Past Events
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Open to members of the WashU community, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning
The Future of Black Comics Inside and Outside of the Academy
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Rebecca Wanzo, professor and chair of the department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies - 10th Annual Black Comic Book Festival, Schomburg Center
35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Keynote lecture by John Baugh (AFAS, Psychology), “Equality Matters: St. Louisan Contributions in the Quest for Racial Harmony"
Counter/Narratives: (Re)Presenting Race & Ethnicity
An exhibition at Olin Library examining how counter-narratives emerge through contemporary artwork and critical reinterpretations of historic objects.
Cultivating Empathy and Change: Recognizing the Life and Legacy of Henrietta Lacks, Film and Discussion
MLK Week Commemoration 2022, School of Medicine
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
MLK Week Commemoration 2022, School of Medicine
Can I Be An Entrepreneur?
A virtual panel event hosted by the Skandalaris Center
Race and Human Trafficking: How Racial Inequality Impacts Human Trafficking
Shima Rostami, Executive Director, Gateway Human Trafficking
Mythologizing the West: A Conversation about American Identity, National Heroes, and Their Representations
Alexis Carr is a second-year graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. She is pursuing a master’s degree in art history and archaeology.
Transnational Knowledge: A symposium on the production and circulation of scholarship in translation
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Romance Languages & Literatures, Latin American Studies, Film & Media Studies) and Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages & Literatures)
Sociology Colloquium Series: Angela S. García
Enduring Immigrant 'Illegality': Time and the State of Waiting.
Language choices in southern Africa: Ghost of European colonialism or pragmatism?
A Talk By: Dr. Thabo Ditsele, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa
Sports & Society Reading Group: A Discussion with Frank Guridy
EALC Lecture Series | Trans in Relation, Topos in Motion: Narrativity and the Power of Congruency
Howard Chiang, associate professor of history, UC Davis
Stop. Rewind. Replay: Performance, Policing, and dismantling a Use of Force Paradigm
Natalie Alvarez
Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Ryerson University
Is Professionalism a Racist Construct?
Jewel D. Stafford, assistant dean for field education and teaching professor; and Cynthia D. Williams, assistant dean for community partnerships, both with the Brown School at Washington University
Reading by Visiting Hurst Professor francine j. harris
This event will be held via Zoom.
Sociology Colloquium Series: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
The Colloquium Series invites guest faculty to Washington University to give research presentations and meet with members of the University community. In this, the Series aims to provide opportunities to engage with sociologists outside of WashU and their research, and to strengthen inter-institutional scholarly networks.
Colloquium presentations are free of charge and open to all students, staff, and faculty.
Americanist Dinner Forum: Work, After the Future
Li Gui: A Qing Man in the World
Tobie Meyer-Fong, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University
Aaron T. Beck's Chart of Virtues
Rachael Rosner
Kling Fellowship Information Session
John Darnielle (Devil House) in conversation with author and musician G’Ra Asim
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - G’Ra Asim is assistant professor of English at Washington University.
2022 Marcus Artist-in-Residence: Lecture Demonstration with RESILIENCE Dance Company
Featuring Performing Arts Department Alum Emily Haussler (LA '18)
Reading by Visiting Writer Garth Greenwell
This event will be held via Zoom. Registration is required.
Dropping the Head-pan for Better Educational Opportunities: The Case of Girls in Northern Ghana at Risk of Dropping out of School for Child Labor
Alice Boateng, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, University of Ghana; Abdallah Ibrahim, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Ghana
Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture: Lisa Lapinski
Lisa Lapinski, associate professor of art, Rice University
Challenges to Writing a Commentary on the Gospel of Judas
Lance Jenott, Lecturer in Classics and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Gallery Talk: (Un)masking Health
Ivan Bujan, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Craft Lecture by Visiting Hurst Professor francine j. harris
This event will be held via Zoom.
Mindful Movement for Healthy Living
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - David Marchant, professor of the practice, Department of Performing Arts
Book Launch: The Laws of Hammurabi
Please join us for the exciting Zoom book launch of The Laws of Hammurabi: at the Confluence of Royal & Scribal Traditions - with Author, Pamela Barmash and Guest Speaker, Bruce Wells
Art, Museums and the Fear of a Black Planet
Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
Israel Institute Visiting Artist Lecture: Maya Muchawsky Parnas
Maya Muchawsky Parnas, the Israel Institute Visiting Artist and the spring 2022 Wallace Herndon Smith Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Sam Fox School
Career Roundtable: French Studies for STEM
The Career Center and WashU French Alumni present how a double major or minor in French studies is an asset when looking for a career in the sciences, medicine, technology, global health, or even engineering.
