Past Events

The Black Rep production

Joy Sales, Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration, Cultures, and Law (American Culture Studies) - WashU faculty and graduate students welcome.

This interdisciplinary conference explores current and future trends in the First Amendment’s free exercise and establishment clauses. It is cosponsored by Washington University School of Law, the Washington University Law Review, and the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.

New York City pianist Matthew Shipp

Kareem Khubchandani, Professor in the Department of Drama and Dance and the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts University

Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Daphne Brooks with Patrick Burke, associate professor of music; Miguel Valerio, assistant professor of Spanish; and Rhaisa Williams, assistant professor of performing arts, all at Washington University. PLEASE RSVP - lunch provided.

Interdisciplinary panel discussion with Washington University experts on the intersecting challenges of migration, gender and service provision, prompted by a groundbreaking new report by Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

This documentary tells the story of a group of college students who challenged divisive immigration rhetoric.

Airea D. Matthews is assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College and is a founding member of the Philadelphia-based Riven Collective, a multidisciplinary arts collaborative.

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Antonio Fava, international maestro of Commedia dell’Arte performance, presents a lecture-demonstration on the masks of the Commedia dell’Arte.

Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George Rupp Professor at the GSAPP and a professor in the African American and African Diasporic Studies Department at Columbia University

In “Truths and Reckonings,” a Teaching Gallery at Kemper Art Museum, AFAS professor Geoff Ward explores the roles of art works and art spaces in addressing histories of racial violence, their legacies, and the challenge of transformative justice.

Steve Ceccoli (GSAS ’94, ’98), the P.K. Seidman Professor of Political Economy and Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College - IAS x SIR Speaker Series

Barbara Schaal, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of Biology and Dean of of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Washington University; and Susan Scott Parrish, professor in the Department of English and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan.

Catherine A. Bradley is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, and she currently holds a Wigeland teaching and research fellowship at the University of Chicago.

A lecture/demonstration presented by Antonio Fava, international master of Commedia dell’Arte

Guest curator Geoff Ward, associate professor of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences; Cheeraz Gormon, storyteller, writer, public speaker, and member of the St. Louis Community Remembrance Project Coalition; Tabari Coleman, Director of Professional Development, Anti-Defamation League; and Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, for a participatory and reflective discussion. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Inez Bordeaux, manager of community collaborations for ArchCity Defenders, speaks about the Close the Workhouse campaign.

Daniel K. Richter, the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

A lecture/demonstration presented by the Performing Arts Department 2020 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, Jessica Anthony

Authors Lindsay V. Reckson (“Realist Ecstasy,” Assistant Professor of English, Haverford College) and Phillip Maciak (“The Disappearing Christ,” Lecturer in English and American Culture Studies, Washington University) in conversation, moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Events are free and open to all of the WashU community!

Multiple panel discussions and a keynote address on Feb. 13 by Craig Spencer, MD MPH, Board Member, Doctors Without Borders (MSF); Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population and Family Health, Columbia University Medical Center

Angélique Kidjo is a three-time Grammy winner. Conversation led by Lauren Eldridge Stewart, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, Washington University.

Diane Seuss is the author of four books of poetry.

Brodwyn Fischer, professor of Latin American history; director, Center for Latin American Studies; faculty affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago.

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Christophe Rico, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Polis Institute

Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, directed by Timofey Kulyabin for Stage Russia

Presented by The Black Rep.

Vanessa Ogle, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Hoyt Long, associate professor of Japanese literature, University of Chicago

Daniel Eisenberg, MD, is assistant professor of diagnostic imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine and a practicing radiologist in the Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Rick Barot has published three volumes of poetry.

This dynamic and very funny piece of writing is a provocative lens for re-examining an extraordinary American moment.

Cecil Brown, James Baldwin protégé and senior lecturer at Stanford University

Ling Zhang, assistant professor of cinema studies, Purchase College State University of New York

Kate Brown is Professor of History in the Science, Technology, and Society Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Paul Gutjahr, the Ruth N. Halls Professor of English; Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, and Undergraduate Education at Indiana University – Weltin Lecture. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Charles Freilich, Columbia University

A series of TED-style presentations and a panel discussing how to achieve gender equality for better health, both locally and globally. Lancet Series.

