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Black Letters & Black Leadership, or ‘What I Have Shaped into a Kind of Life’
The power of maps
Thus they wrote: The papyri at Olin Library
A Creole legacy, preserved in art
The elephant in the room
‘The kids are all right’: Children on campus
Tracking the tap: A historical and cultural analysis of Chinese touchscreen media
Backdrops and props: Confronting the Asian presence in LGBTQ cultural productions
Why Treblinka, part of ‘the largest single murder campaign within the Holocaust,’ remains unknown to Americans
The secret lives of women spies
A factory worker’s take on AI
The struggle and reward of Black studies
Stan Brakhage, public intellectual
Missouri’s reproductive legacy: From historical injustice to modern-day resistance
Conference explores the role of Catholicism in the Age of Enlightenment
Afro-Colombian artists call out poisoned fish and toxic politics
Japan’s “five-foot giant” of international relations
Unfreezing the frame: The art of the embodied experience
Q&A with writer Amitava Kumar
What a cube, a drop and a wave taught me about creativity, communication and community
Origins and empires: Reading coins for rulers’ stories
The man and the March
The caliph’s counselor
Peace of mind: The science and philosophy of mental health
Glitter bombs and green queens: Nicole Seymour’s irreverent take on environmental humanities
How a Haitian Rap Album Says More About Napoleon’s Colonial Legacy Than Ridley Scott’s Film
In digital worlds and on physical stages, directors invite audiences into the story
Dispatches from the ‘other’ France
Modernist physiognomy
The politics of time: The lessons of Sabbath for seeking justice
Still we rise…and we are tired
Appetite for oppression
Stellar literary networks
Unearthing plantation violence
Rwanda’s privatized polis and the people in the path of progress
‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea
The forgotten wall
Florida v. Black studies: An insider’s overview
On ‘Derry Girls’ and remembering the Good Friday Agreement
When worldviews collide
On the ‘ugliness’ of whiteness
From ‘pétroleuse’ to pornstar, the radical theorizing of sex workers
‘Very careful’ in the Ivory Tower may not be enough
The joy of being the weakest link
Pitching the humanities on the Hill
The World Cup of paradoxes
Social hierarchies and domination
Algerian anonymity: The impact of image and language past and present
Teaching modernity in the mountains
Ukraine and a forgotten chapter in Holocaust history
The spark for ‘Fire Ecologies’
‘WashU is not for us’: Universities embracing the public good
Learning from Haiti’s classical music culture
Why do comics get banned?
Research, revise, repeat: Training the academy’s next scholars
Real estate and the hidden history of the U.S. AIDS epidemic
Finding James Merrill in the archive
Dining with ‘nobles, gluttons, opportunists, heirs to thrones, the smart, and the good-for-nothing’
Our senses as sources of value
An insider’s look at the African Film Festival
Old and new fault lines in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine
People get ready
Sounds of street protest
The magic in his hands: Charles Johnson’s artistic versatility
How to constitute a nation
A muse of early America
What now? The afterlives of Zika and COVID-19
Present at the creation
The Spanish conquest of Mexico as viewed through a Jewish lens
The witch’s challenge
Muslim women on the minbar
Elucidating ‘alternative academia’
A scholar in the game
What was ‘race’ in ancient Rome?
Gerald Early on Black studies at WashU and one of its early champions: McLeod lecture preview
Transnational literature in the age of nationalism
Rule long and prosper: Advice for the ages, from the Sages
How the Black Death made life better
‘Promising Young Woman’ and the desire for endings
Toward a populist environmentalism
Fast notes on the FOIA film
Archiving the COVID-19 experience at Washington University
Another lesson from the Griot: How community-university partnerships can grow and evolve
An anthropologist takes on academia’s attraction to complexity
When retirement disappears
Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries
All cooped up: Caste in ‘The White Tiger’
Inhabiting the Iron Curtain: What sexuality can teach us about cultural belonging
Happening in the kitchen: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor cooks up Black arts
Comedy and gender through the centuries
On legacies of violence, genocide, and implicated subjects: Arts and museums as influence and response
Making sense of the racial divergence of AIDS and COVID-19
Get real: On the risks of authenticity
Norwegian encounters with the world’s music makers
There is an unnamed horror in ‘Lovecraft Country’
Divorce all’italiano: Tracking Rome’s 17th-century black widows
Presidential transitions, new traditions
Licensed thrills: The art of the James Bond franchise
‘Quarantine envy’ could finally wake people up to the deep inequalities that pervade American life
‘Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist’: The promise of the Belarusian protest movement
Poetry for all
