1 OCTOBER  |  1 PM 
Tour De Museo: Spanish-Language Tour
Join Karla Aguilar, student educator and PhD student in Hispanic Studies at Washington University, and José Garza, museum academic programs coordinator, for a Spanish language tour of select artworks in the permanent collection and the special exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. The interactive tour will encourage visitors to share observations and interpretations. RSVP requested. Co-sponsored by Latinx Arts Network STL and the Kemper Art Museum. Karla Aguilar, educadora estudiantil y doctorado en Estudios Hispánicos con José Garza, coordinador de programas académicos del museo, los invitan a un tour en español de obras de arte seleccionadas en la colección permanente y exhibición especial Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. Durante el tour, sentirse libre a compartir sus observaciones e interpretaciones.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

1 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Materials and Methods
Student educators lead interactive tours of works in the permanent collection that incorporate various artistic methods and materials, including experimental processes, unusual materials and archival research in works by such artists as Torkwase Dyson, Max Ernst and Rivane Neuenschwander. Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

3 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
International Perspectives
What do abortion rights look like in other countries? What is it like to live in a state without abortion access? Panel discussion with Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature; Rachel Brown, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies; and Shanti Parikh, professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies; all at Washington University; and Mytheli Sreenivas, professor of history and of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, Ohio State University. Politics of Reproduction events are free and open to the public.
Washington University, Louderman Hall, Room 458
 

4 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
MYTHELI SREENIVAS, professor of history and of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, Ohio State University. Sreenivas’ book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, asks how biological reproduction — as a process of reproducing human life — became central to reproducing India as a modern nation-state. While “reproductive politics” in India is often assumed to begin with population control in the 1960s, her research takes a longer historical perspective to show that reproduction was first called into public question in response to colonial-era crises, and was central to feminist, nationalist and modernizing projects from the late 19th century onward. Politics of Reproduction events are free and open to the public.
Washington University, Women’s Building Formal Lounge

4 OCTOBER  |  8 PM
Danielle Evans
Craft lecture by Danielle Evans, author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The Bridge Book Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, and The LA Times Book prize for fiction. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2018, and in New Stories From the South. Evans gives a reading of her work 8 pm, Thurs., Oct. 6 in Hurst Lounge. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge (Room 201)

6 OCTOBER  |  5 PM
Simone Veil: How an Auschwitz Survivor and Conservative Politician Won the Battle for Abortion Rights in France
SUSAN TALVE, founding rabbi of Central Reform Congregation. Discussion moderated by Flora Cassen, associate professor and chair of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Introduction by Lionel Cuillé, director of French Connexions. Sponsored by French Connexions Center of Excellence in collaboration with the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Washington University, Women’s Building, Formal Lounge

7 OCTOBER  |  7 PM
At the Crossroads of History and Myth: The Great Mycenaean Kingdoms
MICHAEL L. GALATY is director and curator of European and Mediterranean archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and a professor of anthropology at University of Michigan. Exciting archaeological discoveries in the past 150 years have unearthed the great palaces of the Mycenaean world, immortalized in Homer’s Iliad. These palaces stand at the crossroads between myth and historical reality and offer a glimpse into some of the earliest states in Western civilization. Traditionally, Mycenaean states were thought to be small and independent but connected through their art, society and culture. This view has been challenged by recent archaeological work, which suggests that the Mycenaean world was politically unified and formed a single kingdom stretching over a large part of Greece. This lecture will assess the implications that this assumption has for today’s world, in which some nations seek to grow at the expense of others, whereas others seek to separate and thereby shrink. Tickets are free but required. Presented in partnership with the Hellenic Government–Karakas Family Foundation Professorship in Greek Studies, University of Missouri–St. Louis; Departments of Classics and Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis; and Classical Club of St. Louis.
Saint Louis Art Museum, Farrell Auditorium, 1 Fine Arts Dr., St. Louis, 63110

8 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings
Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. The exhibition features studio-based paintings by contemporary German artist Katharina Grosse, internationally known for painting large-scale, on-site works and explores the artist’s experimentation with the physical, optical and aesthetic qualities of color and paint on canvas. Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

12 OCTOBER  |  3:30 PM
History, temporality and China’s revolutions
REBECCA E. KARL, professor of history, New York University. This talk takes up the relationship established between history and temporality in the course of China’s modern revolutions. Taking up various revolutionary moments/movements — Republican, Communist, feminist and others — Karl attempts to weave an account of the present through an excavation of the past seen through the prism of China's and the world’s revolutionary twentieth century. Department of History.
Washington University, Danforth University Center, Room 234

13 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Kimberly Kay Hoang, Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets (Author Talk)
In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles. Spiderweb Capitalism takes you inside this shadow economy, uncovering the mechanics behind the invisible, mundane networks of lawyers, accountants, company secretaries and fixers who facilitate the illicit movement of wealth across borders and around the globe. Kimberly Kay Hoang traveled more than 350,000 miles and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with private wealth managers, fund managers, entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, bankers, auditors and other financial professionals. She traces the flow of capital from offshore funds in places like the Cayman Islands, Samoa and Panama to special-purpose vehicles and holding companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, and how it finds its way into risky markets onshore in Vietnam and Myanmar. Hoang reveals the strategies behind spiderweb capitalism and examines the moral dilemmas of making money in legal, financial and political gray zones. Hoang is associate professor of sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago. Program in Global Studies.
Washington University, Seigle Hall, Room 104

