Program Will Focus on Human Rights Violations
January 13, 1999 | Events, Speakers
Luis Roniger from Hebrew University in Jerusalem will present “Legacies of Human Rights Violations: The Experiences of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay” on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Wake Forest University. Roniger’s discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. The […]
African Storytelling and Poetry Focus of WFU Programs
January 13, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Kwadwo and Naana Opoku-Agyemang, literature professors from Ghana, will present two programs on Thursday, Jan. 21, featuring storytelling and poetry during the Martin Luther King Celebration events at Wake Forest University. The Opoku-Agyemangs will present “African Storytelling Frees Us! A Tale of Human Rights” from […]
Legal Scholar Will Speak on Ethnicity in Former Yugoslavia
January 12, 1999 | Events, Speakers
Tibor Varady, a law professor from Central European University in Budapest, will present “Law and Ethnicity in the Former Yugoslavia” on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at Wake Forest University. The free, public event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. […]
WFU Continues Year of Globalization and Diversity
January 7, 1999 | Events, Speakers, University Announcement
The Year of Globalization and Diversity continues at Wake Forest University with numerous public events this spring semester, including an address by Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning author and political activist Wole Soyinka. The Year of Globalization and Diversity is a series of cultural and academic events […]
Human and Labor Rights Advocate to Lecture at WFU
January 7, 1999 | Events, Speakers
Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, will present “Labor Rights are Human Rights: Addressing Sweatshop Practices in the Apparel Industry” on Thursday, Jan. 21, at Wake Forest University. Posner’s discussion, which is free and open to the public, will begin […]
Foreign Film Festival Continues at WFU
January 7, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events
The second half of the Year of Globalization and Diversity Foreign Film Festival will begin on Jan. 25 with the Cuban comedy, “Strawberry and Chocolate.” The 1993 film is a commentary on life in Havana, as well as gay-straight relations in Cuba as told through […]
Wake Forest Divinity School Receives Grant for Professorship in Homiletics
January 4, 1999 | School of Divinity, University Announcement
The Wake Forest University School of Divinity, opening in fall 1999, has received a $200,000 grant to establish a professorship in homiletics, the art of preaching. Provided over three years by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the grant will support the divinity school’s appointment of […]
WFU to Celebrate King’s Birthday with Angelou Reading
January 4, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
A reading by poet Maya Angelou and a contemporary version of T. S. Eliot’s play “Murder in the Cathedral” will highlight a weeklong celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at Wake Forest University. On Monday, Jan. 18, Maya Angelou will read King’s “Letter from […]
Wake Forest Debate Champion Selected to Compete Internationally
December 29, 1998 | Student, University Announcement
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a national debate champion from Wake Forest University, is one of four individuals chosen for a six-week international debate tour. “I see it as a great opportunity,” said Gartenstein-Ross of the tour featuring debate competitions and several exhibition matches. The tour begins on […]
WFDD’s Paul Brown Wins Silver Reel Award
December 29, 1998 | Community, Recognition, University Announcement
Paul Brown, program director at radio station WFDD, won the National Federation of Community Broadcasters’ 1998 Silver Reel Award for Special Entertainment Program for his music documentary, “Breaking Up Christmas: A Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday.” The program was distributed by National Public Radio and also […]
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