What is Public Health Education and Why is it Important? What History Can Tell Us
Global Airport Infrastructure and Yellow Fever in Transition-Era Nairobi
Trauma: Beyond PTSD and Pathological Closure in Contemporary Literature
Is Envy OK? Is Love Laudable? What Medieval Texts Tell Us About Emotions
The Career of a Medieval Accusation in an Age of Science
Home Work: Inside the Lives of Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel
‘Truths and Reckonings’: A Pop-up Memorial Museum
U.S. Empire and the War on Drugs in the Philippines
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
Daphne A. Brooks and the History of Black Women’s ‘Radical Musicianship’
Matisse and Slow Looking
A War With Words: How Spain’s Women Lobbied Against Slavery in Cuba
On Borders and Unnatural ‘Natural’ Deaths
The City Electric: How Mexico City’s People Shaped Its Electrified Future
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Political Movement Overlooked by 30th Anniversary Celebrations
On Translating Beckett’s Minimalism
Ai Weiwei: Displacement and Replacement
Self-Knowledge as a Tool for Humanities PhDs to Combat Career Bias and Achieve Post-Doctoral Career Fulfillment
Ovid’s ‘Ibis’: Out of Exile
Liquid Borders: Toward a Close Examination of Migratory Issues
On George Sanchez
One Sweet Dream: ‘Abbey Road’ at Fifty
A Literary Anatomy: Student Exhibit Analyzed ‘Frankenstein’ Book by Book
Three Things You Should Know About Islam and Muslims
The Feuding Physician of Ancient Rome
Artists, United: The Radical Origin of a Film Corporation
200 Years On, ‘The Vampyre’ Still Thrills
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film Study: Film Exhibition
Baby Talk: Listening to the ‘Little Guy’ in Medieval French Literature
Tradition and Transformation: Clara Schumann and the Creation of Classical Music
Afro-Surrealism: What Black Is and Can Be
Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain
Lights, Camera, (Instagram), Action! Immersive Experiences and Digital Space
Omitted History
Living With Others
Jonah and the Whale: ‘Mid90s’ Tangents
Speaker Preview: Marilynne Robinson
Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ and Its Archive of Outtakes
Rethinking Monsters
Ancient Theater Gets Its Groove Back
A Conversation with Cathy Davidson: On the Digital in the Humanities and Her Journey to Revolutionize Higher Ed
Antifascist Writers on the Run
Dancing Between Love and Rage
Remembering the German ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ in Belarus
Do Microbes Have Politics?
What Do Latinxs and Asian Americans Have in Common? Look to Their Literature
The Supermarket of Israeli Literature: A Festschrift
Why Movie History Matters: David Bordwell and Film Studies, Yesterday and Today
A New ‘Wrinkle’
‘How We Listen Shapes How We View the World’: The Radio Drama in Post-WWII Germany
Painting New Pictures
‘And All Our Past Decades Have Seen Revolutions’: The Long Decolonization of Black Panther
Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist
Talking About Voice and Performance
Keep It Moving: Transience, Debility and the Management of Homelessness
Faculty for the Next Generation
Disobedient Reading: A Long Look Over Black Life
Showing Up for Black Women, Black People and Black Protest: Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’ ‘Whose Streets’
‘A Time to Lift One’s Voice’: The East St. Louis Riot in a Migration Perspective
On “Alternative Academic” Careers in the Humanities
Writing a New Kind of Western Music
A Seat at the Table: Sara Ahmed and the Politics of Knowledge Production
The Monster Who Will Not Leave Us
Technology of Memory: How We Remember and How We Forget
No Place Like Home: St. Louis’ Eminent Domain History
Public and Urban Humanities Fellows Join Humanities Center
Close Enough? Reasoning Mistakes Great and Small
Why Academics (Still) Love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
An Unknown Architect of the Black Aesthetics Movement
Washington Park Cemetery: From Hallowed to Hollowed Ground
Revolution in the Reels: Filming Japan’s Interwar Struggle
Reviving James Baldwin and Repeopling the Civil Rights Movement: Raoul Peck’s ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
The Secret Scribes of Modernist Lives
‘A Poetic Processing of New Media Phenomena’: A Look at the 20th-Century German Avant-Gardes
Progress and Pitfalls in Bolivia’s Natural Gas Bonanza
Live from the Pampas! Nationalism and Narrative at the Creole Circus
Seasons in the City: Tracing the Pace of 19th-Century China
What Makes a Democrat? Staging Political Transformation in 1950s West German Film
‘Race’ Gives History the Runaround
Melancholy and the Musician: An Ethnographic Study of Classical Turkish Performers
The Cunning of Brahmanism: Invisibility Has Its Privileges
Meet the Nuns of the 17th-Century Spanish New World (Or, Dark Drama in the Nunnery)
Organic Origin Story: Tracing the History of “Natural” Eating
Mexico, Cosmopolitanism and World Literature
More than the Monster: Holocaust Perpetrators in Literature and Film
Rumormongering and Seditious Talk: “Unofficial Voices” Retell Chinese Cold War History