Spring internal grants deadline
Deadline for the spring funding cycle
Past Events
ICUR abstract planning
Virtual - https://wustl.zoom.us/j/3729357007
Crafting Your Humanities Resume
Virtual
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
Livestream Gathering: Judith Butler Lecture
Women's Building Formal Lounge
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
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
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
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)
Restricted Reading: What Book Bans Mean for Health and Justice
Research from the Banned Books Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Danforth University Center, Room 239
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)
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
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
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)
Fall internal grants deadline
Deadline for the fall funding cycle
Humanities Career Spotlight: Dr. Kenly Brown, Spencer Foundation
Zoom - register for link
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
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)
Lightning Talks - Urban Humanities (Un)Conference
Lightning-fast talks about innovative projects in the urban humanities
.ZACK, 3224 Locust St., St. Louis, MO 63103
Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows Colloquium
Danforth University Center, Room 234
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
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
ACLS Fellowship proposal external review deadline
ACLS Fellowship proposal external review for faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
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
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
Grant-Writing Information Session
Learn more about humanities grants and look ahead to ACLS, NHC, foundation LOIs and other opportunities
Zoom - RSVP
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
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
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
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship - Application Prep Workshop
Virtual | https://wustl.zoom.us/j/3729357007