1 NOVEMBER  |  3 PM
Book Talk with Elizabeth Bernhardt
ELIZABETH BERNHARDT, lecturer in Italian, is author of Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna and will be in conversation with Michael Sherberg, professor of Italian, both in the Washington University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. RSVP required; see website. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142

2 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM
Adam Pendleton: Here Is Your Language
ADRIENNE EDWARDS, the Engell Speyer Family Curator and director of curatorial affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, provides an overview of Adam Pendleton's art, including paintings, performance, installation and video, exploring how his work exemplifies a shift in conceptual art through a choreography of abstraction, engages experimental poetry and uses of language, and constellates and materializes matters of Blackness. Adam Pendleton: To Divide By is on exhibit through January 15, 2024. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

2 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM
Drawing at the Margins: A Black Cartoonist’s Journey Through the Arts
Join University Libraries for the keynote address of Blind Spots: 13th Annual Illustration Research Symposium, featuring Charles Johnson. The award-winning and prolific writer, philosopher, educator and cartoonist will discuss the evolution of black comic art. From the damage caused by stereotypical racial images in comics to the pioneering, and little-known, black cartoonists working during the era of segregation, Johnson will offer personal insights into his own journey from the visual arts to the literary arts. University Libraries.
Washington University, Umrath Lounge & Ginkgo Reading Room (Olin Library)

2 NOVEMBER  |  8 PM
Visiting Hurst Professor: Timothy Donnelly, Reading
TIMOTHY DONNELLY’s most recent book of poetry is Chariot. His other collections include Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensezeit, The Cloud Corporation (winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize) and The Problem of the Many (winner of the inaugural Big Other Award in Poetry). With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien, he is coauthor of Three Poets. Donnelly is a recipient of a Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award and a Faculty Mentoring Award, as well as of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Connors Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation and New York State’s Writers Institute. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge (Room 201)

3 NOVEMBER  |  3 PM
Sounding the Unseen: Radio Dramaturgy from Wireless to Podcast
What makes radio storytelling unique? How does the medium’s restriction to the auditory sense offer new opportunities for dramatic representation? In this presentation, Caroline Kita, associate professor of German and comparative literature at Washington University, offers new perspectives on radio drama, a genre that emerged with the birth of the radio medium in the early 20th century. Her research focuses on the construction of radio story worlds through the core elements of voice, music, noise and silence, and highlights how the soundscapes of radio dramas offer critical insights into practices of listening and attitudes toward mediated sound in particular cultural moments. Performing Arts Department.
Washington University, Umrath Hall, Room 140

4 NOVEMBER  |  2 PM
Public Tour: Portraiture
Student educators lead interactive tours highlighting diverse approaches to portraiture from different historical moments in the permanent collection galleries. Explore portraits by such artists as Jess T. Dugan, Kehinde Wiley and Max Beckmann in a range of media. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

6 NOVEMBER  |  6:30 PM
Matchmaking Screening & Discussion
Moti Bernstein is the son every mother wants, a student every Rabbi loves to teach, the ideal Yeshiva Bucher, the perfect match for every bride. He has it all: a good family, a brilliant mind, and he is not bad looking either. In search of a wife, he will meet the best girls in the Jewish Orthodox world but will fall for the one girl he can never have. The only one he wants is a Sephardic girl. Against everything he knows and every value he holds dear, Moti will be forced to go out on a limb in the most unexpected and unusual of ways. Facilitated by Eyal Tamir and Noa Weinberg in the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Washington University, Crow Hall, Room 204

8 NOVEMBER  |  4 PM
Techniques and Aims of Isaac Newton’s Alchemy
While Isaac Newton is considered a hero of the so-called Enlightenment, a period widely regarded as breaking with the “superstitions” of the earlier medieval period, he is also sometimes referred to as the last of the alchemists. What was Isaac Newton trying to accomplish in the nearly 40 years that he devoted to alchemy? Was he engaged in a single-minded quest for the philosophers’ stone, or in an attempt to find mystical enlightenment, or even in a way of expanding his natural philosophy into new areas of research? By examining the records of Newton’s alchemical experimentation and replicating a number of his processes in the laboratory, historian William Newman hopes to arrive at a solution to these and other questions surrounding the famous physicist’s alchemical quest. Reception immediately follows. RSVP requested; see website. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142 & Ginkgo Reading Room

8 NOVEMBER  |  6 PM
Kyle Abraham Performance and Q&A with Joshua Chambers-Letson
Renowned choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham will perform part of a new solo work in progress. Following the performance, he will be joined by performance studies scholar Joshua Chambers-Letson for a conversation exploring Abraham’s relationship to place, process, Black dance, Black music and his lived Black experience, as well themes of queer love and loss. Abraham is featured in the exhibition Adam Pendleton: To Divide By. He is the subject of Pendleton’s film portrait What Is Your Name? Kyle Abraham, A Portrait (2018–19), one in an ongoing series of portraits that take the form of conversations between Pendleton and prominent cultural figures. Through montage and repetition, Pendleton frames Abraham as a site of plurality. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Center For Creative Arts (COCA), Staenberg Performance Lab, 6880 Washington Ave., University City, 63130

8 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM
International Writers Series: Christopher Merrill
Renowned poet, essayist and translator Christopher Merrill will join the University Libraries for a reading and discussion of his work, including his most recently published work On the Road to Lviv, a book-length poem that bears witness to the war in Ukraine. In addition to his creative work, Merrill is director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where he fosters a place of international exchange and cultural diplomacy through the field of creative writing. He will be joined in conversation by Matthias Goeritz, professor of practice in the Program in Comparative Literature. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Ginkgo Reading Room

