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Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

"American Intimacies: Disability and Intimacy Roundtable"

"Yiddish, Translation and a World Literature To Come"

"Racial Framing and Gender at Work"

"Religion and the Lability of Form"

"Engineering Utopia: The Turn to Science in Postwar North and South Korea"

"Hip Hop and Asia"

"Famished: Eating Disorders and the Cruel Optimism of Treatment in the United States"

"Tina Turner’s Turn: Gender, Race, Genre and the Queen of Rock"

"Constellation, an Improvisation" by K.J. Holmes

Visiting Hurst Professor Percival Everett lectures on the craft of fiction

Visiting Hurst Professor Percival Everett reads from his fiction

Rickey Laurentiis and Phillip B. Williams read from their poetry

"The Book as Artifact"

First Book Information Session and Workshop

First Book Information Session and Workshop

First Book Information Session and Workshop

"Chinese Constitutionalism at the Crossroads: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects”

"Foreign Language Colloquium Workshop: An Integrated Approach to FL Teaching and Assessment"

"Foreign Language Colloquium Lecture: L1-Induced Facilitation in L2 Reading Development"

"Urbanization: Towards a New Conceptual Cartography"

Can urbanization be equated with the growth of cities and their populations? In this lecture, Neil Brenner argues against that prevalent conception, which continues to dominate mainstream global urban policy discourse. Instead, he proposes a multiscalar approach to urbanization that includes city-building as well as the construction of broader territories, landscapes and socionatures that support urban life on a planetary scale. He argues, in particular, that historically inherited 'hinterlands' are today being transformed into operational landscapes for the metabolism of capitalist industrial urbanization:  they are thus integral to a thickening, if unevenly woven, planetary urban fabric. On this basis, Brenner speculates on questions of territorial (in)justice under conditions of planetary urbanization.

RSVPs appreciated to Tila Neguse, tneguse@wustl.edu

"woke"

"Enthymeme and Emotion from Aristotle to Hoccleve"

Visiting Hurst Professor Dan Beachy-Quick reads from his poetry

“The Ever-Modern University”

“Educating to Innovate: The Liberal Arts in the 21st Century”

“Arts & Sciences: The Heart of a University”

“The University Is Not a Business: Thoughts on How to Frame Higher Education for the Future”

“From Washington University to the White House”

"Identity, Language and Literature in the Caribbean"

"Robert Heinecken's Photograms"

"Abstraction and Race at Mid-Century: Comparing Histories of Art and Design"

"On Medieval Islamic Talismans"

"Endurance, Ephemerality: Art and the Passage of Time"

"Temporalities of Impressionism: Painting at the Speed of Consciousness"

"Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition—From Antiquity to Modernity and Back"

Dan Beachy-Quick lectures on the craft of poetry

Joshua Cohen reads from his fiction

Beth Bachmann reads from her poetry

"New Approaches to Islam's Formation: An Arabic Papyrus from the Early Islamic Period"

Labor Trafficking Panel Discussion

Sex Trafficking Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion on Histories of Art and Design

"'Everyday Problems and Everyday Things': Selling Scandinavian Design in Mid-Century America"

Day of Discovery & Dialogue

"Facing Ferguson: Reflecting on Racial Innocence"

"Family Papers: A Sephardi Journey through the 20th Century"

“The Uses of the Self: Thoughts on Memoir”

"Gawping, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies"

Screening & Discussion: "The True Cost"

"Gods, Puppets, and Robots: The Ghost in Japanese Theatre’s Machine"

"Artists, Scholars, and Mothers: Gender Roles in the Ongoing Evolution of Traditional Music in South Korea”

"Transnational Dissonance: Yvonne Venegas' 'María Elvia de Hank' series"

Screening & Discussion: "The Bronze"

Screening & Discussion: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

“From Roman Games to Reality TV: Using the Classics to Think about Pop Culture”

"Hearing Is Believing: Children, Disability, American Radio and Popular Culture, 1910-1970"

Walton O. Schalick, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medical History, Rehabilitation, History of Science and Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Using scripts, recordings and archival supporting documentation, Schalick explores the shifting, widespread and often dramatic appearance of disabilities in American radio culture in the 1910s–70s. What emerges is a provocative sense of how important this cultural medium was as a “backdrop” to the increasingly changing place of disability in American life, with children as one locus of that cultural uptake. 

Structural Racism, Power and Privilege: Residential Segregation and School Resegregation Symposium

African Film Festival

"The Black Muslim Encounter and Why It Matters"

"Black Activism in the Academy: What Can You Do from Where You Are?"

“Global Inequalities: Reflections on Economic Citizenship”

"Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early-Modern Europe" - Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon

Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon 

Javier Moscoso discusses his contribution to the volume Pain and Emotion in Modern History (Palgrave, 2014) entitled “Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early-Modern Europe.”

Moscoso was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of History of Science at Harvard before becoming research professor of history and philosophy of science at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His most recent book, Pain: A Cultural History (Palgrave, 2012), was internationally acclaimed, and he has since turned his attention to the passions of ambition, jealousy, envy and resentment. This salon discussion of his published piece will serve as a springboard for a broader discussion of (early) modern passions.

Javier Moscoso’s public lecture, "The Moral Treatment of Ambition: Passions, Politics and Mental Illness in the Early 19th Century," is Thursday, April 7 at 6 pm.   