13 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Nagae Yūki Poetry Reading
Join us in welcoming award-winning performance poet Nagae Yūki for a multi-media reading in Japanese and English with Q&A to follow. Nagae Yūki (永方佑樹) received the 2012 Poetry and Thought Newcomer’s Award, and her 2019 poetry collection, Absentee Cities (Fuzai toshi) was awarded the Rekitei Prize in Japan. As a performance-poet, her work is at the frontier of a new cross-disciplinary way of approaching poetic practice, deconstructing lived and social environments and reconstructing them using technology. She is a lecturer at Nagoya University of the Arts and is currently participating in the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Washington University, Seigle Hall, Room 104

13 OCTOBER  |  7 PM
The Godfather
In celebration of The Godfather’s 50th anniversary, this new 4k restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Oscar winner Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone’s family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel, and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations and won three, including Best Picture. $4-$7; free for Washington University students. Program in Film and Media Studies.
Washington University, Brown Hall, Room 100

14 OCTOBER  |  3 PM
A Roundtable Discussion of The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction
Join a roundtable discussion of Erin McGlothlin’s book The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (2021) with panelists Tabea Linhard, professor of Spanish and director of the Program in Global Studies; Anika Walke, associate professor of history and the Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor; and Anca Parvulescu, professor of English and the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature. Moderated by Flora Cassen, associate professor of history and chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. McGlothlin is a professor of German and Jewish studies and vice dean of undergraduate affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University. Department of History.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge (Room 201)

14-15 OCTOBER 
Fourth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium
RITA LUCARELLI, University of California, Berkeley, gives the keynote lecture 3:30 pm, Fri., Oct. 14: “Sun Ra, Afrofuturism, and the Reception of Ancient Egypt.” See website for schedule. Co-organized by Nicola Aravecchia, assistant professor of classics and of art history and archaeology, and a committee of Missouri-based Egyptologists. Department of Classics and Department of Art History and Archaeology.
Washington University, Women’s Building, Formal Lounge

15 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Materials and Methods
Student educators lead interactive tours of works in the permanent collection that incorporate various artistic methods and materials, including experimental processes, unusual materials and archival research in works by such artists as Torkwase Dyson, Max Ernst and Rivane Neuenschwander. Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

18 OCTOBER  |  12 PM
Human Rights in the 21st Century – Between Hopes and Disillusions: View from the European Court of Human Rights
Join us for a discussion with Hon. Ganna Yudkivska, the former judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine, and professor of European and international law at the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine. The talk will be moderated by Hon. Lech Garlicki, WashULaw Professor and former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights. Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute.
VIRTUAL - RSVP

18 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
A Conversation on Race and Computing
SAFIYA U. NOBLE is the author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Noble is an internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at University of California, Los Angeles, where she serves as the co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.
Washington University, Umrath Lounge

18 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Doing Feminist Work: Wielding Narrative, Data, and Intersectionality Outside the Academy
What does it mean to work for intersectional gender justice in 2022? In 2017, millions of women and allies marched in Washington, representing the largest protest in U.S. history, yet the five years since have witnessed the destruction of basic reproductive rights and decades-won economic progress. Join us for a presentation and discussion about how one feminist scholar, Haley Swenson, uses data analysis, storytelling and an intersectional lens to translate feminist ideas for mainstream conversation through news media and pop culture, and why she believes the potential has never been greater for feminists to play a public role in agenda-setting across non-feminist institutions, even as so much hangs in the balance. Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Washington University, Women’s Building, Formal Lounge

19 OCTOBER  |  7 PM
The Assault on Truth – and What to Do About It
Americans on all sides of today’s religious and political divides are calling on their leaders to stop telling lies and to tell the truth about the state of our nation. Yet what some deem the truth about democracy, others believe are lies manufactured and spread for power and profit. What damage is this fragmentation doing to us and to our social, religious and civic institutions? Is it irreversible? Most importantly, what can we do to end the assault on truth? Please join us for this important conversation and stay for a reception immediately following with the speakers: Cherie Harder, president, Trinity Forum; Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington and contributing writer of The Atlantic; and Peter Wehner, senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
Washington University, Knight Hall, Emerson Auditorium

20-22 OCTOBER 
William Gaddis Centenary Conference: Beyond the “Very Small Audience”: Centenary, Archive, and Futures
Join us for a conference on novelist William Gaddis (1922-98) in celebration of his centenary year. Gaddis’ legacy and influence will be celebrated and explored by scholars, curators, fiction writers, artists and others with paper presentations, discussions, readings, performances and exhibitions. Author and Gaddis expert Steven Moore will start off the conference at Holmes Lounge with a keynote address focused on the future of Gaddis studies. 
Washington University, multiple locations (see website)

20 OCTOBER  |  5 PM
Jewish Intellectual Responses to Antisemitism in Contemporary France
Join Sarah Hammerschlag, professor of religion and literature at the University of Chicago, and Jacob Levi, lecturer in French at Connecticut College for a roundtable discussion on Jewish intellectual responses to antisemitism in contemporary France. Department of English.
Washington University, McDonnell Hall, Room 362

20 OCTOBER  |  5 PM 
Public Opening: Lest We Forget
Join us for the opening of the Holocaust memorial exhibition of photographic portraits of survivors by Luigi Toscano, Lest We Forget. Special remarks will be made by the artist as well as Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish Studies in Arts & Sciences; Andrew Martin, Washington University chancellor; Dee Dee Simon, co-founder of Conversation Builds Character; Rachel Miller, one of the survivors portrayed in the exhibition; and Miriam Silberman, president of Washington University’s Student Union. Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Steinberg Auditorium + Kemper Art Museum Lobby

20 OCTOBER  |  8 PM
Rae Armantrout
Visiting Author Rae Armantrout’s book Conjure was named one of the 10 “best books” of 2020 by Library Journal. Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award that year. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, Money Shot and Versed. In 2010, Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2007, she received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. Retired from the University of California, San Diego where she was professor of poetry and poetics, she is the current judge of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge (Room 201)

