Meet Engaged City Community Fellow in Residence Damon Davis
The boundary-pushing St. Louis artist steps into a new role as Community Fellow in Residence with the Engaged City at the Center for the Humanities.
Banning books or belonging: The effects of literary censorship on identity formation and book joy
When the stories that shape us are stripped away, censorship doesn’t just remove books from shelves — it reshapes young identities and steals the joy of seeing oneself reflected on the page. Former Banned Books Fellow Taylor Thomas shares her research on identity formation and book banning.
The secrets of bunker 46
A long-disused bunker at Tyson Research Center holds preserved birds, fragile documents and a complex history — now being carefully brought back into the light by a cross-disciplinary initiative to preserve, interpret and communicate Tyson’s history both before and since WashU’s presence on the land.
A Spenser for the digital age
In Faculty Fellow Joseph Loewenstein’s multi-year, multi-volume collected works of Edmund Spenser, new insights and technological innovations breathe fresh life into one of English literature’s foundational figures.
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A Counter-Imaginary to Authoritarian Power: Gender, Passion and other Psychosocial Formations
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
Featuring keynote speaker philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and author, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” - Faculty Book Celebration
Judith Butler Reading Group
Danforth University Center, Room 234
One-time discussion of “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” by Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Judith Butler
Humanities Undergrad Mixer
DUC Fun Room
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