For advance readings, please contact:

Tili Boon Cuillé
Co-coordinator of the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
tbcuille@wustl.edu

"'Sonic Visions': Jazz and Improvised Music to Avant-Garde Films"

"The Moral Treatment of Ambition: Passions, Politics and Mental Illness at the Early 19th Century"

"The Last Survivor: Listening to Italians Who Lived through Fascism and World War II"

"Hypersexualization or Sexual Agency?"

Title IX Panel - Sexual Assault Awareness Month

"Sex Trading and Trafficking in Community Context: Action Research, Prevention, and Dignity"

"Taking It Personally: Why Gender Violence Is an Issue for Everyone"

"Intersection of Aging and the Arts for Health and Wellbeing"

Gallery talk on 19th-century American landscape painting

"Many Hands Make Light Work: Towards a Digital Book of English"

"Rethinking the Long Reformation: Purity, Purgation, and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World"

Screening & Discussion: "Wadjda"

“Grit: Passion and Perseverance for Long-Term Goals”

"The Dynamic Welfare State"

"Reconstruction Relived: Communists, the South, and Racial Anxiety during the Great Depression"

Special advanced screening of 'Everybody Wants Some!!'

“Creating the Lung Block: Racial Transition and the Making of the ‘New Public Health’ in a St. Louis Neighborhood, 1907-1940”

City Seminar Lunch Series, sponsored by the Divided City Initiative

"The Future of Memory: A Queer Decolonial Approach"

Religion in the Public Sphere: Case Studies in Hope and Stress

"Taiwan Is Not China: Aborigines, Colonial Rulers and Democratization in the History of the Beautiful Island"

"Beethoven's Priestess of Biedermeier Offering? Clara Wieck in Vienna"

Colloquium: “Sophocles: Interpreting Tragedy”

Seminar: “Thucydides and the Causes of the Peloponnesian War”

"Participation in Reading Locality: Urban Spaces, Regions, Margins"

Distinguished Humanities Lectures

A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

"Movement, Exchange, and Belonging in the Hispanic World"

Screening & Discussion: "Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine"

Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship Program 25th Anniversary & Celebration

"The Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of Its Crew"

"Paris Is Burning" - Film screening & discussion

"At the Fair: Music from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition"

"Freedom"

"The Rise and Fall of 'Theory' in the Humanities"

“The Spiritual Legacy of Jimmy Carter”

“Spiritual Values and the 2016 Election”

Liederabend, featuring Amy Owens, soprano and Kirt Pavitt, piano

"Passing Strange"

"Thinking It"

"Critical Mass"

"Gossip"

"Global City Futures: Desire and Development in Singapore"

Chamber Project St. Louis presents "American Renegade," featuring Nicole Aldrich

Heart Strums featuring Hossein Alizadeh and Hossein Behroozinia

"New American Classics," featuring Chris Grymes, clarinet and Xak Bjerken, piano, with special guest Scott Andrews, clarinet

Ensemble 32, Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Andrew Zhou, pianos

Equal Play: Celebrating Women Composers

William H. Gass Symposium: International Writing

“Clothed/Unclothed: Laura Aguilar’s Radical Vulnerability”

"Boxing Wonder: Joseph Cornell and the Tradition of the Curiosity Cabinet"

“Black or White? The Early Work of Pierre Soulages, C.1948-1955”

Dedication of the Douglas B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library

“The History of Race as Mobilized in Contemporary Popular Music in Dominca”

"China’s Porcelain Capital: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen"

Teaching East Asia Lecture

Symposium on American illustration and consumer culture

Lecture by Professor Douglas B. Dowd

"Organized Complexity: The Novel and the City”

"Between the World and You: Our Duty to Fight for Freedom"

"The Best Show in Town, Straight from the Countryside"

"Tea, Women & Civilization in 18th Century Scotland"

"Considering Systemic Injustice in Light of 'Making a Murderer'"

"Legalizing Sin: Moral Reckoning around Abortion Among Catholic Women in Mexico City After Recent Legalization"

"The Erotics of Tears: Moving Beyond Pornographies of Woundedness"

"Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940"

Film Screening: "From This Day Forward"

African Film Festival

"A Runaway World? Food and Class in the 2nd Millennium BC"

"Wounds of Charity, Haitian Immigrants and Corporate Catholicism in Boston"

Lucia Stecher

"The Most Important Era in U.S. History That You Never Heard Of, and Why It's Still Important Today”

James Loewen is a sociologist, historian and author. His lecture will include:

• Why did the South secede?
• Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy?
• What is a Sundown town and how did they come about?
• The current state of racial in/equality in America.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

James Loewen is a sociologist, historian and author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, named "Distinguished Book of 2005" by the Gustavus Myers Foundation. Loewen is best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, which was republished in 2008. Jim Loewen taught for 20 years at the University of Vermont. Previously he taught at the Historically Black College, Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. In 2010, Teachers College Press brought out Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, intended to give K-12 teachers (and prospective teachers) solutions to the problems pointed out in Loewen’s earlier works.

As the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War approached, Loewen co-edited and published The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2010). His other books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co authored), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction but was rejected for public school text use by the State of Mississippi, leading to the path breaking First Amendment lawsuit, Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed, et al. His other books include The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Social Science in the Courtroom and The Truth about Columbus.

