Department of Music Lecture: Steve Lamos, Associate Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and English Department at UC Boulder
Co-sponsored event with Emo Con 2026
Past Events
Zine Your Research - Part 2
A two-part workshop for humanities graduate students
Olin Library, Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, Mendle Classroom (main floor)
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Black Feminist Prosecutions: Linguistic Violence and Grammatical Justice
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
Research Presentation Workshop
All undergraduate researchers welcome!
Rudolph 102
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lea Jacobs "Ford at Work: Making Young Mr. Lincoln"
Seigle Room 106
Performing Community: A Roundtable on the Transformational Potential of Theatre
Join the Department of Anthropology's Experiential Ethnography Studio (EES) and the Performing Arts Department for a roundtable discussion on performance in community with a dynamic panel of scholars!
Light refreshments to follow.
McMillan Hall Cafe
Harvey Scholars Information Session
Are you an AMCS rising senior interested in receiving funding for independent research?
Do you want to make academic scholarship accessible and approachable beyond the university?
McMillan 140
Loud Enough - Surviving Justice Screening
Tagore’s Concept of World Literature: A Comparatist Genealogy
Workshop with Bhavya Tiwari, Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
Christina Carney - Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego
The Task of a Comparatist
Lecture by Bhavya Tiwari, Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
National Public Health Week 2026
Celebrate National Public Health Week with the Public Health & Society Student Ambassadors!
locations vary
Zine Your Research - Part 1
A two-part workshop for humanities graduate students
Olin Library, Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, Mendle Classroom (main floor)
The Changing Hats of Teaching: How AI Can Support a Very Complicated Job
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at WUSTL presents
Eads 103
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Legislative Vetoes as Political Theater in Late Roman Republican Lawmaking
Seigle Hall 103
Ocean Vuong
Roundtable: Queering Reproductive Justice
McMillan Hall, McMillan Café
Workshop on Grant Writing Essentials for Humanities Graduate Students
Join us for an interactive workshop with Betty Lai, author of “The Grant Writing Guide,” and learn how to find the right funders and craft compelling, competitive grant proposals that effectively pitch your research.
Danforth University Center, Room 233
From Gaza to Haiti: A Psychologist on the Frontlines with Médecins Sans Frontières
Doctors without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières) coming to WashU!
Nicholas Tessier is a clinical and forensic psychologist who has spent over seven years on the frontlines of the world's most severe humanitarian crises with Médecins Sans Frontières
Seigle Hall 109 | Seigle Hall
Colloquium Series: Writing a Counter Narrative for Modern Korea: Borders, Borderlands, and Diasporas
Alyssa Park is a historian of modern Korea. Her research interests include borderlands, transnational migration, and empire in East Asia, including Russia.
Hurst Lounge (located within Duncker Hall)
The Transatlantic Forum Presents: Workshop - "Realist Vision: Drawing as Ethnographic Method"
Join the Transatlantic Forum and Edward Lowe for this engaging workshop at Kemper Art Museum!
Please RSVP through link in event description.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | Barbizon Artists Room
Global Pathways: A&S Grad International Alumni Panel
Via Zoom
"Sade’s legacies in the 20th century: The Marquis, feminism, and comics"
Whitaker Hall 218
Annual Stanley Spector Lecture: Democratizing Railroads and the Cultivation of a New Postwar Japan
Jessamyn R. Abel, Professor of Asian Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University
Busch Hall room 100
Health as Performance: Hygienic Theater in Interwar Germany
Featuring Corinna Treitel: William Eliot Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Umrath 140
Transduction Workshop: From Graphics to Poetry
McMillan Hall | Room 150
A Fireside Chat with Mary Bruce, AB '05, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News
A Fireside Chat with Mary Bruce, AB '05 Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News (moderated by Peter Kastor, Samuel K. Eddy Distinguished Professor and Associate Vice Dean of Research)
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
2026 African Film Festival
Join us for the 20th Annual African Film Festival at Washington University, a weekend celebrating powerful storytelling and contemporary cinema from across the African continent. All screenings are free and open to the public.
Brown Hall, 100 | Washington University Danforth Campus
Symposium Poster Design Workshop
Simon 017
Fanny and Adolfo Rizzo Endowed Lecture Series
EADS 216
Who's Afraid of Imprecise Sexes?
