College of Liberal Arts

Calendar of Events

September 2009

EXHIBITS

Through Saturday, September 26

Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art.

Through Wednesday, September 30

Emily Ginsburg: Busy Signals, working digital prints for a recent public art project completed for Seattle City Light, Fine Arts Gallery 2. Artist reception September 23 at 4:30 p.m., followed by a lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium.

EVENTS

Tuesday, September 1

Opening reception for the Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art, 6:00 p.m.

Monday, September 7

Academic Notice: Labor Day, all-university holiday.

Thursday, September 10

Visiting Artist Lecture: Nathan Cohen presents "Here and There: Journeys in Space and Time," Fine Arts Auditorium, 5:30 p.m. Visual artist Nathan Cohen will discuss his personal work involving geometry and pattern, and his international adventures and collaborative projects.

Friday, September 11

English colloquium: "Graduate Placement Issues & the Job Market," presented by Kirk McAuley, with Kristin Arola, Todd Butler, and Augusta Rohrbach, Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, 12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 15

Music performance: Guest recital, Anschell Jensen Duo, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 17

Inqueery Series: "Degeneracy on the Frontier: When Sexual Inversion Met the Turner Thesis in Fin-de-Siecle America," Peter Boag (history), Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, 4:30–6:00 p.m.

Friday, September 18

English colloquium: "Sexuality and Censorship: Montaigne in Shakespeare's England," Will Hamlin, Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, 12:00 p.m.

Rededication of Wilson-Short Hall in honor of James F. Short Jr., professor emeritus of sociology, on the Glenn Terrell Mall in front of Wilson-Short Hall, 4:00 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, contact Lisa Janowski at janowski@wsu.edu or 509-335-4582.

Music performance: Music Faculty Artist Series, Julie Wieck, "Music for Strings and Voice," Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m. WSU students with ID admitted free; general admission $10; seniors and non-WSU students $5. Season pass for all six performances is $45. All proceeds benefit music scholarships.

Tuesday, September 22

Music performance: Guest recital, Shannon Spicciati, oboe, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, September 23

Visiting Artist Lecture: Emily Ginsburg (Intermedia Department, Pacific Northwest College of Art), artist reception at 4:30 p.m. in Fine Arts Gallery 2, guest lecture by Ginsburg at 6:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium.

Thursday, September 24

IPEM seminar: "Costly Signaling and the Evolution of Pilgrimage Centers," John Kantner (director of Lobo Mesa Archaeological Project, School for Advanced Research), Murrow Hall 55, 3:30 p.m.

Foley Institute public forum: "Made in China? U.S.–Chinese Relations," CUE 203, 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Foley Institute lecture: Author Chris Hedges discusses his latest book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, CUB Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.

Visiting Writer Series: Kevin Canty, Kimbrough Hall 101, 7:30 p.m.

Music performance: Wind Symphony/Symphonic Band/Orchestra, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.

Friday, September 25

Coffee & Politics with Chris Hedges, discussing the Iraq War, Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, 11:00 a.m.

Foley Institute lecture: Author Chris Hedges discusses his book When Atheism Becomes Religion, Community Congregational Church of Christ (525 NE Campus Street, Pullman), 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 29

"Katrina Stirs the Gumbo Pot: The Reception of Post-Katrina Latino Immigrants in New Orleans," Elizabeth Fussell (sociology), CUB 406, 4:00 p.m.

Music performance: Faculty recital, David Turnbull, trumpet, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.

 

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