He has been an expert witness in more than 50 civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases. His awards include the First Annual Spivack Award of the American Sociological Association for "sociological research applied to the field of intergroup relations," the American Book Award (for Lies My Teacher Told Me), and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. In 2012 the American Sociological Association gave Loewen its Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, for "scholarship in service to social justice." Also in 2012, the National Council for the Social Studies gave Loewen its "Spirit of America" Award, previously won by, inter alia, Jimmy Carter, Rosa Parks and Mr. Rogers.

“Sundown Towns: What They Are, How to Recognize Them & How to Help Them Move Forward”

James Loewen is a sociologist, historian and author. His workshop will include:

• How to confirm sundown town
• How to assess historical sources (the census and oral history)
• An invitation to upload your information onto an interactive website

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

James Loewen is a sociologist, historian and author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, named "Distinguished Book of 2005" by the Gustavus Myers Foundation. Loewen is best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, which was republished in 2008. Jim Loewen taught for 20 years at the University of Vermont. Previously he taught at the Historically Black College, Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. In 2010, Teachers College Press brought out Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, intended to give K-12 teachers (and prospective teachers) solutions to the problems pointed out in Loewen’s earlier works.

As the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War approached, Loewen co-edited and published The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2010). His other books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co authored), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction but was rejected for public school text use by the State of Mississippi, leading to the path breaking First Amendment lawsuit, Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed, et al. His other books include The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Social Science in the Courtroom and The Truth about Columbus.

He has been an expert witness in more than 50 civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases. His awards include the First Annual Spivack Award of the American Sociological Association for "sociological research applied to the field of intergroup relations," the American Book Award (for Lies My Teacher Told Me), and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. In 2012 the American Sociological Association gave Loewen its Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, for "scholarship in service to social justice." Also in 2012, the National Council for the Social Studies gave Loewen its "Spirit of America" Award, previously won by, inter alia, Jimmy Carter, Rosa Parks and Mr. Rogers.

"Love Letters & Lessons: Notes on the Ethnography of Black Girlhood"

More details to come.

“Social Innovation for America’s Renewal”

"A Conversation on Religion, Politics and Pluralism"

“Reflections: Unity, Social Justice & Peace”

"Ugly Intimacy: Racial Policing and Gun Violence"

Lecture and Workshop with Hossein Alizadeh

francine j. harris reads from her poetry

Ander Monson reads from his nonfiction

Visiting Hurst Professor Lynne Tillman reads from her fiction

Visiting Hurst Professor Lynne Tillman lectures on the craft of fiction

"The History of Capitalism in the Anthropocene"

"From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation"

"'The Enemy Within': Lawrence Klein, the Politics of the Economy and the Limits of Neoliberalism"

"What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Race, Social Movements and the 2016 Presidential Race"

“Cuba in Revolution: Ten Iconoclastic Theses”

The topic of the Cuban Revolution is highly controversial and is usually approached from polarized and politicized perspectives. In this presentation, Luis Martínez-Fernández explains his efforts to produce a balanced portrayal of Cuba’s revolutionary process, efforts that required confronting long-standing myths upheld by both detractors and supporters.

"Af-Pak, the War on Terror, and Solidarities: Asian American Youth/Studies"

Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies, and is affiliated with the Middle East/South Asia Studies program and with the Cultural Studies Graduate Group. Her research and teaching focus on Asian American youth culture and the politics of cultural production as well as political mobilization and transnational movements challenging militarization, imperialism, and settler colonialism. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11. She co-edited Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997, and Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, and the Global.

Maira’s recent publications include a book based on ethnographic research, Jil [Generation] Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement (Tadween), and a volume co-edited with Piya Chatterjee, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (University of Minnesota Press). Her new book project is a study of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American youth and political movements focused on civil and human rights and issues of sovereignty and surveillance in the War on Terror. Maira launched a new section on West Asian American Studies in the Association for Asian American Studies and coedited a special issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies on Asian/Arab American studies intersections. She has been involved with various civil and human rights campaigns and antiwar groups in the Bay Area and nationally.

Hosted by the Asian American Studies minor. 

"‘Filipino Seekers of Fortune’: Music, Labor, and Empire in Colonial Asia”

Danforth Dialogues: Envisioning the Future of Religion and Politics in America

"Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms"

Taming Hazards conference

"The Problem with Modernity"

"On Africa and 'New World' Blackness"

Screening and Discussion: "Nuremberg: Its Lessons for Today"

“Disruptors, Influencers, Makers: Media Studies at the Crossroads”

John T. Caldwell explores contemporary media practices alongside examples from the speaker’s recent ethnographic fieldwork to address the ways that the commercial digital media enterprise has adopted and mainstreamed the very terms that arts and humanities scholars have employed to critically and systematically “shake-down” a succession of new media forms that have emerged over the past half-century.

Organized by Film and Media Studies.