Marina DiMarco, WashU
Zoom
Lecture: Understanding Greek and Roman Manumission
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Holmes Lounge | Between Eads and Ridgley Halls on the Danforth Campus. The main entrance to the lobby overlooks Brookings Quadrangle.
Seminar: Reconstructing Monuments with the Help of Inscriptions
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Danforth University Center (DUC) 276
WashU & Slavery Edit-a-Thon!
The St. Louis Integrated Database of Enslavement (SLIDE) team is developing an interactive map of slavery in greater St. Louis. You can help by participating in our edit-a-thon event. No experience required, free pizza and snacks for participants!
Olin Library, Instruction Rm. 2 (Level A)
Herodotus and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in the Nineteenth Century
Colloquium with Suzanne Marchand
Busch 18 (Lower level of Busch Hall)
Ancient Worlds: A Conversation with Leading Historians
Roger Bagnall, WashU
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia and the 2026 Biggs Family Resident in Classics
Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University
Michael Scott, University of Warwick
Goldberg Formal Lounge | 2nd floor of the Danforth University Center
Ancient Historian Panel
Roger Bagnall, WashU
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia
Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University
Michael Scott, University of Warwick
Goldberg Formal Lounge | 2nd floor of the Danforth University
Colloquium: Manumission in Hellenistic Greece
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Umrath Lounge
‘Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation’ Screening and Talk with Brent Hayes Edwards
Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
2026 Biggs Family Residency in Classics
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Check each event for location.
Department of Music Lecture: Naomi André, Professor of Music at UNC Chapel Hill
Co-sponsor: CRE2
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Domination and Dehumanization
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
Sin Fronteras: Mapping and Writing on Labor, Immigration, and Revolution in Southern California
Global Studies Speaker Series Presents Dr. Kevan Aguilar
Seigle 109
CCHP: Assessing the War in Iran
Krister Knapp presents a lecture on Iran: Assessing the War in Iran
Busch 100 | Busch Hall
Book Talk with Karma Frierson: Local Color and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico
Join the African & African American Studies Department for a book talk with Dr. Karma Frierson exploring Blackness, cultural expression, and Afro-Caribbean heritage in Veracruz, Mexico.
McMillan Cafe
McKenzie Wark - The Cis Gaze and Its Others
Baldwin-Buckley Debate at Cambridge Union, 1965
This event is sponsored/ cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, the James Baldwin Review, the Department of African and African American Studies, the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, the Center for the Humanities, and the WashU School of Law.
Belonging in Opera is presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Washington University’s Department of Music.
Seigle Hall, Room 208 | Washington University, Danforth Campus
Safe Harbor: Black Women and the Art of Friendship
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 7
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Medicine & Society Keynote Address: Dr. Tanya Luhrmann
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Healthcare for Everyone
Seigle Hall L003
Humanities Career Spotlight on Grant Writing and Research Development
Virtual - Register for link
International Humanities Prize nomination deadline
Colonial Incarceration and its Legacies in the Philippines
Join us for a fascinating lecture by Prof. Aurélie Vialette (Yale U) on the disciplinary function of the Spanish Empire's colonial gaze.
Hurst Lounge
Colloquium - Audience Participation as Archetype
Featuring E. B. (Elizabeth) Hunter: Assistant Professor in Drama, Director of the Fabula(b) Theatre + New Media Lab, and co-lead of the Immersive Technology Collective at Washington University in St. Louis.
Umrath 140
St. Louis Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Vivian Feldblyum (Auburn University)
McDonnell 212
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
The 1776–1789 Connection: Transatlantic Revolutions and the Birth of Human Rights
Prof. Iver Bernstein, along with several other esteemed scholars, will host an exceptional afternoon of programming in the presence of His Excellency Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the U.S. & a delegation from the Consolat de France in Chicago.
Sumers Welcome Center (reception will be in Clark-Fox Forum)
The 1776–1789 Connection: Transatlantic Revolutions and the Birth of Human Rights
Lecture at 4:00 PM, Reception to Follow at 5:30 PM
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Mark Minett "Origins/Stories/Conventions: Towards a Poetics of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Superhero Genre”
(co-sponsorship with Department of English)
Seigle Room 106
Building Bridges Speakers' Series - Tenimbè Ouattara
Ampersand’s Safe Asylum Politics and Pathways Program (SAPP) Building Bridges Speakers' Series invites you to a Talk by Tenimbè Ouattara, "Coach T"
Simon 20 (Basement)
A Difficult Language: Aymara Media, Linguistic Labor, and Urban Indigeneity in Bolivia
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
The Reproductive Justice Graduate Student Working Group hosts a panel discussion about third-trimester abortion, the national landscape for abortion care, and local abortion advocacy.