Black Girlhood Studies in Conversation with Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright
Nazera Sadiq Wright, associate professor of English and African American and Africana studies, University of Kentucky
RE: Ebony and Jet
Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
Black Anthology 2022: Asifuye Mvua Imemnyeshea
Join us for a screening of the 2022 Black Anthology production (previously pre-recorded). The event will include a pre-show panel and a cast talk-back at the end of the screening.
Podding with Hamlet
Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English, University of Georgia; Co-founder and Co-editor of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
Director, Mobile Digital Editing Lab
Locating Black Racial Science
Ayah Nuriddin, Princeton University - History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) Lecture
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring Colloquium: AIDS and Time: Queering and Decolonizing the Health Crisis
Professor Ivan Bujan is the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Professor Marlon Bailey, Associate Professor Arizona State University will be the faculty respondent.
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
The Spring 2022 MENA film series features "Wadjda" (February 21) and "Tenja" (April 4).
Meet the Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences
Drop in to meet our staff and leadership and learn about our vision for supporting graduate students in Arts & Sciences.
Sharia Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Brinkley Messick
Craft Talk with Visiting Hurst Professor Joni Tevis
This event will be held via Zoom. Register Below.
The Magic in His Hands: Charles Johnson’s Artistic Versatility
Selections from the Charles Johnson Papers
Policymaking through a Racial Equity Lens
Jewel Stafford, assistant dean, Field Education; and Atia Thurman, lecturer, both with the Brown School at Washington University
Virtual Book Club: Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
Book club will begin with a show and tell of Edgar Allan Poe materials followed by a discussion of the book. University Libraries
Dissecting the Past: Doctors, Donors and Assembling a Collection
82nd Historia Medica Lecture - Elisabeth Brander, director, Center for the History of Medicine and the head of the rare books division at Bernard Becker Medical Library
MFA Lecture Series: Robyn O'Neil
Visual artist Robyn O’Neil
Lombardy at the Epicenter of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Spring of 2020
Professor Frank Snowden from Yale University presents a virtual lecture on Lombardy at the Epicenter of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Spring of 2020.
Ideas, Art and Community: My Zine Collection
Nicole Rainey, Director of Development at the ACLU of Missouri
Hesiodic poetry in Plutarch’s biographies
Zoe Stamatopoulou, Associate Professor of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis
Reading by Visiting Hurst Professor Joni Tevis
This event will be held via Zoom. Register below.
Information Session - Medical Humanities Minor
Drop-in information session organized by students in the Medical Humanities minor
The Enslaver Enslaved: The Black Dominator in Creole Louisiana
Andia Augustin-Billy is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. She earned her Ph.D. in French Language and Literatures with a certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Her ongoing research interests and published scholarship include analysis of race, gender, and sexuality in French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean.
Social Movements and Social Change
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Zakiya Luna, Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Department of Sociology
Raising Queens: The Important Role of Racial Socialization in the Lives of Black Girls
Sheretta Barnes, associate professor, Brown School
The Annual Distinguished Jewish Studies Lecture in JIMES
From Skokie to Charlottesville: American Antisemitism in Court -- with Prof. James Loeffler, University of Virginia
Impacts of the Myanmar Coup: Human Rights Violations and Effects on Mental Health
Khin (Jue Jue) Min Thu, social worker, Queen’s Medical Center, Hawaii; and Hnin Thet Hmu Khin, doctoral student, Mahidol University, Thailand
Wednesdays with WashU: A Conversation with CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, AB ’91, MD, MPH
RENT
The Performing Arts Department announces new dates for "RENT"
Spotlight on Women in Medicine and Science
Keynote Speaker: Reshma Jagsi, MD, is the Newman Family Professor and Deputy Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Reflections on Craft: Connecting Creative and Scholarly Practice
Panel discussion featuring Washington University faculty in conversation with Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Charles Johnson
Let Your Talent Be Your Guide
Keynote speaker: Charles Johnson, professor emeritus, University of Washington, author of novels, short stories, screen- and teleplays, and essays - Faculty Book Celebration 2022
Reading by Orla Tinsley
This event will be held via Zoom. Register Below.
Sociology Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Krystale Littlejohn
On Friday, March 4th, 2022, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Krystale Littlejohn at the University of Oregon.
