Events

Public Tour: Design Agendas

Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s. With material drawn from the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Missouri Historical Society, and other collections, this exhibition situates works of modern architecture in St. Louis within the context of urban renewal and racial and spatial segregation and displacement. Using architectural drawings, models, photographs, films, and maps, Design Agendas highlights the contributions of architects, planners, artists, and activists in the civic work that shaped the design and building history of St. Louis. Through guided discussion, participants will explore these complex connections in this period of shifting architectural history.

Free and open to the public. Please check in at the Welcome Desk when arriving for the tour.

Chinese-Language Tour: Design Agendas

设计议程：圣路易斯的现代建筑，1930年代-1970年代 

学生导览员将以互动讲解的形式，带领观众参观本季度的特别展览“设计议程：圣路易斯的现代建筑，1930-1970年代”。本次展览将圣路易斯的现代建筑置于城市重建、种族和空间的隔离与迁移的背景下，展品来自圣路易斯艺术博物馆、密苏里历史学会以及其他收藏。通过展出建筑图纸、模型、照片、影片和地图，“设计议程”突出了建筑师、规划师、艺术家和活动家在塑造圣路易斯设计和建筑历史等公共事务中的贡献。通过引导讨论，参与者将探讨这一时期建筑历史变迁中的复杂联系。 

Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s. With material drawn from the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Missouri Historical Society, and other collections, this exhibition situates works of modern architecture in St. Louis within the context of urban renewal and racial and spatial segregation and displacement. Using architectural drawings, models, photographs, films, and maps, Design Agendas highlights the contributions of architects, planners, artists, and activists in the civic work that shaped the design and building history of St. Louis. Through guided discussion, participants will explore these complex connections in this period of shifting architectural history.

Free and open to the public. Please check in at the Welcome Desk when arriving for the tour.

The Palestine Taboo: Race, Islamophobia, and Free Speech

The true test of a democracy is the extent to which civil rights in law are enforced in practice for the most vulnerable groups in society. As members of Congress demand mass arrest and expulsion of college students exercising their free speech right to dissent against U.S. foreign policy in Gaza and the West Bank, the racial fault lines in American democracy are laid bare. Similarly, university presidents are buckling to external political pressure to violate academic freedom of Muslim and Arab faculty targeted by external anti-Muslim and pro-Israeli groups and politicians. In this timely lecture, Distinguished Law Professor Sahar Aziz examines how Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism intersect to produce systematic assaults on the civil rights of racialized communities.

WashU Libraries Virtual Book Club: ‘In the Dream House’

For a special Banned Books Week book club, we will read In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. 

Book club will begin with a discussion of banned books using the American Library Association statistics, followed by a discussion of Machado’s book.

Free and open to all. Registration required for Zoom link: https://wustl.libcal.com/event/12906045