“‘Filipino Seekers of Fortune’: Music, Labor, and Empire in Colonial Asia”

“Composing Within the Lines, Working Behind the Scenes: Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Dick Vance’s Arrangements for 'At the Bal Masque' (1958)”

“Performing the Political in American Dance”

“Modern Dance and the African-American Legacy”

“Frankenstein,” the Vital Force, and Electricity

"Looking for Lorraine: The Enduring Legacy of a Path-Breaking Playwright"

"Birth of a Dancing Nation: The Life, Writings, and Choreography of Ted Shawn"

"Provisional Notes on 'Afronormativity' and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa"

"Faith and Power: Religion and the American Presidency from the Founding to Trump v. Clinton"

"Presidential Candidates’ National and Foreign Policies"

“What Would Have Happened If? A Debate on Alternate Histories of the Ancient World”

"Perspectives on the Presidential Debate: Bridging Understanding"

"Administration, City Planning and Policing in Imperial and Metropolitan Perspectives: Or, Liverpool as an African City?"

Library Virtuality, Virtuosity and Virtuousness: Do Students and Researchers Still Need Libraries?

ultant and published author who focuses on the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs and library cooperation.

Robin Coste Lewis reads from her poetry

Spotlight Talk: Elizabeth C. Childs

What Is Can Xue’s Experimental Literature?

Rio de Janeiro and the World: Marc Ferrez, Photographic Mobility and International Modernity

Cole Swensen Reads From Her Poetry

Gallery Talk: Allison Unruh

Visiting Hurst Professor Cole Swensen lectures on the craft of poetry

“Dvořák, Race and His American Legacy”

Screening: "The Battle for the Arab Viewer"

Screening: "The Koran: Back to the Origins of the Book"

"Gender, Colonialism, and Transatlantic Sex-Trafficking in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature"

"Lunar Landscapes and the Loniliness of Exile: Writing Mexico during World War II"

"Performing Global Cultures in Early Modern Lisbon"

"Provisional Notes on ‘Afronormativity’ and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa"

"The Loss of All Lost Things"

"The Organization of Life in Ancient and Early Medieval China: Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Approaches"

"Sex in America, Then and Now: The Lasting Legacy of Masters and Johnson"

"Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China"

"Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America"

"Striking Poses: The Tensions of Black Refusal in a Photographic Frame"

Transgender Spectrum Conference: "Education, Liberation and Healing"

Leipzig 1843: An Evening with the Schumanns

“The New Field of Afro-Latin American Studies”

"God/Sex/War"

"Segregation by Design"

A collection of haunting and astonishing portraits of African-American life will accompany the book-in-progress Segregation by Design: Conversations for Action and Collected Essay. Working in concert with Catalina Freixas (Washington University) and Mark Abbott (Harris-Stowe), Lacks’ photographs illustrate topics around the issue of segregation.

The book project is the result of two additional projects: an undergraduate course, Segregation by Design, and a series of conversations among scholars from regional institutions, members of nonprofit organizations and government agencies were recorded and later curated as a collection of conversations on American Apartheid.

The course Segregation by Design is supported by The Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation and coordinated by the Center for the Humanities in partnership with the Sam Fox School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design. The gatherings Freixas and Abbott hosted were funded through the Office of the Provost’s Bring Your Own Idea program. The book is funded by the WashU Ferguson Academic Seed Fund through the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost and WashU Libraries, as well as a Sam Fox School Creative Research Activity Grant.

CONTACT: Catalina Freixas, freixas@wustl.edu

"Displacement, Museums, and Memory: Lessons from South Africa"

As some area residents know all too well, one of the factors contributing to the 2014 protests in Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area was a chain of forced migration. Many of the African-American residents of Canfield Green, the site of Michael Brown’s shooting, had been evicted from the neighboring town of Kinloch, Missouri, where airport expansion removed nearly 4,000 people from their homes. The Kinloch expulsion was only the most recent episode in a series of urban removals, which include the 1970s demolition of the Pruitt Igoe public housing project and the 1950s Mill Creek Valley clearance. By shattering communities, each dispossession rendered displaced residents vulnerable to the type of systematic injustices laid bare in Ferguson.

“Displacement, Museums, and Memories: Lessons from South Africa” features South African activists, scholars and curators reflecting on the innovative practices they have developed to recover and preserve stories of displaced communities and involuntary urban relocations in South Africa. The panel will include an audience-focused discussion of which lessons from South Africa might be useful to the work of activists, scholars, and curators here in St. Louis.

PANEL PARTICIPANTS

• Ciraj Rassool, Professor of History and Director of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa
• Leslie Witz, Professor in the History Department at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. His major research centers around how different histories are created and represented in the public domain through memorials, museums and festivals and tourism.
• Noëleen Murray, Director of the Wits City Institute and the A.W. Mellon Foundation Chair of Critical Architecture and Urbanism at the University of the Witwatersrand and co-author of Hostels, Homes Museum: Memoralising Migrant Labour Pasts in Lwandle, South Africa.
• Chrischene Julius, Head of the Collections Department, District Six Museum, Cape Town South Africa
• Moderated by Sarah Pharaon, Senior Director of Methodology and Practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

This workshop is supported by The Divided City, a joint project of Washington University in St. Louis's Center for the Humanities and Sam Fox School, and is presented in partnership with the University of Missouri--St. Louis. The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities initiative.

