Global warming is a hot topic of late, but to anthropology professor John Bodley, it’s been hot for years. “I’ve been talking about global warming since the 1970s,” he said. “I started looking at how culture and global society create and affect global problems like poverty and global warming.” As a cultural anthropologist, Bodley examines […]
The spring WSU Tri-Cities Reading Series will feature one of the state’s premier poets, Sam Hamill, on Friday, April 7 at 8 p.m. in the East Building Auditorium on the north Richland campus. The event is free and open to the public.The author of more than 14 books of poetry and translations, Hamill has received […]
Renowned history and biography author Stanley Weintraub will be among the speakers during WSU’s third annual “Week of Remembrance,” March 5-10, to commemorate the liberation of Nazi death and concentration camps in Europe following World War II. Weintraub is the father of WSU communication professor Erica Austin. Weintraub is known for histories of the American […]
WSU departments of English, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Foreign Languages and Cultures will sponsor a presentation this week by David Foster, Regents Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Arizona State University.He will discuss the work of feminist Chicana author Stella Pope Duarte in a presentation titled “Exiting the Barrio” beginning at 5 p.m. on […]
Nationally acclaimed diversity author and speaker Allan G. Johnson will give a series of presentations at Washington State University’s Pullman and Spokane campuses Feb. 13-16.Johnson recently released the second edition of “Privilege, Power, and Difference,” a book used widely in college classrooms to teach about race relations and social justice.Johnson made his first trip to […]
Critically acclaimed American author Dorothy Allison will be at the Washington State University Pullman campus for a literary reading and book signing at 7:30 p.m. on March 30 in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the WSU Department of English 2004-2005 Visiting Writer’s Series with […]
Speaker and author Allan Johnson will give two public presentations on campus Oct. 21 and 22. The author of four books, Johnson has worked on issues of social inequality since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He teaches sociology at Hartford College for Women and is a frequent speaker on university campuses. Several […]
Former Yale professor Rogers M. Smith will visit Washington State University to present “Political Allegiances in the 21st Century” as part of Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholar Program on Nov. 7. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be from 3 – 4:30 p.m. in Todd Hall, Room 276. A professor at the […]
Yale University economist Robert Shiller, author of the New York Times best seller “Irrational Exuberance,” will present the inaugural Gary P. Brinson Distinguished Speaker Lecture at 3 p.m. Friday, April 26, in Todd Hall 276. Shiller, a frequent CNBC guest and the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale, has titled his speech “Irrepressible […]
Washington State University’s first writer-in-residence, Alex Kuo, who is also interim chair of the comparative American cultures program and a faculty member of the English department, will receive an American Book Award on May 3 in New York City for his most recent work “Lipstick and Other Stories.” He discovered a love for writing in […]