College of Liberal Arts

Calendar of Events

March 2009

EXHIBITS

Through Friday, March 13

Threshold: Reclaiming Sacred, works by LisaNa M. Red Bear, Fine Arts Gallery 2.

Through March

Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, Chris Jordan, CUB Gallery.

Reinterpreting Reality, regional women artists of Washington and Idaho, CUB Gallery.

Through Saturday, April 4

Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers, Museum of Art.

Monday, March 30 – Friday, May 1

First-Year M.F.A. Exhibits, Fine Arts Gallery 2. Two fine arts graduate students will exhibit each week.

EVENTS

Sunday, March 1

"Movies and Rock'n'Roll: A Life Formed by Hollywood," Rock Brynner, CUE 202, 7:00 p.m. Brynner, history professor and son of actor Yul Brynner, will introduce and show the film The Magnificent Seven. More info.

Monday, March 2

Faculty Notice: Nominations due for Distinguished Achievement Awards, Mullen Excellence in Teaching Award, and Outstanding Staff Award.

"An Afternoon Talk and Reading with the Chinese Author Yu Hua," Honors Hall Lounge, 5:00 p.m.

"U.S.–Russian Relations Today: A Hopeful Future?" Rock Brynner (political science, Western Connecticut State University), CUE 202, 7:00 p.m. More info.

Tuesday, March 3

International Film & Lecture Series: La sconosciuta / The Unknown Woman (Italy, 2006; in Italian with English subtitles), presented by María Previto, CUE 202, 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 5

IPEM seminar: "The Domain of the Replicators: Cultural Evolution and the Neutral Theory," J. Stephen Lansing (anthropology, University of Arizona; Santa Fe Institute), Murrow 53 (Pullman) and CL 116 (Vancouver), 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Women's History Month lecture: "Newspaper Women and the Making of the Modern, 1885–1910," Alice Fahs (history, UC–Irvine), CUE 203, 4:30 p.m.

Music performance: Faculty recital, Richard Kriehn, mandolin, and Ryan Nitz, guitar, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.

Friday, March 6

Women's History Month lecture: "Womanly Qur'anic Exegesis: The Thinkable, Unthinkable, and Unthought," Lipi Turner-Rahman (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology), Wilson-Short Hall 333, 12:00 p.m.

History Department's Professional Development Series: "The Academic Job Search Session 3: Preparation and Interviewing Cont.," Wilson-Short Hall 333, 2:10 p.m.

Music Faculty Artist Series: Jeffrey and Karen Savage, piano, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. WSU students with ID admitted free; general admission $10; seniors (60+) and other students $5.

Monday, March 9

Applications due for Emeritus Society Awards for Undergraduate Achievement in Scholarship and Research.

Tuesday, March 10

Women's History Month lecture: "Sex and God in the City of the Angels: The Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson and American Culture," Matthew Sutton (history), Todd Hall 334, 12:00 p.m.

International Film & Lecture Series: Miel Para Oshún / Honey for Oshún (Cuba, 2001; in Spanish with English subtitles), presented by Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi, CUE 202, 7:00 p.m.

Music performance: Women's Music, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 12

IPEM seminar: "Modeling the Emergence and Resilience of Complex Socioeconomic Systems in the Maya Lowlands," Doug Kennett (anthropology, University of Oregon), Murrow 53 (Pullman) and CL 116 (Vancouver), 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Music performance: Choral concert, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.

Friday, March 13

Women's History Month lecture: "Chilean Women in Politics, 1964–1989," Yvonne Berliner (history), Wilson-Short Hall 333, 12:00 p.m.

Atrium Music: Joe Sartori, piano, Terrell Library Atrium, 12:15 p.m.

Monday, March 16 - Friday, March 20

Academic Notice: Spring break, no classes, university offices remain open.

Monday, March 23

History lecture: "Born Again: Globalization's Sixteenth-Century Origins," Dennis O. Flynn (economics, University of the Pacific), CUE 409, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 24

Women's History Month lecture: "Women and Baseball," Frank Hill (general education), Wilson-Short Hall 333, 12:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 26

Art a la Carte: Dan Maher, folk musician and radio host, CUB Art Gallery, 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Invited Lecture: Rachel Halverson presents "Selected Memories, Selective Memories: Navigating German Culture in the 21st Century," Honors Hall Lounge, 7:00 p.m.

Visiting Writer Series: Ilya Kaminsky, CUE 203, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 27

WSU Academic Showcase, Bohler Gym, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

History Department's Professional Development Series: "Bibliographic Software: Managing Citations, Articles, and Bibliographies," Jane Scales (WSU Libraries), Wilson-Short Hall 333, 1:10 p.m.

Music performance: Big Band II, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 3:10 p.m.

Monday, March 30

Women's History Month lecture: "Gender in Transformation: German Mission Schools for Chinese Girls in Early 20th-Century Shandong," Lydia Gerber (history), Wilson-Short Hall 333, 12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 31

Open forum on university budget, CUB Auditorium, 12:00 p.m.

Open forum on university budget, CUB Auditorium, 5:00 p.m.

VPLAC performance: Urban Bush Women, Beasley Coliseum, 7:00 p.m.

 

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