Blackbeard’s Ship Wreckage Focus of Talk by WFU
October 12, 1998 | Events, Research, Speakers
The underwater archaeological investigation of Blackbeard’s lost flagship will be discussed on Thursday, Oct. 29, in an event co-sponsored by the Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories and the Old Salem Archeology Center. Steve Claggett, an archaeologist with the N.C. Division of Archives and History, will […]
Cuban Poet Will Read From Works, Discuss Homeland
September 30, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Cuban poet Nancy Morejon will present “Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing,” a poetry reading and discussion about Cuba, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Wake Forest University. The free and public event will begin at 7 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room A102. […]
Global Economy Topic of Calloway Program at WFU
September 28, 1998 | Events, School of Business, Speakers
James R. Helvey III, a managing director at J.P. Morgan and Company in New York, will present “Managing Capital and Credit in a Global Economy” at Wake Forest University on Thursday, Oct. 1. The free and public event will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Benson […]
Barber to Discuss Democracy and Globalization at WFU
September 24, 1998 | Events, Research, Speakers
Political scholar and theorist Benjamin Barber will present “Can Democracy Survive Globalization?” at Wake Forest University on Monday, Sept. 28. Barber, who received acclaim for “Jihad Versus McWorld,” an Atlantic Monthly article about the negative effects of tribalism and markets on democracy, will speak […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 24, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Theorist Discusses Globalization and Democracy Political theorist Benjamin Barber will present “Can Democracy Survive Globalization?” at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. The discussion is free and open to the public. Barber is the Walt Whitman Chair of […]
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 […]
Popular Math Expert Brings Soap Bubble Secrets to WFU
September 15, 1998 | Community, Research, Speakers
Mere millionths of an inch thick, found in countless bathtubs and toy stores, soap bubbles nevertheless are more than just efficient enclosers of air says popular math columnist, TV show host and award-winning professor Frank Morgan. They teach us a lot about the math found […]
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, […]
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