Krystale E. Littlejohn is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (UC Press, 2021). She earned her PhD from Stanford University in 2013 and her BA from Occidental College in 2007. Her work examines race, gender, and reproduction, particularly at the nexus between embodiment and biomedical technologies. Her research has been published in Demography, Gender & Society, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior, among other outlets. She has received funding from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Society of Family Planning Research Fund, and the ASA Minority Fellowship program.
Hurst Talk: The Political Aesthetics of Compromise
Join us for a lecture by Professor Rachel Greenwald Smith.
Department of Music Lecture: “Listening Through the Firewall: A Sonic Narrative of Communication Between Taiwan and China”
Sarah Plovnick, Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley. This alumna feature is in celebration of WUSTL MUSIC’s 75th Anniversary.
World Literature as Process and Relation: East Asia's Russia and Translation
Heekyoung Cho, associate professor, University of Washington
RLL On the Profession Workshops Spring 2022
RLL On the Profession Workshops present two events supporting RLL graduate studies this Spring.
Film Screening + Artist Talk: Dario Robleto
Artist Dario Robleto
Eating While Black
Psyche Williams-Forson, Professor and Chair, American Studies, University of Maryland & Rafia Zafar, Professor of English, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Artist Talk Chitra Ganesh
A Queer Perspective on Successful Aging
Vanessa D. Fabbre, associate professor, Brown School
Indie Filmmaking Masterclass with AFAS Artist-in-Residence, David Kirkman
Americanist Dinner Forum: A Discussion about "The Neutral Ground"
The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta in the 19th Century
Please join us for "The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta in the 19th Century" by Dr. Mou Banerjee
Crisis in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future
The Office of the Provost and Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective, Department of History, invite you to join a thoughtful discussion with a panel of distinguished Washington University faculty members.
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
Footnote (Hearat Shulayim)
2011/107 min.
Directed by Joseph Cedar.
International Writers Series: Anca Roncea
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Doctoral student and translator Anca Roncea in conversation with Mary Jo Bang, poet, translator and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis
EALC Lecture Series | Economies of Compassion and Medicine in Colonial Korea
Sonja M. Kim, associate professor, Binghamton University
Why the Romans Should Care about Roman Law: the Perspective of the Early Empire
Matthijs Wibier, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Kent, UK
St. Louis Women Behind the Camera
Panel Discussion for ‘Behind the Sheet’
Co-Hosts: Ron Himes, Founder and Producing Director, The Black Rep; and Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, Director of Medical Humanities
Sports & Society Reading Group: Athletes and Vaccines
Pan African Capital? Banks, Currencies, and Imperial Power
Hannah Appel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Associate Director, Institute on Inequality + Democracy. She is the author of 2019's The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea (Duke University Press) and co-author of 2020's Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: the case for economic disobedience and debt abolition (Haymarket Press).
Lecture: Brian Floca
Children’s book author and illustrator Brian Floca
Public Tour: Twentieth-Century Abstraction
Ageism: What It Is, How It Hurts and How To Combat It
Nancy Morrow-Howell, the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy, Brown School and director, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging
Behind the Sheet
Season 45 - The Black Rep
Slavery and Discrimination in Education, Voting Rights, and Economic Power
100th anniversary of the Mound City Bar Association
Bound for Beauty
Cassie Brand, Curator of Rare Books
Chinese-Language Tour: Chitra Ganesh
Academic Pastoral
Lisa Powell, Sweet Briar College Director, Center for Human & Howard Sacks, Kenyon College Founder/Director, Rural Life Center
Virtual Book Club: Dr. Mutter’s Marvels
A display of books related to the history of anatomy, pathology, and obstetrics from the Bernard Becker Medical Library’s rare book collections will precede the discussion.
Women and the Recited Qur'an: Scriptural Recitation and Lecture
Ms. Madinah Javed
"The Role of Law and Lawyers in Time of Crises" with Law Professor Brian Tamanaha
Join IPH and Legal Studies for a lecture by Brian Tamanaha, John S. Lehman University Professor of Law. We ask that new Legal Studies Minors attend a short welcome session before the lecture (at 4:00 p.m.) with Professor Frank Lovett.
Israel Institute Visiting Artist Lecture: Maya Muchawsky Parnas
Hindi/Urdu Spring Festival: "Vasant Utsav"
Come and celebrate with us Spring Fest!