Book Talk with Gabriela Wiener: Reading Beyond Desire and Revolution
Join the Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Latin American Literature Reading Group in an open discussion of "Atusparia" (2024), Gabriela Wiener's most recent novel, with the author herself.
Umrath 201 | Zoom | R.S.V.P for Zoom link
Tyson History Project Roundtable
Environmental Research and Creativity Week, Center for the Environment
Danforth University Center Room 276
Pelagie X
Join us for a screening of PELAGIE X, a new short film by two-time Academy Award winning Breakwater Studios
Umrath Lounge
Department of Music Lecture: Varun Chandrasekhar & Bryce Noe
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Spring internal grants deadline
Deadline for the spring funding cycle
ICUR abstract planning
Virtual - https://wustl.zoom.us/j/3729357007
2026 Grigsby Lecture Series Presents: Turks, Ottomans, and World Conquest in the Medieval French Imagination
Markus Cruse
Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures
Arizona State University
Umrath Lounge
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 6
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Critical Perspectives on Minneapolis and the Current Moment
Join the African & African American Studies and American Culture Studies departments for Critical Perspectives on Minneapolis and the Current Moment, a timely conversation featuring WashU scholars and community voices exploring race, justice, and the social conditions shaping our present.
Food will be provided.
Wilson Hall, Room 214 | Washington University Danforth Campus
2026 Rava Lecture Series Presents: Patrick Bringley
February 16th, 2026
Umrath Lounge
Reception 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Lecture 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Umrath Lounge; Umrath Hall
Department of Music Lecture: Mvstermind, Damon Davis, and Blvck Spvde
Mvstermind, Damon Davis, and Blvck Spvde - St Louis-based hip hop artists
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Crafting Your Humanities Resume
Virtual
The Transatlantic Forum Presents: Dr. Perig Pitrou
Danforth University Center (DUC) | Room 276
Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship information session
Calling all sophomores interested in pursuing a humanities research project! You might be a great fit for the Kling Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Drop in at this information session and chat with current Kling Fellows and faculty to learn more about this opportunity.
Seigle Hall, Room 103
The Transatlantic Forum Presents: Roundtable on the Book "A Matter of Detail": Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics
McMillan Hall, G052
Department of Music Lecture: Walter Parks, guitarist, composer, storyteller based in St Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Revisiting Enclaves of Resistance
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
The Black Rep Show: The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body
Stay after the show for a post-performance conversation with playwright Lisa B. Thompson and WashU Law Professor Adrienne Davis as they reflect on The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a vibrant and affirming work that celebrates Black women, community, and survival.
Purchase Tickets Below!
A.E Hotchner Studio Theatre, Washington University
Panel Discussion: The Political Economy of Translation
A panel discussion with acclaimed translators Ena Selimović, AJ Javaheri, and Mona Kareem.
Hurst Lounge
Livestream Gathering: Judith Butler Lecture
Women's Building Formal Lounge
A Counter-Imaginary to Authoritarian Power: Gender, Passion and other Psychosocial Formations
Featuring keynote speaker philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and author, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” - Faculty Book Celebration
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
Humanities Undergrad Mixer
Looking for your people? Whether you're into languages, literature, history, music, art, film, philosophy or just figuring out why humans are the way we are — this is your chance to find community with fellow humanities students.
DUC Fun Room
2026 Morrell Lecture in Asian Religions: Conflict over the Identity and Future of Korean Buddhism: The Buddhist Purification Movement, 1954–1970
Richard D. McBride II
Brigham Young University
Umrath Lounge
Artist Talk: Ballaké Sissoko, kora
in conversation with Patrick Burke and El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Judith Butler Reading Group
One-time discussion of “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” by Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Judith Butler
Danforth University Center, Room 234
ONLINE ONLY- The Resilience & Recovery of Former Child Soldiers
NOTE: Due to inclement weather, this event will be ONLY ONLINE. This event explores the long-term impact of war on child development, the ethics of cross-cultural trauma research, and how evidence-based interventions can support recovery in the most challenging circumstances.
