College of Arts and Sciences

Events and Announcements

SIUE and SIUC Combined Orchestras featuring guest pianist Awadagin Pratt

Michael Mishra, SIUE Conductor, Edward Benyas, SIUC Conductor

Monday, October 21, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Dunham Hall Theater

The orchestras of both Southern Illinois campuses will combine for an evening of exceptional music with pianist Awadagin Pratt. 

Among his generation of concert artists, Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involved performances both in recital and with symphony orchestras.  

Born in Pittsburgh, Pratt began studying piano at the age of 6. Three years later, having moved to Normal, Ill. with his family, he also started studying violin. At the age of 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He later graduated with degrees in those areas from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at John Hopkins University, making history as the first student at that institution to receive diplomas in three performance areas. In recognition of this achievement and for his work in the field of classical music, Pratt received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins as well as an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University. Pratt will perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor with the combined orchestra in the first half of the concert. The combined orchestras will perform Mahler Symphony No. 1 in the second half.

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William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor Public Lecture

Dr. Gerald O'Brien, Professor of Social Work

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Maple/Dogwood Room, Morris University Center
Reception 6 -6:30 p.m.
Lecture 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Gerald O'Brien, the recipient of the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Award will present Eugenics, Genetic Innovations and the Minority Group Model of Disability. A reception will be from 6-6:30, Dr. O’Brien (Professor of Social Work) will present the Going Lecture at 6:30, and a panel discussion with the people outlined below will follow. Sign interpreters will be present.

Panelists include:
Cathy Contarino, Executive Director, Impact Center for Independent Living 
Dominic Dorsey, Director of SIUE ACCESS Office
Alison Reiheld, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Duff Wrobbel, Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Communication Studies

SIUE Theater and Dance presents "Dance in Concert 50th Anniversary"

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 through Sunday, November 17, 2019
Dunham Hall Theater

The SIUE Theater and Dance department are thrilled to announce the 50^th Anniversary of SIUE Theater and Dance Dance in Concert. The 2019 concert will feature choreography and performances by an all-star team of returning Theater Dance alumni, current and emeritus faculty, current students and local area dance studios. 

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Chaos Magick

Featuring Angela Kim, Michael Robert Boswell and Peter John Kearney

Thursday, January 30, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Duhman Hall Theater

This evocative, multi-media experience will spotlight SIUE Assistant Professor of Piano Angela Kim. Her performance will be the center of a unique presentation that will include classic repertoire, electronic sound, graphic design, animation, and dance. Created by artists of different genres from across the country--Michael Robert Boswell (graphic designer), Peter John Kearney (motion designer) and Angela Kim (pianist)-- this concert will take the conventional concert experience to a different level. This particular performance will also incorporate the work of composer Dan VanHassel and choreographer Kevin Hockenberry, assistant professor in SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance. 

Praised by international press as “a pianist who meets the highest standard of technique,” Dr. Kim is one of the rising young pianists showing her versatility through colorful imagination and intense musical expression. As a scholarship student at the Eastman School of Music, Kim received the prestigious Henry Cobos Endowed Piano Prize for demonstrating excellence in piano performance. Dr. Kim has performed throughout the United States, South America, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Korea.

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J. Drew Lanham

Presented by Arts & Issues and the Ralph W. Axtell Lecture Series in Biological Sciences

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center

The Department of Biological Sciences and Arts & Issues will celebrate Darwin Day by presenting Dr. J. Drew Lanham. A native of Edgefield, S.C., Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion, Audubon, Flycatcher and Wilderness, and in several anthologies, including  The Colors of Nature, State of the Heart, Bartram's Living Legacy and Carolina Writers at Home.

An Alumni Distinquished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, Lanham and his family live in the upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.

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Symposium on Women and Gender

March 19-20, 2020

The Symposium is a multi-disciplinary event that will focus on women, genders and sexualities, both past and present. It will investigate the interplay between gender and the social, cultural, and legal norms that shape it, both in the United States and in other countries around the globe. We are also interested in feminist theories that have shed important light on issues of exclusion and marginalization as well as mobilization and social change. We welcome intersectional contributions that engage with gender, class and race.

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Brian Greene "Revealing the Universe-A Journey to the Frontier of Understanding"

Presented by Arts & Issues and the Department of Physic's Shaw Lecture Series

Dr. Brian Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and a brilliant, entertaining communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts. A Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University, Greene has been described by The Washington Post as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.”

Greene is the author of three acclaimed books -- The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality -- which have collectively sold more than 2 million copies, been translated into more than 40 languages, and spent 65 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller List. His books are also the basis of two Emmy and Peabody Award-winning NOVA miniseries, both of which Greene hosted. A Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, Greene is currently director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics. 

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