9 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Moving Bones: The Repatriation of Human Remains in Late Qing as a Historical and Cultural Phenomenon
To be buried in one’s home village, like fallen leaves returning to their roots, was a long-held ideal in China. For centuries, returning for burial the remains of deceased sojourners including officials, merchants and candidates of the civil service examination, was an aspiration put in practice whenever possible. With expanding Chinese migration overseas in the 19th century, tens of thousands of coffins, bone boxes and spirit boxes were returned to China from North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. The process of returning bones was complex, involving the collaboration of far-flung organizations, administrative mechanisms, knowledge of ritual correctness, long-distance logistics planning, trust and money. It was an expression of many things — philanthropic impulse, social leadership, love of the native place, filial piety, belief in feng shui and fear of the hungry ghost among them. This lecture will focus on the repatriation activities from California during and after the gold rush and railroad building days. Hong Kong, the entrepot for almost all the bone boxes en route to China, will be highlighted as an “in-between place,” a concept which I offer as a new tool in migration studies. Elizabeth Sinn, honourary professor at Hong Kong University, is the author of Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. Before retiring in 2004, she was deputy director of the Center of Asian Studies at University of Hong Kong. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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9 NOVEMBER  |  8 PM
Visiting Hurst Professor: Timothy Donnelly, Craft Talk
TIMOTHY DONNELLY’s most recent book of poetry is Chariot. His other collections include Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensezeit, The Cloud Corporation (winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize) and The Problem of the Many (winner of the inaugural Big Other Award in Poetry). With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien, he is coauthor of Three Poets. Donnelly is a recipient of a Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award and a Faculty Mentoring Award, as well as of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Connors Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation and New York State’s Writers Institute. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Rm. 201, Hurst Lounge

10–18 NOVEMBER
Saint Louis Film Festival: Human Ties 
The Center for the Humanities sponsors the Human Ties lineup of films at the Saint Louis Film Festival (festival dates are Nov. 9–19). Cinema St. Louis.
4 pm, Fri., Nov. 10: The Apology (2023), documentary by Mimi Chakarova. The Apology investigates an incident in the 1960s in which Alameda County and the City of Hayward dismantled the entire community of Russell City, pushing 1,400 residents out of their homes and off their land – all to claim the 200 acres for an industrial park. Screening and discussion with director Chakarova and producer Aisha Knowles. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Theater 9, 3700 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, 63108
1 pm, Sat., Nov. 11: Bike Vessel (2023), documentary by Eric D. Seals. An African-American filmmaker explores health disparities within the Black community through the lens of his father, Donnie Seals Sr., who almost died after three open-heart surgeries. Nearly 20 years later, Seals makes a miraculous health recovery after discovering his love for bicycling. Washington University, Brown Hall, Room 100
4 pm, Sat., Nov. 11: The Body Politic (2023), documentary by Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough. The Body Politic follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal and political future on the line to save his beloved city from chronic violence. Washington University, Brown Hall, Room 100
4 pm, Sun., Nov. 12: Racist Trees (2022), documentary by Sara Newens and Mina T. Son. Was the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in Palm Springs a symbol of segregation? The battle to uproot them gained national attention and divided the community until their removal in 2018. Screening and discussion with co-director Newens. Washington University, Brown Hall, Room 100
1 pm, Tues., Nov. 14: Sandtown (2023), documentary by Isaiah Smallman. A filmmaker returns to his hometown neighborhood in West Baltimore, where he hopes to rediscover his past, reckon with his white privilege, and reconnect with the community that raised him. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Theater 9, 3700 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, 63108
1 pm, Wed., Nov. 15: We Have Just Begun (2023), documentary by Michael Warren Wilson. In 1919, Black workers’ decades-long efforts to challenge exploitation in the Arkansas Delta culminated in the nation’s deadliest racial massacre and labor battle. We Have Just Begun takes its name from the secret pass-code used by a Black union of farmers and domestic workers organizing throughout the Arkansas Delta. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Theater 9, 3700 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, 63108
7 pm, Wed., Nov. 15: Master of Light (2022), documentary by Rosa Ruth Boesten. George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent 10 years in federal prison for dealing drugs. While incarcerated, he nurtured his craft and unique artistic ability. Since his release, he is doing everything he can to defy society’s unlevel playing field and tackle the white-dominant art world. Contemporary Art Museum, 3750 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 63108
1 pm, Sat., Nov. 18: Birthing Justice (2022), documentary by Monique N. Matthews. America’s medical inequities have turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women and their babies. Birthing Justice flips that narrative, centering the expertise and lived experiences of Black women and their advocates as they fix a broken system and transform the future, one birth at a time. Screening and discussion with executive producer and co-writer Denise Pines. Washington University, Brown Hall, Room 100

10 NOVEMBER  |  11:30 AM
Andrew Meier, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty (Author Talk)
After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, domestic politics and America’s criminal justice system. With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biographer Andrew Meier vividly chronicles how the Morgenthaus amassed a fortune in Manhattan real estate, advised presidents, advanced the New Deal, exposed the Armenian genocide, rescued victims of the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific and from a foundation of private wealth, built a dynasty of public service. In the words of former mayor Ed Koch, they were “the closest we’ve got to royalty in New York City.” 2023 Jewish Book Festival evet. Tickets are required; see website. John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
Washington University, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom

