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Assembly Series
Apr 1 2008 - 4:00pm / Graham Chapel http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu, or call 314-935-5285
Ari Sandel
One of the most hopeful and humorous takes on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was created by filmmaker Sandel in a live action short film called "West Bank Story." The musical parody featuring two warring families in the falafel business won an Oscar in 2007, as well as the hearts of millions of viewers.
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The Story of Forgetting
Apr 1 2008 - 7:00pm / 935-4056 Duncker Hall, Rm. 201, Hurst Lounge
Film & Media Studies Book Reading
Written by Stefan Block, WUSTL graduate
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Assembly Series
Apr 2 2008 - 4:00pm / Graham Chapel (314) 935-5285
Rebooting America: News for a new generation
Ken Paulson
In 2004 the veteran newspaper executive became editor of USA TODAY. Prior to that position, he ran the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press and free speech for all.
Lecture presented by Student Union Speakers Series
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Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800), Biennial Symposium of the German Department
Apr 3 2008 - 8:00am / Washington University, Danforth Campus German Department, Jennifer Jodell, jjodell@wustl.edu
April 3 - April 5
19TH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE
Title: "Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)"
Time & Location: The symposium begins at 4:00 pm, Thursday, April 3rd, with an Assembly Series lecture by syndicated columnist, humorist, and novelist, Calvin Trillin, in Steinberg Auditorium. This lecture is being co-sponsored by Delta Phi Alpha, the German Honor Society.
The symposium is free and open to the public. For a complete program with speakers, times, and locations, please see: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~sym2008/program/index.html.
Organizers: Gerhild Williams and William Layher
Language: English and German
More information: Please email Jennifer Jodell, jjodell@wustl.edu, or see our symposium website at: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~sym2008/.
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Assembly Series
Apr 3 2008 - 4:00pm / Steinberg Hall Auditorium (314) 935-5285
Calvin Trillin
“An Afternoon with Calvin Trillin”
Combining a reporter’s eye with a wicked sense of humor, Trillin turns every subject into masterful pieces. With more than 30 years of writing books, essays, columns, articles, novels and poetry on an astounding array of topics, he is an extraordinary chronicler of American culture. Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe Conference Lecture
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Assembly Series
Apr 3 2008 - 4:00pm / Steinberg Hall Auditorium http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu, or call 314-935-5285
Calvin Trillin
Combining a reporter's eye with a wicked sense of humor, Trillin turns every subject into masterful pieces that unerringly connect with readers. With more than 30 years of writing books, essays, columns, articles, novels and poetry on an astounding array of topics, he is an extraordinary chronicler of American culture.
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History Colloquium-Donald Quataert
Apr 3 2008 - 4:00pm / Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall Ahmet Karamustafa at akaramus@wustl.edu
The History Department welcomes you to a talk given by Professor Donald Quataert from SUNY at Binghamton.
His talk is entitled: "Corruption, Coal Miners and Regime Change in the Late Ottoman Empire, c. 1850-1908"
This event is co-sponsored with History and Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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"The Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport"
Apr 9 2008 - 12:00pm / Wash-U Law School, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom joleary@wustl.edu, 935-9358
The Student Health Law Association and The Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values present: "The Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport" by Thomas Murray,PhD, President of the Hastings Center. Reception to follow.
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Thomas Murray Discussion
Apr 10 2008 - 9:00am / Wash-U Law School, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Rm. 309 joleary@wustl.edu, 935-9358
The Student Health Law Association, the Burson Fund, and The Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values present: Discussion on the work of the Hastings Center by Thomas Murray, PhD, President of the Hastings Center.
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A Neighing Horse, a Silkworm God, and the Chinese Domestication of Buddhism
Apr 10 2008 - 11:30am / Eliot Hall, Room 102 Religious Studies Program 314-935-8677 or smassey@wustl.edu
Stuart Young, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Buddhism has been adapted to suit the cultural values and social norms of many different peoples. This talk will illustrate one important way in which Chinese Buddhists asserted the relevance of their religion to local Chinese concerns. In this case the integration of Buddhism took place through the all-important Chinese silk industry. By promoting one of their most famous ancient Indian forebears as a local god of silk production, Chinese Buddhists sought to insinuate Buddhism into one of China’s most prevalent and lucrative material enterprises, and thereby secure a central place for their religion in the lives of a good many Chinese people.
