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Don't Be Angry! - A recital featuring Justin Austin
WU Cinema Presents: PARASITE
"You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. "
Between Documentary Prose, Travelogue, and Testimony: Documenting Holocaust and War in Postwar Belarus
Anika Walke, Associate Professor of History; Global Studies; Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University
Book Talk with Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Join the Alpha Omega City-wide Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated on January 21, 2025, as we host Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd for a book talk. This event is also co-sponsored with the Center for the Humanities and WashU’s Department of African & African American Studies! We will also be doing a raffle for a free and signed copy of Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age. There will also be an opportunity for a Q&A with the author. This is a free event, but registration is required since seats are limited!
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Jeffrey Zacks "Dynamics of Comprehension, Memory, and Storytelling"
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Jeffrey Zacks "Dynamics of Comprehension, Memory, and Storytelling"
Reframing the 19th Century: A Gallery Talk in the Kemper Art Museum
Dana Ostrander, Assistant Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Hannah Wier, PhD Student, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Digital Humanities Working Group: Peter Kastor
The Digital Humanities Working Group is pleased to announce the first session of Spring 2025. Prof. Peter Kastor (History and American Culture Studies) will give a presentation titled:
“Words, Blurs, and Postmasters: What data science can (and can’t yet) tell us about the politics of the Founding Fathers”
The session will take place on Friday January 24th from 11-12.30, in the Olin Library, Instruction Room 1 (Level A). The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Lunch will be provided.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP and provide your lunch order here.
Digital Humanities Working Group: Peter Kastor
Jonathan Eburne - Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry
Hester Blum - Polar Erratics: The Arctic and the Humanities
Meet the Makers: An Insider’s Look at OTSL’s New Works Collective
Co-presented by Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Washington University’s CRE2, and Department of Music
Assembly Series: 'Why health? Reimagining what we think about when we think about health'
Dean Galea argues that we must start by celebrating our achievements in health, and move to rethink our foundational values, the costs we are willing to pay for health, the actions that generate our health, the potential and limits of science, and to surface — and face — uncomfortable ideas for health.
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
WU Cinema Presents: RUSHMORE
"The truth is, neither one of us has the slightest idea where this relationship is going. We can't predict the future."
Creative Practice Workshop Info Session
Sports & Society Reading Group: A Discussion with Frank Guridy
The Sports & Society reading group will meet on Friday, January 31st at 3 p.m. CST on Zoom for discussion with returning guest Frank Guridy, the Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
Special screening of “The Cinema Within”
A documentary about the psychology of film editing, with director Chad Freidrichs, director of "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" and "The Experimental City.”
Freidrichs will take a few questions after the showing.
Global Storytelling with NY Times journalist and filmmaker Adam Ellick
A fireside chat with Sandro Galea, Dean of the WashU School of Public Health
Jim English - Lecture
“Literary Ratings from Best to Worst"
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Russian Film Festival
The Art Seen Film and the Klaipeda Drama Theatre present Dimitry Krymov’s Fragment
Extractivism in the Americas
Jim English - Workshop
"Visualizing What Readers Read"
Choreographies of a Life: Mapping Afro - Worlds and Cultures
Oliver will discuss a number of her choreographic works, her methods for creating the teams with whom she creates, their inspirations and the socio cultural aims of her projects overall.
CDI Book Club Presents: A Reading and Q&A with poet Danez Smith
‘Extractivism in the Americas’ opening reception
Intricacies and Intimacies: A Conversation on Black Queer/Trans Sexuality with Matt Richardson and Marlon M. Bailey
Join Us for a Community Conversation About Sexual Health!
The Department of African and African American Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and The Pleasure Circle, invites you to "Intricacies and Intimacies: A Conversation on Black Queer/Trans Sexuality with Matt Richardson."
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.
Humanities@Work Information Session
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Eric Hayot - Comparative Method at the End of Aesthetic History; or, The Possibilities and Limits of Historical Relativism
A lecture by Eric Hayot, Professor of Comparative Literature & Asian Studies at Penn State
Iman Mersal in Conversation with Mona Kareem
Professor Iman Mersal is an Egyptian writer, translator, and literary scholar and a professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Alberta
WU Cinema Presents: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
"You've made me laugh. It's ages since that happened."
Eric Hayot - Structure and Style in Humanities Writing
A workshop by Eric Hoyt, Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Saint Louis’s Indie Publishing Scene
Join us for a panel discussion with five local publishers specializing in poetry, fiction, art, and essays. They will share insights into their work, explore the unconventional methods they use, and discuss the benefits and challenges of operating outside the major commercial publishing hubs. Martin Riker, Director of the Publishing Concentration at WashU, will moderate the conversation, with time for audience questions.
