2 OCTOBER | 6:30 PM
When Innocence Isn’t Enough
Join us for an engaging panel discussion on wrongful convictions in Missouri, examining the critical role incentivized witnesses play in these injustices and the ongoing fight for victims’ exoneration. The panel will also discuss the status of SB1271, which seeks to reform the use of incentivized witnesses in the criminal court system. Moderated by ML Smith, founder, Missouri Justice Coalition. Panelists include Hon. David C. Mason, 22nd Judicial Circuit; Kevin W. McClain, founder and president, McClain Private Investigations; Megan Crane, co-director, MacArthur Justice Center, and instructor, WashU Law Wrongful Conviction Clinic; and Rachel Wester, legal director, Midwest Innocence Project. Registration is required for online attendees and limited is space. WashU Law.
Washington University, Anheuser Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (Room 310) & Zoom
4 OCTOBER | 5 PM
Dismantling Mass Incarceration
TREVOR GARDNER, renowned legal scholar and WashU Law professor, sits down with Maria Hawilo, Distinguished Professor in Residence, Loyola School of Law, and co-editor of the influential book Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change. Gardner and Hawilo will delve into the structural injustices of the criminal justice system, with a focus on the mass incarceration crisis in America. Hawilo’s work is a groundbreaking handbook that offers practical insights and tools for driving systemic change. Together, they will explore the human costs of incarceration, the failures of punitive justice and what meaningful reform looks like in practice. This fireside chat is an opportunity to engage with two leading voices in legal scholarship and criminal justice reform as they tackle complex questions about dismantling harmful policies and creating a more equitable system, offering attendees a chance to gain new perspectives on how law can be a vehicle for justice. This event will be available in person and on Zoom. WashU Law.
Washington University, Anheuser Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (Room 310) & Zoom
7 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
Bittersweet Screening & Discussion
Join us for the first session of the Fall 2024 Middle East/North Africa (MENA) Film Series for a viewing of Bittersweet (2010/130 min). A 30-year-old Egyptian goes back to Egypt after living in America for 20 years, but he has a hard time coping with the difference, especially after he loses his identity and all his money and becomes stuck in Egypt. The viewing will be facilitated by Younasse Tarbouni, teaching professor of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Muad Al Juhany, WashU Law. Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Washington University, Busch Hall, Room 100
9 OCTOBER | 3:30 PM
Slavery, Commodification, and Unfreedom in Indian Territory, 1830-1860
NAKIA PARKER, assistant professor of history at Michigan State University, is a historian of 19th-century chattel slavery in the U.S. and African American and American Indian history. She is currently working on a book manuscript, “Trails of Tears and Freedom: Black Life in Indian Slave Country, 1830-1866,” which examines the lives of enslaved and self-liberated individuals of African and Afro-Native descent in Choctaw and Chickasaw communities in 19th-century Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Talk followed by Q&A and reception. Department of History.
Washington University, McMillan Hall, McMillan Café
10 OCTOBER | 4 PM
Radiotherapies for Women in Korea, 1930s-1970s
SOYOUNG SUH, associate professor of history at Dartmouth College, presents research with discussion by Dr. Imran Zoberi, professor of radiation oncology, Washington University. This study examines the medical use of X-rays and radioisotopes in treating female cancer patients in Korea between the 1930s and 1970s. Given the emerging promise of therapeutic X-rays, radiation has been part of a transnational endeavor to accelerate medical, scientific and technological developments. By analyzing newspapers, medical journals and women’s magazines, this study asks how personnel, knowledge and apparatuses shaped female patients’ experiences. While X-rays cured patients, they also caused unprecedented harm. The history of medical use of radiation before and after 1945 demonstrates the process of negotiation to (re)define meanings of wellness, uncertainty and development. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Washington University, Wilson Hall, Room 214
10 OCTOBER | 5 PM
Realistic Hope: American Democracy and the 2024 Election
The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is pleased to host a special Danforth Dialogues event focused on the 2024 presidential election exploring the place of faith and imagination in our current politics and public life. The event will consist of a set of two conversations moderated by John Dickerson of CBS News. The first panel, with the poet Joy Harjo and novelist Valeria Luiselli, will prompt us to ponder how creativity and the arts can inflect our politics with hope that guides us through persistent dilemmas. The second panel, with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and former U.S. congressman Adam Kinzinger, will concern the prospects for the 2024 presidential election — where it stands and what we can anticipate. Free but registration is required. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
Washington University, Graham Chapel
10 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
The History and Meaning of ‘Coming Out’
Join the Sexuality, Health and Gender (SHAG) Center at the Brown School and the Missouri History Museum in celebrating the progress made toward affirming sex and gender diversity. This event highlights the crucial contributions of queer communities and sexually minoritized individuals in fostering a culture of inclusiveness in our region. Together, we’ll reflect on the journey toward sex and gender inclusivity, while also challenging the community to take further action against the harm caused by bigotry. Learn how teaching sex and gender inclusiveness in all educational spaces can create a more affirming and welcoming society for everyone. Free and open to all. Brown School.
