Events

Panel discussion featuring Heather Corcoran, the Halsey C. Ives Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Interim Dean of University College; Lisa Marie Harrison, Art Director, Analytic Production and Design Center, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; and Geoff Ward, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, African and African-American Studies

"Taking Possession: The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House," by Heidi Aronson Kolk, Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Celebrate Banned Books Week by reading about Daniel Sempere as he unravels the mystery behind a book he has chosen from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books to protect in Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The book discussion will be paired with a showcase of banned books from the Rare Book Collections.

Renowned Chinese dissident artist and activist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Sabine Eckmann, the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, on the artist’s wide-ranging practice, including his concern for human rights and the global condition of humanity and his profound engagement with Chinese culture past and present, especially the radical shifts that have characterized China in the new millennium. Free but reservations required.