Literary scholar Sanja Bahun (University of Essex) will deliver the first in the Center for the Humanities’ new lecture series, which aims to foster dialogue, encourage interdisciplinary thinking and deepen understanding of the critical global challenges facing humanity today.
In her current book project, Faculty Fellow Esther Viola Kurtz takes a look at how Black jazz musicians in St. Louis have navigated the challenges of sustaining an art form the world consumes but rarely economically rewards.
Through the Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship, WashU students are given the rare chance to stay with an idea long enough to let it change shape — and, often, to let it change them.
In Renaissance Central Europe, the question of collective identity was anything but simple. Historian Christine Johnson’s current book project will reveal how “German” nationhood and the Holy Roman Empire overlapped, collided and coexisted long before the modern nation-state.
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Lecture by Bhavya Tiwari, Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
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