Washington University, Brown Hall, Brown Lounge
10 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
The Work of Risk: Guerilla Art for Surviving the Carceral Present
FAYE GLEISSER, associate professor of art history and critical theory, Indiana University, Bloomington. As laws governing the freedom of expression and right to occupy space continue to change, artists continue to anticipate the presence of police and the consequences of arrest, especially when creating confrontational or participatory performance and conceptual work beyond art-sanctioned spaces. How has the anticipation of punitive encounter taken shape materially and temporally in art? Relatedly, in what ways has the mis- or under-recognition of the racialized, gendered and sexualized conditions of artists’ differing vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence contributed to the normalizing of carceral relations in the stories told most often about riskiness and resourcefulness in art practice? Art historian and cultural theorist Gleisser addresses these questions and their political implications for the present in her new book, Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, 2023). In this talk, Gleisser draws upon Black feminist and queer of color theories of spatialized power and argues that artists’ calculation of citation and arrest is a form of knowledge — punitive literacy — that reveals salient insights into the ways carceral violence shapes the history of contemporary art. American Culture Studies program.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Room 103
11 OCTOBER | 12 PM
War and Fantasy: Russian Aggression in Ukraine and Male Fantasy Narratives
Since Russia commenced its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, people throughout the world have been asking the question: What are Russian soldiers fighting for? What forces drive men to pack their bags and go to Ukraine, leaving everything behind? In this presentation, WashU postdoctoral associate Maria Kurbak will highlight one of the most critical aspects of soldiers' motivation — fantasy. She has examined dozens of Russian combatants’ memoirs, notes, poems, songs and social media blogs and discovered the hidden fantasy narratives about Russia, Ukraine and the world that guides men in their desire to go off to war. These findings shed new light on how Russian soldiers' consciousness and behavior are influenced by fantasy narratives that draw on feelings of pride, shame, humiliation, vulnerability and insecurity. RSVP requested. Global Studies program.
Washington University, McMillan Hall, Room 259
11 OCTOBER | 6 PM
The Art, Archaeology, and History of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
As part of the Department of Art History and Archaeology’s George E. Mylonas Lecture Series in Classical Art and Archaeology, best-selling historian Bettany Hughes guides audiences through the landscapes of both ancient and modern times. Hughes will sign copies of her book, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, immediately following the program. Tickets for this free program may be reserved in person at the museum’s welcome desks or through MetroTix. Department of Art History and Archaeology and Saint Louis Art Museum.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr., Forest Park, St. Louis, 63110
12 OCTOBER | 2 PM
Public Tour: Art and the Environment
Join student educators for interactive tours of the permanent collection that invite discussion of how artists explore our complex relationship to the environment — ranging from 19th-century landscape paintings and scenes of laborers in the context of industrialization and Native histories to contemporary visions of the land amid globalization and climate crises. Free and open to the public. Please check in at the Welcome Desk when arriving for the tour. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Museum Lobby
13 OCTOBER | 2 PM
Chinese-Language Tour: Art and the Environment
加入学生导览员的常设展互动导览，共同探讨艺术家们如何探索我们与环境的复杂关系——从十九世纪的风景画和工业化背景下的劳动者场景，以及原住民历史，到全球化和气候危机中的当代土地愿景。
Join student educators for interactive tours of the permanent collection that invite discussion of how artists explore our complex relationship to land — ranging from 19th-century landscape paintings and scenes of laborers in the context of industrialization and Native histories to contemporary visions of the land amid globalization and climate crises. Free and open to the public. Please check in at the Welcome Desk when arriving for the tour. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Museum Lobby
15 OCTOBER | 8 PM
Ira Sukrungruang – Craft Talk