13 NOVEMBER  |  5:45 PM
Zizou and the Arab Spring Screening & Discussion
Aziz, nicknamed Zizou, a young unemployed graduate, leaves his village on the border of Sahara for Tunis, the capital, in quest of a job. He becomes installer of satellite dishes on house roofs. Still keeping his honest and candid soul, he frequents all social sets: from the richest to the poorest, trendy modernists to supporters of despotic regime, or underground Islamist opponents. While working on the terraces of the beautiful village of Sidi Bou Saïd, he falls madly in love with a girl who looks locked up by a mafia group close to the regime. Henceforward, his dream is to set her free. This quest for love becomes his reason for living, and he will proceed unconsciously against the tide of the Revolution that is about to burst in Tunisia and so, trigger in the whole region the crazy hopes of a spring of freed peoples! Through clumsiness and naïveté, he will come across hundreds of adventures and end up an unwilling hero! Viewing facilitated by Ayala Hendin and Younasse Tarbouni, both of the Washington University Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Middle East/North Africa Film Series. Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Washington University, Crow Hall, Room 204

14 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM
What Else Can Borders Do? Architecture, Infrastructure, and Enactment
International borders affect you every day. They can reveal a nation’s ability or inability to guarantee your quality of life — patterning our access to food, goods and services. In the United States and elsewhere, they play a role in determining whether you are a birthright citizen or an unauthorized migrant. Their perceived stability (or lack thereof) often underlines immigration debates and determines the reach and breadth of military interventions. This conversation will be led by Stephen Leet — professor of architecture at the Sam Fox School who teaches architectural design studios and history/theory seminars on architecture, film, and photography — and Elaine A. Peña — professor of performing arts and American culture studies whose research centers around the study of borders, the study of religion and the study of hemispheric Latinx performance. They will reflect on those realities, but they will also ask: What else can borders do? Thinking with and beyond securitization narratives, they will emphasize the ways in which walls, fences, bridges and ports of entry can be reconceptualized to prioritize humane treatment and cross-border cooperation as well as be repurposed to serve the public at large after a crisis event (e.g., natural disaster). They will use the U.S.–Mexico border as their primary reference point, but they will also draw attention to border architecture and enactments across the globe. Americanist Dinner Forum. Program in American Culture Studies.
Washington University, Weil Hall, Keuhner Court

15 NOVEMBER  |  4 PM
Book Talk: Phil Maciak’s Avidly Reads Screen Time
What happens when screen time is all the time? In the early 1990s, the phrase “screen time” emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over, police, and judge in a low-grade moral panic. Now, “screen time” has become a metric not only for good parenting, but for our adult lives as well. There’s even an app for it! In the streaming era ― and with streaming made nearly ubiquitous during COVID-19 ― almost every aspect of our day is mediated by these bright surfaces. Whether it was ever the real villain in the first place, or merely a convenient proxy for unaddressed familial, social, and institutional failures, screen time is now all the time. Maciak is a senior lecturer in English and American culture studies at Washington University and TV critic for The New Republic. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge (Room 201)

15 NOVEMBER  |  4 PM
Public Health and the Media
Named a “pop culture icon” by USA Today, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is perhaps the most media-savvy physician working today. Gupta is a broadcaster, writer, podcaster and web-contributor, all of which places him in a unique position to examine why certain health-related stories make the headlines and others don’t. In this presentation, he takes a hard look at the media’s role in conveying sometimes frightening information, such as the H1N1 global pandemic and the post-9/11 incidents involving anthrax. Registration required. Livestream available. Assembly Series, Washington University.
Washington University, Graham Chapel

15 NOVEMBER  |  5 PM
Roma, Jews and the Holocaust
ARI JOSKOWICZ — chair of Jewish Studies, associate professor of Jewish studies and European studies and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University — is author of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust, a major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice. From concentration camps to the murder sites of mobile shooting squads, Jews and Roma experienced Nazi persecution in close proximity to each other. Yet, after the war, the world recognized the injustices both groups faced differently. While Jewish persecution histories became memorialized in museums, monuments and college courses, the international community largely ignored the Roma genocide. How should we tell the story of the Holocaust in light of this unequal treatment? How have relations between Jews and Roma — from the 1930s to the present — influenced the way we think about Nazi racial persecution? Tracing the stories of many Romani and Jewish victims, survivors, historians and activists, Joskowicz vividly describes the experiences of Hitler’s forgotten victims and charts the evolving postwar relationship between Roma and Jews over the course of nearly a century. During the Nazi era, Jews and Roma shared little in common besides their simultaneous persecution. Yet the decades of entwined struggles for recognition have deepened Romani-Jewish relations. They now center not only on commemorations of past genocides or compensation practices but also on contemporary debates about antiracism and the future of democracy. Holocaust Memorial Lecture.
Washington University, Umrath Lounge

16–19 NOVEMBER 
God of Carnage
God of Carnage follows a meeting between two sets of parents after a playground altercation between their sons. The adults agree to settle the dispute amicably, putting on a show of politeness. However, the facade of civility quickly falls as the four give into their childish rage. Couple spats with couple, husbands turn on wives and the ugly side of humanity is revealed with hilarity. This dark comedy reminds us of how close we are to crossing a line, and how ridiculous it looks when we do. Performing Arts Department.
Washington University, A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

