The Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Saint Louis University is sponsoring two local events next week.

The Music Program, housed within the department, is hosting a concert by SLU alumnus and current faculty member William Hopkins at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the historic Samuel Cupples House, located in front of the John Cook School of Business.

Hopkins will perform works of four current working composers on the guitar.

The composers whose music will be featured are Serbian-born American composer and guitarists Dusan Bogdanovic, Tunisian-French classical guitarist and composer Roland Dyens, Italian guitarist and composer Carlo Domeniconi and Australian guitarist and composer Tommy Emmanuel.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information about the event, call 314-977-2410.

The Art History Program, also housed within the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, is sponsoring a lecture at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Josephine Withers, Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, will be delivering a lecture entitled “The AHA! Factor: Learning from Life’s Unscripted Moments,” an insiders examination of a controversial anti-rape performance art piece organized by student members of the Women’s Coalition for Change on the campus of the University of Maryland in 1993.

The demonstration raised eyebrows and caused national controversy at the time. Member of the Women’s Coalition for Change, many of whom were enrolled in a seminar taught by Withers on issues in feminist art at the time, hung a banner on a temporary wall in the middle of campus.

The banner that was headlined, “Any of these Men May Have the Potential to be Rapists,” hung for two hours and listed the names of about 4,500 randomly chosen male students.

The names had been pulled from the university’s student directory.

The piece made national headlines, inspiring an op-ed piece in The Washington Post and causing heated discussion from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and the National Public Radio.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis is located at 3750 Washington Blvd, two blocks north of Lindell at the corner of Spring and Washington.

Visit http://www.contemporarystl.org for more information about the museum, including its current exhibits.