"Seeing Slavery in American Children's Literature"

Once a significant tool of both anti- and pro-slavery advocates, American children’s literature has continued to encapsulate and present often vying definitions of nationhood and race. Beginning with early 1790 illustrations and ending with current controversial texts -- such as A Birthday Cake for George Washington (2016) -- this presentation will explore how visual representations of slavery have been used to educate children on issues of race in America. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paula Connolly, Professor of English, UNC-Charlotte, is the author of Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010 and Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia.

“Theater That Builds Bridges, Theater That Chronicles Our Time”

"How and Why Darwin Got Emotional about Race"

"Holocaust or Genocide: Uniqueness and Universality"

Read German literature and Jewish studies scholar Erin McGlothlin's related article: "The Holocaust and the 'Whew' Effect." 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

DORIS BERGEN is the author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich and numerous articles on issues of religion, gender and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II. Bergen earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1991, and has taught at the universities of Notre Dame and Vermont. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 

Dennis Stroughmatt et l'Esprit Creole

"Lying Signs: Gender, Anatomy and Desire in Phaedrus's 'Fabulae'"

“Politics and the City”

The year 2016 marks the 10-year anniversary of Washington University’s City Seminar, a forum that brings together scholars from the St. Louis region across disciplines to share research methods, theories, and emerging projects on cities, urbanization and urban issues.

To commemorate the series — in an important election year — the fall 2016 program will comprise a roundtable discussion that takes stock of the contemporary city as a space where citizenship matters and rights can be constructed (Harvey). Some might argue, despite a polarizing presidential campaign at the federal level, party divisions remain blurred in cities. In many places, ideological debates over citizenship and what rights or responsibilities citizenship confers, or who is excluded from those rights, are brisk and hard-fought. In other places, privatization of services and urban spaces, as well as expanding or contracting housing and labor markets, have obscured or sidelined political debates. The City Seminar hopes to spur a new conversation about the relationship between cities—or the imagined urban—and politics.

The City Seminar roundtable will convene a cross-disciplinary panel to discuss the status of the city in the new millennium: Citizenship, policy, markets, and the roles, scales and potentials of the public sector, urban spaces and built environments. 

CONTACT: Tila Neguse, tneguse@wustl.edu

"Sexploration at Washington University in St. Louis: The Legacy of Masters and Johnson in Sexuality Research and Clinical Practice"

"Obedience and Resistance: Principles for Ethical Living"

"Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising"

"Work as Worship: Emerson’s Emancipating Religious and Political Journey"

"Anatomy and Aporia in Galen’s On the Construction of Fetuses"

"Magic Lantern Shows and Early Screen Practice in Colonial Taiwan"

"Protests in Lebanon: The 'Trash Uprising' and the End of the Post-War Republic"

Open to the public and free, the talk is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.

Synopsis
In August 2015, mounds of garbage piled up in major Lebanese cities, leading to the biggest non-sectarian protest since the end of the civil war (1991). For a couple of weeks in August and September, Beirut witnessed daily demonstrations, often turning violent, protesting against the corruption of the government. What started as a localized protest against the government’s mismanagement of the waste management sector quickly turned into a crisis of legitimacy of the political system. In a context of global uprisings and regional revolutions, the short-lived protest movement signaled the entry of Lebanon in the current global cycle of discontent. The country did not witness a major upheaval similar to what happened in neighboring countries, but similar processes of de-legitimization of the established political orders are taking place. The talk will examine what came to be known as the “trash uprising,” by locating it in its historical trajectory before presenting some of its afterlives. Through an examination of the protest movement, the talk will put the Lebanese ‘trash uprising’ in conversation with the global wave of protests that started in 2011, in order to probe the changing contours of the present and its discontent.

Biography
Samer Frangie is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration and the director of the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut. His research is at the intersection of the intellectual history of the Arab world and political theory, and examines the history of the Arab left. He has published a number of articles dealing with various aspects of the history of the Arab left, in journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Modern Intellectual History, Third Quarterly and Thesis Eleven among others. He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled The Politics of the Aftermath: Tradition, Tragedy and Temporalityin the Lebanese Left. Aside from his academic work, he is a frequent contributor to the pan-Arab daily newspaper, al-Hayat.

"Shakespeare Songs and Sonnets"

"Son of Soil"

"Sex Trafficking in St. Louis"

"Can You Have It All?"

"No Place Lie Home: Unique Housing Challenges for Women Experiencing Homelessness in St. Louis"

"Khwaja Sira Politics: Gender Ambiguity in Everyday Life and Activism in Pakistan"

"Drawing Sex: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Commix, and Child Sexuality"

"'I Don't Believe We've had the Pleasure': Introducing Sex Positivity into Sexual Education"

“Beyond the Basics: Community Experts Explore the Intersection of Commercial Sexual Exploitations and Weak Institutions”

"The U.S. Deportation Machine and Its Uneven Consequences for Latin America"

"Refusing Optimism: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Anti-blackness, and the Ethics of Anguish"

"Black & Blue" - Black Anthology

"Late Moves: Music and Creativity Near the End of Life"

Keyboard Fest

"Hymns for the Fallen" - Library Faculty Book Talk

"Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS" - Library Faculty Book Talk

“Identity Narratives in Anti-Identity Times”

Panel discussion featuring the following:

Sidonie Smith, Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker
Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Melanie Micir, Assistant Professor of English
Erin McGlothlin, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies
Long Le-Khac, Assistant Professor of English

This event is related to the Faculty Book Celebration, held later in the afternoon of February 7.

