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Winston-Salem Journal
On Nov. 21 at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem, Wake Forest’s department of art will present “Vesna Pavlovic’s Lost Art,” which contextualizes Pavlovic’s photographs and installations in relationship to art history, the legacy of the Cold War in Eastern Europe, and contemporary display practice through five essays by award-winning art historians and curators. The artist’s portfolio will also be displayed. A panel discussion with Pavlovic, Paul Bright, and Morna O’Neill will follow.
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest will present “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, Nov. 1-3 and 7-10 on the Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center. “The Crucible” is a powerfully entertaining drama that resonates just as deeply now as it did in the 1950s.
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Jennifer Teege will speak in Wake Forests Pugh Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 12. Teege’s maternal grandfather was Austrian Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth. Her 2015 book, “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past,” was a New York Times best-seller.
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
On Nov. 21 at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem, Wake Forest’s department of art will present “Vesna Pavlovic’s Lost Art,” which contextualizes Pavlovic’s photographs and installations in relationship to art history, the legacy of the Cold War in Eastern Europe, and contemporary display practice through five essays by award-winning art historians and curators. The artist’s portfolio will also be displayed. A panel discussion with Pavlovic, Paul Bright, and Morna O’Neill will follow.
October 28, 2019
The Atlantic
Invasive snakehead fish habits studied by Wake Forest researcher
Dubbed the northern snakehead, this invasive fish species is native to east Asia, but has been found in states across the country. Now wildlife officials from multiple states are asking people to kill them on sight. Snakeheads wreak havoc on a body of water’s ecosystem, eating frogs, native species of fish and crawdads, which can destroy a body of water’s web of food, according to Wake Forest researcher Noah Bressman. “Most invasive fish species — they’re in this pond and they can’t really go anywhere else. Well with the snakehead, they have the potential to go somewhere else over land into a body of water.” Bressman, on Monday, published a study reporting he found water conditions that could drive snakeheads onto land, and into other bodies of water. Bressman’s research observed the fish would leave the water they were in if it becomes too acidic, salty or high in carbon dioxide.
October 25, 2019
The Guardian
Science Weekly podcast: Inside the mind of the bullshitter
Wake Forest psychology professor John Petrocelli joined The Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast to discuss the concept of “bullshit” and his empirical work on the topic. “I couldn’t think of a more pervasive and prevalent social behavior than that of bullshitting,” said Petrocelli. Lying is different than “bullshitting.” In order to lie, you have to know what the truth is. The liar is trying to distract us from some truth…the bullshitter has no interest, no attention, no focus on the truth at all.”
October 25, 2019
Yes! Weekly
Wake Forest’s department of Jewish studies will present Penny Sinanoglou and “Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire,” on Dec. 3 at Bookmarks. Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact. Taking a broad view not only of Local and regional factors, but also of Palestine’s place in the British empire and its status as a League of Nations mandate, Sinanoglou deftly recasts the story of partition in Palestine as a struggle to maintain imperial control.
October 25, 2019
The Road to Now
Episode 76: The history of American cemeteries with Tanya Marsh
Wake Forest’s Tanya Marsh joined “The Road to Now” podcast to discuss historic forces at work in the creation of America’s death care industry. Tanya Marsh is professor of law at Wake Forest and one of the foremost experts on Mortuary Law and the history of cemeteries in the United States.
October 23, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Poet Nathaniel Mackey at Wake Forest University
Nathaniel Mackey, a world-renowned poet and theorist, performed poems accompanied by Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu’ahttet, on Oct. 29 at Wake Forest. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing and the inaugural Edwin G. Wilson Distinguished Artist at WFU.
October 23, 2019
91.5 WUNC
‘Joker’ reigns but Marvel and Stan Lee still rule
“Joker” is set to become the highest-grossing R-rated film in history. Abandoned by his therapist and attacked by a gang, the Joker becomes as much of a vigilante as he is a psychopath. Wake Forest’s film and media studies director Woody Hood appeared on WUNC’s “The State of Things” to discuss the success of the film, its controversy and the difference in the films of DC Comics versus the Marvel Universe. Hood explains why the Joker, and particularly this portrayal of the Joker, resonates with the public. When it comes to the themes and social backdrop in the movie, Hood said, “This is about us today and the changes in our civilization, in our lack of civility. I think it’s impossible not to feel sympathy for him. You understand him; you identify with him.”
October 22, 2019
Bloomberg Environment
Big EPA spending boost to get Senate vote this week
The Senate is taking steps this week to hand the EPA its largest budget in a decade, offering the agency nearly $3 billion more than the White House’s request. If the White House accepts the Senate’s $9.011 billion appropriation for the EPA, the agency would receive its second-highest budget in history. “It’s such a striking repudiation of the administration’s proposal,” Stan Meiburg, a former acting deputy administrator of the EPA in the Obama administration who now teaches at Wake Forest. “The fact that this number is going the other way is an affirmation of the support that the agency enjoys.”
October 22, 2019
Triad Business Journal
Two Triad schools among 8 from NC on magazine’s Best Global Universities list
Wake Forest and UNC Greensboro were listed in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 edition of the Best Global Universities rankings. Based on Web of Science data and InCites metrics provided by the Web of Science Group, the Best Global Universities methodology weighs factors that measure a university’s global and regional research reputation and academic research performance.
October 22, 2019