16 NOVEMBER  |  12:30 PM
The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
MARK R. RANK is the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School. The paradox of poverty amid plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century – why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based upon the ideas in his latest book, Mark Rank will explore the answers to this paradox. He will outline a unique explanation that he has developed over the years, along with ideas and strategies for addressing poverty. Brown School.
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16 NOVEMBER  |  6 PM
What We Can Learn from Performing Roman Comedy
CHRISTOPHER POLT is an associate professor of classical studies at Boston College, and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad is an associate professor of classics at Wake Forest University. Department of Classics and Performing Arts Department.
Washington University, Seigle Hall, Room 301

17 NOVEMBER  |  3 PM
Roundtable Discussion of Nicole Svobodny’s Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances
The panelists are Nicole Svobodny, senior lecturer in global studies and Russian literature and culture; Tili Boon Cuillé, professor of French and comparative literature; Elinor Harrison, lecturer in dance; and Anca Parvulescu, professor of English and the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature. The moderator is Tabea Linhard, director of the Program in Global Studies and professor of Spanish. Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky’s life-writing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Nicole Svobodny illuminates the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography, Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky’s riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to “marking” a dance, whereby the dancer uses a reduction strategy situated between thinking and doing. By exploring the intersections of bodily movement and verbal language, this book addresses broader questions of how we sense and make sense of our worlds. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Washington University, Danforth University Center, Room 234

17 NOVEMBER  |  8 PM
Online Chinese-Language Tour: Adam Pendleton: To Divide By
Join student educator Weixun Qu, PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, for an online tour of this season’s exhibition Adam Pendleton: To Divide By. The exhibition showcases an assemblage of the American artist’s new and recent paintings, drawings and video portraits that together reveal his interest in creating a conversation between mediums and his belief in abstraction’s capacity to disrupt.
线上中文美术展览：Adam Pendleton
邀请您来和艺术史暨考古学系博士生曲维洵共同欣赏Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum本期展览《Adam Pendleton：To Divide By》。本次展览将聚焦于美国当代 艺术家Adam Pendleton新近的画作、绘图和肖像影片，这些作品展现出他对于创造 各种材料间对话的兴趣，以及他对于抽象艺术具有破坏性的信念。 Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

30 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM
Intimate Distances: Trans-space Communication in Hannah Weiner’s Signal Flag Poems
KRISTIN EMANUEL, PhD student in English and Comparative Literature at Washington University, discusses a selection of mixed-media poems by Hannah Weiner in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum’s collection. Weiner’s Signal Flag Poems blend visual composition with International Code, transcribing semaphore flags and morse signals. In this talk, Emanuel considers what happens when systems like the International Code of Signals are repurposed for intimate human exchanges. She explores Weiner’s aspirational and prescient approach to trans-space communication, one which blurs image with text, paper with performance. Through Hannah Weiner’s work, Emanuel asserts the intrinsically visual nature of poetry, imagining a poetics of translation that reaches across disciplines and distances. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

2 NOVEMBER  |  2 PM
Food Brings Us Together
Enjoy food from around the world while learning about new cultures. This month we are learning about the Cherokee Nation. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Samuel C. Sachs Branch, Meeting Room, 16400 Burkhardt Pl., Chesterfield, 63017

2 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM
The Culture and Heritage of the Otoe-Missouria
The Missouria tribe, or Nut’achi, were once a vital part of life and economy in the Missouri region and along the Missouri River, where they controlled much of the traffic and trade. By the late 1700s, the Missouria had lost much of their population to smallpox brought by contact with Europeans and warfare with other tribal nations. They joined the Otoes, or Jiwere, becoming the Otoe-Missouria tribe. After years of forced removal and relocation, they were moved to Red Rock, Oklahoma, and most of the 3,300 tribal members still live in Oklahoma today. Join Kennetha Greenwood (Nyi K’omi), an Otoe-Missouri artist and language facilitator who, along with her family, will share Otoe-Missouria stories, culture and language in honor of National Native American Heritage Month. Join us at happy hour and experience more of the Otoe-Missouria with a ribbon shirt display and video interpretation of the Otoe-Missouria creation myth. Learn about the Divided City Indigenous STL Project and talk with Saint Louis Zoo staff about their work with the Otoe-Missouria and native pollinator conservation. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

2 NOVEMBER  |  6:30 PM
St. Louis Changemakers
Participants will learn about the women’s lives and careers and what they did to change St. Louis through engaging storytelling and seeing rare archival material preserved by each woman. Guests should bring a photo of a woman they admire and will be invited to share a story about them throughout the event. Elizabeth Eikmann is an expert in St. Louis history, women’s history, and the history of photography. She is a teacher, scholar, and public historian with experience working with museums, public libraries, universities, and the local tourism industry. She currently serves as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University, where she is working on her book project, “In Her Image: Women’s Photography in Turn-of-the-Century St. Louis.” Richmond Heights Memorial Library. 
Richmond Heights Memorial Library, 8001 Dale Ave., Richmond Heights, 63117

2 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Author Talk)
In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, white nurses at New York’s largest hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. This remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women who played a major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system and helped find a cure for tuberculosis. St. Louis Country Library.
The J, 2 Millstone Campus Dr., St. Louis, 63146

3–17 NOVEMBER  |  VARIOUS TIMES
The Spirit of St. Louis
Learn about this feat of aviation and the preparation that went into the flight of the Spirit of St. Louis. Through library resources, we will explore the setbacks and the triumphs in the journey of one plane. St. Louis County Library.
2 pm, Fri., Nov. 3: Meremac Valley Branch, Meeting Room, 1501 San Simeon Way, Fenton, 63026
10 am, Mon., Nov. 6: Thornhill Branch, Meeting Room 2, 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, 63146
11 am, Mon., Nov. 13: Eureka Hills Branch, Meeting Room, 500 Workman Rd., Eureka, 63025
1 pm, Fri., Nov. 17: Cliff Cave Branch, Meeting Room, 5430 Telegraph Rd., St. Louis, 63129