Virtual
CCHP: Trump, Venezuela, and the Return of the Monroe Doctrine
Krister Knapp presents a lecture on Trump and Venezuela: Trump, Venezuela, and the Return of the Monroe Doctrine
Hurst Lounge (Located on the second floor of Duncker Hall) | Danforth Campus
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Patrick Keating “Postwar Cinematography and the Idea of Italian Neorealism”
Seigle Room 306
Refusing Sustainability - Race, Health, and Environmentalism
A conversation with Dr. Elana Resnick (UC Santa Barbara) about her new book Refusing Sustainability, the connection between racialized labor and waste in Eastern Europe, and the future of environmentalism and health.
McMillan Hall, Room G052
Refusing Sustainability - Race, Health, and Environmentalism
Anthropology Colloquium Series - Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Roundtable on Tyson’s Military History
Research from the Tyson Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Umrath Hall, Room 201
Faculty works in progress survey
Fill out the interest survey by Monday, January 5 to join
Stop, Drop (In), and Write Fall Mini-Conference
This event is accessible to Arts & Sciences Graduate Students only.
DUC 276 | Danforth University Center
mosAIcs & brAIns : the computational aesthetics of mosaic art
The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures at Washington University in St. Louis invites you to join an exciting lineup of leaders in the field to address the synergy between art, aesthetics, and AI when applied to contemporary mosaic art. The symposium's objective is to encourage the fusion of (i) contemporary mosaic art, (ii) established computational aesthetics paradigms, and (iii) novel opportunities arising from computational creativity. We invite participants to envision links between their present research and one or more of the three listed scholarly directions.
Holmes Lounge
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Resistance at the Crossroads: Heracles in German Postwar Literature
André Fischer, WashU
Seigle 301
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 4
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Restricted Reading: What Book Bans Mean for Health and Justice
Research from the Banned Books Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Danforth University Center, Room 239
AFAS 5500: Global Black Studies: Approaches, Theories, and Methods - A Student Symposium
CRE2 Conference Room/ Seigle 302
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Captain Abu Raed
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Busch Hall, Room 100
From Variable Stars to Dark Matter – The Expanding Legacy of Henrietta Leavitt
The WashU Departments of Physics & Performing Arts have partnered for a colloquium celebrating the life and contributions of Henrietta Leavitt in honor of the upcoming PAD production of 'Silent Sky' - a play focused on Leavitt's life and discoveries.
Seigle 206
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Eliminating the Engines of Gender
Ophelia Vedder (Political Science, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
International Writers Series: Dabin Jeong and Safa Khatib in Conversation
Entitled to write: Identity and Poetic Authority in the Titles of Early Roman Epic
Emilia Barbiero, New York University
Seigle 301
Peer Research Writing Group (4 of 4)
Eads 203
People1st: Civil Society Call to Release Civilian Prisoners Related to the War in Ukraine
Global Studies Speaker Series
Women's Building Formal Lounge
The Fire of Life: Energy, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and Other Animals
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Fall 2025
McMillan Hall, G052
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: The Erotic Interest in Privacy
Brenda Dvoskin (Law, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Imaginative Fieldnotes: A Strictly No-Writing-Allowed Workshop
St. Louis ArtWorks
Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
The James Baldwin Lecture - Achieving Our Country: Baldwin and U.S. Politics Today
Save the Date!
Emerson Auditorium | Washington University
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Annie Sullivan "Broadcasting Resistance: A History of Black Media Activism and Civic Life in 1960s Detroit”
(co-sponsorship with Department of Sociology)
Seigle Room 106
Peer Research Writing Group (3 of 4)
Eads 203
Autogestion in Motion: University Insurgents, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Fall 2025
McMillan Hall, G052
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 3
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Engaged City Community Fellows Introduction
Meet the Engaged City Fellows!
Olin Library, Room 142
‘Unimaginable Atrocities’: The Neglected Catastrophe in Sudan and the History of Genocide in the Region
Scott Straus, Professor and Chair, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley — Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Umrath Lounge
POSTPONED: Humanities Career Spotlight: Panel on High School and Intermediate Teaching
Featuring three WashU alumni from Anthropology, History and Romance Languages & Literatures/Comparative Literature
Virtual - Register for link
A House Divided: Translation, National Identity, and the Rise of Pluricentric Korean
Daniel Pieper, Korea Foundation Lecturer in Korean Studies and Director of Korean Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
Seigle 106
Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Craft Lecture
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Measuring Belief Polarization
Esther Ng (Philosophy, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Civil Society Brunch: Sex, Gender, and Sports
Zack Bowersox (Political Science), Marina DiMarco (Philosophy), Ophelia Vedder (Political Science), and Lucy Vollbrecht (Philosophy)
Knight Center Room 220
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Explore 300+ faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects
Frick Forum (1st floor) and other locations in Bauer/Knight Halls
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Censoring Education and Policing Minds – A Global Trend
Eve Darian-Smith is Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Global and International Studies; and affiliated faculty in the Law School, Department of Anthropology and Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine and author of “Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters.” — James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education
Women's Building Formal Lounge
A&S Grad Fall Research Roundtable
This event is accessible to Arts & Sciences Graduate Students only.
