Category Society & Culture
UW Opera begins season on spooky ‘note’
The University Opera will open its 2004-05 season with "The Turn of the Screw" on Friday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Other performances are Sunday, Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Music Hall. Read More
Plan comes to life for East Campus
A seven-block-long pedestrian mall, seen as the unifying feature of the East Campus redevelopment plan, has new momentum after lingering on university drawing boards for 96 years. The East Campus Mall, first proposed in a 1908 campus master plan, is a key element in today's plans to revitalize the area with an arts-and-humanities district and new student housing. Read More
Students help set the stage at Wisconsin Union Theater
Russo oversees a wealth of programming Read More
Original music honors memorial library’s 50th anniversary
The Memorial Library will premiere five original musical compositions with a theme of libraries and librarians this Monday, Sept. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Petrovich Reading Room, 212 Memorial Library. This original music has been commissioned by the Mills Music Library to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Memorial Library. Read More
Avant-garde filmmaker, dancer to speak
Yvonne Rainer, contemporary dance pioneer and co-founder of the Judson Dance Theatre, will speak at the Dance Program's Friday Forum on Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall. Read More
Distinguished Lecture Series announced
The 2004-05 Distinguished Lecture Series will kick off Oct. 27. The series is designed to give students the chance to invite provocative speakers to campus, manage and promote their appearances, and get to know them up close and personally. Read More
Keyboard conversations slated
Acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel will open his four-part 2004-05 Keyboard Conversations series on Tuesday, Sept. 28. Read More
Conference to explore high and popular culture
The very symbiotic relationship between haute and popular culture will be examined at a two-day conference on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Read More
Academic Staff Week show uses opportunities to learn, have fun
From art discussions to merengue instructions, events during the School of Education's Academic Staff Week, Monday, Sept. 27-Friday, Oct. 1, will showcase the diverse talents of academic staff members. Read More
Parallel Press poets to read
Award-winning poets, all from the Madison area, will read from their work on Thursday, Sept. 23. Marilyn Annucci, Harriet Brown, Susan Elbe, Andrea Potos,… Read More
Dance ensemble celebrates Overture Center opening
Three group works and two solos, to be performed on Thursday, Sept. 23, by Li Chiao-Ping Dance, will help celebrate the Overture Center’s grand… Read More
Vocalist acquaints campus with classical Indian music
Sanjay Subrahmanyan will bring classical music from the south of India to campus when he performs Friday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m., Mills Concert Hall. Read More
Compositions honor Memorial Library’s anniversary
To commemorate Memorial Library's 50th anniversary, Mills Music Library received a grant to commission five original musical compositions by graduate students David Dies, Scott Gendel, Jerry Hui, Alexander Nohai-Seaman and Pavel Polanco-Safadit, all from the School of Music composition program. Read More
UW helps usher in Overture
Named for a former UW–Madison faculty member who died in 1999, the James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,… Read More
Book Smart
Caroline Levine, associate professor of English, “The Serious Pleasures of Victorian Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt,” University of Virginia Press, 2003. Read More
Book project, love of language leads author to competitive spelling championship
Since words are one of the primary currencies of communication, it is helpful if they are spelled correctly. Jeff Kirsch is, you might say, a real stickler for getting the letters in the proper order. Read More
New gallery honors memory of James Watrous
Artist and arts advocate James Watrous, a fixture on campus for nearly 70 years, no doubt would have been delighted with the gallery that… Read More
UW grad’s short film has television premiere
“Picture This,” an experimental short film by James Miklaszewski, a 1998 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in radio, TV and film, will be shown… Read More
FELIX features local poets
The first fall event in the FELIX series will feature readings by three poets: Bob Harrison, co-editor of the Milwaukee/New York journal "Crayon," William Allegrezza, editor of the online journal "Moria," and Steve Timm, an English as a second language instructor. Read More
UW symposium seeks to separate fact, fiction of Trojan War
"The Trojan War: The Sources behind the Scenes" will include art, cinema, language and myth - ancient and more recent - as well as archaeology. Read More