3 NOVEMBER  | 6 PM 
Conversation: The Intersection of Contemporary Art and Hip Hop
Join Andréa Purnell and Hannah Klemm, co-curators of The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, for an insightful conversation with Wendel Patrick and Tef Poe, hip hop artists and members of the exhibition’s global advisory group, about the relationship between hip hop’s musical history and its influence on contemporary art and the potential future for hip hop culture to shape how museums connect to their communities. $5. Saint Louis Art Museum.
Saint Louis Art Museum, Farrell Auditorium, 1 Fine Arts Drive, St. Louis, 63110

4–26 NOVEMBER  
See STL Walking Tours
See STL’s fun and creative tours mix engaging storytelling and a deep well of historical knowledge with an infectious enthusiasm for the exciting changes the city is currently undergoing. Tours are 2 hours in length and are wheelchair accessible. $15–$20. Tour starting/ending points are included in your booking details. Missouri Historical Society. 
10am, Nov. 4: Cherokee Street; 1pm, Nov. 4: Vietnam in St. Louis; 1pm, Nov. 9: Vietnam in St. Louis; 11am, Nov. 10: Laclede’s Landing; 11am, Nov. 11: Central West End; 11am, Nov. 11: Cherokee Street; 1pm, Nov. 11: Soulard North and LaSalle Park; 11am, Nov. 12: Tower Grove; 11am, Nov. 12: Musical St. Louis; 3pm, Nov. 12: Forest Park; 10am, Nov. 17: Downtown Origins; 10am, Nov. 18: Dutchtown; 10am, Nov. 18: Soulard South; 10am, Nov. 19: Urban Renewal; 11am, Nov. 19: Downtown Design; 3pm, Nov. 19: Forest Park; 2pm, Nov. 24: Tower Grove; 11am, Nov. 25: Gay Liberation in the Gateway City; 10am, Nov. 26: Benton Park; 1pm, Nov. 26: Downtown Evolutions

4–5 NOVEMBER  |  11 AM 
2023 Día de los Muertos Celebration
Presented in Collaboration with Hispanic Festival Inc., Mexicanos En St. Louis and Latinx Arts Network, visit the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park to celebrate Día de los Muertos this November. Enjoy altars that represent a variety of Latin American cultural traditions, live music and dance performances, an art display, food and drink vendors, a procession through the park and more. Family zones will offer face- or arm-painting for kids, arts and crafts, storytelling in Spanish and other activities. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

4 NOVEMBER  | 11 AM 
Tipi and Dome: A Blackfeet Vision of the Future
In the 1960s and 1970s, tipis circulated alongside domes as emblems of environmental sustainability and countercultural cool. Yet these architectures advanced radically different visions of the future. Jessica L. Horton, associate professor of modern and contemporary Native American art at the University of Delaware, will tell the story of a Blackfeet painted lodge commissioned for the United States Pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, which answered urgent Cold War debates about pollution and climate change. Saint Louis Art Museum.
Saint Louis Art Museum, Farrell Auditorium, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, 63110-1380

4 NOVEMBER  |  1 PM 
St. Louis in Service Exhibit Tours
Explore St. Louis’ military history from the American Revolution through the present day. Your group’s guide will introduce you to artifacts, places and stories of individuals featured in the galleries at Soldiers Memorial. Groups have the option to add on a 15-minute tour of the outdoor memorials honoring St. Louisans who made the ultimate sacrifice. Missouri Historical Society.
Soldiers Memorial, Court of Honor, 1315 Chestnut St., St. Louis, 63103

4 NOVEMBER  |  2 PM
Vietnam: At War and At Home Exhibit Tours
Your guide will walk you through the exhibit, exploring the Vietnam War’s origins, evolution and legacy. The exhibit will present a diverse and holistic snapshot of the turbulent times in Vietnam, in America and in the St. Louis region. Groups have the option to add on a 15-minute tour of the outdoor memorials honoring St. Louisans who made the ultimate sacrifice, including those who served in Vietnam. Missouri Historical Society.
Soldiers Memorial, Court of Honor, 1315 Chestnut St., St. Louis, 63103

4 NOVEMBER  |  3 PM 
Soldiers Memorial Architecture Tours
This 60-minute guided tour explores the exterior of Soldiers Memorial and the Court of Honor. From art deco window screens to sculptures by Walter Hancock, this tour will dive into Soldiers Memorial’s architecture, history, neighborhood, renovation and legacy. Missouri Historical Society.
Soldiers Memorial, Court of Honor, 1315 Chestnut St., St. Louis, 63103

6 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Laurell K. Hamilton, Slay (Author Talk)
Necromancer Anita Blake is small, dark and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: U.S. Marshal — Preternatural Branch. She’s faced horrifying monsters and brutal killers and come out the other side still standing. Considering how things in her life tend to go, Anita never expected her walk down the aisle with Jean-Claude to go smoothly. They’ve already been confronted with naysayers and a power-hungry ancient evil, but now Anita has to do the one thing that actually scares her: introduce her very religious, very human relatives to her fiancé — the newly crowned vampire king of America. As Anita tries to keep the peace between the family she left behind and the family she’s chosen, dark forces jump at the chance to take advantage of the chaos. With her happy-ever-after at risk and everyone’s immortal souls hanging in the balance, Anita grapples with a hard truth: Blood makes you related, but loyalty makes you family. Left Bank Books.
.ZACK, 3224 Locust St., St. Louis, 63103