McLeod Conference Room | Cupples II Room 102
A Conversation on Religion and the Environment: Academia, Community, Activism
The planetary ecological crisis impacts every dimension of human life, not least the religious and spiritual. This event will feature flash-talks and panel discussion from six speakers whose academic research, environmental activism, and faith-based community building are informed in distinct ways by concern for life on our planet. Their backgrounds span the humanities and STEM, and blend community leadership inside and outside academia. This event seeks to speak across disciplines, and to build bridges between the university community and the broader public. All are welcome; food and drinks provided!
Ann W. Olin Women's Building Formal Lounge | Standing reception to follow
Peer Research Writing Group (2 of 4)
Lopata House 21
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One: Wadjda
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Busch Hall, Room 100
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Detention and the Limits of Vision in David Taylor’s COMPLEX
Ila Sheren (Art History and Archaeology, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Weaving “Brocades”: Rules, Textuality, and Games of Reading
The Global Studies Colloquium presents Jiayi Chen
McMillan 259
Critical Race Theory at the Bottom of the Well: Derrick Bell’s ‘Grandchildren’ Reflect on the Future of CRT
Join us for a roundtable with Adrienne Davis, Robert Chang, and Anthony Farley as they reflect on Derrick Bell’s legacy and the future of Critical Race Theory.
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (A-B Hall, Room 310)
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Peer Research Writing Group (1 of 4)
Eads 203
WashU Sociology's Fall 2025 Colloquium Series: Youngjoo Cha
The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.
Seigle Hall, Room 304
Workshop - Serious on All Sides: Working on a Creative-Critical Continuum
The English Department is hosting visiting Hurst Professor Rosamond S. King the week of October 27-31. Her schedule includes two public events, which all are welcome to attend. Please feel free to publicize or circulate this information as widely as you wish.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in The Bahamas
Join the African and African American Studies and Anthropology departments for a talk led by Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky. A light reception will follow the event.
McMillan Hall G052
The Stern Family Lecture - Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Reading and Conversation with Award-Winning Israeli Author, Ayelet Tsabari
Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a family of Yemeni descent and has lived and worked extensively abroad. She is the author of The Best Place on Earth (winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award) and The Art of Leaving (winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Memoir). Her writing has appeared internationally and has been translated into multiple languages.
Umrath Lounge
Hurst Lecture - Good Uses for ‘Bad’ Literature: Genre and Criticism in Context
The English Department is hosting visiting Hurst Professor Rosamond S. King the week of October 27-31. Her schedule includes two public events, which all are welcome to attend.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
CANCELLED- Visiting Writer Mary Ruefle Reading from Essays and Poetry
Due to unforeseen circumstances the event had to be canceled.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: The Ethics of Political Representation
Alex Guerrero (Philosophy, Rutgers)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Civil Society Brunch: Democracy without Elections?
Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University)
Knight Center Room 200
Fall internal grants deadline
Deadline for the fall funding cycle
CANCELLED-Visiting Writer Mary Ruefle Recitation of Letters
Due to unforeseen circumstances the event had to be canceled.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Juana María Rodríguez: Representing Puta Life
McMillan Hall, McMillan Cafe
Humanities Career Spotlight: Dr. Kenly Brown, Spencer Foundation
Zoom - register for link
A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Elizabeth Hinton (Yale University) will host a reading and discussion with #1 New York Times bestselling author of “Between the World and Me” and “The Message,” Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Graham Chapel
Philip Leventhal Event: Publishing with a University Press
Philip Leventhal is executive editor at Columbia University Press. He acquires books in film and media studies, literary studies, and journalism studies.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Book Talk with Elizabeth Hinton
Douglas Flowe (WashU History) discusses the recent book America on Fire with the author.