Human Rights, Terrorism, and Anarchism in Spain: Past and Present
Global Studies Speaker Series presents Mark Bray, Assistant Teaching Professor, History Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Robert L. Williams Lecture Series - The Psychology of Struggle and Hope: John Henryism and the Health of Black Americans
Sherman A. James, Ph.D.
Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
In the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One: Hassan wa Morcus
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Faculty Fellow Workshop with Dalen Wakeley-Smith
"Gypsy Madness": American Roma in New York City 1890-1945
Vision: Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Join us for a screening and panel discussion of “Vision.”
Join or Die - Film Screening and Reflection Session
As a part of the broader Civic Action Week programming, WashU Sociology will host a screening of "Join or Die," as well as a series of post-film reflection activities.
The Department of Sociology Presents: Dr. Jenny Van Hook
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Jenny Van Hook. Dr. Jennifer Van Hook is interested in demography, immigrant integration, and health. Her research focuses on the factors that support or impede the integration of immigrants and their children. She also researches the health and well-being of immigrants and their children, unauthorized migration, and the impacts of immigration status.
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: Mariela Noles Cotito
AFAS is honored to bring the Mariela Noles Cotitio to our campus as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Join us for this impactful lecture.
Suing for Freedom in Early St. Louis
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
‘Where to Start?’ A Roundtable Conversation on Public Humanities for Graduate Students
William H. Matheson Lecture | March 6, 2025
The William H. Matheson Lecture will be held Thursday March 6, 2025 at 5 PM. Our guest speaker will be Aron Aji, Ph.D. | Director of Translation Programs, Associate Professor of Instruction at The University of Iowa.
WU Cinema at the Hi-Pointe: Pink Flamingos
Where to Start? A Public Humanities Primer for Graduate Students
Soviet Koreans as Disseminators of Communism in East Asia
Global Studies Colloquium Series and the Eurasian Studies Seminar presents Kim Lacey
The Wolves
Sarah DeLappe's 21st century coming-of-age tale offers a glimpse into the lives of nine teenage teammates on a girls soccer team
Cannibal Capitalism: The View from Trump’s America - 2025 Faculty Book Celebration
Featuring keynote speaker Nancy Fraser, the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and author of “Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It”
Lost Plot Never Foils -A Philosophy Art Expo
Artist Townsend Baird
Colloquium with Karl Appuhn
"Bovine Interventions: Thinking with Animals in Enlightenment Venice"
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Crafting Your Humanities Resume - A Workshop for Graduate Students
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lisa Nakamura "The Queen of MySpace: Tila Tequila and the Asian American Roots of Social Media"
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lisa Nakamura "The Queen of MySpace: Tila Tequila and the Asian American Roots of Social Media"
"Futures in Black Studies," featuring visiting scholar Dr. Peniel E. Joseph
Join us for an intellectually engaging event, "Futures in Black Studies," featuring visiting scholar Dr. Peniel E. Joseph.
This event is co-hosted by the African and African American Studies Department, the Center for the Humanities, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity. Dr. Joseph will present a compelling talk titled:
"The Third Reconstruction: Black Studies and the Search for the Beloved Community in the Twenty-First Century."
Indigenous Perspectives II: Museums, Stewardship, and Native American Art
Please join us on Thursday, February 27th at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Desert Placemaking: The Role of Atmosphere in the Artwork of James Turrell and Rafa Esparza
Celina Osuna, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at El Paso
International Writers Series
Join the International Writers Series for a reading and discussion with 2025 Max Kade Visiting Writer Antje Rávik Strubel.
Strubel is an award-winning German author, and her most recent novel Blaue Frau (Blue Woman) won the German Book Prize in 2021. She will be joined in conversation by Carla Fischer, PhD Student in Germanic Languages & Literatures.
WU Cinema Presents: MALCOLM X
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!"
NEH Fellowship Proposal Development Info Session
NEH Fellowship proposal-development for faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
Performance and Social Theory: Reification and Role in Marx’s Political Economy
Featuring Pannill Camp, Associate Professor of Drama, Performing Arts Department, Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Music Lecture: "Adventures in Functional Space, an Expanded Map of Harmonic Function"
John Bayne, Ph.D. Student in Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis
The MedFrench Advantage: Interning at WashU Med School
IN FRENCH
Doctors Without Borders at WashU Presents: Justine Michel
Oksana Maksymchuk Reading
Join the International Writers Series for an evening of poetry with Oksana Maksymchuk, a bilingual Ukranian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. She will read and discuss her debut English-language poetry collection Still City, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) which reflects on the ongoing invasion of her home country. Lauris Veips, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, will join her in conversation.
