Living With Others: Conscience, Coercion and Freedom
2019 Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Conference
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"Theorizing Threaded Media; or, Why James Bond Isn’t Just a Failed Attempt at Star Wars"
Colin Burnett, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Washington University
"Integrating Intercultural Competence into Foreign Language Curriculum through Standards and Assessment"
Jeeyoung Ahn Ha, Director Korean Language Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Negotiating Israeli and Palestinian Identity
A conversation with author and journalist Sayed Kashua.
Kling Fellowship Information Session
"Legal Discourses on Predatory Mal-administration in the Ottoman Empire"
Boğaç Ergene
Jasper String Quartet Masterclass
featuring Washington University chamber music students
Hindi-Urdu Movie & Samosa Night
The Hindi-Urdu Language Section invites you to a screening of Mr. India, a 1987 Indian science fiction film directed by Shekhar Kapur.
Visiting Hurst Professor Evie Shockley Reads from Her Poetry
"Football, Masculinity and Politics in the Making of Nixonland"
Frank Gurdy
Blacks in America: 400 Plus Years
Keynote speaker is the Hon. Wesley Bell, St. Louis County Prosecutor
Black Imagination Matters
Mitch McEwen is principal of McEwen Studio and co-founder of A(n) Office, a collaborative of design studios in Detroit and New York City. Co-sponsored by the Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative.
Angels in America: Bringing Social Work, Public Health, Policy and Racial Implications to the Forefront
RSVPs requested
"Le devenir des sons": An Evening of French Spectral Music
Curated by Joseph Jakubowski.
“Religion and Tribal Politics: Peter Wehner and Melissa Rogers on Revitalizing Democratic Pluralism”
Queering While Black
Goldburn Maynard, Brandeis School of Law and Blake Strode, Executive Director at Arch City Defenders
LGBTQIA + Sex in the Dark
Michael Gendernalik, recent grad of the Brown School and current employee at the SPOT/Project ARK
Visiting Hurst Professor Evie Shockley Lectures on the Craft of Poetry
Vagina Monologues 2019
Embodying the "discourse of rights": Women's Performance and the Terrains of Gender Justice in Jamaica
Nicosia Shakes, Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies at the College of Wooster
Eighth Blackbird, In conversation
Moderated by Christopher Stark and LJ White
"Guangzhou Dream Factory" Screening & Discussion
Q&A with director Erica Marcus
Dividing ASEAN While Claiming the South China Sea: Chinese Financial Power Projection in Southeast Asia
IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Dan O'Neill, Political Science, University of the Pacific
Gendered attitudes and norms: Impacts on behavior, victimization and mental health among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Lindsay Stark, Associate Professor, Brown School, Washington University; and Ilana Seff, DrPH Candidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Omari Mizrahi and Afrikfusion
50th Anniversary of Black Study & Activism
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lázaro Lima "The Latino Question and the Democratic Commons."
St. Louis Mom's Panel
Organized by Phi Lambda Psi and GlobeMed
"Welcoming the Stranger to St. Louis: Religious Responses to Recent Immigrants and Refugees"
Anna Crosslin, President and CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis; Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council; Dr. F. Javier Orozco, OFS, Executive Director of Human Dignity and Intercultural Affairs, Archdiocese of St. Louis; Imam Eldin Susa, St. Louis Islamic Center NUR
The Legacy of the Refugees in Exile (1933-1945)
“Art and Democracy”
Panel discussion featuring Faculty Book Celebration speaker Caroline Levine
“Sustainable Forms: Routine, Infrastructure, Conservation” - Faculty Book Celebration 2018-19
Caroline Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities, Cornell University.
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Talk Given by Dr. Stuart Webb
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
"The Law of Periandros: Financial Syndication and Risk Allocation in 4th-Century Athenian Naval Finance"
Withdrawing from Afghanistan: What Happens Next?
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
written by by Tony Kushner and Directed by Henry I. Schvey
Israel's Military Power Paradox and the Conflict with Hamas
A talk with Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Meir Elran
"Performing Research: Considering the Senses in Research and Performance"
Tomie Hahn, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Arts and Director, Center for Deep Listening, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Approaching Millennium: Reflecting on 40 years of AIDS and Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"
Symposium
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
The Spring 2019 MENA Film Series features The Battle for the Arab Viewer (February 26) and Rouge Parole (March 26).