Stuart Young is a doctoral candidate in the Asian religions program of the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He has recently completed his doctoral dissertation, titled “Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China,” examines how medieval Chinese Buddhists re-presented the history and practice of Buddhism in ancient India, and how this presentation influenced Chinese ideals of Buddhist sainthood across the Sino-Indian divide. His broad interests include the relationships between Buddhism and indigenous traditions, ideals of the embodiment of sanctity, and the material culture of East Asian religions.
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Assembly Series
Apr 10 2008 - 4:00pm / Location to be announced http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu, or call 314-935-5285
Glen Bowersock, "Globalization in Late Antiquity"
For more than four decades, the eminent scholar of ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East taught at Harvard and later at Princeton, retiring in 2006 as emeritus professor of ancient history. He is the author of more than a dozen books and 300 journal articles, including Fiction as History from Nero to Julian, and Martyrdom and Rome.
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Work-in-progress Seminar: Amy Hollywood "Acute Melancholia"
Apr 14 2008 - 2:00pm / Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall 935-5190
Work-in-progress Seminar: Amy Hollywood "Acute Melancholia".
Pre-circulated paper available in the English department office and online: "Acute Melancholia" in Harvard Theological Review 99:4 (2006): 381-406.
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Author Ciaran Carson
Apr 14 2008 - 8:00pm / Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall (314) 935-7130 or dschuman@wustl.edu
Washington University's Writing Program Reading Series
Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to an Irish-speaking faily. He earned a degree in English from Queen's University, Belfast, and in 1975 joined the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, serving as Traditional Arts Officer until 1998. He is currently a professor of poetry at Queen's University, where he also directs the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
Carson is the author of nine collections of poems, beginning with The New Estate (1976), which won the Eric Gregory Award. Other collections include The Irish for No (1987), winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; Belfast Confetti (1990), which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry; First Language: Poems (1993), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize; and Breaking News (2003), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
Carson is also the author of four prose works, including The Pocket Guide to Traditional Irish Music (1996); The Star Factory (1997), a collecction of inventive essays about his native city; and Fishing for Amber (1999), a series of stories that weave autobiography with Irish fairy tales, Greek Myth and the history of amber. His novel Shamrock Tea (2001) — which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize — explores themes present in Jan van Eyck's painting The Arnolfini Marriage.
"Carson has managed an unusual marriage in his work between the Irish vernacular story-telling tradition and the witty elusive mock-pedantic scholarship of Paul Muldoon," writes Peter Forbes, editor of Poetry Review, Britain's premier poetry magazine.
Caron's translation of Dante's Inferno won the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize. A translation of the Old Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge was published by Penguin Classics in 2007.
A new collection of poems, For All We Know, is forthcoming in 2008, as is a novel, The Pen Friend.
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Wrestling with the Angel: Toward a Jewish Understanding of the Nazi Assault on the Name of God and on Jewish Names
Apr 14 2008 - 8:00pm / McDonnell Hall, Room 162 Debra M. Schwartz at jines@wustl.edu or (314) 935-8567
Prof. Patterson will show that in the Nazi assault on the Name of God there is also an assault on the name--that is, on the very identity--of the individual Jew. This assault has implications for Jewish thinking about Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era.
This talk is co-sponsored by the programs in Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies and Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. It is free and open to the public.
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Assembly Series
Apr 15 2008 - 4:00pm / Lab. Sciences Aud., Rm. 300 http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu, or call 314-935-5285
An expert on race relations, prejudice and diversity issues in a multicultural society, Alvin Poussaint, M.D., will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture for the Assembly Series.
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Assembly Series
Apr 16 2008 - 11:00am / Graham Chapel http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu, or call 314-935-5285
Helen Fisher, "The Drive to Love: The Biology, Evolution and Future of Romantic Love"
In the groundbreaking book, the Anatomy of Love, anthropologist Fisher laid out her theory of three main phases of romantic love, noting that at each stage different hormones are involved and different areas of the brain are activated. Her research, detailed in several books and numerous articles, indicate that when it comes to love, we are at the mercy of our biochemistry.
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2008 Senior Survey
Apr 16 2008 - 12:00pm http://artsci.wustl.edu/~survey
Seniors,
The 2008 Senior Survey needs to hear from you.
Look for your personal link to the survey in your email starting Apr 16. Respond by May 12 to be eligible for winning one of thirty-five (35) PRIZES, including gift certificates for American Airlines, Amazon, WU Campus Store and Blueberry Hill. Winners will be notified by email during Senior Week and posted at http://artsci.wustl.edu/~survey.