Umrath Lounge
Book Launch - Edward McPherson - "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View"
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 6:00pm
Edward McPherson - Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
Presented by Left Bank Books & the Left Bank Books Foundation
Join us to help celebrate St. Louis author Edward McPherson for the launch of his newest highly celebrated book Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View. Blending history, reporting, personal experience, and accounts of activists, programmers, spies, astronauts, artists, inventors, and dreamers, Edward McPherson reveals that to see is to control--and the stakes are high for everyone.
Left Bank Books, 399 N Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63108
Reparation for Survivors of Conflict Related Sexual Violence: Is it possible? How? Experiences working in Ukraine, Colombia, and Syria
A Conversation with Cristian Correa
Seigle 204
Zine Workshop
Join the Department of Anthropology's Experiential Ethnography Studio (EES) for a Zine Workshop. All are welcome!
McMillan Cafe
Arts & Public Life - Engagement as a Form of Knowledge - Urban Humanities (Un)Conference
Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity, University of Chicago; Director, Arts + Public Life
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
Poster Gallery & Exhibition Talk - Urban Humanities (Un)Conference
Steinberg Hall Gallery
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells on the Deformation of American Conscience
Amy Gais (Political Science, Comparative Literature and Thought, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Global Black Studies Graduate Certificate Launch
Join us in celebrating the launch of the Global Black Studies Graduate Certificate, an exciting new interdisciplinary program that highlights critical inquiries into the global dimensions of Black experiences, politics, and cultural expressions.
Washington University Danforth Campus | Seigle Hall, Room 109
Should Everyone Be Religious? A Discussion with Ross Douthat and Philip Zuckerman
Mark Oppenheimer will moderate a discussion between Douthat and Zuckerman on the ideas in Douthat’s latest book, “Believe.”
Knight Hall, Emerson Auditorium
Visiting Hurst Professor Kim Fu Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lisa Mumme “‘Art Thou a Witch or a Woman?’: Gender, Queerness, Sound, and Music in Witch Films "
(co-sponsorship with Department of Music)
Seigle Room 106
Lightning Talks - Urban Humanities (Un)Conference
Lightning-fast talks about innovative projects in the urban humanities
.ZACK, 3224 Locust St., St. Louis, MO 63103
Street Foods of India
Heena Chopra is head chef and owner of Maaji's Street Kitchen
Hurst Lounge | Duncker Hall
Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows Colloquium
Danforth University Center, Room 234
Visiting Hurst Professor Kim Fu Craft Lecture
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
The Environmental Archaeology of Water: Reconstructing Early Human Occupation of Coastal Landscapes
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Fall 2025
McMillan Hall, G052
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 2
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Fall 2025 Major-Minor Fair
Each fall, the College holds a Major-Minor Fair, where students can talk to faculty members and get more information on many majors and minors at one time and in one place.
WashU Athletic Complex
George E. Mylonas Lecture in Greek Archaeology : Pilgrimage, Prayers, and Picnics at a Greek Mountaintop Shrine: Art and Mysteries at the Birthplace of Zeus
Mary Voyatzis, University of Arizona
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: The Black Feminist Origins of Modern Medicine in the Americas
Sophia Monegro (Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Visiting Writer Aaron Coleman Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Environmental Studies Knight Distinguished Lecture
Karen C. Seto
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization
Faculty Director, Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability, Co-Director, Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions, Affiliated faculty, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of the Environment
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations
Umrath Lounge | Danforth Campus
Colloquium with Suman Seth
Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire
Hurst Lounge (located within Duncker Hall)
WashU Sociology's Fall 2025 Colloquium Series: Marisa Omori
The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.
Seigle Hall, Room 304
Anna Kornbluh - Good Enough Art: A Few Theses on Middling Mediations
Anna Kornbluh is Professor and Associate Head of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Americanist Dinner Forum "Doc Du Jour" with Brooke Eastman
"Document Du Jour" Dinner Forum is an opportunity for an AMCS graduate student to present an intriguing or puzzling document or artifact from their dissertation research - one that will be of wide interest to Americanists across disciplinary lines - and to puzzle through it with colleagues.
