Field Notes: London Globe
Last summer, 18 WashU students traveled to London for an intensive three-week program at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Here, Claire Sommers, a lecturer in Arts & Sciences, describes the program’s aims and what it means to explore the places that shaped the Bard.
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Perspectives
‘Unfreezing the frame: The art of the embodied experience’
Art historian Nathaniel B. Jones, in Arts & Sciences, explores the artwork Laocoon at the Vatican Museums and the different perspectives that viewers may gain when visiting a sculpture in person rather than through a two-dimensional image or written text.
Passover: The festival of freedom and the ambivalence of exile
Nancy E. Berg, professor of Hebrew language and literature
Why luck plays such a big role in hockey
In my new book “The Random Factor,” I explain why of the five major U.S. team sports – basketball, football, baseball, hockey and soccer – the one with the greatest amount of luck involved in wins and losses is hockey, writes Mark Rank.
Videos
WashU balloon goes over big
For the first time, WashU sponsored a hot air balloon in the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, an annual hot air balloon festival held in Forest Park. “Time Traveler” was among the dozens of entrants that delighted the STL community Sept. 15-16, 2023.
Bookshelf
Can’t we all just get along?
A new book from the School of Law’s John Inazu offers a path for disagreeing productively and living joyfully in our divided society.