Washington University in St Louis
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A Sustainable World: What It Means to Us
Apr 18 2008 - 2:00pm / Whitaker Hall 314-935-6160
Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., the George Engelmann Professor of Botany in Arts & Sciences and director and president of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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The Lion and the Jewel
Apr 18 2008 - 8:00pm / Edison Theatre 935-5858
Performing Arts. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate for Literature, wrote several light-hearted plays that examine political ideas about colonization, culture, and gender roles...and often make fun of Westernized school teachers. In The Lion and the Jewel, Lukunle, the teacher, tries to woo Sidi, the Jewel, by belittling her and trying to convince her to adhere to modern ways. Meanwhile, Baroka, the tribe's chief, decides that Sidi would make an excellent addition to his already large collection of wives and concubines. In a carnival of dance and song, Sidi must find her distiny somewhere between the old and the new, between the modern and the traditional, in this comedy of the human condition.
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The Lion and the Jewel
Apr 20 2008 - 2:00pm / Edison Theatre 935-5858
Performing Arts. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate for Literature, wrote several light-hearted plays that examine political ideas about colonization, culture, and gender roles...and often make fun of Westernized school teachers. In The Lion and the Jewel, Lukunle, the teacher, tries to woo Sidi, the Jewel, by belittling her and trying to convince her to adhere to modern ways. Meanwhile, Baroka, the tribe's chief, decides that Sidi would make an excellent addition to his already large collection of wives and concubines. In a carnival of dance and song, Sidi must find her distiny somewhere between the old and the new, between the modern and the traditional, in this comedy of the human condition.
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The Writing Program Spring Reading Series
Apr 21 2008 - 7:00pm / Duncker Hall, Rm. 201, Hurst Lounge 935-7130
Second-year students in the MFA program read from their poetry & fiction. (Also 7 p.m. April 23.)
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Lecture by David E. Wellberry, University of Chicago
Apr 22 2008 - 6:15pm / Eads 116 German Department, Jennifer Jodell, jjodell@wustl.edu
Speaker: David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago
LECTURE
Speaker: David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago
Title: "Prekäres und unverhofftes Glück Anmerkungen zur klassischen deutschen Literatur"
Language: German
More information: Please call 935.5106
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History Colloquium-Tim Parsons
Apr 24 2008 - 4:00pm / Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall Ahmet Karamustafa at akaramus@wustl.edu
The History Department welcomes you to a talk given by Professor Tim Parsons from Washington University.
His talk is entitled: "Trespassing in Gusiiland: The Burden and Opportunity of Tribe in Colonial Kenya"
A reception will follow the lecture.
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The Lion and the Jewel
Apr 25 2008 - 8:00pm / Edison Theatre 935-5858
Performing Arts. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate for Literature, wrote several light-hearted plays that examine political ideas about colonization, culture, and gender roles...and often make fun of Westernized school teachers. In The Lion and the Jewel, Lukunle, the teacher, tries to woo Sidi, the Jewel, by belittling her and trying to convince her to adhere to modern ways. Meanwhile, Baroka, the tribe's chief, decides that Sidi would make an excellent addition to his already large collection of wives and concubines. In a carnival of dance and song, Sidi must find her distiny somewhere between the old and the new, between the modern and the traditional, in this comedy of the human condition.
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The Lion and the Jewel
Apr 27 2008 - 2:00pm / Edison Theatre 935-5858
Performing Arts. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate for Literature, wrote several light-hearted plays that examine political ideas about colonization, culture, and gender roles...and often make fun of Westernized school teachers. In The Lion and the Jewel, Lukunle, the teacher, tries to woo Sidi, the Jewel, by belittling her and trying to convince her to adhere to modern ways. Meanwhile, Baroka, the tribe's chief, decides that Sidi would make an excellent addition to his already large collection of wives and concubines. In a carnival of dance and song, Sidi must find her distiny somewhere between the old and the new, between the modern and the traditional, in this comedy of the human condition.
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2008 Chancellor's Concert
Apr 27 2008 - 3:00pm / E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center (314) 935-5566 or email kschultz@artsci.wustl.edu
Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Concert Choir Present the 2008 Chancellor's Concert
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"Medical Decisions about Life and Death"
Apr 30 2008 - 12:00pm / Erlanger Auditorium, Medical School Campus joleary@wustl.edu, 935-9358
Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values presents:
"Medical Decisions about Life and Death." Presented by Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton Univ.
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