DUC-234
Chryseis, Philoctetes, and the Making of the Homeric Iliad
Gregorgy Nagy, Harvard University
Seigle 301 or Zoom
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Collective Distraction
Ege Yumuşak (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Humanities Faculty Happy Hour
For humanities faculty and postdocs
Orchid Room + Courtyard, Danforth University Center
Demystifying the Academic Cover Letter
Victoria Reyes, Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
Virtual
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Zoning and Segregation in St. Louis
Kiara Wyndham (Sociology, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Introducing: Hannah Arendt
“Introducing: Hannah Arendt” is part of a new series of workshops meant to help graduate students, postdocs and faculty explore ideas and approaches.
Seigle Hall, Room 205
WashU Sociology's Fall 2025 Colloquium Series: Colin Gordon
The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.
Seigle Hall, Room 109
Sophomore Series: Engaging in Undergraduate Research at WashU
The College of Arts & Sciences announces the return of its workshop series geared for sophomore students.
Louderman 458
Sports & Society Reading Group: Courtney Cox talks "Double Crossover"!
ZOOM
Katherine Fama - Craft as Research Method: Critical-Creative Practice in the Workshop and Classroom
Katherine Fama is a faculty member in English, Drama, Film and Creative Writing at University College Dublin.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
The First Amendment Today: Challenges and Opportunities
Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Room 310
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Alfred Martin “Ease on Down the Road?: Engaging the Serious Study of The Wiz as a Scholar and a Fan”
(co-sponsorship with Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Department of African & African American Studies, and American Culture Studies)
Seigle Room 106
Assembly Series: Fireside Chat with the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
WashU Athletic Complex, Field House
St. Louis Reads Dante
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
St. Louis Reads Dante
Olin Library
Broadening Horizons: The Value of Grey Literature and Open Access Resources
Zoom
Reproductive Justice in 2025: Beyond Rights, Beyond Roe
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom
ACLS Fellowship proposal external review deadline
ACLS Fellowship proposal external review for faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
Markus Werning of Bochum
The problem of mnemic justification: How can episodic memories provide genuine (internalist) epistemic justification for factual beliefs?
Wilson 104
Graduate Student Summer Writing Retreat 2025
WashU Graduate Students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to join together in the Center for the Humanities for a 2-week writing retreat.
Center for the Humanities, 2nd floor, Umrath Hall
Adult Summer Reading Keynote Presentation: The Odyssey
University City Public Library Auditorium
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2025
WashU scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to jump-start their summer writing at the Center for the Humanities.
Center for the Humanities, 2nd Floor, Umrath Hall
University-Wide Commencement Ceremony
Francis Olympic Field
Grant-Writing Information Session
Learn more about humanities grants and look ahead to ACLS, NHC, foundation LOIs and other opportunities
Zoom - RSVP
MANGLE: A Study of the Caribbean Diaspora’s Migration and the Destruction of the Caribbean Mangroves Through the Lens of Embodied Research
Global Studies Colloquium
McMillan 259
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Center for the Humanities conference room, Umrath Hall, Room 201
Kaira Jewel Lingo: Mindfulness & Anti-Racism Speaker Series 9th Speaker
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Buddhist teacher who has spent decades weaving mindfulness and meditation with social justice.
Via Zoom – Link Coming Soon
The 2025 Humanist Games
Join us for this year's Humanist Games to celebrate the end of the spring semester!
McMillan Courtyard
We're Making History!
All History faculty, and current or prospective Majors and Minors in History are invited to attend this mixer and meet-and-greet. We will showcase extraordinary student work in History, welcome new members to the History student community, and distribute prizes for outstanding student research and writing at all levels.
Umrath Lounge | Umrath Hall
WGSS Senior Presentations
Seigle Hall 109
Retina Burn 2025
Lighting Technology and Digital Media for the Stage students will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
Edison Theatre
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Center for the Humanities conference room, Umrath Hall, Room 201
AFAS Senior Seminar Showcase
Join the African & African American Studies senior majors as they present their senior capstone projects to the department, friends, and family.
Come learn about the hard work of our seniors and discover the projects they have developed throughout the year.
Seigle 301
Colloquium "Defining the Creole Corridor"
Culture and Identity in Upper Louisiana: Defining the "Creole Corridor"
Holmes Lounge
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Ten'ja
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Busch Hall Room 100
The Political Geography of the Last and Largest Empire of the Long Late Antiquity
Stefan Heidemann is a Professor of Islamic Studies at Universität Hamburg
Weil Hall, Room 10
Culture Through Cooking: The Nisei Kitchen Cookbook
The Food Across Disciplines Initiative presents Robin Hattori and Wendy Roll talking on the Nisei Kitchen Cookbook and all its rich history.
