Category: General CAS Stories

Colloquium presenters speak to natural spaces

Colloquium presenters speak to natural spaces

Two presenters spoke about natural spaces as part of the 2012 Spring Colloquium. On Tuesday, Aldemaro Romero, dean of the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences, and David Israelitt, a student at SIUE, spoke to a small crowd about two distinctly different types of natural spaces. The session was simply entitled Natural spaces.
Romero, who has […]

France speaks on crusades, warfare

France speaks on crusades, warfare

Students at SIUE had the opportunity to see an accomplished historian on Friday, March 23. John France, professor of crusader, medieval, and military history at Swansea University, and currently guest lecturing at West Point Academy.
Katie Sjursen, assistant professor of historical studies, stated that France’s talk was co-sponsored by the departments of anthropology, English language and […]

Romero appointed to CCAS committee, to present at November panel

Romero appointed to CCAS committee, to present at November panel

There is much discussion in today’s job economy about the value of education, in particular, a liberal arts education. While liberal arts detractors are trying to convince the world that there is no value to a liberal arts education, there is a council that is arguing the opposite just as hard along with a member […]

A Little Nightmare Music being performed at Dunham Hall Theater

SIUE Opera Theater presents: An Evening of Tragedy and Comedy

[Video] March 23rd and 24th, SIUE Opera Theater demonstrated their range in both musical ability and content with two one-act operas.
The evening began with a tragedy, “Suor Angelica,” by Giacomo Puccini. The opera, performed in the original Italian, tells the woeful tale of a nun who learns of the death of her illegitimate child. Stricken […]

Japanese death poems draw crowd to quad

Japanese death poems draw crowd to quad

[Video] Jeff Skoblow, professor of English language and literature, and Eric Ruckh, associate professor of historical studies, read 111 poems from a collection of Japanese death poems on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 to commemorate the lives lost in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku, Japan. The reading took place in the Stratton Quadrangle […]

Segue Turns One

Segue Turns One

March 6, 2011 Segue first went on the air with host Aldemaro Romero, dean of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences, and his first guest Ruth Slenczynska. Since that first air date, the program has successfully aired 54 consecutive weekly programs with guest from all areas of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Segue has it’s […]

Japanese death poems in Stratton Quad

Japanese death poems in Stratton Quad

Last week, on March 11th, marked the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. Two SIUE College of Arts and Sciences professors are marking that anniversary with a reading this Wednesday, March 21. At 12:00 in the Stratton Quad, Jeff Skoblow, professor of English language and literature, and Eric Ruckh, associate […]

Carlos Zamora talking to Dean Romero

Carlos Zamora Visits SIUE

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 graphic designer Carlos Zamora gave a special guest lecture to the art department at SIUE. Originally from Cuba, Zamora considers himself a man of two cities, maintaining strong ties to Havana and also making a home for himself in St. Louis.
Zamora’s lecture focused less on his personal portfolio as an artist, […]

Art from the SIUE Student Success Show

Student Success Gallery Opening

Monday March 12, 2012 SIUE students and faculty gathered for the opening of the fifth Student Success Exhibition. The exhibition series began in 2008 as a way of celebrating SIUE’s 50th anniversary. Intended as a five year run, this year marks the last year of the series.
Each year, students from the SIUE College of Arts […]

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass

SIUE’s Arts and Issues series hosted an eclectic group of musicians Wednesday night last week.

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass played a concert in the Meridian Ballroom in the Morris University Center at SIUE . The concert was a mix of music, poetry, and dance.
Waldman, self-titled Alaska’s traveling fiddler-poet, […]

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