IRA SUKRUNGRUANG, born in Chicago to Thai immigrants, is the author of four nonfiction books, This Jade World (2021), Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations (2018), Southside Buddhist (2014) and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy (2010); the short story collection The Melting Season (2016); and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night (2013). Sukrungruang is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Rumpus, American Poetry Review, The Sun and Creative Nonfiction. He is the president of Sweet: A Literary Confection, a literary nonprofit organization, and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
16 OCTOBER | 11 AM–1:30 PM
Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows Colloquium
We invite you to listen to a series of brief presentations on the public humanities projects of Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows. Projects include partnerships with local organizations, collaborations with international artistic communities, and multimedia responses to urban segregation and other complex social issues. Graduate students in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, architecture and urban design will share about their projects, based in St. Louis and beyond, and the challenges and benefits of pursuing public-facing work beyond their conventional research. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches. Center for the Humanities.
Washington University, Danforth University Center, Room 234
16 OCTOBER | 2 PM
Can Comedy Save Us From the Apocalypse? The Science Behind Human Connection and Thriving in Trying Times
Evolutionary psychologist and public scholar Athena Aktipis will read from her new book A Field Guide to the Apocalypse and discuss her recent work with WashU scholars. Discussion will be followed by a reception and book signing. Program in Public Scholarship.
Washington University, Weil Hall, Kuehner Court
16 OCTOBER | 3:30 PM
Colloquium with Mary Lui: Asian Americans and STEM
MARY LIU, professor of American studies and history at Yale University. As both objects of study and agents of discovery, Asian Americans across the 20th and 21st centuries have played an important yet often unseen, stereotyped and misrecognized role in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the U.S. This talk examines the making of the Asian American scientist as a legacy of Chinese exclusion and cold war geopolitics. Department of History and American Culture Studies program.
Washington University, McMillan Hall, McMillan Café
16 OCTOBER | 4:30 PM
‘Our Only Hope’: Black Women and the 1969 Rent Strike Reception and Curator Talk
Join us for the “Our Only Hope”: Black Women and the 1969 Rent Strike exhibition reception and curator talk with Candace Borders, guest curator featured as a part of the community curator program. Borders is a PhD candidate in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. She earned a BA in American culture studies from Washington University in 2017 where she was an Ervin Scholar and Mellon Mays Fellow. Her research considers how African-American women experience and theorize their lives at the nexus of race, gender, sexuality and the state. Her dissertation, “Remaking Place: Black Women and a Politics of Refusal in St. Louis,” tells an interdisciplinary history of Black women’s quotidian and large-scale public housing activism. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Ginkgo Reading Room
16 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
New Perspectives Talk: Scenes from Oxbridge: Dark Academia and Printmaking in the Late Nineteenth Century
LAURA EVERS, PhD candidate in the Department of English, discusses a selection of late 19th-century etchings and engravings made by French, British and American printmakers. Pastoral and Gothic motifs dominate these college-town prints of Oxford and Cambridge (i.e., Oxbridge). Evers considers how some scenes depict communal, varied uses of space, while other scenes suggest a closed-off intellectual environment. This contrast also underpins dark academia, a term first coined on the internet by artistic communities to describe moody campus aesthetics. From 19th-century printmaking to 21st-century digital self-fashioning, this talk asks: How have artists shaped our understanding of who and what university spaces are for? A question as relevant today as it was centuries ago. Free and open to the public. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
17 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
Faculty Book Talk: André Fischer
Join us for a faculty book talk with André Fischer, assistant professor of German at WashU. Fischer will discuss his new book, The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture, published by Northwestern University Press in 2024. University Libraries.
