions writer and cultural critc Susan Sontag tries to answer in her most recent collection of essays, Regarding the Pain of Others, and will share her thoughts with the audience at the next Assembly Series lecture.

PakeGeorge E. Pake, Ph.D., recipient of the National Medal of Science, professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University provost from 1962-1970, and emeritus trustee, died of heart failure Thursday, March 4, 2004, in Tucson, Ariz. He was 79.

David Kilper / WUSTL PhotoTracey Kaplan as Madeline and Brian Golden as Stamp in the world premiere of *Kid Peculiar at the Coral Court Motel* by Carter W. Lewis.October 1992. St. Louis and the nation await the Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential debate at Washington 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 playwright-in-residence Carter W. Lewis. The St. Louis-based tragi-comedy — commissioned as part of the university’s 150th anniversary celebration — will make its world premiere in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre March 25-28.

Scott Levin and Adam Cromer in the Washington University Opera’s production *Of Mice and Men*.The Washington University Opera will present Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20.