21-30 OCTOBER
Into The Woods
Into the Woods is a cautionary tale about life, love and loss as it explores the crisis of coming of age in an uncertain world. Inspired by the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine upend the “Happily Ever After” trope to unearth the doubts, fears and longings that undermine prepackaged morals. Winner of three Tony Awards and the 1988 Drama Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Musical, Into the Woods is a story of our time. In our current moment of social unrest and political polarity, this fractured fairytale, directed by Annamaria Pileggi, challenges us to grapple with ambivalence and uncertainty without losing our humanity. Performing Arts Department.
Washington University, Mallinckrodt Center, Edison Theatre

21 OCTOBER  |  2 PM
Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
FRANCES S. HASSO is a professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University and editor emerita of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2015-18). Her scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality in the Arab world. Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Washington University, McMillan Hall, Room 259

21 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Turning Ghosts into People: Religion and Gender Politics in the Chinese Communist Revolution
XIAOFEI KANG, associate professor of religion, George Washington University. Kang discusses how Maoist propaganda utilized religion to develop a standard narrative of salvation for its own rule. Specifically, he explores how the propaganda machine co-opted traditional discourse of ritual exorcism in the production and dissemination of the White-haired Girl, a 1945 opera that has been hailed as a revolutionary classic up to the present day. The opera invokes the cosmic redemption of female ghosts to make the female body and sexuality emblematic of class exploitations and national liberation. This gender-laden narrative created a renewed ethical and cosmological rationale for CCP leadership. Building on this narrative, Maoist propaganda proliferated to champion the liberation of the Chinese peasants in the land reform (1946-1953), and to legitimize the Communist civilizing mission of the ethnic borderlands in the early PRC. The archetypal storyline of the White-haired Girl thus evolved into a metanarrative of the Chinese revolution and directly contributed to the formation of the Mao Cult. Fifth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions, co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Program for Religious Studies.
Washington University, Busch Hall, Room 100

22 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings
Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. The exhibition features studio-based paintings by contemporary German artist Katharina Grosse, internationally known for painting large-scale, on-site works, and explores the artist’s experimentation with the physical, optical and aesthetic qualities of color and paint on canvas. Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

23 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Chinese-language Tour: Sculpture Garden
Join student educator Yue Dai, PhD student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Washington University, for a tour featuring iconic artworks in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum’s Florence Steinberg Weil Sculpture Garden. Step outside the museum building and view art in the open air, including works in bronze by Auguste Rodin and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, kinetic sculpture by Alexander Calder, and recent works by Dan Graham and Chakaia Booker. The Sculpture Garden integrates the museum’s prominent collection into the expanded green space of Washington University’s East End, creating a network of art, nature and people. We will reflect together on the dynamics between public art and the environment and their roles on campus. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Florence Steinberg Weil Sculpture Garden (weather permitting)

24 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Who Gets Trapped in Post-Roe America?
CAITLIN MYERS is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. Within hours of the end of Roe, state abortion bans began to take effect and clinics began to close, leaving would-be patients with little time to lose scrambling to figure out where to go next in a shifting and unstable landscape. As stunning as this moment may be, it’s neither unprecedented nor unpredictable. We’ve seen changes in abortion access before, and quantitative social scientists have spent decades using data and statistics to study these “natural experiments,” situations where sudden localized change in access affords us an opportunity to isolate and measure causal effects. Myers will discuss this literature and draw on it to provide a forecast of how many people seeking abortions are likely to find themselves trapped by distance and poverty, and what happens to them next. The Politics of Reproduction events are free and open to the public.
VIRTUAL - RSVP

24 OCTOBER  |  5 PM
Do Colleges and Universities Bear Responsibility for K-12 Public Education?
MARY SCHMIDT CAMPBELL is the 10th president of Spelman College (2015-22). Many of our nation’s great colleges and universities reside in large urban centers where public school education has been under-resourced, and students have been dramatically underserved. What responsibility, if any, should elite, well-resourced institutions of higher education assume for the public-school outcomes of the communities in which they reside? Livestream available; see website for registration. James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education, Center for the Humanities.
Washington University, Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum

25 OCTOBER  |  4 PM
Suicide, Anomy and Stavrogin’s Noose
In Amy D. Ronner’s sixth book, Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self-Destruction and the Creative Process, she analyzes multiple suicides in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writings to show how his understanding of self-homicide prefigures theories of prominent suicidologists. In her talk, Ronner will reveal answers to some of the most mystifying questions: Why do people kill themselves? Is suicide a social fact? Why does a town plummet into chaotic ruin in Dostoevsky’s Demons? Why does Nikolay Stavrogin churn with pent-up rage, and why does he choose that thickly soaped noose in lieu of a bullet for his self-demise? Can there be a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate? Program in Global Studies.
Washington University, Danforth University Center, Room 276

25 OCTOBER  |  7 PM
History After Dark: Witchy and Weird Books
Join the Young Friends of the Missouri Historical Society and Washington University Libraries to explore the weirder side of the Rare Book Collections at Washington University. Keeping in mind that Halloween is just around the corner, attendees will see a 16th century witch-hunting manual, an early book on demons, works on alchemy, 15th and 19th century depictions of the dance of death, a Ouija board hand drawn by a famous author, and more. Curator of Rare Books Cassie Brand will give a short presentation on the books, followed by refreshments and a chance to learn more about the Young Friends. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142