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142
17 OCTOBER | 8 PM
Ira Sukrungruang – Reading
IRA SUKRUNGRUANG, born in Chicago to Thai immigrants, is the author of four nonfiction books, This Jade World (2021), Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations (2018), Southside Buddhist (2014) and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy (2010); the short story collection The Melting Season (2016); and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night (2013). Sukrungruang is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Rumpus, American Poetry Review, The Sun and Creative Nonfiction. He is the president of Sweet: A Literary Confection, a literary nonprofit organization, and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. Department of English.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
18 OCTOBER | 3 PM
Jazz and Coolness: An Existential Analysis
VARUN CHANDRASEKHAR is a PhD student in Music Theory at Washington University. In this talk, Chandrasekhar seeks to provide an existential analysis of coolness to understand how discourses of coolness limited the emotional expression of the mid-century jazz musician. Jazz musicians are cool. However, like Sartre’s (1993) ashamed peeping Tom, they are only cool in the presence of the Other. As noted by scholars of cool (Dinerstein 2017, Pountain and Roberts 2001, Ross 1989), urban Blacks viewed cool as a measured and calculated response to the horrors of American racism, while white hipsters (most famously Norman Mailer 1957) viewed coolness as a primitive parody of Black urban life. While Black cool was an aesthetic companion to the civil rights movement, white cool reinscribed the racist stereotypes associated with Black cultures. Given the white consumption of Black jazz, this statement means that jazz’s coolness is as much a reflection of Black self-identification as it is a product of the white gaze (Yancy 2008), which functions as an a priori limitation on the freedom of the jazz musician. Thus, jazz cool is a contested discourse, raising questions about who is claiming who is cool. The question then becomes, what does coolness do for white fans who attempt to label Black jazz musicians cool?
Washington University, Music Classroom Building, Room 102
18 OCTOBER | 4 PM
Copied Singularities: Tracking Animals in Early Modern Print
In the 16th century, knowledge of exotic animals was spread, shaped and transformed through the global circulation of not just travelers and the animals themselves, but also of printed illustrations, all of which moved in multiple directions around the world. In this talk, Lisa Voigt, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, tracks the surprising routes of singular animals and their illustrations (in particular crocodiles, armadillos, sloths and “flying serpents”), while drawing connections between the purpose and practice of copying in the early modern period and the ways that today’s generative AI can “hallucinate” images based on the existing textual and visual corpus. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Washington University, Eads Hall, Room 203
18 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
Informal Cities Workshop Kickoff Lecture
ELISA SILVA, associate professor at Florida International University, is an American-Venezuelan architect. She is principal and founder of Enlace Arquitectura, a professional practice in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, and Enlace Foundation, an NGO that promotes cultural and educational programs of social inclusion and participatory design collaborations. Enlace’s work has been recognized in the XI and VII BIAU awards, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, the Biennale di Venezia, the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Arc en Rêve. Silva, co-author of CABA: Cartography of the Caracas barrios (2014) and author of Pure Space: Expanding the Public Sphere through Public Space Transformations in Latin American Spontaneous Settlements (2020), has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy, the Wheelwright Fellowship from Harvard, Graham Foundation Grants in 2017 and 2021 and the Lucas Artist Fellowship.
Washington University, Steinberg Auditorium
21 OCTOBER | 4 PM
Tuskegee, Transnationalism, and the Black Roots of Liberatory Agriculture
JARVIS C. MCINNIS holds a BA in English from Tougaloo College (Jackson, Mississippi) and a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. An interdisciplinary scholar of African American and African diaspora literature and culture, his teaching and research interests focus on the global south (primarily the U.S. South and the Caribbean), sound studies, performance studies and visual culture. Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Symposium.
Washington University, Seigle Hall, L006
22 OCTOBER | 4 PM
Behind the Mic on Killers of the Flower Moon
Neil Verma (Northwestern University) explores sound design in the radio show coda to Martin Scorsese’s 2023 film Killers of the Flower Moon. A historian of radio fiction, Verma was a consultant on the production and takes us inside some of the source material and references in the film, contextualizing them in the world of classical sound aesthetics and 1930s radio technique. Department of Comparative Literature and Thought.
