Missouri’s long and fraught history of reproductive justice has always been embedded with racial and class dynamics, write graduate students Ri’enna Boyd and Katherine Tilghman. The “Reflecting on Reproductive Justice” symposium begins with events on Thursday, September 5, wrapping up on Saturday, September 7, with a conversation featuring reproductive justice icon Loretta Ross. (Free and open to the public.)
In a two-day public symposium, two dozen scholars from around the world will examine how the Catholic Church negotiated the rising prominence of rationalism and secularism.
The Center for the Humanities welcomes five new members to its executive committee for the 2024-25 academic year.
Here’s a look at the Graduate Student Fellows joining the humanities center for the 2024-25 academic year. The competitively selected students actively participate in the center’s intensive, interdisciplinary intellectual environment.
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Pursuing new scholarly ideas about the world takes funding — whether it's for a two-month tour of research sites in Japan or a two-week trip to an archive to view materials available only there — that can be hard to find via regular channels. The Center for the Humanities fills this gap with a number of funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Learn more about their stories!
A public symposium on global and local advocacy — featuring speaker Loretta Ross, activist, public intellectual, scholar and the 2022 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” award
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View EventKhalil Gibran Muhammad, the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government – McLeod Lecture on Higher Education
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