On the Profession - How Faculty Do Research
RLL On the Profession Workshops present two events supporting RLL graduate studies this Spring, with the first on March 25th on How Faculty Do Research
Department of Music Lecture: “Musicology Beyond Academia: An Alumni Panel”
This alumni feature is in celebration of WUSTL MUSIC’s 75th Anniversary.
Artist Talk: Nicole Miller
African Film Festival: Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters
The 16th year of the African Film Festival is slated for March 25-27, 2022 at Brown Hall, Room 100 - Washington University.
African Film Festival: Lingui, Liens Sacres/ The Sacred Bonds
The 16th year of the African Film Festival is slated for March 25-27, 2022 at Brown Hall, Room 100 - Washington University.
Slow Looking: ‘…in the waiting, in the weighting…’
African Film Festival: UN FILS/A SON
The 16th year of the African Film Festival is slated for March 25-27, 2022 at Brown Hall, Room 100 - Washington University.
Cheese Covid Coda
Heather Paxson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Zemmour Paradox: understanding France’s Presidential election
Please join us for a fascinating discussion of the French presidential election focused on the unconventional candidacy of Eric Zemmour.
Lecture by Visiting Hurst Professor Anne Cheng
This event will be held via Zoom. Register below.
Building Bridges for Equity and Inclusion: Introducing the St. Louis School Research-Practice Collaborative
An Evening with the Lawrence Fields Trio
A 75th Anniversary Event presented in partnership with Jazz at Holmes
At the Edge of Whiteness: Brown Feeling and the Public Life of Blackness in José Clemente Orozco's U.S.-based Prints
The Latin American Studies Program is pleased to invite you to the following talk: "At the Edge of Whiteness: Brown Feeling and the Public Life of Blackness in José Clemente Orozco’s U.S.-based Prints," by Mary K. Coffey
Sociology Colloquium Series Series Presents: Dr. John Eason
On Thursday, March 31, 2022, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. John Eason from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. John Major Eason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Justice Lab. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He served as a political organizer for then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. His research interest challenges existing models and develops new theories of community, health, race, punishment, and rural/urban processes in several ways. First, by tracing the emergence of the rural ghetto he establishes a new conceptual model of rural neighborhoods. Next, by demonstrating the function of the ghetto in rural communities he extends concentrated disadvantage from urban to rural community process. These relationships are explored through his book, Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation, at the University of Chicago Press. For a more complete biography, a list of his research and publications, complete course descriptions, and information on how to request a letter of recommendation, feel free to visit johneason.com.
(Re)Construction Workshop
Advocacy & Allyship: Supporting Transgender Youth
Transgender Day of Visibility
Joint Book Launch: ‘The New Sex Wars’ and ‘Porn Work’ with Brenda Cossman and Heather Berg
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Heather Berg, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies; and Rebecca Wanzo, chair and professor of women, gender and sexuality studies
Israeli Women's Art Festival Lecture: "Look Closely"
Filmmaker Yael Perlov,
Duke University,
Tel Aviv University
The Lives of Objects: Provenance Research Workshop
Egypt's Arab Spring 10 years after the resolution
Please join us for this Zoom public lecture which will be in Arabic.
Monsters, Cyborgs and Vases: Specters of the Yellow Woman
Anne Anlin Cheng, Professor of English, Princeton University
Israeli Women's Art Festival
Please join us for this all-day event featuring lectures, craft talks, and performances which is funded through a grant from the Israel Institute
AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
Sociology Colloquium Series: Dr. Helen Marrow
On Friday, April 1st, 2022, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Helen Marrow of Tufts University. Helen B. Marrow is a sociologist of immigration, race and ethnicity, social class, health, and inequality and social policy. Her work explores Latin Americans' incorporation trajectories and racial and ethnic identities in the United States and Europe, the impact of immigration on social life and race relations in the rural American South, variation in public bureaucracies' approaches to unauthorized immigration (especially in education, law enforcement, and health care), the relationship between immigrant-host contact, threat, trust, and civic engagement, and Americans' emigration aspirations. As an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, she teaches Introduction to Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods, and various courses on immigration, race/ethnicity, and Latinxs. For a more complete biography, a list of her research and publications, complete course descriptions, and information on how to request a letter of recommendation, feel free to visit helenmarrow.com.
