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CFP: Roundtable or Panel CFSWG

The Critical Feminist Studies Working Group [CFSWG] of the Cultural Studies Association [www.culturalstudiesassociation.org] is pleased to invite submissions for one roundtable and one panel to be...

Posted: February 2, 2018, 9:58 PM

Social Sciences Forum Even: Alexes Harris

"A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as a Punishment for the Poor" Alexes Harris Professor of Sociology, University of Washington Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:30-5:30 pm University Center...

Posted: February 2, 2018, 9:55 PM

Story Circle Event - 3 pm - 6 pm

2018 People's State of the Union

A story circle event will take place tomorrow at the Arch Social Club from 3 to 6 pm. Dr. Bev Bickel, Sherella Cupid, Frank Anderson and others will be leading this conversation.  The 2018...

Posted: February 2, 2018, 9:42 PM

Scholarships Available to Study Intensive Chinese or

Japanese at Washington University in St. Louis this Summer

With the ALLEX Foundation Study Chinese or Japanese: http://www.allex.org/summer-chinese-or-japanese/ The WUSTL-ALLEX Intensive Chinese and Japanese Institute will offer intensive...

Posted: February 2, 2018, 4:00 PM

Music History Blog Series

Over the course of the term we will be publishing blog posts our students created for Dr. Lindsay Johnson's course MUSC 322 Music History II (1700-1915). For the assignment, first the students...

Posted: February 1, 2018, 11:35 AM

Chinese New Year Celebration!

Faculty and Students Please Join Us!

Dear Students and Faculty Affiliates, Welcome back to campus for the Spring 2018 semester! The Asian Studies Program would like to invite you to a Chinese New Year Celebration lunch on...

Posted: February 1, 2018, 11:16 AM

Seeing Red

Author: Stacey Fitzgerald

The onset of the Russian Revolution changed Russian musical style from one that privileged the values and ideals of the aristocrats to one that celebrated the ideals of the Revolution and the...

Posted: February 1, 2018, 10:17 AM

Musical Prodigies: Why We Love Them, and Why We Should Stop

Author: Daniel Gallagher

Audiences are more appreciative of musical prodigies based on their young ages, rather than on their musical complexity and nuance. Gallagher explains the history of the modern idea of the prodigy...

Posted: February 1, 2018, 10:12 AM

When Categories Fail

Author: Josh Sharo

Examining Debussy and the notion of impressionism, Sharo concludes that reducing an entire composer's output to a single stylistic term does a disservice to not only that composer, but to...

Posted: February 1, 2018, 10:05 AM