7 NOVEMBER  |  11 AM 
St. Louis, Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid
Join St. Louis County Library’s Paul Steensland this Veterans Day week as he talks about the Doolittle Raid. Taking place on April 18, 1942, as America’s answer to the raid on Pearl Harbor, this 16-aircraft bombing mission over Japan was led by St. Louisan Charles “Mac” McClure. Come hear the story of the raid and Mac’s courageous leadership. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

8 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Emily Bain Murphy, Enchanted Hill (Author Talk)
EMILY BAIN MURPHY will be in conversation with Kayla Olson, author of The Reunion. St. Louis-based author Emily Bain Murphy presents a historical novel filled with intrigue and Old Hollywood glamour. The year is 1930 and aspiring private investigator Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at a legendary estate. She recognizes Jack Yates as soon as he walks through the door. The last time she saw him was on an ill-fated night that haunts her more than a decade later. Now a single misstep could cause both their secret identities to come crashing down. During a week of parties overflowing with champagne and caviar, Cora and Jack must unravel a sinister history that the rich and powerful will do anything to keep concealed. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Daniel Boone Branch, 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, 63011

9 NOVEMBER  |  12 PM & 1:30 PM 
MO History Riverfront Takeover Cruise
The Missouri History Museum is partnering with the Gateway Arch National Park for MO History Riverfront Takeover Cruises! Amanda Clark, manager of Community Tours and the See STL tour program with the Missouri History Museum, will lead an engaging, conversational tour aboard select Riverfront Cruises one day a month. $14–$24. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

9 NOVEMBER  | 12:30 PM 
Art Speaks: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of The Culture
Exhibition curators Hannah Klemm and Andréa Purnell discuss the polyphonic approach to creating The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century and the aesthetic attributes of how hip hop grew from local grassroots community engagement. Saint Louis Art Museum.
VIRTUAL – RSVP

9 NOVEMBER  |  2 PM
The House that Grant Built: A History of Hardscrabble Log Cabin
This program explores the story of Hardscrabble, a log cabin constructed by Ulysses S. Grant in the 1850s while a farmer in St. Louis. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Oak Bend Branch, Meeting Room, 842 S. Holmes Ave., St. Louis, 63122

9 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM 
Book Launch: Come Fly with Me: The Story of TWA
DANIEL RUST and Alan Hoffman celebrate their new book from the Missouri Historical Society Press, Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of Trans World Airlines. Hear about how three larger-than-life personalities — Charles Lindbergh, Howard Hughes and Carl Icahn — shaped the airline’s history and determined its fate. Explore the story of how powerful, strong-willed individuals created and ultimately destroyed an American icon that had deep roots in Kansas City and St. Louis. Veteran TWA personnel will also join the conversation to share their stories of what it was like working for an airline that beckoned America to come fly. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

9 NOVEMBER  |  6 PM 
Jamel Brinkley, Witness, and Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Mulberry Street Stories (Author Talk)
National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley and Kimbilio National Fiction Prize Award winner Mary McLaughlin Slechta will discuss their new books. Brinkley’s Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken. In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters — from children to grandmothers to ghosts — live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with, stand up for, care for and remember one another, they often fall short. Slechta’s Mulberry Street Stories brings magical realism and U.S. history to bear on the community of Mulberry Street — an African-American neighborhood with a disputed past. Is this enclave the result of white flight, a tenuous foothold for Southern transplants or a sliver of the world that spun off during creation, once ruled by a god named Mr. Washington? Variously featuring the area's residents, Mulberry Street Stories uphold the perseverance of hope despite intergenerational trauma and demonstrate the interconnection of human lives throughout time. Left Bank Books.
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave., St. Louis 63108

9 NOVEMBER  |  6 PM 
Ending America’s Reading Crisis: A Conversation with Dr. Artika Tyner
DR. ARTIKA TYNER, founder of the literacy nonprofit Planting People, Growing Justice, addresses the nation's current reading crisis and the importance of curating diverse books. St. Louis Public Library.
VIRTUAL

9 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM 
Gilly Macmillan, The Manor House, and Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us (Author Talk)
British and American thriller writers Gilly Macmillan and Lori Rader-Day team up for an evening of thrills. Macmillan’s The Manor House is a terrifying story about childhood sweethearts who win the lottery and learn what can happen when all your dreams come true. Rader-Day’s The Death of Us is a chilling novel in which the discovery of a submerged car in a murky pond reveals betrayals that will tear a small town apart. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch, 9700 Musick Rd., St. Louis, 63123

9 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Science in St. Louis: Deconstructing Gentrification: Neighborhood Change in St. Louis
Native tribes in Alaska have more than 50 words for snow, but we have only one word for socioeconomically ascending neighborhoods: gentrification. When we lump complex processes such as changing neighborhoods under one term, we invite confusion. A simplistic view of gentrification has distracted attention form the more serious problem of disinvestment and deterioration. In fact, gentrification is a complex and variegated phenomenon, one that author and political scientist Todd Swanstrom demonstrates using examples from St. Louis in this fascinating look at our changing neighborhoods. Presented by Academy of Science St. Louis. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Mid-County Branch, Meeting Room, 7821 Maryland Ave., St. Louis, 63105

10–11 NOVEMBER  |  10 AM 
Leading St. Louis: Civics and Government
Explore the ways St. Louis has governed itself over time, investigate some alternate forms of governance proposed by different groups in St. Louis, and meet some of the diverse individuals who have led St. Louis over the years. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