25 OCTOBER  |  8 PM 
Jabari Asim
An accomplished poet, playwright and writer, Jabari Asim has been described as one of the most influential African-American literary critics of his generation. Asim has served as the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine — the NAACP’s flagship journal of politics, culture and ideas — and as an editor at The Washington Post, where he wrote a syndicated column on politics, popular culture and social issues. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts and is the author of eight books for adults, including Yonder, and 13 books for children. His latest books for young readers, Me and Muhammad Ali and A Child’s Introduction to Jazz, will be released later this year. Asim is currently the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow and a professor at Emerson College. Asim gives a reading of his own work 8 pm, Oct. 27 at the same location. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge (Room 201)

27 OCTOBER  |  12 PM 
Gallery Talk: Ambivalent Pleasures
RACHEL SLAUGHTER, lecturer in College Writing, and Jay Buchanan, graduate student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology, both at Washington University, discuss their Teaching Gallery installation, Ambivalent Pleasures: Advertiser Content in American Art. The installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
 

27 OCTOBER  |  4:30 PM
Faculty Book Talk: Hillel J. Kieval
HILLEL J. KIEVAL is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and author of Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe’s Fin de Siècle. It examines four cases to consider how discredited beliefs that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes became plausible to educated European elites. Kieval’s talk will be followed by a Q&A. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142

 

27 OCTOBER  |  5 PM
The Racialized Sporting Landscape of St. Louis: Bias and Basketball in a Divided City
St. Louis is a divided city: ineluctably marked by racism and the legacies of racial segregation in the form of the “Delmar Divide.” St. Louis is also a championship city: host to the title-winning Cardinals, Blues, and, once, Rams and Hawks. And St. Louis is home to Forest Park, its “Crown Jewel” and one of the premier public parks in the nation, full of sporting and cultural amenities, many of them free. And yet there are currently no basketball facilities in the park, nor have there ever been, despite the game’s tremendous popularity over the last 130 years. Several other St. Louis parks, including Tower Grove Park and Lafayette Park, once had basketball, only to have the hoops taken out due to “disrepair.” Given the sport of basketball’s popular association with Blackness over the last 60 years, it is not hard to surmise the reasons why the game is missing from these signature parks, all of which are found south of the red line that was (and is) Delmar Boulevard.  In this panel we will discuss how anti-Black racism has affected the sporting landscape of St. Louis and what St. Louisans can and are doing to change it. Program in American Culture Studies.
Washington University, Umrath Hall, Umrath Lounge

28 OCTOBER  |  5 PM
Money of the Holocaust
This presentation will explore forms of money used in World War II concentration and internment camps and will reveal how money was used to control prison populations, in addition to its use as a tool of propaganda. Presenters Steve and Ray Feller, a father-daughter team, have done firsthand research on this topic and are the authors of the standard work on the subject, Silent Witnesses: Civilian Camp Money of World War II. Steve Feller is the B.D. Silliman Professor of Physics at Coe College, while Ray Feller is associate dean and co-director of Student Support Services at MIT. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142

THROUGH 23 OCTOBER
Private Lives
Amanda and Elyot are enjoying a romantic honeymoon – just not with each other. A chance meeting on their adjoined hotel balconies brings this divorced duo face-to-face for the first time in five years. Passions and tempers collide in this combustible romp, as the two remember why they fell in love and why they divorced in the first place. Noël Coward’s wit and sophistication are on full display in this scathing sendup of the British upper class of the 1930s. Post-performance talkbacks 8 pm, Oct. 13 and 2 pm, Oct. 19. $23–$92. Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
COCA, Catherine B. Berges Theatre, Mainstage, 6880 Washington Ave., University City, 63130

1-30 OCTOBER  |  VARIOUS TIMES
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. $20–$35. Tour starting/ending points are included in your booking details.
Oct. 1: Central West End; Benton Park; Tower Grove; Oct. 2: Forest Park; Oct. 8: Downtown Origins; Dutchtown; Cherokee Street; Oct. 15: Old North and St. Louis Place; Gay Liberation in the Gateway City; Oct. 29: Laclede’s Landing; Oct. 30: Downtown Evolutions; Soulard South.
Missouri History Museum

1 OCTOBER  |  10 AM 
The Beatles Part 2: 1962
Join encore presenter, university instructor Neil Davis, as we continue our exploration of The Beatles’ journey to stardom. Learn how The Beatles adapted musical ideas and used primitive recording technology as they charmed the press and fans in every corner of the globe. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library - Thornhill Branch, 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, 63146-3771

1 OCTOBER  |  12-5 PM
20th Annual Mary Meachum Celebration
Be a part of history in the making at Missouri’s first nationally recognized Underground Railroad site. Celebrate freedom seekers like Mary Meachum, who in 1855 led enslaved people across the Mississippi to Illinois, where slavery was outlawed. Each year, this event shines a spotlight on Black St. Louis history through theater performances, music and activities for the whole family in a festive atmosphere. Meachum (1801–69) and her husband, Rev. John Berry Meachum, were American abolitionists who dedicated their lives to educating and freeing enslaved people. In 2001, the National Park Service recognized the site as part of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Great Rivers Greenway.
Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing Visitor Center and Mural, St. Louis Riverfront Trail, St. Louis, 63147

3 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Alan Gratz, Two Degrees (Author Talk) 
ALAN GRATZ — author of Refugee and Ground Zero — is back, tackling the urgent topic of climate change. Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is riding her horse in the California woods when a wildfire sparks and grows scarily fast. How can she make it to safety when there are flames everywhere? Owen and his best friend, George, like spotting polar bears on the snowy Canadian tundra. But when one bear gets way too close for comfort, do the boys have any chance of surviving? Natalie hunkers down at home as a massive hurricane barrels toward Miami. When the floodwaters crash into her house, Natalie is dragged out into the storm with nowhere to hide. Akira, Owen, George and Natalie are all swept up in the devastating effects of climate change. They are also connected in ways that will shock them and could alter their destinies forever. Left Bank Books.
VIRTUAL – RSVP

