Literary Scholar to Discuss Sonnets at WFU
September 22, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Distinguished literary scholar and critic Helen Vendler will discuss “The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” at Wake Forest University on Thursday, Oct. 1. Vendler, the A. Kinsley Port University Professor at Harvard University, will speak at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. She is the author […]
Anthropology Museum to Host ‘Afternoon Tea’
September 20, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Enjoy English “high tea” and a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at the Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology’s “Afternoon Tea” on Sunday, Oct. 4. The focus of the 3-5 p.m. museum event is tea, but guests can also sample Egyptian coffee or Mexican chocolate drinks […]
Arias Calls for U.S., Other Nations to Fight Poverty
September 17, 1998 | Events, Research, Speakers
Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica’s former president, called for a worldwide effort to relieve rampant global poverty during an address at Wake Forest University on Sept. 17. “Global inequality is expanding at an insidious rate. If staggering levels of poverty are ignored, future inhabitants […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 16, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Research, Speakers
Nobel Laureate to Speak at Opening Convocation Oscar Arias Sanchez, former president of Costa Rica and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, will deliver the Opening Convocation address, “Diversity, Globalization, and Human Security: A Call to Responsibility,” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, in Wait […]
Sorvay Talks About Work to Expose Germany’s Neo-Nazis
September 16, 1998 | Events, Speakers
Yaron Svoray, journalist and author of “In Hitler’s Shadow,” will speak at Wake Forest University on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Benson University Center, Room 401. The Israeli son of Holocaust survivors risked his life to expose the growing threat of Germany’s […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 10, 1998 | Community, Events, Research
High Schoolers from 35 States to Debate Wake Forest’s debate team will host the National Earlybird Forensics Tournament Sept. 11-13. More than 160 high school debate and speech squads will arrive on Friday, Sept. 11, from 35 states to compete in the three-day season opener. […]
WFU to Host Thornton Wilder Symposium
September 9, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
A. Tappan Wilder, nephew of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder, will discuss his famous uncle at “Thornton Wilder’s Legacy,” a symposium Wake Forest University will host Sept. 25-26. The symposium will begin with a lecture by A. Tappan Wilder at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon, […]
WFU Theater Season Opens with Wilder’s “Matchmaker”
September 9, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker,” the basis for the hit Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly,” will open at Wake Forest University Sept. 25. The University Theater production continues Sept. 26 and 30 and Oct. 1-4. Directed by Donald Wolfe, the fast-paced farce has people hiding under tables, […]
Japanese Pianist Opens WFU’s Secrest Artist Series
September 3, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s 1998-99 Secrest Artists Series will open Friday, Sept. 18, with Chitose Okashiro, a Japanese-born pianist who has recently received accolades for her recordings of music by the Russian composer Scriabin. Okashiro will perform at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. Her program […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 3, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Events, Student
Abstract Art Show Opens Heralded as the “can’t miss art exhibition this year” by Forbes magazine (Aug. 24), the show “Abstract American Art of the 1930s and 1940s” opens Aug. 28 in Wake Forest’s Fine Arts Gallery. An opening reception will be held from 7-9 […]
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