Fox Fridays Lecture: Hope Ginsburg
Hope Ginsburg, Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts
She Was Sure She Was In Hell: Women's War Trauma In/As History
Bridget Keown, PhD, University of Pittsburg
"Now is the right time. Come, come!": Unpacking Gender, Caste, and Humor in Bharatanatyam Performances of Eroticism
Anusha Kedhar, Assistant Professor in Dance, University of California, Riverside
Combating Caste on U.S. College Campuses
A Dalit History Month Speaker Panel
Decolonizing Mindfulness, Mindful Decolonization, and Social Work Futurities
The third talk of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) funded Mindfulness & Anti-Racism series presents the work of Professor Yellow Bird.
Free Film Screening with Discussion: Pushing Hands
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Program in Film and Media Studies, and the WUSTL China Forum present a movie series showcasing works of acclaimed Taiwanese directors and their unique perspectives on Taiwanese culture and identity.
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Roger Bagnall
Living together in tomorrow's world: French secularism beyond borders
International colloquium: Living together in tomorrow's world: French secularism beyond borders- En français (le matin) / and in English (afternoon)
Deconstructing Inclusion: Beyond a Seat at the Table
Lakeya Cherry: Chief Executive Officer, The Network for Social Work Management
Mike Spencer: Presidential Term Professor & Director. Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander & Oceanic Affairs, University of Washington
Dana Toppel: COO, Jewish Family Service of San Diego
Daniel Jacobson López: Assistant Professor of Social Work, Boston University
Claude A. Robinson, Jr.: Executive Vice President, External Affairs and Diversity, UCAN
Superalimentos
Matt Abel, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis & Emma McDonell, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Environmental Justice in St. Louis with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
The Spring 2022 Middle East-North Africa film series features "Wadjda" (February 21) and "Tenja" (April 4).
William C. Jones Memorial Lecture: China's Quest for Leadership: The Story of Universities
William C. Kirby, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University
2021-2022 Weltin Lecture: Signifying on the “Tribe[s] of Interpreters”: “Early Christianity” as Colonialist-Nationalist Masquerade
Dr. Vincent L. Wimbush - Director, Institute for Signifying Scriptures
The ‘Ebbs and Flows of Struggle’: Black Power, Filipinx Cannery Workers, and the formation of the Alaska Cannery Workers Association (ACWA)
Dr. Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda, Assistant Professor, Western Washington University
Craft Talk with Visiting Hurst Professor Brian Evenson
This event will be held via Zoom. Register below.
"Movimiento de Varones Anti-Patriarcales: feminismo, militancia y el #niunamenos"
Prof. Paola Ehrmantraut presents: "Movimiento de Varones Anti-Patriarcales: feminismo, militancia y el #niunamenos"
Start Where You Are: Mapping a Journey Toward Equitable Data Practice
Chilean author Nicolás Poblete Pardo's new novel Subterfugio
Launch of Chilean author Nicolás Poblete Pardo's new novel Subterfugio with an introduction by Prof. Paola Ehrmantraut, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Dept of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at St Thomas University.
College Behind Bars: WashU’s Prison Education Project
Panel discussion
Conspiracy! Evangelicals, Fear, and Nationalism in the 21st Century
A public lecture by Anthea Butler, author of “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America”
Engineering self-reliance: Scientism, economic planning and Juch'e ideology in Cold War North Korea
Benoit Berthelier, lecturer in Korean studies, The University of Sydney
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Presents Professor Susanne Rott
Professor Susanne Rott is our guest for WUSTL's Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series
Estallido social in Chile
An event specifically created for undergraduates on the Estallido social in Chile.
Reading with Visiting Hurst Professor Brian Evenson
This event will be held via Zoom. Register below.
Washington University Dance Collective: REDUX
Breaking Down Buzzwords: ‘Equity’
Panel discussion moderated by Vetta Sanders Thompson, E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion & Equity, Brown School; Co-Director of the Center for Community Health Partnership and Research at the Institute for Public Health Washington University in St. Louis
On the Profession: Planning an MPE
Planning an MPE
Event in Honor of Steve Zwicker
Please mark your calendars for a special event celebrating the work of our colleague Steven Zwicker. On Friday, April 8, Steve will give a talk titled “'The Trouble with Friends and Relatives': John Milton in Collaboration” (abstract below).
Book Discussion: 'Dying of Whiteness'
Physician Jonathan M. Metzl
Disability in Brazil: Experiences, Arts, Activisms
This virtual panel features four presentations by disabled Brazilian scholars, artists, and activists working towards disability visibility and justice.
Brauer Lecture Series: 'The Pursuit of Happiness and True Success'
Arthur C. Brooks, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School.
AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture: Marina Tabassum
Marina Tabassum, Bangladeshi architect, educator, and founder of Marina Tabassum Architects
"Who Owns Women's Rights?: Reflections on The UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)"
AFAS 2022 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Rhoda Reddock will discuss her latest work as a women's right expert for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Eyes on the Prize: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement’s Past and Future
Civil rights activist, filmmaker and educator Judy Richardson
The House and the City
Daniel Blum is a practicing architect and educator based in Switzerland.
#SciComm Seminar: Communicating with Policymakers to Maximize Impact
Karen Joynt Maddox: Associate Professor Washington University School of Medicine Co-Director, Center for Health Economics & Policy
Timothy McBride: Bernard Becker Professor, Brown School at Washington University Co-Director, Center for Health Economics & Policy
CANCELLED: Enslaved Histories: Value, Risk, and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo Gómez, Visiting Fellow, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tale of Two Subsidies: Why the Afghan army did not fight and the Ukrainian army did
Speaker: David K. Levine, Professor of Economics and Joint Chair Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Study, European University Institute, and John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis.
SIR Cultural Expo 2022
Annual expo of cultural groups on campus
Bull in a China Shop
JIMES Languages Calligraphy Workshop
The JIMES Department and Olin Library are co-sponsoring a JIMES Languages Calligraphy Workshop organized by Professor Younasse Tarbouni. The workshop is open to everyone.
Artificial Intelligence For Everyone
Ruopeng An, Associate Professor, Brown School
EALC Lecture Series | Unruly Subjects in Medoruma Shun’s ‘Walking a Street Named Peace’ and Miri Yū’s Tokyo Ueno Station
Davinder L. Bhowmik, associate professor of modern Japanese literature, University of Washington, Seattle
Hurst Talk: Mladen Dolar, What Is a Virus?
An internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic, Professor Dolar will give a talk on April 14 (Hurst Lounge, 4:00) titled “What Is a Virus?” This will be an occasion for us to trace a genealogy of the term virus and reflect on its material and rhetorical uses, including during the COVID pandemic.
Fighting the Muses: Lucan Sings Ovid's Silenced Song of Civil War
Mark Thorne, PhD
An Island Retreat: Sin, Secrecy, and the Offshoring of Sexually Abusive Priests
A public lecture by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Kathryn Davis - ‘Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir’
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Kathryn Davis, Hurst Writer in Residence, in conversation with David Schuman, director of the MFA program, both in the Department of English at Washington University
JIMES Languages Calligraphy Workshop
The JIMES Department and Olin Library are co-sponsoring a JIMES Languages Calligraphy Workshop organized by Professor Younasse Tarbouni.
Sociology Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Filiz Garip
On Friday, April 15th, 2022, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Filiz Garip of Princeton University. Dr. Garip’s research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. Dr. Garip received her Ph.D. in Sociology and M.S.E in Operations Research & Financial Engineering both from Princeton University. She hold a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bosphorus University in Turkey.
Dr. Filiz Garip collaborates with scholars in different fields, including economics, demography and computer science. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Clark Fund, Milton Fund, Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Free Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Program in Film and Media Studies, and the WUSTL China Forum present a movie series showcasing works of acclaimed Taiwanese directors and their unique perspectives on Taiwanese culture and identity
31st Annual Pow Wow
Buder Center for American Indian Studies
Sociology Colloquium Series Series Presents: Dr. Angela Garcia
On Monday, April 18, 2022, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Angela Garcia from the University of Chicago. Dr. Angela S. García is Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She is a scholar of migration, membership, law, and the state, with a focus on undocumented migration and US immigration federalism. García’s award-winning book, Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law (University of California Press), compares the impacts of restrictive and accommodating subnational immigration laws for undocumented Mexican immigrants. Her current work includes a book project on middle-aged undocumented immigrants who simultaneously care for their US households and aging parents in communities of origin, and a collaborative study on urban inclusion through Chicago’s municipal ID programs and its response to COVID-19 for marginalized residents. García earned a PhD in Sociology and a MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego.
Wild Sang
Kate Farley, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Focusing on Equity in the Research Process
Husain Lateef: Assistant Professor, Brown School Washington University in St. Louis
Shanti Parikh: Chair of African and African-American Studies Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and of African and African-American Studies Washington University in St. Louis
Will R. Ross: MD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Alumni Endowed Professor, Division of Nephrology
Associate Dean for Diversity Principal Officer for Community Partnerships Washington University School of Medicine
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
A public lecture by Mark Oppenheimer, journalist and author of “Squirrel Hill”
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Join us for the annual Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will highlight the diverse range of impressive research projects completed by WashU undergraduates, including Senior researchers completing theses, capstones, and other culminating projects.