3 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Silas House, Lark Ascending (Author Talk)
Former NPR All Things Considered commentator Silas House’s new novel is a story of survival and hope set in the not-too-distant future. As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark secures a place on a refugee boat headed to Ireland, the last country not yet overrun by extremists. As he runs for his life, Lark finds an abandoned dog who becomes his closest companion and then a woman in search of her lost son. Together they form a makeshift family and attempt to reach Glendalough, a place they believe will offer protection. But can any community provide the safety that they seek? St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library Daniel – Boone Branch, 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, 63011

4 OCTOBER  |  11 AM 
Frank Lloyd Wright: Impossible Genius
Hear Bev Schuetz of History Talks discuss Frank Lloyd Wright — one of the 20th century’s greatest architects — his complex family background, his stunning buildings and his personal tragedies and scandals. Although Wright introduced America to timeless modernity and organic architecture, his creative brilliance often vied with his egotism and irascible eccentricity. Missouri Historical Society.
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 63112

5 OCTOBER  |  10 AM 
Native American Art at Saint Louis Art Museum
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Oct. 10), Andrea Ferber, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, will present works of art made by living Native American artists in the collection of Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library - Weber Road Branch, 4444 Weber Rd., St. Louis, 63123-6744

5 OCTOBER  |  10 AM 
Ulysses S. Grant: Myths, Stories, and Realities
Ulysses S. Grant’s legacy has been marked by claims of poor generalship, a corrupt presidency and excessive drinking. This National Park Service program gets to the bottom of these claims to distinguish fact from fiction. St. Louis County Library.
VIRTUAL – RSVP 

6 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Cori Bush, The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America (Author Talk)
Congresswoman Cori Bush is the first Black woman and first nurse to represent Missouri; the first woman to represent Missouri’s First Congressional District; and the first activist from the movement fighting for Black lives elected to Congress. Bush’s memoir, The Forerunner, is an inspiring personal account of her journey from nurse, pastor and community organizer to the halls of Congress. She shares her story as a minimum-wage worker, a survivor of domestic and sexual violence and an unhoused parent. She hadn’t intended to run for political office, but her experiences on the front lines of the Ferguson Uprising changed her course. Left Bank Books.
Touhill Performing Arts Center, 1 Touhill Circle, St. Louis, 63121

6 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Kate Winkler Dawson, All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind (Author Talk)
Crime historian and podcast host of Tenfold More Wicked Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff, a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed,” and the array of 19th-century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind. Expanded from season one of her hit podcast, in All That Is Wicked, Dawson draws on hundreds of source materials and never-before-shared historical documents to present one of the first glimpses into the mind of a serial killer — a century before the term was coined — through the scientists whose work would come to influence criminal justice for decades to come. 
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch , 9700 Musick Ave., St. Louis, 63123

7-29 OCTOBER  |  VARIOUS TIMES
Drop-in Collection Tour: Indigenous Arts of the Americas
Join a Saint Louis Art Museum docent for a lively and engaging tour of the Saint Louis Art Museum’s collection. Tours begin at the Information Center in Sculpture Hall, and they are limited to 10 visitors on a first-come, first-served basis.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr., Forest Park, St. Louis, 63110

7 OCTOBER  |  10 AM 
German Heritage of Missouri
From St. Louis to Indian Grove, German immigrants have played a significant role in settling of Missouri. Explore the history of the German Heritage corridor, and how the settling of 16 counties affected the growth, food and industry of the area. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Jamestown Bluffs Branch, 4153 N. Highway 67, Florissant, 63034

7 OCTOBER  |  5 PM 
At the Cusp of Modernity: Religion, Virtue, Science, Economy 
The contemporary, globalized world is a complex place born of particular cultural histories. Modern religion, ethics, science, technology and medicine emerge out of particular places, with particular histories, which shape the global reach of modernity. In their own way, each of these new books by Saint Louis University faculty explores complexities at the cusp of modernity around the perennial questions of religion, science, virtue, bioethics, history and political economy.
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8 OCTOBER  |  9 AM 
Women and Art
Inspired by the exhibit Painting Creole St. Louis: Artist Anna Maria von Phul at the Missouri History Museum, this tour celebrates women in the arts. After a guided tour of the exhibit, we’ll visit other museums and art galleries, private collections and outdoor spaces across the city to explore historical and contemporary art. A special guest will offer a lesson in sketching to awaken your inner creativity. The tour led by Hattie Felton, senior curator, Missouri History Museum. $80–$90. Missouri Historical Society.
Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 63112 

8 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan, Mad Honey (Author Talk)
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life — living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher — was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Left Bank Books.
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road, St. Louis, 63117

9 & 26 OCTOBER 
Stone Sea Guided Experience
Gain new perspectives on Andy Goldsworthy’s Stone Sea as you walk throughout this large-scale outdoor sculpture. During this 20-minute guided experience, a Saint Louis Art Museum docent will provide insights into this work of art—commissioned by the Museum and designed by the artist for the space it occupies—while you explore the sculpture. $5–$10.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr., Forest Park, St. Louis, 63110

10 OCTOBER  |  10 AM 
Native American Art at Saint Louis Art Museum
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Oct. 10), Andrea Ferber, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Prints, Drawing, and Photographs, will present works of art made by living Native American artists in the collection of Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Eureka Hills Branch, 500 Workman Rd., Eureka, 63025

10 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
German Heritage of Missouri
From St. Louis to Indian Grove, German immigrants have played a significant role in settling of Missouri. Explore the history of the German Heritage corridor, and how the settling of 16 counties affected the growth, food and industry of the area. Program offered again 10 am, Oct. 11. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Samuel C. Sachs Branch, 16400 Burkhardt Pl., Chesterfield, 63017