STDs Across Time and Space: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Panelists: Professors Shanti Parikh, Rachel Presti, Bradley Stoner
A Celebration of Book Arts: Exhibitions featuring Ken Botnick, Buzz Spector, and Delmas Book Arts Fellows
Afrosurrealism/Futurism: Radical Black Imagination
Featuring filmmaker and artist Damon Davis and D. Scot Miller, Bay Area curator, visual artist and author of the Afro-Surrealist manifesto; moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies
Crossing the Borders of Creation and Critique Conference
Historicizing Chinese Dance: Socialist Legacies and Contemporary Trajectories
Emily Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Chancellor's Concert
Featuring the Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Choirs.
SIR Cultural Expo
The Taiwan Expedition: New Perspectives on Japanese Imperialism and the Meiji Restoration
Robert Eskildsen, Senior Associate Professor, Department of History, International Christian University, Tokyo
Faculty Book Talk: Provost Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
Art and Politics on the Euripidean Stage: The Case of Hippolytus
Lucia Athanassaki, University of Crete
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Hon. Viviene Harris, Supreme Court of Jamaica
Unsympathetic Actors: WWII-Era Dope Struggles in the United States
Rhonda Williams, Vanderbilt University
Monica Youn Reads From Her Poetry
Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently BLACKACRE (Graywolf Press 2016), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky - Graduate School of Art MFA in Visual Art Lecture
Raising the Race: Black Strategic Mothering and the Politics of Survival
Riche Barnes
24th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Strategic Negativity: Ratchetness and Reality Television
Raquel Gates is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Law, Identity, and Culture Speaker Series
Facing Segregation
Panel discussion highlighting the new book by Hank Webber, executive vice chancellor and chief administrative officer; and Molly Metzger, assistant professor, Brown School of Social Work; both at Washington University
Comparative Literature Works-in-Progress
This Works in Progress presentation will feature work by several current Ph.D. students in Comparative Literature.
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Help us create and improve Wikipedia articles related to women and feminist artists.
Negative Kanye: Black Genius, Iconography and the Politics of Disobedience
Kanye Dialog Series with Raquel Gates, assistant professor, Department of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, CUNY; and Jeffrey Q. McCune, associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, Washington University
Crazy, Rich Caucasians: Libertarian exit from decolonization to the digital age
IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Professor Ray Craib, Cornell University, History
2018-2019 Weltin Lecture: Jesus the Jewish Storyteller: Of Pearls and Prodigals
Lecture by Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, & Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University.
Slavery and Philosophy
Henry Abelove is the Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English, Emeritus at Wesleyan University and the inaugural F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.
Illustration Across Media: Highlights from the DB Dowd Modern Graphic History Library
Exhibition reception
Franz-Josef Land: Affect and Empire in Schnitzler's ‘Die Toten schweigen’
Imke Meyer, Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago - Biennial Liselotte Dieckmann Lecture
MFA Student Dance Concert: Reel2Real
Artistic Direction by Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Susan Rotroff
Susan Rotroff is the Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita at Washington University
Energy and Electricity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Lior Herman, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Commerce and the Transformation of a Taiwanese Stateless Zone at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Nan-Hsu Chen, PhD candidate, History, Washington University
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
The Spring 2019 MENA Film Series features The Battle for the Arab Viewer (February 26) and Rouge Parole (March 26).
Symposium on Sound Technologies and Performance of the Voice in 20th Century Korea
Race at the Forefront: Sharpening a Focus on Race in Applied Research
The Political Captivity of the Faithful
Nathan O. Hatch, President, Wake Forest University; author, “The Democratization of American Christianity”
Mwata Bowden Group with Paul Steinbeck
AACM Artist from Chicago.
African Film Festival
Gender Impacts: Mothers and Reentry
Registration is required; follow link to website
Performing Morrison: A Convening at Washington University in St. Louis
Free and open to the public but an RSVP is required at perfomingmorrison@gmail.com
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
Jolyon Thomas, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
A Musical Journey Across Russian Traditions
What Do You Need To Know About Oil To Understand World Politics?
Studying with the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies helps!