Rebecca Lester, associate professor of sociocultural anthropology, discusses her book “Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America.”

Damon Davis is a multimedia American artist, musician and filmmaker based in St. Louis. His 2014 public art installation “All Hands on Deck” has been collected in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. For spring 2020, Davis is serving as artist-in-residence for the Department of African & African-American Studies.

Lina Meruane, Chilean writer and professor - Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Massie Lecturer

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels “Koolaids,” “I, the Divine,” “The Hakawati, An Unnecessary Woman,” the story collection, “The Perv,” and most recently, “The Angel of History.”

Graduate Student Art History Symposium. Keynote address, “Queer Sensation: Desire and the Senses in Byzantium,” by Roland Betancourt, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Irvine.

Kathryn Wilson, Department of Classics, Washington University

Margaret Werry, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Carolyn Valone, Trinity University – Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture

This program features a selection of works by experimental composers associated with what is known as the Darmstadt School.

Cathy Keane, Washington University in St. Louis

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Vaughn A. Booker, Jr., Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College. Reception begins at 5 pm.

Documentary featuring Natalia Osipova, a Russian ballerina, currently a principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet in London

Sabatini Sloan’s essay collection, “The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White” was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013.

Pablo Gómez, Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Washington University Prison Education Project presents excerpts from the recent PBS documentary College Behind Bars, a film that highlights students pursuing college degrees through the Bard Prison Initiative. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the voices of current PEP students, PEP student alumni, and members of the PEP community.

Visiting Hurst Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s is author of ‘The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White’ and ‘Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit.’

Banumathi Subramaniam, Professor and Chair, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts

Ben Munson, University of Minnesota

A brilliant comedic study on the machinations of the human heart. Directed by William Whitaker, professor of the practice in drama, Performing Arts Department. A co-production of the Performing Arts Department of Washington University and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

MFA Student Dance Concert

A brilliant comedic study on the machinations of the human heart. Directed by William Whitaker, professor of the practice in drama, Performing Arts Department. A co-production of the Performing Arts Department of Washington University and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Rosanne Liebermann, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University

Events are free and open to all of the WashU community!

Taisu Zhang, Professor, Yale Law School

Washington University faculty from the Departments of Anthropology, Psychology & Brain Sciences, Sociology, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies come together to discuss their work researching issues related to identity and to share insights into the process of conducting and writing scholarly research

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Wolfgang Polleichtner, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

WashU alum Julia Lindon returns to campus to screen her coming-of-age and coming out half-hour comedy-drama, “Lady Liberty.”

Patrizia McBride, Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies & Professor of German at Cornell University

Miriam Bailin, Associate Professor of English, Washington University

Meghan Ference is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College

Catherine Lena Kelly is an assistant professor of justice and rule of law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies.

A panel discussion with Leonard Cassuto (Fordham University), Steve Gietschier (Lindenwood University), and Chuck Korr (UMSL) on baseball history, the sport’s continuing cultural influence (or lack thereof) in our contemporary moment, as well as the perpetual idea that the sport is dying as we look to its future. Sports & Society Program Initiative, American Culture Studies.

Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative

Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Devin E. Naar, the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Progam, University of Washington, Seattle - Adam Cherrick Lecture

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection “A Collapse of Horses” and the novella “The Warren.”

Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University

Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University

Joseph Sassoon, D.Phil, is the Al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World and Professor School of Foreign Service & History Department at Georgetown University.

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection “A Collapse of Horses” and the novella “The Warren.”

WUDance Theatre

Jilly Traganou, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, The New School

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Rebecca Schreiber, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico

Performing Arts Department production

Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Heekyoung Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington

Mariam Ayad, Associate Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jasbir K. Puar is professor and graduate director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

Events are free and open to all of the WashU community!

Charles is the senior fellow and director of the Countering Terrorism and Extremism program at Middle East Institute.

Undergraduate students in creative writing read from their fiction, nonfiction and poetry in an event hosted by MFA students.

German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.

Abram Van Engen, Associate Professor of English, discusses his new book, City on a Hill: History of American Exceptionalism.

Second-year MFA students read from their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Second-year MFA students read from their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Come hear our graduating majors present their capstone research and celebrate their achievements!