10 OCTOBER  |  2 PM 
Native American Art at Saint Louis Art Museum
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Oct. 10), Andrea Ferber, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Prints, Drawings and Photographs, will present works of art made by living Native American artists in the collection of Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Mid-County Branch, 7821 Maryland Ave., St. Louis, 63105

10 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
John Griswold and Anne-Marie Oomen: A Night of Creative Non-Fiction
JOHN GRISWOLD and Anne-Marie Oomen discuss their new works The Age of Clear Profit: Essays on Home and the Narrow Road and As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. At age 50, when many hope to slow down, and what’s left, as the poet Kobayashi Issa once wrote, is “clear profit,” John Griswold of The Age of Clear Profit was starting over, again, in a position he had worked decades to achieve. His family moved down the Mississippi Valley, expecting to create a good life with new friends. What they found instead was a society “organized tightly by race, church attendance, and family name,” which in its corruption, laissez-faire corporatism, gun love and environmental degradation foretold the heightened problems of the United States in an era of deepening political division. Taking his cue from classical Asian poets such as Basho, Griswold begins to journey, to gain perspective and to find his own narrow road. As Long as I Know You narrates Oomen’s journey to finally knowing her mother as well as the heartbreaking loss of her mother’s immense capacities. It explores how humor and compassion grow belatedly between a mother and daughter who don’t much like each other. It’s a personal map to find a mother who may have been there all along, then losing her again in the time of COVID. As the millions of women like Oomen’s mother reach their elder years and become the “oldest of the old,” their millions of daughters (and sometimes sons) must come on board, involved in care they may welcome the way they’d welcome hitting a pothole the size of a semi. How a family makes decisions about that pothole, how care continues or does not, how possessions are addressed — really, no one wants the crockpot — and how the relationship shifts and evolves (or not), that story is universal.
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, 63108

10 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
History and Mystery of Music: The Desperate Creation of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
Hear about the many struggles that Beethoven went through to make one of his greatest symphonies a reality. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Oak Bend Branch, 842 S. Holmes Ave., St. Louis, 63122

12 OCTOBER  |  12 PM
Art Speaks: Chinese Furnishings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
LEE TALBOT, curator, George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum. The fabrics that furnished upper-class Chinese homes during the Ming (1369–1644) and Qing (1644–1912) dynasties reveal the aesthetic and technical virtuosity of Chinese textile artists as well as the sumptuous lifestyles enjoyed by the elite at the time. Drawing from the exhibition Chinese Textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and a range of Ming and Qing secondary sources — including paintings, nonfiction writings and illustrated novels — this talk will consider the textiles within their original cultural, historical and physical contexts.
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12 OCTOBER  |  6:30 PM 
Native American Art at Saint Louis Art Museum
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Oct. 10), Andrea Ferber, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Prints, Drawings and Photographs, will present works of art made by living Native American artists in the collection of Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Thornhill Branch, 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, 63146

13 OCTOBER  | 5:30 PM
The American Experience through Storytelling
Kick off the St. Louis Storytelling Festival with nationally renowned storytellers Sheila Arnold, Noa Baum and Nestor Gomez as they share inspiring, thought-provoking stories. Master storyteller Sheila Arnold, a performer since the age of eight, has shared her stories, songs and historic character presentations at festivals all over the country. Noa Baum is an international storyteller who was born and raised in Israel. Her stories convey American history and her  experiences of coming to America. Storyteller Nestor Gomez was born in Guatemala and moved to Chicago undocumented in the mid 1980s. He is a 65-time Moth Slam winner and 3-time Chicago Moth Grand Slam winner. His storytelling features the stories of immigrants, their descendants and their allies. See more events: St. Louis Storytelling Festival program schedule.
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 63112

13 OCTOBER  | 6:30 PM
A Haunted History of Invisible Women
Join us for an author talk about the new novel A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts! Just in time for the Halloween season! Paranormal expert storyteller Leanna Renee Hieber, along with Andrea Janes – founder of New York City’s women-owned ghostly walking tour, Boroughs of the Dead – show that America’s female spirits fall into distinct categories. Archetypes of the Witch, the Bride, the Mother and Wife, the Jezebel, the Fallen Woman, the Fraud, the Maiden, and the Spinster function as a kind of mediumship to source the deeper meanings in their stories. The specters they’ve selected differ widely in background, class and circumstance, but one thing unites them: their ability to instill fascination and fear, long after their deaths, their collective stories creating a larger narrative of the changing social roles of women in America.
St. Louis Public Library – Buder Library, 4401 Hampton Ave., St. Louis, 63109

14-15 OCTOBER 
Underground STL
Dive beneath the surface with us as we explore caves, creatures and countercultures in St. Louis’ history. We’ll dig into local legends and lore, investigate some of the area’s amazing caves, and discuss the meaning and methods of different counterculture and underground movements. Missouri Historical Society.
IN PERSON: Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 63112

15 OCTOBER  |  1:30 PM
Sisters Screening and Discussion
Sisters (1972) is directed by Brian De Palma. Margot Kidder is Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters’ insidious sibling bond. A scary and stylish dissection of female crisis, Brian De Palma’s first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen effects, bloody birthday cakes and a chilling score by frequent Alfred Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Introduction and post-screening discussion led by Andrew Wyatt, editor and film critic of the Cinema St. Louis’ The Lens film blog, and Joshua Ray, Lens film critic and podcast host. Cinema St. Louis.
St. Louis Public Library – Central Library, 1301 Olive St., St. Louis, MO 63103