“Circus Maximus: Crime Time and Prime Time in Contemporary Italian Society and Media"

Screening & Discussion: "Princess Mononoke"

Screening & Discussion: "Spirited Away"

Kling Fellowship Information Session

"Speak"

"Between Islamophobia and Homophobia: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberal Engagements with Islam"

More details to come.

Organized by Aria Daniel Nakissa, assistant professor of Islamic studies, Jewish Islamic & Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Program: arianakissa@wustl.edu

Joseph Massad teaches and writes about modern Arab politics and intellectual history. He has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998. He is the author ofDesiring Arabs (2007), which was awarded the Lionel Trilling Book Award;The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001).  His book Daymumat al-Mas’alah al-Filastiniyyahwas published by Dar Al-Adab in 2009, and La persistance de la question palestinienne was published by La Fabrique in 2009. The Arabic translation of Desiring Arabs was published in 2013 by Dar Al-Shuruq Press in Cairo under the title Ishtiha’ Al-‘Arab.

His latest book is Islam in Liberalism, University of Chicago Press, 2015, and his latest articles are “The Cultural Work of Recovering Palestine,”Boundary 2, Volume 42, No. 4, November 2015, 187-219, “El Trabajo cultural de recuperar la Palestina,” in En-claves, Mexico, Fall 2015, “Recognizing Palestine, BDS, and the Survival of Israel,” in Ashley Dawson and Bill Mullen, eds., Academic Freedom and BDS, Haymarket Books, 2015, “Egypt’s Propaganda and the Gaza Massacre,” in Laila El-Haddad and Refaat Alareer, eds., Unsilenced: Reflections and Responses to Israel's 2014 Attacks, Just World Books, 2015, “Orientalism as Occidentalism,” History of the Present, Winter 2015, “Olvidar el Semitismo,” Revista Foro Internacional, Mexico, July-September 2014, Vol. LIV, No. 3, 696-737, “Love, Fear, and the Arab Spring,” Public Culture, Winter 2014, 129-154, and “Forget Semitism!,” in Elisabeth Weber, editor,Living Together. Jacques Derrida's Communities of Peace and Violence, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), 59-79.

His articles have appeared in many journals, including Public Culture, Interventions, Social Text, Middle East Journal, Psychoanalysis and History, Critique, Umbr(a), and the Journal of Palestine Studies, and he writes frequently for Al-Ahram Weekly, Al-Akhbar, and Al-Jazeera English. He teaches courses on modern Arab culture, psychoanalysis in relation to civilization and identity, gender and sexuality in the Arab world, and Palestinian-Israeli politics and society, with seminars on Nationalism in the Middle East as Idea and Practice, and also on Orientalism and Islam.

"The Sole of Pantalone: Shakespeare and the Masks of the Commedia Dell'Arte"

“The Art and Science of Self Control: How to Act in Your Long-Term Best Interests”

"Art Inspiring Music: Paris at the Turn of the 19th Century"

"No Human Right to Sodomy: The Christian Right and SOGI Human Rights"

"Art Inspiring Dance: Discovering Loïe Fuller"

"Sites Unseen"

"The Modern Meal: Sustenance Through Ritual"

"Homme Oiseau" (Man-bird)

Jennifer Grotz reads from her poetry

Henri Cole reads from his poetry

Christine Schutt reads from her fiction

Terrance Hayes reads from his poetry

Paul Lisicky reads from his nonfiction

"How Bad Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Policy and Racial Typing in the Making of U.S. Citizens"

"American Protestants and the International Origins of the 1960s Democratic Revolution"

"Corruption and Forensic Experts in British India"

"The Digital Future of Early Christian Studies: Utopian, Apocalyptic and Apocryphal"

Works-in-Progress: A Graduate Student Symposium Series

Lunar New Year Festival

"Security, Policy, and Military Power in Japan"

"Books and Bodies: 500 Years of Printing Medical Texts"

For more details, see https://historyofmedicine.wustl.edu/contact-us/education/historia-medica/

Symposium and Masterclass with Ralph Towner

"Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage" - Library Faculty Book Talk

"The Humanities After 2016: What Do We Want to Become?" - Faculty Book Celebration

RSVPs appreciated; please click here

The year 2016 marked a dramatic turning point politically. Now, more than ever, the priority for scholars in the humanities must be to transform how we educate future generations of doctorally trained humanists for careers in the academy and throughout the larger humanities workforce.

We need a model of education that is adequate to the lived realities of the academy, now and to come; to the energies of students who choose to pursue a doctorate; and to the intellectual, affective and social attachments that drive the pursuit of excellence in scholarly inquiry and committed teaching. The “new normal” in the everyday life of academic humanists will require us to become intellectually nimble, energetically collaborative, pedagogically imaginative, and flexible in communicating our intellectual passions and our values in an era of open access and narrowing appreciation for liberal arts education. Transforming how we conceptualize academic work will contribute to creating a new narrative about how humanists work with others in the academy and how we contribute to the hard work, pleasures and reflective insights of humanities-related activities outside it.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sidonie Smith is author of Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times, her contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the humanities in the 21st century. She is a past president of the Modern Language Association of America (2010). Smith's fields of specialization are autobiography studies, narrative and human rights, feminist theories and women's studies in literature.