Washington University, Umrath Hall, Room 140
23 OCTOBER | 6 PM
Rethinking Exile: A Celebration of the Anthology Exile and the Jews
Exile and the Jews is the first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to exile from the biblical period to our modern day. The book gathers texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia. By illuminating the multidimensional nature of "exile"- political, philosophical, religious, psychological, and mythological - widely divergent evaluations of Jewish life in the Diaspora emerge. The collected material invites the reader to rethink the concept of exile, and to contemplate immigration, displacement, evolving identity and more. WashU professors Mona Kareem, Edward McPherson, Matthias Göritz and Tabea Linhard will discuss the book; editor Nancy Berg (professor of of Hebrew language and literature) will share a brief response. Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Comparative Literature & Thought and Global Studies program.
Washington University, Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
24 OCTOBER | 4 PM
Mountain (1966), Liu-Pi-Cha (1967) and Documentary Modernism in Taiwan
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series. Film and Media Studies program.
Washington University, Seigle Hall, Room 306
25 OCTOBER | 1:30 PM
Interpolations 2: Spatial Computing and Performance
All are welcome to the public session of Interpolations 2, an annual think tank devoted to exploring, envisioning and extending performance and digital technologies in the 21st century. This presentation considers the development of digital historiography in theatre and the performing arts as it emerged from a long history of medial influence on theatre history and practice. Do digital recreations function like other performance and historical reenactments? Or are there unique affordances for living history within digital simulations? Is this what the future of history, especially performance history, will look like, and if so, how should we adapt the developing archives, ontologies and systems to record and respond? Roundtable, “Provocations for Spatial Computing and Performance,” and Q&A follows. Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures.
Washington University, Umrath Hall, Umrath Lounge
25 OCTOBER | 3 PM
Teresa Carreño and the Legitimization of Powerhouse Pianism
ALEXANDER STEFANIAK is associate professor of musicology at Washington University. Between the 1860s and 1910s, Venezuelan-American Teresa Carreño established herself as an electrifying pianist on the international stage. Her trademark was an approach to virtuosity — associated with Liszt but increasingly standard to concert pianism — that emphasized extraordinary physical and sonic power. Stefaniak argues that Carreño illuminates a generation of female pianists who seized upon this “modern” style of virtuosity, turning it into a vehicle for achieving professional prestige and expanding the modes of piano performance available to women; crucially, they did so in ways that the classical music establishment regarded as respectable, not transgressive. Exploring Carreño’s performances and public persona through numerous programs, writings, and piano rolls, he traces how she developed performances that her contemporaries regarded as simultaneously thrilling and culturally elevating. Department of Music.
Washington University, Music Classroom Building, Room 102
25 OCTOBER | 4 PM
The World in Turmoil: Greek Views of Roman Imperialism (Polybius, Histories 36.9)
REGINA LOEHR, the John and Penelope Biggs Department of Classics Lecturer at Washington University. In 149 BCE, the Romans undertook three important, unanticipated and, in the end, shocking wars against Carthage, Macedon and Greece. The Greek historian Polybius (200-118 BCE) witnessed these developments and records in his Histories four contemporary Greek opinions on the Roman treatment of Carthage. Each view builds upon and responds to the previous argument. Polybius’ omission of his own explicit validation of any of these opinions has left scholars with conflicting interpretations of Polybius’ stance on Roman imperialism. Loehr seeks to reevaluate this passage, examining parallels within the extant Histories for each line of argumentation. She contextualizes these views within their extant literary and historical context, showing the significance of their placement next to rumors about the pretender Andriscus, who instigated the concurrent Macedonian uprising against Rome, and the importance of Greece’s political situation. Loehr concludes that Polybius presented these views for more immediate reasons than a straightforward endorsement or condemnation of Roman imperialism. Department of Classics.
Washington University, Seigle Hall, Room 208
25 OCTOBER–3 NOVEMBER
Pride and Prejudice
KATE HAMILL’s reimagining of the Jane Austen classic is a brilliant comedic romp with an irreverent soul. Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen and directed by William Whitaker, here, love is a game with winners and losers everywhere, and ludicrous circumstances abound and surround all matters of the heart. Finding a soulmate is serious play and true love is a madcap ordeal with confounding rules but a huge payoff. $15-$20, WashU students free. Performing Arts Department.
