
Will the real Charles Mingus please stand up
Graduate Student Fellow Varun Chandrasekhar looks to French philosophy to evaluate what made musical legend Charles Mingus tick.
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Lecture and reception for playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Sweat” and “Ruined” and winner of the 2025 Washington University International Humanities Prize
View EventA colloquium by and for STL area graduate students on the public humanities
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