Ron Mallon
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The Construction of Human Kinds (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Sowande’ Mustakeem
Assistant Professor of History and African and African-American Studies
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (University of Illinois Press, 2016)

RELATED EVENT

Panel Discussion: “Identity Narratives in Anti-Identity Times”

Tuesday, February 7, 12 pm
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142

featuring

Sidonie Smith, Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker
Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Melanie Micir, Assistant Professor of English
Erin McGlothlin, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies
Long Le-Khac, Assistant Professor of English

RSVPs appreciated to cenhum@wustl.edu. Co-sponsored by University Libraries.

"North Korean Refugee to American Citizen: Grace Jo’s Story"

"We Don't Already Understand the Outlines of Literary History"

"The Art and Politics of African-American Faith"

"Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: Kurban Said's 'Ali and Nino' (1937) as World Literature"

"Sonny Meets Hawk!: Contesting Jazz's Identity Through Intergenerational Musical Collaboration"

"The Science (and Art) of Later Life Creativity"

"Be the Designer of Your World: Thoughts About the Process"

"The Sustainable Development Goals: Toward Better Living Standards for Everyone”

"Create or Perish; Innovate or Die: The Power and Promise of the Rise of Innovation Ecosystems in Middle America"

"The Double Life of Superimposition: W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Christ Cycle"

“The Changing Status of the Tamil Parai Drum: From Untouchable to Dalit”

Screening & Discussion: "Sakithi Vibrations"

"What does FREEDOM mean? How do we think about freedom with/through our bodies?"

"The Price of Success? The Influence of Equal Rights in Social Movement Identity Strategies"

Making [Trans] Media Panel Discussion

"Academic Theorizing Badly on (SOGI) Human Rights"

"Creativity and the Resting Brain"

"Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice Symposium: From Standing Rock to St. Louis"

"French Film at the Turn of the Century: Spectacles de curiosité"

Mitt Romney in conversation with WashU Law Faculty

"Red Sea Exchanges, Agricultural Shifts, and Domestic Chickens in Ancient Africa"

"Beyond the Binary"

A designer, urbanist, and social innovator, Liz Ogbu is an expert on sustainable design and spatial innovation in challenged urban environments globally. She is founder and principal of Studio O, an innovation firm that works with communities in need to use the power design to deliver deep social impact.

"Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan’s Past"

Academic Publishing: A Panel Discussion

Kanye West and the Impossibility of Black Genius

“Protecting LGBTQ+ Progress in Challenging Times”

“Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scholarly Communication”

“East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity”

"The Dynamics of African-American Identity and the Implications for Health and Well-Being"

"Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution"

"Where the Pipelines End: Water, Urban Development and Resilience in Delhi"

"Sacrifice and Utopia in the Anthropocene"

"Empowering Migrant Women in the Netherlands: A Case Study of Hymenoplasty Consultations"

"Jumping the Red Tape: Administrative workarounds, improvisation, and the social world of rumors in a Tanzanian hospital"

"A Fertile Alliance: Reproductive governance, neoliberal reform, and in-vitro fertilization in Costa Rica"

"Miss Mexico's Dress and the Backlash against Reproductive Rights in Latin America"

Gallery Talk: (Re)presenting Heroes, Defining Virtue

"Mediated by Images: Entertainment and Experience in Fin-de-Siècle Montmartre"

Gallery Talk: Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha

“U.S.-China Relations"

"Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in the Sinophone World"

“Reading Both: Literary History and the Monolingual Model”

Pushmower Undergraduate Reading

MFA Reading

MFA Reading

"Vulture in a Cage: Ibn Gabirol in His World"

"Spectral Meter: Metric Cognition, Conflict, and Form in Grisey’s Vortex Temporum"

Screening & Discussion: "Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices"

“Music and Dance as Twin Cultural Icons in a Tamil Novel: Tillana Mohanambal”

“Tamil Drumming and the Politics of Noise in Singapore”

"American Anthem: An Examination of the Significance of the National Anthem for African-American Identity and Nationhood"

"The Globalization of the Broadway Musical"

Interested in Careers in the Entertainment Industry?

"(Writing in a) small language, (living a) slow life"

"Listening, Muhabbet, and the Practice of Masculinity"

"Expressive Excess: Representations of Women in 1920s Japanese Leftwing Art and Film"

"'Name One Genius That Ain't Crazy': Kanye West and the Politics of Self-Diagnosis"

"Becoming Electro-domésticas: Maids and Middle-Class Domesticity in Mexico City, 1920s-1960s"

"The Legacy and Challenges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia"

"Prepositional Bodies: Sensation and Translation in Manchu"

"Biblical Themes, Muslim Artists"

"Child Witches in Navarre, 1550-1620: Law, Religion, and Families"

"Healing a House Divided"

"Executive Orders: The Living Legacy of Japanese American Internment"

"The History of The Closet"

"Dostoevsky and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Two Ex-Cons on Justice Delayed and Denied"

"The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and International Law"

"Labor and Progressive Global Economic Policy in the Trump Era"

"Chinatowns as Global Laboratories: Lessons from Comparative Analysis"

“An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story” Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Amina Cain reads from her fiction

"Dark Valley" (Das finstere Tal) Screening

"Rouge Parole" Screening

"Words of Witness" Screening

"Disruption Restoration: Illustration and Plot in the 17th Century Chinese Short Story"

"Chinese and British Diplomatic Gifts in the Macartney Embassy of 1793"

"Liberty, Equality, Hostility - What's Up with France?"