“How to Dodge the Draft and Succeed as a Pirate in the Ming Dynasty: A Theory of Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China”
Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
Living in an Italian City as a Migrant
Graziella Parati, Professor of Italian, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies; and Paul D. Paganucci, Professor of Italian Language and Literature - Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies
Faculty Book Talk Series: Caitlyn Collins
Caitlyn Collins, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University
Not Your Habibti: A Typewriter Project
Yasmeen Mjalli is a Palestinian female activist, artist and entrepreneur
Carmen Maria Machado and Kathryn Davis Read From Their Fiction
Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Washington University Senior Writer in Residence Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which is The Silk Road (2019).
WashU Dance Collective: UnTethered
Artistic Direction by Cecil Slaughter
AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
AMCS majors and master's students share their culminating research with the community
Department of Music Lecture: Melvin L. Butler, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Miami
"In Tune with the Spirit: Black Gospel Music, Instrumentality, Embodiment, and Power"
Orlando Fals Borda and the Emergence of Participatory Action Research in Latin America
Joanne Rappaport, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University - Fanny & Dr. Adolfo Rizzo Endowed Lecture
The ‘New’ Hamburg Dramaturgy: Translation as Scholarship in the Digital Age
Wendy Arons, Professor of Dramatic Literature, Carnegie Mellon University and Natalya Baldyga, Instructor in History and Social Science, Phillips Academy Andover
Beyond the Film: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Movie Audiences and Their Environments
A symposium honoring 20 Years of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
Pre-concert Composer Talk: Scott Wheeler
Identifying Depression: Jewish and Psychological Perspectives
David Pelcovitz, the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and Jewish Education, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University - Boniuk-Tanzman Memorial Lecture on Jewish Medical Ethics
Global Perspectives in Child Well-Being
Panel discussion and lunch with David Pelcovitz (Yeshiva University), Lora Iannotti (Brown School), Trish Kohl (Brown School), Proscovia Nabunya (Brown School)
The Tokyo Tribunal: China, the USSR, and the ‘Crimes against Peace’ Charges
Dr. Kirsten Sellars, Visiting Fellow at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University - 2019 William C. Jones Lecture
5 Things You Should Know About Islam and Muslims
Studying with the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies helps!
Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System
presented by the Global Citizenship Program
Art History as a Systematic Science?
Maximilian Schich is an associate professor in arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas and a founding member and the acting assistant director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History.
Yes Means Yes: Envisioning an End to Interpersonal Violence
Jessica Valenti, best-selling author and founder of the blog Feministing.com
At War with Rome’s ‘Most Baffling’ Goddess
Lisa Mignone, Margo Tytus Visiting Research Scholar, University of Cincinnati; Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Music in Conversation: Mozart and Arvo Pärt
Commentary by Christopher Stark; Shawn Weil, violin and Angela Kim, piano, with Stephanie Hunt, cello
Joy Castro Lectures on the Craft of Nonfiction
Torah Edgeplay: Risk, Community, and Ethics from the Beit Midrash to BDSM
Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi, the Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Washington University
Florida
Written by Lucas Marschke and Directed by Jeffery Matthews
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
The JIMES Department is sponsoring an Arabic Calligraphy Workshop organized by Professor Younasse Tarbouni. The workshop is open to everyone.
Segregation by Design: Conversations and Calls to Action
Book event
Asian American Speaker Series "From Spellbound to Spellebrity: Brain Sports, Spelling Careers, and the Competitive Lives of Generation Z"
Shalini Shankar, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
Journeying Together for Justice: Situated Solidarities, Radical Vulnerability, Hungry Translations
Richa Nagar, the Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Chair in Excellence and the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Queer Networks in Chicanx Art
C. Ondine Chavoya, Department of Art History and Studio Art, Williams College
Joy Castro Reads From Her Nonfiction
IAS Thesis Conference
A daylong conference featuring short presentations by IAS graduating seniors who wrote an honors thesis
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
The JIMES Department is sponsoring an Arabic Calligraphy Workshop organized by Professor Younasse Tarbouni. The workshop is open to everyone.
William E. Caplin, FRSC, James McGill Professor of Music Theory, McGill University
The Homeric Epics in Early Silent Cinema
Jon Solomon, Professor of Classics, Cinema Studies, and Medieval Studies, and Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture at the University of Illinois
Piano Department Student Recital
An afternoon of music performed by students from the Department of Music's piano studios.
Transcribir: Self-Translation in Contemporary U.S. Latinx Poetry
Rachel Galvin, assistant professor of English, University of Chicago, specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics in English, Spanish, and French. Her primary research interests include comparative poetics, U.S. Latino/a poetry, poetry of the Americas, Hemispheric Studies, poetics and politics, literature and war, comparative modernism, multilingual poetics, Oulipo and formal constraint, and translation.