Sociology Colloquium Series: Filiz Garip
The Colloquium Series invites guest faculty to Washington University to give research presentations and meet with members of the University community. In this, the Series aims to provide opportunities to engage with sociologists outside of WashU and their research, and to strengthen inter-institutional scholarly networks.
Colloquium presentations are free of charge and open to all students, staff, and faculty.
Bound for Beauty: A Book Binding Demonstration
2022 A Black Space Odyssey: A Conversation About Afrofuturism and Its Importance in Film
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War
Alice Baumgartner, assistant professor, Department of History, University of Southern California
Inaugural David T. Konig Lecture: The Jefferson Image in the American Mind in the 21st Century. The changing meaning of Jefferson's legacy in Modern America.
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University
South-Asian Karaoke and Drama!
The JIMES Department is sponsoring a social event and language exhibition organized by Professor Meera Jain. The event is open to everyone.
Geography of Identity in Artistic Creativity
Professor Abdelilah Ennassef, Columbia University
Modern Fast Fashion: From the sweatshop to landfill
SIR Spring 2022 Town Hall
Student Dance Showase: "Sunny Side Up"
Student Run, Student Choreographed, Student Danced!
Reading with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
The Center for the Humanities Reading Group “Comparative Readings of LGBTQ+ Literature in German” (Conveners: Christian Schuetz, Franzi Finkenstein) invites you to join for a discussion of Hengameh’s 2021 debut novel Ministerium der Träume (English: Ministry of Dreams) published by Blumenbar/Aufbau Verlag. Hengameh will be reading the novel’s first chapter in English and some other passages in German, followed by a Q&A and discussion in English. Please note: this is a Zoom event.
Sports & Society Reading Group: Whereas Hoops
Pan African Capital? Banks, Currencies, and Imperial Power
Hannah Appel is associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and associate director at the Institute on Inequality + Democracy. She is the author of 2019's The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea (Duke University Press) and co-author of 2020's Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: the case for economic disobedience and debt abolition (Haymarket Press).
Women in Philosophy Art Show
A Conversation with Angel Blue
Host, Todd Decker
Requiem of Light Memorial Concert and Lantern Lighting
A memorial for the more than 5,000 St. Louisans lost to COVID-19.
“And Here They Are Trampling on the People”: Housing, Urbanization, and Revolution in Cuba
Literature in the Making Reading
This is the highlight of the semester for the International Writers Track in Comparative Literature. The members of this semester’s Literature in the Making class, taught by Professor Matthias Göritz, will share their work, which includes original pieces as well as translations of other authors’ works.
"From the Quarry to the Studio: the Sedimented Histories of Painting on Stone"
Dr. Christopher Nygren, Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2021-2022)
MFA Reading
Virtual Book Club: The Sixteen Pleasures
Faculty Book Talk: Heidi Kolk and Iver Bernstein
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Iver Bernstein (History, AFAS and American Culture Studies)
Rethinking Monuments & Memorials
WashU & Slavery Project director Geoff Ward and planning committee member and Professor of History Peter Kastor will be panelists at the Missouri History Museum's event examining the shifting commemorative landscape in St. Louis. Panelists will discuss examples including the museum's reinterpretation of the Jefferson statue, commemoration of Mill Creek Valley, interventions in Tower Grove Park, and work with EJI to address histories and legacies of lynching. Universities Studying Slavery will be among the initiatives featured at event resource tables, which will help to share and support the array of remembrance efforts underway in greater St. Louis.
Retina Burn
The students of the Lighting Technology class will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
MFA Reading
Conversation with James Merrill scholars Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser
Langdon Hammer, the Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English, Yale University; and Stephen Yenser, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Remembrance of 1836 Lynching of Francis McIntosh
In partnership with Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), the St. Louis Community Remembrance Project will commemorate the 1836 lynching of Francis McIntosh on April 30 in Kiener Plaza.
Medical Humanities Senior Recognition Ceremony and Reception
Freedom | Information | Acts
Studiolab Open House
"Anatomy Lesson" Lecture by Dr. Patrick Baqué
Dr. Patrick Baqué is the Dean of the Medical School in Nice, France.
