Who: Author Gish Jen

Where: Graham Chapel

When:11 a.m. Wednesday

Admission: Free and open to the public

Author Gish Jen to deliver Cultural Celebration Lecture

Author Gish Jen will deliver the annual Cultural Celebration and Asian Multicultural Council Lecture at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series.

Jen grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her work documents aspects of the ethnic experience in America with perception, poignancy and humor.

Her first work of fiction, 1991's "Typical American," follows the transformation of Chinese immigrants in the United States. The novel became a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."

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Dr. Drew: Coming to Graham Chapel

Sexual Responsibility Week highlighted by Dr. Drew

Sexual Responsibility Week, which runs Sunday through Feb. 18, will be capped off by a talk from Dr. Drew Pinsky. Dr. Drew is best known as co-host of "Loveline," a television and radio show that addresses young people's concerns about sex and sexuality.

Students can pick up sexual-health packets on tables in Mallinckrodt Student Center during lunch hours next week. Events --some of which are creative and fun but still informational --will be held throughout Hilltop Campus.

Student organizers of Sexual Responsibility Week insist that this year's theme, "Longer, Stronger, and More Responsible," has a legitimate and serious meaning.

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Black History Month celebrated by events

Several on-campus events in February will celebrate Black History Month.

Author and civil rights activist Margaret Dagen will lecture on "The Early Days of the Civil Rights Movement in St. Louis" at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in the School of Law's Anheuser-Busch Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the law school's Institute for Global Legal Studies and Black Law Students Association.

Dagen and her late husband, Irvin, were among the leading early civil rights pioneers in St. Louis. In 1947, they co-founded St. Louis CORE (Committee of Racial Equality), the organization principally responsible for integrating lunch counters and other public accommodations in St. Louis. The group maintained a philosophy of passive resistance and Ghandian nonviolence, which included some of the nation's first sit-ins.

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Film noir series comes to Gallery of Art starting Feb. 21

American film noir, the urban crime genre famous for its stylized visual aesthetic, crackling dialogue, moral ambivalence and existential gloom, was in large part pioneered in the 1930s and 1940s by film directors exiled from Nazi Germany and occupied Europe. Giants of world cinema like Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, Edgar Ulmer and Billy Wilder all arrived in Hollywood after fleeing the rising tide of National Socialism.

In February and March, the Washington University Gallery of Art will screen a trio of noir classics directed in Hollywood by European directors. The series will be held in conjunction with the Gallery's exhibition "Caught by Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s," which is on view at the Gallery through March 18.