| The Columns Weekly - Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 |
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Faculty Profile: Carrie Stanton
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| Carrie Stanton teaches and writes in the areas of contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance, among other topics. |
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Meet a Colleague: Paula Fritz |
| Paula Fritz serves as producing stage manager for the Theater, Dance and Film Studies Department. Learn more about Paula in our "Meet a Colleague" feature series. |
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| W&L Faculty & Staff Engagement Survey |
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| Help us exceed our participation goal for the 2026 W&L Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey. This confidential, institution-wide survey is an opportunity for W&L to hear directly from faculty and staff about their experience working at the university. Your feedback will help the university celebrate what is going well and identify opportunities to strengthen our community. The survey was emailed directly to your W&L email inbox from Great Colleges to Work For on Monday, Feb. 2, and the survey is open until Monday, Feb. 16. Thank you for your feedback! |
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| This Week's Scene on Campus |
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Associate Director of Student Counseling and Education, Training and Outreach Coordinator Dave Salge works in the Harte Center on a snowy afternoon.
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Wrestling, men's and women's basketball all have home dates this week!
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| Featured Social Media Site |
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Follow the university's main Instagram account for all types of news and information!
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Lenfest Series: Sunny Jain and his Powerhouse Fusion Band Wild Wild East
7:30-10:30 p.m. Lenfest Center/Keller Theater
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The Lenfest Center at Washington and Lee University presents a performance by Sunny Jain and his band, Wild Wild East. Tickets are required and available online or in person at the Lenfest Center box office.
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Concert Guild Series: Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo
7-10 p.m. Lenfest Center/Wilson Concert Hall
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Clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu will present a program featuring works by Brahms, Debussy, and Bernstein. Tickets are required and available online or in person at the Lenfest Center box office.
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Law Faculty Meeting
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Law Community Lounge
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The law faculty meeting will be held from 11-12 in the Law Community Lounge. |
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Featured Speaker: Madiba K. Dennie
5:30 p.m. Stackhouse Theater
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Madiba K. Dennie, attorney, columnist and professor, will provide a lecture titled “Breaking out of the Originalism Trap: Constitutional Interpretation and Multiracial Democracy.” |
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Humans and the Humanities: Public and Digital Humanities Workshop
6 p.m. Northen Auditorium
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This public lecture/workshop will be led by esteemed public and digital humanities experts Palmar Álvarez-Blanco (Carleton College) and Steven L. Torres (University of Nebraska-Omaha). The speakers will draw on their expertise in community-engaged research and course design to examine questions of epistemic justice and community resources. The workshops is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. |
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The American Revolution: Screening & Conversation
5 p.m. Northen Auditorium
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W&L’s Institutional History Museum and Galleries hosts a screening of the recent PBS documentary “The American Revolution” to provide helpful context for the upcoming commemorations of the 250th anniversary of American independence. Admission is free but registration is required.
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National Theatre Live: “A Streetcar Named Desire”
7:30 p.m. Stackhouse Theater
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The Lenfest Center for the Arts at Washington and Lee University continues its National Theatre Live series with a screening of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Tickets are required and can be purchased online or in person at the Lenfest Center box office.
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Museum Lunch and Learn: Environmental Art with Brendan O'Donnell
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Watson Galleries
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Join the W&L Art Museum and Brendan O’Donnell, the climate and environment director for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington, D.C., and board member of POCACITO, for a light luncheon and walking exploration of the connecting environmental art threads between our two current exhibitions: Moffat Takadiwa: Recoded Memories and Edward Burtynsky: Taking Place.
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Mudd Center Symposium: “Rewilding Place: Ethical Considerations of Theory and Practice”
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Hillel 101
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This is a day-long symposium featuring researchers, philosophers and artists who engage, challenge and nuance the notion of rewilding, and its associated conservation practices of land preservation, restoration and rematriation. |
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SonoKlect Series: Transient Canvas
8-10 p.m. Lenfest Center/Wilson Concert Hall
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The Department of Music presents Boston-based duo Transient Canvas in concert. The performance is part of the SonoKlect Series, a program dedicated to bringing modern music to local audiences in Lexington. A reception in Lykes Atrium will follow the performance. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
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Faculty Recital: Akiko Konishi (Piano)
3-5 p.m. Lenfest Center/Wilson Concert Hall
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Akiko Konishi presents a solo piano recital featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Dvorak and Liebermann. No tickets are required.
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