McMillan Cafe
Paul Reitter | Humanities Lecture "Translating and Teaching Capital in the 21st Century".
"Translating and Teaching Capital in the 21st Century".
Umrath Hall - Umrath Lounge
Dr. Yitzchak Jaffe - "The Archaeology of Fragility and Antifragility in Past Social-Environmental Dynamics"
Friday Archaeology Presents:
Dr. Yitzchak Jaffe
Department of Anthropology, University of Haifa
McMillan Hall | G052
Markus Hoffman - Going the Distance: How to Win the Publishing Steeplechase (or at Least Get on the Podium)
Hurst Lounge
Engaging the Local Humanities Colloquium & Workshop
A colloquium by and for STL area graduate students on the public humanities
McMillan Cafe
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Performing Arts Department Alum Brenna Jones (BA '23) will be returning to campus to direct this lighthearted musical with quick remarks and even quicker definitions.
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
A Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Policy Trap? Lessons from Israeli and American Higher Education
Prof. Ayala Hendin is an Israel Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis; Prof. Mona Khoury is the Vice President for Strategy and Diversity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dr. Kia Lilly Caldwell is the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Brown Lounge in Brown Hall
Kim Stanley Robinson on "The Ministry for the Future"
Global Studies Speaker Series welcomes Kim Stanley Robinson for a Lecture and Book Signing
Graham Chapel
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Gaylyn Studlar "Women's Erotic Labor and the Negotiation of Class Identity in 'Pre-Code' Hollywood Stardom, 1924-1934"
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Gaylyn Studlar
Seigle Hall, Room 306
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Center for the Humanities conference room, Umrath Hall, Room 201
Lynn Nottage – Washington University International Humanities Prize
Lecture and reception for playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Sweat” and “Ruined” and winner of the 2025 Washington University International Humanities Prize
Mallinckrodt Center, Edison Theatre + Umrath Lounge
Sex, Love, and Life: A Conversation with Acclaimed Author and Sociologist, Dr. Pepper Schwartz, AB ’67, MA ’69
Join us to hear Dr. Schwartz discuss her research, writing, and expertise in intimacy and sexuality in a conversation with Adia Harvey Wingfield, Assistant Vice Provost, Professor of Sociology, and Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences.
Graham Chapel
TERN Issue Zero Launch
3029 Locust Street
A Wonder to Behold: Jesus’ Miracles and Late Ancient Receptions of the Story of the Woman Taken in Adultery
Jennifer Knust, Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
Umrath Lounge
The Galitzianer: A Story of Belonging and Othering in Jewish New York
Hurst Lounge
Book Presentation & Retirement Celebration: Akiko Tsuchiya
Goldberg Formal Lounge | Danforth University Center
¡Habla!: Embodied Code-Switching and Listening to Our Dances
Featuring Jade Power-Sotomayor, Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego
EADS 016
Department of Music Lecture: "Luminous Striations: Composing with Justly Tuned Unison Canons"
Connor Elias Way, Visiting Lecturer in Electronic Music and Composition, Washington University in St. Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Tyson Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentations
Bauer Hall, rm 230
Comparing the Literatures of the Global South
Workshop led by Waïl S. Hassan, Professor and Head, Department of Comparative & World Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
Banned Books Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentations
Bauer Hall, rm 230
Luster & Sheen: Baroque Materialities
The Brown Lounge at George Warren Brown Hall (2nd floor)
Visiting Hurst Professor - Reading - Melissa Febos
Hurst Lounge
WU Cinema Presents: STOP MAKING SENSE
"When we get Older, and Stop Making Sense..."
Brown 100
Arab Brazil: Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South Comparison
Waïl S. Hassan, Professor and Head, Department of Comparative & World Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hurst Lounge
AI in the Language Classroom: Fostering Equity and Inclusion
Eads 216
The Barbara & Michael Newmark Endowed Sociology Lecture: Dr. Lilliana Mason
You are cordially invited to join the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis for the third presentation of its recently established lecture series. This lectureship honors Barbara and Michael Newmark, alumni and longtime community leaders in St. Louis. The series supports visits to Washington University in St. Louis by scholars whose work engages with the concept of a pluralistic society where diverse religious, racial, and ethnic groups live and work together, and their differences enhance the community.
Goldberg Lounge | Goldberg Lounge is located on the second floor in the Danforth University Center
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Center for the Humanities conference room, Umrath Hall, Room 201