"The God Debate: Does God Exist? Does It Even Matter?"

"Star Wars IV: A New Hope" Screening

"Run Lola Run" Screening

"Yasukuni Shrine and Total War: Memories and Counter-Memories of the Asia-Pacific War"

“Linking Libraries to Promote and Preserve a City’s History: Creating the Chicago Collections Consortium”

"Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship and Indigeneity in the Old Northwest"

"Macbeth"

"Francis of Assisi on Eating and Worshipping with Animals"

"Imagining Nationalism at the Borderlands: Greater Somalia and the Struggle over Decolonization in Kenya (1955-1963)"

Christine Schutt lectures on the craft of fiction

“Mumbo Jumbo: The (In)Audibility of Kanye West"

Tennessee Williams Birthday Bash: Screening & Reception

Washington University Dance Collective: Luminous

"Listening Against: Disobedience & U.S. Popular Music in Filipino America"

Jews and Muslims Turn Hate to Humanity: Interfaith Collaboration in Times of Religious Violence

Screening & Discussion: “Tickling Giants”

“Violent Sensations: Sex, Murder, and the Self in Modern Central Europe”

"Soccer Without Borders"

Jazz Band featuring Provost Holden Thorp and Joel Vanderheyden at Jazz at the Bistro

"From Metaphysics to Mad Science"

"How Meat Changed Sex: The Law of Interspecies Intimacy After Industrial Reproduction"

If you have any questions or require any special accommodations or would like to have seating available for a large group or class, please contact the Gail Boker at 935-6458 or at gboker@wustl.edu. These events are all free and open to the public. 

The Spatial Turn

“Democracies Ancient and Modern”

A Privilege to Be Objectified: Miss Angola Landmine

"Otherness and Difference at the Dawn of Modern Times"

George Hodgman reads from his nonfiction

Arabic Calligraphy Workshop

Arabic Calligraphy Workshop

Eggsploitation: a short film and discussion about the ethics of egg donation

"Media Impact on the Female Body Image"

Literature in the Making: A Reading

"US-Russia Relations: Reset or Return to Cold War?"

"India, Theatre, and the Axes of Modernism"

"Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China"

Critical Spacial Practices St. Louis

Rise Up, Resist, Reconnect

A night of performance featuring Javon Johnson

Transatlantic German Studies: Personal Experiences

Borgia Infami: An opera in English in two acts by Harold Blumenfeld (world premiere)

Panel Discussion featuring Ervin Scholar alumni

Panel discussion on climate change featuring Ira Flatow, Gavin Schmidt and Bronwen Konecky

Christian Parenti, author of "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence"

Philosophy and Prejudice Interdisciplinary Workshop

More details to come from the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program.

“Which One Is the Monster?”

Frankenstein at 200 Conference

"Migration in Life and Death: Jewish Inscriptions from Graeco-Roman Iudaea/Palaestina"

"Lord of the Gold Rings: The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos"

"Elegant and Hallucinatory: Designing the Future at the Festival of India"

"Textual Intercourse: What Sex Can Teach Us About Contemporary Problems and Rabbinic Text"

"Social Inequities in Health and How to Address Them"

“A Racial History of Trans Identity”

"Survivors’ Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz"

"Preserving A United Nation: Moving Forward Together Despite Our Differences"

A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

"Art Inspiring Music: Italian Renaissance"

"Panel Discussion: Injury, Trauma, and Repair"

Bob Hansman’s Pruitt-Igoe: An American Culture Studies Panel Discussion

"Gratitude and Treasuring Lives: Eating Animals in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism"

Faculty Book Talk: Paul Steinbeck

Faculty Book Talk: Edward McPherson

"The Return of the Warrior: Ancient Greeks and Modern Combat"

"Poor"

"Crazy"

"City Seminar: Divided City Graduate Student Summer Research Fellows Presentation"

The Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the College of Artichecture and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, invites you to listen to the final research presentation of our summer 2017 fellows. Graduate students in the Humanities, Humanistic Social Sciences, Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture will present on their research on urban segregation broadly conceived.

Light refreshments provided.

“Borgia Infami: Real and Imagined”

"Washington University Dance Theatre: Here.Now.Together."

"Aunt Dan and Lemon"

"Urinetown: The Musical"

"Kiss"

Momenta Quartet featuring a World Premiere by Christopher Stark

“Ancient Greek Music: A Concert and Discussion”

Gayle and Phil Neuman as Ensemble De Organographia have received international recognition as performers and scholars of Ancient Greek Music and have several recordings of this repertoire on the Pandourion label available at North Pacific Music.  The Neumans have built copies of period instruments appropriate to the surviving Ancient Greek repertoire (c. 500 BCE to 300 CE); these include lyra, kithara, aulos, syrinx monokalamos, trichordon, syrinx, photinx, kroupezon, and others.

Visit the group's website for more about Ensemble De Organographia.

Co-sponsors: Washington University Department of Classics and Department of Music. Reception to follow.