Humanitarian Medicine : Working with Doctors Without Borders
Poetry and Conflict: Pádraig Ó Tuama Public Lecture
Poetry is an art that has always concerned itself with the questions of life: what’s growing, what’s not, what’s thriving, what’s not, what’s being stifled, what’s being fed. The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is delighted to host Pádraig Ó Tuama as he explores dynamics of conflict, language, rhyme, description, and resolution for this engaging evening at Washington University in St. Louis.
Artist-Led Bird Walk with Mark Menjívar
Artist Mark Menjívar will lead a guided “bird walk” through the Saint Louis Art Museum in a special discussion about migration and the interconnectedness of the Americas.
Sigma Iota Rho's Cultural Expo
Come celebrate culture with us at SIR’s Cultural Expo on March 5th from 5:30-7 PM at DUC Tisch Commons!
CCHP Speaker Series and Public Forum
Andrew Weiss, VP at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, presents "How the War in Ukraine Ends"
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship - Application Prep Workshop
Socialism as Praxis: 'Second World'-'Third World' Relations and the Evolution of the Socialist Model During the Cold War
Global Studies Speaker Series
Join Our Zoom Lecture: "Towards homosexual consciousness and the birth of the gay movement: Italian Media and the Lavorini case"
The Department of Sociology Presents: Dr. Alyasah Ali Sewell
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Alyasah Ali Sewell. Dr. Sewell is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University, with affiliations in African American Studies and Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Rollins School of Public Health. An expert in racism, medical sociology, social psychology, and research methods, Dr. Sewell’s work explores how systemic racism drives health inequities through policing, segregation, and bioethics. Dr. Sewell's research is widely recognized, cited in over 12 languages across international, national, and state platforms, and featured in over 200 media outlets. They direct cutting-edge data equity initiatives through the Critical Racism Data Lab and The Race and Policing Project and serve as Study Director of the Urvashi Vaid LGBTQ Women’s Survey at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Their research is supported by leading organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Baden-Württemberg Foundation. Dr. Sewell's contributions have been honored with accolades such as Georgia Sociologist of the Year of 2021 and Planned Parenthood’s Dream Keeper of “The Future.” They completed postdoctoral training in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center, earned their Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a minor in Women’s Studies
African & African American Studies Department Faculty Colloquium
The Department of African and African-American Studies (AFAS) invites you to join us for our upcoming Faculty Colloquium, featuring presentations from AFAS faculty members Professor Tomos Evans and Professor Jessica Samuel. This event is an opportunity for the WashU professional community to engage with innovative research and support ongoing scholarly work within our department.
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Building Language-Content Connection with Translation
Young-mee Yu Cho, Rutgers University
WU Cinema Presents: SPEED RACER
"Stop steering and start driving. This ain't no dead piece of metal. A car's a living, breathing thing, and she's alive."
Distinguished Visiting Professor: DR. ANA GALLEGO – CUIÑAS - Universidad de Granada
Technology & Society
Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant Info Session – March 2025
Margot Canaday - Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
2025 MFA Dance Concert: ¿Te puedo contar algo?
This year’s concert, "¿Te puedo contar algo?", celebrates the eighth year of the MFA in Dance final project with choreography by Tess Angelica Losada Miner and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón.
Film Screening: Taylor Mac's "24-Decade History of Popular Music"
Toxic Tropics: Presentation by Jessica Oublié
Francophone Week March 24 - 28, 2025
Celebrated yearly in March, French and Francophone Week (La Semaine de la langue française et de la francophonie) unites francophones worldwide to celebrate the French language and francophone cultures.
2025 Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture: Taylor Mac
"Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method" - Ato Quayson
Colloquium with Carrie Benes
"Imagining the Globe: The Sfera Project Between Merchants, Maps, & Manuscripts"
"Future in Black Studies," featuring visiting scholar Dr. Lisa B. Thompson
Join us for an intellectually engaging event, "Futures in Black Studies," featuring visiting scholar Dr. Lisa B. Thompson. This event is co-hosted by the Department of African and African American Studies, American Culture Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity.
