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• Conference to explore high and popular culture Sept. 21, 2004 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.
• Academic Staff Week show uses opportunities to learn, have fun Sept. 21, 2004 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.
• Parallel Press poets to read Sept. 21, 2004
• Dance ensemble celebrates Overture Center opening Sept. 21, 2004
• Vocalist acquaints campus with classical Indian music Sept. 21, 2004 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.
• Compositions honor Memorial Library's anniversary Sept. 21, 2004 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.
• UW helps usher in Overture Sept. 21, 2004
• Book Smart Sept. 21, 2004
• Book project, love of language leads author to competitive spelling championship Sept. 21, 2004 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.
• New gallery honors memory of James Watrous Sept. 13, 2004
• UW grad's short film has television premiere Sept. 13, 2004
• FELIX features local poets Sept. 8, 2004 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.
• UW symposium seeks to separate fact, fiction of Trojan War Sept. 7, 2004 "The Trojan War: The Sources behind the Scenes" will include art, cinema, language and myth - ancient and more recent - as well as archaeology.
• Dance Program announces fall season Sept. 7, 2004 Yvonne Rainer, considered an "avant-garde aesthete and utopian activist" by essayist Ann Daly, will speak on Friday, Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall as part of the fall Friday Forum series sponsored by the Dance Program.
• Art critic Brenson is Arts Institute's artist in residence Sept. 7, 2004 The UW-Madison Arts Institute has named respected art critic Michael Brenson as the Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for fall 2004.
• Exhibition focuses on work of UW-Madison's Christiane Clados Sept. 7, 2004 The Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program, in collaboration with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee, and Latino Arts Inc. in Milwaukee, are presenting the art exhibit and lecture series "Christiane Clados: Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World."
• Gallery honors memory of James Watrous Sept. 7, 2004 The James Watrous Gallery opens Saturday, Sept. 18, in the Overture Center for the Arts.
• On with the show: Students to help open Overture Center Sept. 7, 2004 More than 150 UW-Madison students will be part of an extraordinary out-of-the-classroom learning experience as they dance, sing, play and perform as part of the celebration of the opening of Madison's Overture Center on Sept. 20.
• From science to cinema, 'Frankenstein' explored Sept. 1, 2004 UW Libraries Department of Special Collections will host "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature," a traveling exhibition developed by the National Library of Medicine, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
• Chivalry not dead in Memorial Library exhibition Aug. 24, 2004 Elements of chivalry from medieval times to the present are on display at the Memorial Library's ninth-floor Special Collections room through Tuesday, Aug. 31.