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‘Emilie’ illuminates arts, sciences
April 23, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories
Earlier this month, Lauren Gunderson’s play, “Emilie: The Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight,” served as the center of gravity for a bright constellation of interdisciplinary campus events illuminating dynamic relationships between the arts and sciences.
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Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
April 20, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of thinking. “If you ask a big enough question, you have to engage more than one discipline to answer it,” Lerman told a Wake Forest audience in a talk about how creativity can function as a bridge between art and science.
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‘Children of Kabul’
April 13, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.
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Encouraging environment for student writers
March 28, 2012 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers
Provost emeritus Ed Wilson assumed the posture of Janus, looking to the past and future, as he addressed the audience gathered Friday evening for the concluding event of Words Awake’s inaugural day. With characteristic clarity and elegance, Wilson wove together texts and reflections that joined the rich humus of Wake Forest’s literary traditions with the achievements of contemporary and the promise of future writers.
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Words Awake!
March 26, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
More than 50 alumni writers returned to campus for the first Words Awake! conference last weekend. Find out more about how the writers interacted with students, the campus community and local schools, and learn about the first class of the WFU Writers Hall of Fame.
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Wrapping up Words Awake!
March 26, 2012 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities
Words Awake was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where more than 50 accomplished Wake Forest writers were together in one place — providing inspiration and career connections for aspiring authors.
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Inspiring young writers
March 26, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Humanities, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities
Silk maps, B-24 bombers and avoiding anachronisms were the hot topics during Laura Elliott’s visit to Northwest Middle School in Winston-Salem. Elliott, a 1979 Wake Forest graduate who writes young adult historical novels, mixed WWII history with writing advice in conversations with 6th-, 7th- and 8th-graders as part of Words Awake! A Celebration of Wake Forest Writers and Writing on campus March 23-25.
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Student Storyteller: Art and chemistry
March 21, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
As I listened to Roald Hoffmann’s introduction, I was mesmerized by his ability to excel in chemistry, poetry and philosophy. In Hoffmann’s hour-long address as part of the Oakley R. Vail Lecture Series, I learned how these different fields, and really any fields, can intertwine.
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Irish poetry for St. Patrick’s Day
March 16, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Staff, Top Stories
On St. Patrick’s Day, Jeff Holdridge, director of the Wake Forest University Press — the premier publisher of Irish poetry in North America — discusses the future of Irish poetry after “The Troubles” and shares his five favorite Irish poems.
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Take note of spring music events
March 2, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
Jazzy tunes, electronic sounds mixed with romantic violin, piano, soprano, double bass and honor student recitals are on the schedule for spring semester music performances.
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