17 OCTOBER  |  2 PM
German Heritage of Missouri
From St. Louis to Indian Grove, German immigrants have played a significant role in settling of Missouri. Explore the history of the German Heritage corridor, and how the settling of 16 counties affected the growth, food and industry of the area. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Bridgeton Trails Branch, 3455 McKelvey Rd., Bridgeton, 63044

17 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Mary Robinette Kowal, The Spare Man with Ann Leckie (Author Talk)
Hugo, Locus and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal will be in conversation with St. Louis author Ann Leckie. Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and the festering chowderheads who run security have the audacity to arrest her spouse. Armed with banter, martinis and her small service dog, Tesla is determined to solve the crime so that the newlyweds can get back to canoodling and keep the real killer from striking again. Kowal is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the Nebula and Locus awards. Left Bank Books.
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, 63108

18 OCTOBER  |  11 AM 
The Irish in St. Louis: From Shanty to Lace Curtain
Join author Patrick Murphy as he discusses St. Louis’ earliest Irish immigrants and their complex, multifaceted story of assimilation. The Irish in St. Louis introduces us to priests and gangsters, artists and revolutionaries, entrepreneurs and entertainers. It takes us to the rough and tumble neighborhoods of 19th-century Kerry Patch and Dogtown, where immigrants and their children forged paths into the city’s mainstream while preserving their Irish identity. Murphy will also explore how that identity was shaped through the process of becoming American and share stories that transport us to a time when a community of people reinvented themselves in a city named for a saint. Each story is one small piece of a puzzle that reveals a picture of the St. Louis Irish experience. Missouri Historical Society.
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 63112

18 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
From Page to Performance
Writer Michaella Thornton shows how to transform our written work into short performance pieces in this warm and casual workshop. St. Louis Storytelling Festival, St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch, 9700 Musick Rd., St. Louis, 63123

19 OCTOBER  |  11 AM
At Last: Introduction to Jazz’s Finest Moments 
From its origins as blues, ragtime, swing, bebop, free and more, enter the fascinating world of jazz history. Through listening to jazz music and exploring the role of musicians in its development, we can grow our appreciation for the art of jazz. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Rock Road Branch, 10267 St. Charles Rock Rd., St. Ann, 63074

19 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
In the Executioner’s Shadow Screening & Discussion
This 2018 documentary explores justice, injustice and the death penalty through three interweaving personal narratives: a former state executioner who nearly executes an innocent person, a Boston Marathon bombing victim who struggles to decide what justice really means, and the parents of a murder victim who face abandoning their values or fighting for the life of their daughter’s killer. The online screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s co-producer, University City native Rick Stack. A graduate of University City High School, Mr. Stack is an author, professor and activist dedicated to social justice, with a focus on those impacted by the death penalty. He will be joined in the discussion by Elyse Max, executive director of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, who will offer up-to-date information on the state of death penalty cases in Missouri. University City Public Library.
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19 OCTOBER  |  7 PM
Amanda E. Doyle, Tower Grove Park: Common Ground and Grateful Shade Since 1872 (Author Talk)
Following the success of his Missouri Botanical Garden, English transplant and enthusiastic philanthropist Henry Shaw turned his attention to creating the first large park in St. Louis, a Victorian showplace full of verdant trees and shading pavilions. Such a tranquil oasis served to uplift, refine and refresh human beings whose lives were becoming increasingly mechanized, crowded and complicated. 150 years after its founding, Tower Grove Park continues to fill that role in the lives of St. Louisans. Step into the past with this richly illustrated history of the park. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch, 9700 Musick Rd., St. Louis, 63123

19 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Jasmine Sawers, Anchored World (Author Talk)
Flash fiction writer Jasmine Sawers will discuss their collection, The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore. A goat begins to grow inside a human heart. The rightful king is born a hard, smooth seashell. Supernovas burst across skin like ink in water. Heartbreak transforms maidens into witches, girls into goblins, mothers into monsters. Hunger drives lovers and daughters, soldiers and ghosts, to unhinge their jaws and swallow the world. Drawing inspiration from a mixed heritage and from history — from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen to the ancient legends of Thailand, from the suburbs of Buffalo, New York, to the endless horizon of the American Midwest — Sawers invents a hybrid folklore for liminal characters who live between the lines and within the creases of race and language, culture and gender, sexuality and ability. Left Bank Books.
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, 63108

21 OCTOBER  |  10 AM
Center for Research on Global Catholicism Book Symposium
Please join us for a discussion of Church of the Dead: the Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (NYU, 2021) with author Jennifer Scheper Hughes (University of California, Riverside). Formal responses will be given by Paul Ramirez (Northwestern University) and Nathaniel Millett (Saint Louis University). Lunch reception to follow.
Saint Louis University, Pere Marquette Gallery, 221 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103

21 OCTOBER  |  2 PM
At Last: Introduction to Jazz’s Finest Moments 
From its origins as blues, ragtime, swing, bebop, free and more, enter the fascinating world of jazz history. Through listening to jazz music and exploring the role of musicians in its development, we can grow our appreciation for the art of jazz. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Thornhill Branch, 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, 63146

22 OCTOBER  |  11 AM
Between the Lines: Mark Making on the Plains, 1872–2022
CHRISTINA E. BURKE, curator of Native American Art, Philbrook Museum of Art. Dakota and Lakota artists have always created bold geometric designs using pigments, quills and, later, glass beads. With historical works in the Danforth Collection as a foundation, Burke will illustrate aesthetic and cultural connections between 19th-century art and the innovative Abstract paintings of Oscar Howe in the 20th century and Dyani White Hawk today. Tickets are free but required. Livestream available.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr., St. Louis, 63110