13–29 NOVEMBER  |  VARIOUS TIMES
Votes and Valor: Black Suffragettes
Using library resources, learn about the brave black women suffragists who worked toward securing the right to vote for women despite exclusionary acts by the larger movement at the time. St. Louis County Library.
10:30 am, Mon., Nov. 13: Jamestown Bluffs Branch, Meeting Room 1, 4153 N. Highway 67, Florissant, 63034
6 pm, Tues., Nov. 21: Prairie Commons Branch, Meeting Room, 915 Utz Ln., Hazelwood, 63042
10 am, Wed., Nov. 29: Samuel C. Sachs Branch, Meeting Room, 16400 Burkhardt Pl., Chesterfield, 63017

13 & 14 NOVEMBER  |  VARIOUS 
Indigenous Use of Native Plants
Explore the herbs used by indigenous people as well as the historical and cultural significance of those plants. Presented by St. Louis Herb Society. St. Louis County Library.
2 pm, Mon., Nov. 13: Daniel Boone Branch, Meeting Room 1, 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, 63011
2 pm, Tues., Nov. 14: Grand Glaize Branch, Meeting Room 1, 1010 Meramec Station Rd., Manchester, 63021

13 NOVEMBER  |  12 PM 
Accidental Musician: Jessica Adkins Plays and Talks Accordion
JESSICA ADKINS is a multi-instrumentalist, instructional designer and filmmaker. She can be found around town playing accordion in various bands, including her own original polka compositions. Adkins was a 2022–23 Kranzberg Artist in Residence. The Kranzberg High Noon Speakers Series takes place at the Florissant Valley Branch on the second Monday of each month. The series features guest speakers from across the arts, culture and thought leadership landscape. Guests are invited to bring their lunch. RSVP requested; see website. St. Louis County Library.
Florissant Valley Branch, 195 New Florissant Rd., S., Florissant, 63031

13 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming (Author Talk)
Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans — humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through “Dream-Theory Land” guided by insights from poets, philosophers and psychoanalysts alike. Left Bank Books.
Clayton High School Theatre, 1 Mark Twain Circle, Clayton, 63105

14 & 16 NOVEMBER  |  VARIOUS 
James Hemings: Ghost in America’s Kitchen
Using library resources, we will explore the short life and impact on American cuisine by James Hemings, the enslaved, French-trained chef of Thomas Jefferson. St. Louis County Library.
10:30 am, Tues., Nov. 14: Thornhill Branch, Meeting Room 2, 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, 63146
10:30 am, Thurs., Nov. 16: Jamestown Bluffs Branch, Meeting Room 1, 4153 N. Highway 67, Florissant, 63034

14 NOVEMBER  |  10:30 AM 
Native American Storytelling
Ever wonder how Possum got his tail? Did you know that bear and rabbit have had a long friendship? Join us to hear traditional stories from the Choctaw, Cherokee and Delaware Nations that were used to educate children or entertain people at gatherings. Presented by Missouri Humanities. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch, Meeting Room 1, 9700 Musick Rd., St. Louis, 63123

14 NOVEMBER  |  11 AM 
The History of Thanksgiving Food
Food historian Suzanne Corbet presents the history and delicious tales of Thanksgiving dinners, from the founders’ feasts to the ready-made meals of the 1960s to today. Join us for this delicious talk to start the season of holiday eats! Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

15 NOVEMBER  |  6 PM 
Native Tribes in Missouri
Missouri, like most midwestern states, has no extant native tribes making information on historical tribes and contemporary Native Americans difficult to uncover. Using startling facts as stepping stones to fascinating and forgotten stories, this presentation starts to remedy this phenomenon. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Lewis & Clark Branch, Meeting Room, 9909 Lewis-Clark Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63136

15 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM 
Martin Walker, A Chateau Under Siege (Author Talk)
MARTIN WALKER presents his latest mystery featuring Benoît “Bruno” Courrèges, the unconventional chief of police of a small French village. When an actor in a local play is attacked during a performance, Bruno must learn whether it was an accident, a crime of passion or an assassination attempt with implications far beyond the small French village. Walker will also discuss his new book celebrating the food and wine at the heart of his novels, Bruno’s Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from a French Country Cookbook. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Daniel Boone Branch, 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, 63011

15 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM
Stephanie Land, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education (Author Talk)
From the author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner is a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty and life after Maid. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn — including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line — Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid 30s. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? Left Bank Books.
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road, 63117

16 NOVEMBER  |  2 PM 
History’s Attic: St. Louis on the Home Front
From the Battle of St. Louis in the American Revolution to the Washington University protests during the Vietnam War, St. Louis has had an impact on our nation’s wars. Explore stories, objects and people through the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum Collections. Presented by the Missouri History Museum. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Cliff Cave Branch, Meeting Room, 5430 Telegraph Rd., St. Louis, 63129

16 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM 
Tom Clavin, The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang (Author Talk)
Historian Tom Clavin presents the thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history. Beginning their career as common horse thieves, the Dalton gang graduated to robbing banks and trains and soon became legends. When the Dalton Gang robbed two banks in broad daylight, the citizens of Coffeyville, Kansas, were waiting. The ensuing gun battle was a firefight of epic proportions. For the first time ever, the full story of the Dalton Gang’s life of crime, culminating in this violent heist, are chronicled in detail — the final act of the Wild West, its last bloody gasp. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Daniel Boone Branch, 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, 63011

