Theme year-related performance of ‘Angels in America’ opens WFU theater season
September 18, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University Theatre will open its season with Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26. This performance offers the first part of Kushner’s original two-part, seven-hour, Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” […]
Stories this week at WFU
September 18, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Events, Research, School of Business, Speakers
HEARN, OTHER PRESIDENTS TO DISCUSS ALCOHOL ISSUES — First lady Mary Easley will bring together presidents, chancellors and counsels from 40 college campuses across North Carolina on Sept. 24 for the North Carolina Presidents’ Summit on Alcohol Use & Abuse. As part of the summit at the Executive […]
Advisory: Victor Frankl’s grandson to lecture at WFU
September 17, 2003 | Events, Media Advisory, Speakers
Alex Vesely, the grandson of famous psychologist Viktor Frankl, will visit Wake Forest University on Sept. 18-19. Frankl, the author of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” founded the existential psychology known as logotherapy, which emphasizes the importance of value and meaning as prerequisites for mental health […]
Advisory: Media invited to outdoor ‘agora’ for students, senior administrators
September 17, 2003 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Faculty, Student
A campus-wide “agora,” the official kick-off event for Wake Forest University’s celebration of the 2003-2004 theme “Fostering Dialogue: Civil Discourse in an Academic Community,” will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday on the university’s Magnolia Court. The Greek agora was a marketplace where people met […]
Fall after-school programs at Anthropology museum
September 17, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will offer “Exploring World Cultures,” a four-part series of after-school programs for children in grades 1-5 that spotlights creatures that typically make people’s skin crawl. Students will learn how people from other parts of the world feel about particular […]
WFU calendar of events for October
September 16, 2003 | Events
Through Oct. 10 “Pixerina Witcherina,” Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery. Works by contemporary women artists who address the complex history of women and storytelling. The exhibit runs through Oct. 10. Free. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday – Friday and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. on […]
Chaplain Timothy L. Auman to speak at WFU fall convocation Oct. 9
September 15, 2003 | Events, Faculty, Speakers
The Fall Convocation at Wake Forest University, scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 9, will be a celebration of the theme for the 2003-2004 academic year, “Fostering Dialogue: Civil Discourse in an Academic Community.” Timothy L. Auman, who was appointed chaplain at Wake Forest in July, […]
Stories this week at WFU
September 11, 2003 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Faculty, Recognition, Speakers, Student
LEGAL EXPERT CAN COMMENT ON RECORD INDUSTRY LAWSUITS – “If the individuals that were recently sued by the record industry go to trial, they must persuade their local federal district court that downloading should qualify as fair use,” says Simone Rose, a Wake Forest professor of […]
Two film series highlight year of ‘Fostering Dialogue’ at WFU
September 11, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
Two film series designed to get people talking about intercultural and international relations are planned as part of the celebration of the theme “Fostering Dialogue: Civil Discourse in an Academic Community” at Wake Forest University this academic year. The first film and discussion series titled […]
WFU’s fall Writers Reading Series highlights novelists
September 11, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Reading from their latest works, novelists Julianna Baggott, Rita Ciresi and Paul Eggers will round out the fall schedule of the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series at Wake Forest University. On Sept. 30, Julianna Baggott will read at 3:30 p.m. in Tribble Hall’s Ammons Lounge, […]
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