22 OCTOBER  |  11 AM
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Panel Discussion
LGBTQIA+ people have served valiantly and honorably throughout every American war and conflict. They have built careers in the armed forces and won the nation’s highest awards. However, for the vast majority of American history, living openly and authentically as themselves meant dishonorable discharge, discrimination and disgrace. In 1993, President Bill Clinton issued Defense Directive 1304.26, better known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” It was intended as a kind of compromise to allow closeted service members to remain in the military. Gay and bisexual servicemen and women gained the right to serve openly in 2011, with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (transgender Americans’ right to serve in the military has periodically been granted and revoked; it was reaffirmed in 2021). Join Gilberto Pinela and Steve Zeiger as they discuss their experiences serving across military policy. Missouri History Museum.
Soldiers Memorial, 1315 Chestnut St., St. Louis, 63103

23 OCTOBER  | 2 PM 
Global Threads: How Indian Chintz Forever Changed Fashion and the World
SARAH FEE, senior curator of global fashion & textiles, Royal Ontario Museum. As no other cloth in history, the painted and printed cottons of India — known today as Indian chintz — changed the fashion, economies and relations of people around the globe. Join Sarah Fee to learn why, for thousands of years, India “dressed the world” with its exuberant painted and printed cotton cloth. Delving deeper into pieces featured in the exhibition Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz, she will explore how from the 18th-century Indian chintz sparked the Industrial Revolution and intensified cotton production in the U.S., and how today artists and fashion designers in India are again revitalizing this ancient textile art. Tickets are free but required. Livestream available.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr., St. Louis, 63110

24 OCTOBER  |  7:30 PM
Cries and Whispers Discussion 
This existential wail of a drama concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). An intensely felt film that is one of Ingmar Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography by Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders between reality and nightmare, tranquility and terror. Intro and discussion by T.J. Keeley, PhD student in contemporary American literature at Saint Louis University and teacher of English and film at college prep schools in the St. Louis area. Cinema St. Louis.
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25 OCTOBER  |  2 PM
At Last: Introduction to Jazz’s Finest Moments 
From its origins as blues, ragtime, swing, bebop, free and more, enter the fascinating world of jazz history. Through listening to jazz music and exploring the role of musicians in its development, we can grow our appreciation for the art of jazz. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Samuel C. Sachs Branch, 16400 Burkhardt Pl., Chesterfield, 63017

25 OCTOBER  |  6:30 PM
Missouri Places in Peril
Join Missouri Preservation’s executive director, Riley Price, to learn about the Places in Peril program, recently listed properties, success stories, and what you can do to help save these important pieces of Missouri’s history. Sponsored by the St. Louis Public Library’s Steedman Architectural Library and the Society of Architectural Historians – St. Louis and Missouri Valley Chapters.
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25 OCTOBER  |  7:30 PM
Poetry at the Point: Katerina Canyon, Jennifer Goldring & Katherine Mitchell
KATERINA CANYON is a 2020 and 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her stories have been published in The New York Times, The Huffington Post and Folks. Her poetry has been published in CatheXis Northwest, The Esthetic Apostle, Into the Void, Black Napkin, and Waxing & Waning. Her first book of poetry, Changing the Lines, was released in 2017. From 2000 to 2003, she served as the poet laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. Her latest book, Surviving Home, was released in 2021. Jennifer Goldring is a poet based in St. Louis, Mo. She is managing editor for december magazine. Her award-winning poetry has appeared in various publications, and her photography and other work can be found at jennifergoldring.com. Katherine Mitchell’s poems and essays appear in 2River View, The Southern Review and The Louisville Review. The Southern Review nominated her poetry for Best New Poets. Livestream available; see website. St. Louis Poetry Center.
Focal Point, 2320 Sutton, Maplewood, 63143

26 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
An Evening with Literary Master George Saunders
Booker Prize winner for Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders presents a collection of short stories that grapple with the complexities of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times best-seller Tenth of December. Saunders’ stories in Liberation Day explore ideas of power, ethics and justice and cut to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. $35-$40. St. Louis County Library.
Chaminade, Skip Viragh Center for the Arts, 425 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, 63131

27 OCTOBER  |  2 PM
German Heritage of Missouri
From St. Louis to Indian Grove, German immigrants have played a significant role in settling of Missouri. Explore the history of the German Heritage corridor, and how the settling of 16 counties affected the growth, food and industry of the area. St. Louis County Library.
St. Louis County Library – Oak Bend Branch, 842 S. Holmes Ave., St. Louis, 63122

27 OCTOBER  |  6:30 PM 
Witches in the News!
Would you like to hear the tales of strange, bloodsucking familiars, magical murder and pacts with the devil? If you answered yes, then you would have a lot in common with the news-reading public of 17th-century England. As literacy increased among the English population, a booming printing industry fed the public pamphlets on such sensational news topics. And what could be more astonishing than a worldwide conspiracy to undermine Christendom itself? Printers of the time reproduced trial records, preserving a treasure trove of information; what motivated accusers, what supposedly motivated the accused witch, her methods of “revenge,” and how the modern conception of the witch took shape. Kellee Bohannon, author of Journey into Halloween Land.
St. Louis Public Library – Central Library, 1301 Olive St., St. Louis, 63103

27 OCTOBER  |  7 PM 
Ed Wheatley, St. Louis Sports Memories (Author Talk)
Local award-winning sports historian and author Ed Wheatley chronicles everything from the championships to the crossroads of social change that have characterized the St. Louis sports scene for more than a century. Each memory is accompanied by history and anecdotes showcasing some of the most loved as well as the long forgotten stories of local sports history. Wheatley brings his die-hard fan perspective to this unique and nostalgic look at St. Louis’ winning record. Root for the home teams and for the bygone heroes from America’s best sports town.
St. Louis County Library – Grant’s View Branch, 9700 Musick Rd., St. Louis, 63123