Washington University, Mallinckrodt Center, Edison Theatre
25 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
Design Agendas Public Symposium: Keynote Address
As part of the Design Agendas Symposium, join Toni L. Griffin, professor in practice of urban planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, for a keynote address that explores how transdisciplinary design projects can address spatial and social injustices embedded within U.S. cities. Griffin is founder of urbanAC LLC, based in New York, a planning and design management practice that works with public, private and nonprofit partnerships to reimage, reshape and rebuild just cities and communities. The practice designs and leads complex and transformative social and spatial urban revitalization projects rooted in addressing historic and current disparities involving race, class and generation. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Lobby
26 OCTOBER | 3 PM
In Conversation with That Librarian
The WashU Libraries, Saint Louis University Libraries, and St. Louis City Libraries invite you to a panel discussion examining the rise in book bans in recent years, and the implications for libraries, librarians and intellectual freedom. Central to our discussion will be Amanda Jones and her recently published book, That Librarian, which maps the book banning crisis across the country, draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, and calls on book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of readers. Panelists bringing a local perspective include Tom Bober, who has served as president of the Missouri Association of School Librarians, and Jennifer Buehler, an associate professor in the School of Education at Saint Louis University, where she mentors future high school English teachers. University Libraries.
Washington University, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Crowder Courtyard
26 OCTOBER | 9 AM
Design Agendas Public Symposium: Panel Discussions
Join community leaders, municipal leaders and scholars in dialogue around topics related to the Design Agendas exhibition. Organized by WashU’s Kemper Art Museum, College of Architecture and the Office for Socially Engaged Practice, the panels embrace the pluralistic ideas of the exhibition to explore the impact of past and present design agendas through lived, professional, and civic stories, as well as strategies for participatory futures that embed identity, culture and memory in the built environment. This event is free and open to the public. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Lobby
28 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
Josh Azzarella | Wallace Herndon Smith Distinguished Faculty Visiting Lecture
JOSH AZZARELLA will deliver the 2024 Wallace Herndon Smith Distinguished Faculty Visiting Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series. Azzarella’s multidisciplinary practice, which includes videos, objects and photographs, explores the power of authorship in shaping collective memory. The works address broader postmodern debates on the nature of reality. His research-based practice continually adopts new media methods such as artificial intelligence, while reexamining and adapting historical methods of reproduction, employing such diverse technologies as electromagnetic levitation and custom lathe-cut records. His work has been written about in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail and publications such as Visual Ethics (Routledge, 2018). His work is included in the permanent collections of SFMoMA, MFA Houston and LACMA, among others. Recently, he has collaborated with Teddy Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra and had solo exhibitions at Indiana University and City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand. Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts.
Washington University, Givens Hall, Kemp Auditorium, Room 116
30 OCTOBER | 5:30 PM
Interrogating the Carceral State: Intersections in Native, Black, Latinx, Arab American, Asian American, Muslim American, Pacific Islander, and Gender Studies
Liza Black, Balraj Gill, Max Mishler and Michael Ralph are the founders of the Quilting Collective, a collaborative space for educators to pursue scholarly and public-facing projects to further our understanding of carceral histories, cultures and logics. The group is currently editing a forum on “Native America and the Carceral State” for the American Historical Review’s AHR History Lab. The forum seeks to provide a new genealogy of the carceral state located squarely on Indigenous terrain. It does so from the perspective of Native peoples ensnared by a settler-colonial carceral continuum and whose politics therefore have necessarily involved evading or contesting state-sanctioned detention and confinement. The forum also asks if the “carceral state” is a profitable departure point for weaving together seemingly disparate histories and experiences with carcerality. They will discuss this and other threads that create and reinforce intersections in Native, Black, Latinx, Arab American, Asian American, Muslim American, Pacific Islander and Gender Studies. American Culture Studies program.
Washington University, Umrath Hall, Umrath Lounge
