Category Society & Culture
Distinguished Lecture Series announced
The 2004-05 Distinguished Lecture Series will kick off Oct. 27. The series is designed to give students the chance to invite provocative speakers to campus, manage and promote their appearances, and get to know them up close and personally.
Keyboard conversations slated
Acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel will open his four-part 2004-05 Keyboard Conversations series on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
Conference to explore high and popular culture
The very symbiotic relationship between haute and popular culture will be examined at a two-day conference on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.
Academic Staff Week show uses opportunities to learn, have fun
From art discussions to merengue instructions, events during the School of Education's Academic Staff Week, Monday, Sept. 27-Friday, Oct. 1, will showcase the diverse talents of academic staff members.
Parallel Press poets to read
Award-winning poets, all from the Madison area, will read from their work on Thursday, Sept. 23. Marilyn Annucci, Harriet Brown, Susan Elbe, Andrea Potos,…
Dance ensemble celebrates Overture Center opening
Three group works and two solos, to be performed on Thursday, Sept. 23, by Li Chiao-Ping Dance, will help celebrate the Overture Center’s grand…
Vocalist acquaints campus with classical Indian music
Sanjay Subrahmanyan will bring classical music from the south of India to campus when he performs Friday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m., Mills Concert Hall.
Compositions honor Memorial Library’s anniversary
To commemorate Memorial Library's 50th anniversary, Mills Music Library received a grant to commission five original musical compositions by graduate students David Dies, Scott Gendel, Jerry Hui, Alexander Nohai-Seaman and Pavel Polanco-Safadit, all from the School of Music composition program.
UW helps usher in Overture
Named for a former UW–Madison faculty member who died in 1999, the James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,…
Book Smart
Caroline Levine, associate professor of English, “The Serious Pleasures of Victorian Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt,” University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Book project, love of language leads author to competitive spelling championship
Since words are one of the primary currencies of communication, it is helpful if they are spelled correctly. Jeff Kirsch is, you might say, a real stickler for getting the letters in the proper order.
New gallery honors memory of James Watrous
Artist and arts advocate James Watrous, a fixture on campus for nearly 70 years, no doubt would have been delighted with the gallery that…
FELIX features local poets
The first fall event in the FELIX series will feature readings by three poets: Bob Harrison, co-editor of the Milwaukee/New York journal "Crayon," William Allegrezza, editor of the online journal "Moria," and Steve Timm, an English as a second language instructor.
UW symposium seeks to separate fact, fiction of Trojan War
"The Trojan War: The Sources behind the Scenes" will include art, cinema, language and myth - ancient and more recent - as well as archaeology.
Dance Program announces fall season
Yvonne Rainer, considered an "avant-garde aesthete and utopian activist" by essayist Ann Daly, will speak on Friday, Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall as part of the fall Friday Forum series sponsored by the Dance Program.
Art critic Brenson is Arts Institute’s artist in residence
The UW–Madison Arts Institute has named respected art critic Michael Brenson as the Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for fall 2004.
Exhibition focuses on work of UW–Madison’s Christiane Clados
The Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program, in collaboration with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee, and Latino Arts Inc. in Milwaukee, are presenting the art exhibit and lecture series "Christiane Clados: Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World."
Gallery honors memory of James Watrous
The James Watrous Gallery opens Saturday, Sept. 18, in the Overture Center for the Arts.
On with the show: Students to help open Overture Center
More than 150 UW–Madison students will be part of an extraordinary out-of-the-classroom learning experience as they dance, sing, play and perform as part of the celebration of the opening of Madison's Overture Center on Sept. 20.