18 NOVEMBER  |  10 AM 
Audio Description Tour: Coloring STL
St. Louis’ history, industries, builders, designers and even geography have all given our city a built environment that looks unlike any other place in the world. St. Louis buildings of every era, shape and size have fascinating stories to tell, colored by the history of the people who lived here. In this interactive tour, we will get to know St. Louis through its architecture. Groups will participate in activities and dialogue as they learn about the defining events and characteristics of residential, commercial and monumental structures that have shaped St. Louis’ built environment. Audio Description tours at the Missouri History Museum are for visitors who are blind or have low vision. Each quarter, individuals or groups will enjoy a 45-minute guided tour led by specially trained staff and volunteers in select museum galleries. These tours can accommodate up to 10 visitors and are free of charge. RSVP required; see website. Missouri Historical Society. 
Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 63112

18 NOVEMBER  |  10:30 AM 
Walking Where They Walked: Native Americans in St. Louis
Using maps and images from the Missouri Historical Society Collections, explore locations in pre–Civil War St. Louis where Indigenous peoples lived or visited, both before and after the period of European and American settlement. RSVP required; see website. Missouri Historical Society.
Missouri Historical Society Library & Research Center, 225 S. Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, 63105

18 NOVEMBER  |  11 AM 
Artist and Book Talk: Sarah Crowner
Learn about Sarah Crower: Around Orange (on display through February 4) in a conversation between the artist and Pulitzer Arts Foundation curator Stephanie Weissberg. The pair will discuss Crowner’s new site-specific artworks relating to the Pulitzer’s architecture and Ellsworth Kelly’s Blue Black, as well as her new book, Sarah Crowner: Serpentear. Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 3716 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 63108 

25 NOVEMBER  |  2 PM 
Designing Camelot: The Kennedy Restoration of the White House
Join us for an illustrated talk with author and historian James Archer Abbott, who will take us on a tour of America’s most famous house — the White House — as reimagined and theatrically reinterpreted for President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Abbott will introduce the White House’s iconic Camelot stage, as well as some of its most illustrious players — philanthropists, artists and American and European tastemakers. He will describe in detail some of the more famous changes made to this national residence, while sharing bits of the politics and intrigue created by the likes of internationally recognized French interior decorator Stéphane Boudin, American furniture collector Henry du Pont, a pool of competing curators and historians and an array of sometimes warring underwriters that included oil industry millionaire Charles Wrightsman and his Bourbon court — admiring wife Jayne, plus National Gallery of Art benefactors Paul and Bunny Mellon. After his presentation and a brief Q&A session, Abbott will sign copies of his book Designing Camelot. Missouri Historical Society.
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

27 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM 
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism & What We Can Do to Fix It (Author Talk)
While organizations make internal and public pledges to honor and achieve “diversity,” inequities persist through what sociologist and Washington University Vice Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity Adia Harvey Wingfield calls the “gray areas”: the relationships, networks and cultural dynamics that are now more important than ever. Wingfield has spent a decade examining inequality in the workplace, interviewing over 200 Black subjects across professions about their work lives. In this important antiracist work, Wingfield chronicles their experiences and blends them with history and surprising data that starkly show how old models of work are outdated and detrimental. St. Louis County Library.
The J, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, 63146

28 NOVEMBER  |  6:30 PM 
Charles Eames’ Ecclesiastical Work: 1932–36
The final installment of the 2023 SAH STL/Steedman Library Lecture Series will feature an online talk via Zoom by Andrew Raimist, architect, historian, educator. St. Louis Public Library.
VIRTUAL

29 NOVEMBER  |  10 AM 
Chronicles of Powell Hall
Discover the theatrical history of Powell Hall, its ghost stories and how it became the home of the second oldest symphony in the U.S., the St. Louis Symphony. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Weber Road Branch, Meeting Room, 4444 Weber Rd., St. Louis, 63123

29 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM 
Native American Legends
Listen to traditional Native American stories from many tribes. Presented by Marc Chibitty of the Comanche tribe. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Thornhill Branch, Meeting Room 1, 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, 63146

30 NOVEMBER  |  5:30 PM 
Legacies of Black Resistance: Education, Wellness, and the Law
An overview of the history of education of Black people in the St. Louis region with roots in Africa, Missouri state statutes, rural Black schools, the Meachum Freedom School, the naming of numbered schools, the role of colored women’s clubs, Homer G. Phillips Hospital and Nursing School, the impact of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Minnie v. Liddell, redlining, voluntary desegregation and the current status of education, including the recent attempted closure of Sumner High School, the oldest Black High School west of the Mississippi River. We will investigate the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 through the years and its impact on the present-day criminal justice system, our community and our nation, as well as highlight resistance efforts. Join moderator Vetta L. Sanders-Thompson, the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Studies and associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the Brown School at Washington University; and panelists Christi Griffin, founder and president of the Ethics Project; Dr. L.J. Punch, executive and medical director of Power4STL; and Joseph Thurman, MHS UMSL graduate research assistant for a dialogue that reaches through the sphere of the combined legacies of education, wellness and the law. Missouri Historical Society.
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall, 5700 Lindell Blvd., 63112

30 NOVEMBER  |  7 PM 
Jeffery Deaver, The Watchmaker’s Hand (Author Talk)
Suspense writer Jeffery Deaver returns with a twisty thriller starring forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs. When a construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours. Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs have to dodge his brilliant scheme, while racing against time to stop the construction site terrorists. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch, 9700 Musick Rd., St. Louis, 63123