Anatomy Lesson by Professor Patrick Baqué: Chief Surgeon and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Nice (France)
Anatomy Lesson by Professor Patrick Baqué
Senior Honors Thesis Symposium
We will be talking about law and land, conspiracies and bureaucracies, new archives and old wounds. The complete schedule is provided below - attendees are welcome to come for all or part of the symposium. It's a chance to celebrate our thesis writers, discuss their research, and think about questions small and large.
History Department Senior Honors Thesis Symposium
Please join the History Department as they showcase the work of their 2022 Senior Honors students.
Event in honor of Vivian Pollak
We would like to invite you to an event celebrating the work of our colleague Vivian Pollak on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm. This is an occasion to honor Vivian’s contributions to the study of nineteenth-century American literature, the English Department, and the University.
ScreenDance Film Festival
Now Available to Stream until August 7!
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2022
WashU scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to jump-start their summer writing.
Virtual Book Club: The Pull of the Stars
A presentation of historical medical texts from the Becker Medical Library will precede the discussion.
Wednesday with WashU: A Conversation with Ann Brashares
Join Danielle Dutton, associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences, on Wednesday, May 25 for a livestreamed interview with Ann Brashares, WashU parent and New York Times Bestselling author.
Counter/Narratives: ‘More Than One Thing’
Screening of the short film ‘More Than One Thing’ followed by a brief discussion
Mark S. Weil Memorial Service
Epistemic Norms as Social Norms
Workshop with Laura Frances Callahan, Peter Graham, Daniel Star, Deborah Tollefsen, Manuel Vargas, and Natalia Washington.
Juneteenth Pop-Up Display
In commemoration of Juneteenth, a pop-up display organized around the practices of storytelling and remembrance.
Counter/Narratives of Independence: Celebrating Juneteenth
A Memorial, Celebrating the life of Carter Revard (Date & Location Updated)
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: Documentary Shorts
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022
Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: Thriller Shorts
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022
Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: Hungry Dog Blues
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022
Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: All Gone Wrong
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022 Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: Winemaking in Missouri: A Well-Cultivated History
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022 Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: A New Home
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022 Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: Nightlife
22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase July 15-17 & 22-24, 2022 Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium
What does reproductive health look like post-Dobbs?
Join this discussion around reproductive health, designed to help guide us in the wake of the Dobbs ruling.
Gallery Talk: Works on Paper—New on View
Molly Moog, curatorial assistant, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and research assistant, modern and contemporary art, Saint Louis Art Museum
Divided City Community Grant Info Session 2022
We are now accepting proposals for the third and final round of Divided City Community Grants. Divided City 2022 will offer grants between $5,000 - $20,000 to individuals and organizations in the St. Louis metro area engaged in community work or creative practice related to urban segregation. Members of the St. Louis community can apply without Washington University affiliation.
Drop in session: Local History Open House
Organized by Special Collections, University Libraries; open to all WashU faculty and staff
Proposal-Writing Information Session & Workshop 2022
Information session and workshops for faculty and postdocs seeking external funding - registration by Friday, August 5 appreciated
Neighborhood Branding Project Virtual Q&A
Voting, Misinformation, Disinformation and Manipulation
Shireen Mitchell, founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women, Inc., and Jennifer Slavik Lohman, director of the St. Louis Area Voter Protection Coalition
Sociology Colloquium Series: Dr. G. Cristina Mora
The Colloquium Series invites guest faculty to Washington University to give research presentations and meet with members of the University community. In this, the Series aims to provide opportunities to engage with sociologists outside of WashU and their research, and to strengthen inter-institutional scholarly networks.
Colloquium presentations are free of charge and open to all students, staff, and faculty.
Rethinking Gu Yanwu from a Global Qing Perspective
John Delury, Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University [Seoul]
Vietnam: Race, Violence, and Decolonization in a Mekong Delta at War, 1945-54
Global Studies Speaker Series Presents Professor Shawn McHale
How Disruption Drives Political Change with Clarissa Rile Hayward
Fourth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium
Fifth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: Turning Ghosts into People: Religion and Gender Politics in the Chinese Communist Revolution
Xiaofei Kang, associate professor of religion, The George Washington University
Climate Change and the Arts: a pre-concert talk hosted by Christopher Stark
Unheard-of Ensemble: Fire Ecologies
Harold Blumenfeld Event
Alison Bechdel - Washington University International Humanities Prize
Lecture and reception for cartoonist-memoirist and MacArthur “Genius” Alison Bechdel, author of “Fun Home” and winner of the 2022 Washington University International Humanities Prize