Dr. Thompson will present a compelling talk titled "Art, Scholarship, & Community: Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future of Black Studies," where she will explore the evolving landscape of Black Studies through the lenses of creativity, research, and collective action.
"Decolonizing the Literary Curriculum: Means and Meanings" - Ato Quayson
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
David T. Konig Lecture
Joanne Freeman, Professor of American History and of American Studies at Yale University
Russian Film Festival Presents "The Government Inspector"
Theatre on Film: Yury Butusovs R
WU Cinema Presents: LA CHIMERA
"All he longed for was a fuller life. His heart nourished by a richer source."
19th Annual African Film Festival
Join us for the 19th Annual African Film Festival at Washington University, taking place March 28–30, 2025. This beloved event brings the latest and best in African cinema to the St. Louis region, featuring a curated selection of films that are less than two years old and have been celebrated at international film festivals.
Recultivating Indigenous Sovereignty and Stewardship
Panels are open to the public.
The Three Bodies of Horikoshi Hideshi: Corporeality, Performance, and Medium in Meiji Kabuki
Featuring Jonathan Zwicker: Associate Professor, Agassiz Professor of Japanese and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Italian Opera Night
CCHP Speaker Series and Public Forum
John Pomfret: "U.S. / China Relations in the Time of Trump"
Public Lecture and Reading with María José Navia
Meet and Greet with Daniel Borzutzky
Creative Writing Workshop with María José Navia
Translational Catastrophes / Translating Catastrophe
Roundtable Discussion with María José Navia
Deciphering Globalization: Making and Knowing the World Through Things
Workshop sponsored by the StudioLab, Center for the Humanities, the departments of Anthropology and EALC, and the “Global Qing and Its Legacies” project at Washington University in St. Louis
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
WU Cinema Presents: Dark Waters
Thursday, April 3, 2025 8 PM to 10:15 PM
¡Habla!: Embodied Code-Switching and Listening to Our Dances
Featuring Jade Power-Sotomayor, Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego
Department of Music Lecture: The Architecture of Xenakis’s Persepolis: Sound, Spatiotemporality, and Ontology
Khashayar Shahriyari, Ph.D. Student in Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis
Who Owns the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination
Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and an award-winning author.
WUDance Collective: Transcendence
The annual concert of PAD's resident dance company, Washington University Dance Collective.
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Frank Boers
Cultivating Dynamic Academic Environments: A Blueprint for Collaboration, Innovation and Leadership
A daylong panel discussion series featuring a slate of distinguished visiting academic leaders and on-campus experts
2025 Biggs Family Residency in Classics
Emily Greenwood, James M. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Visiting Hurst Professor - Craft Talk - Melissa Febos
On Thin Ice: Curating Old Master Drawings for Contemporary Audiences
Dr. Stephanie Schrader, Curator of Drawings, Getty Museum
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
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
WU Cinema Presents: STOP MAKING SENSE
"When we get Older, and Stop Making Sense..."
Visiting Hurst Professor - Reading - Melissa Febos
Spring 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Join us!
Luster & Sheen: Baroque Materialities
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
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
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
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
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Kim Stanley Robinson on "The Ministry for the Future"
Global Studies Speaker Series welcomes Kim Stanley Robinson for a Lecture and Book Signing
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lisa Mumme "Art Thou a Witch or a Woman? : Gender, Queerness, Sound and Music in Witch Films"
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lisa Mumme "Art Thou a Witch or a Woman? : Gender, Queerness, Sound and Music in Witch Films"
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 "Women's Erotic Labor and the Negotiation of Class Identity in 'Pre-Code' Hollywood Stardom, 1924-1934"
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Performing Arts Department Alum Brenna Jones ('2023) will be returning to campus to direct this lighthearted musical with quick remarks and even quicker definitions.
Markus Hoffman - Going the Distance: How to Win the Publishing Steeplechase (or at Least Get on the Podium)
Paul Reitter | Humanities Lecture "Translating and Teaching Capital in the 21st Century".
"Translating and Teaching Capital in the 21st Century".
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Ten'ja
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Culture and Identity in Upper Louisiana: Defining the "Creole Corridor"
April 23, 2025 | Washington University in St. Louis
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
WGSS Senior Presentations
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.
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.
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Ancient Philosophy Workshop with Vivian Feldblyum
Vivian Feldblyum, Postdoctoral Fellow, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
University-Wide Commencement Ceremony
George Mylonas Lecture
“Achieving Our Country: Baldwin Beyond His Century”
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