Pushmower Undergraduate Reading
Liberal Arts Education: What’s The Point? Cornel West & Robert George in Conversation
Metaphors of Migration
Lisa Lowe, the Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism.
The Fake News Cycle: Searching for Truth in the Digital Age
New York Times political journalist Michael Barbaro, host of its podcast "The Daily" and panelists
The First Atlantic Revolution? Islam, Abolition & Republic in West Africa & the Americas, 1770–1806
Butch Ware, Department of History, UC–Santa Barbara
University Libraries Faculty Book Talk: Rafia Zafar
Rafia Zafar, professor of English, African and African American studies, and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, will discuss her new book, Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning
Naomi Jackson Reads From Her Fiction
Careers in Provenance Research workshop
Catherine Herbert, coordinator of collections research and documentation, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Intimacies of Four Continents
Lisa Lowe, the Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism.
Department of Music Lecture: Amanda Sewell, Interlochen Public Radio
A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
Eugene Park, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania - Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture
Keep Them Sacred: Honoring Generations of Indigenous Women
29th Annual Pow Wow - Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies
Madness and the Insane in Early Twentieth-Century China
Emily Baum, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Second-year students of the MFA program read from their work
Satire Reading Group with Jonathan Greenberg
Jonathan Greenberg, professor and chair in the Department of English, Montclair State University, is author of The Cambridge Introduction to Satire.
Second-year students of the MFA program read from their work
Interested in Careers in the Entertainment Industry?
Washington University Alumni, Russell Schwartz, Senior Vice President & Head, Original Programming Business & Legal Affairs at Starz and Barbara Schaps Thomas, Actress and former Senior Vice President & CFO of HBO Sports.
Honors Thesis Presentations
Religious Studies Senior Symposium
Spring 2019 Proposal-Writing Information Session
Informational panel discussions and Q&A for faculty and post-docs humanities & humanistic social sciences interested in pursuing external funding - Please RSVP
Representation & Responsibility: #Time'sUp, #MeToo, & Women in Opera
This panel discussion will focus on topics related to the #MeToo and #Time'sUp movements, as well as the portrayal of women in opera. Panelists include Heather Hadlock, associate professor of music, Stanford University; and Adrienne Davis the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law & Vice Provost, Washington University.
Bach in Motion
Presented by the Bach Society of Saint Louis in collaboration with The Big Muddy Dance Company and the Washington University Department of Music
The Art(s) of Jazz: Creating Jazz Live and Recorded, on Stage and in the Media
Timothy Myers, faculty recital, trombone
Black Artists’ Exhibition & Conversation with Yvonne Osei and Basil Kincaid
Art exhibition: 2-4 pm; artists’ conversation: 3:30 pm
Trailblazers Recognition Ceremony
50 Years of Black Studies and Activism: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
Nina Simone: Four Women
Presented by the Black Rep
Eric Ellingsen: Tool Shed
Supported by the Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative coordinated by the Center for the Humanities and funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Eric Ellingsen guides “walkshops” along the public streets and neighborhoods surrounding the museum. Washington Boulevard residents take part, including volunteers from the Samaritan United Methodist Church and the Third Baptist Church, as well as musicians, poets, field scientists, and landscape architects.
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2019
Faculty, post-docs and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to jump-start their summer writing
National Memory in a Time of Populism: A Conference
Keynote address by Strobe Talbott, Distinguished Fellow in Residence in Foreign Policy and Former President, Brookings Institution. Sponsored by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis. Please register via the link below.
Civil Rights — Past and Present
Cornell Brooks, Former NCAA President — Blacks in America: 400 Years Plus lecture series
A conversation with Professor Samuel Moyn
Professor Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale University, will be at Wash U for a seminar on August 29, 2019.
Humanities PhDs Can Take Your Company to the Next Level
Organized by Associate Dean Thi Nguyen of the Graduate School. Our panel of experts in the humanities will share how the skills they learned while completing a humanities PhD—like problem solving, research skills, deep understanding of the human experience, and more—are enabling humanities PhDs to help organizations in any industry achieve their goals.
Pedagogy Workshop: Wretched of the Earth
China and the Return of Great Power Competition
Thomas Wright, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at The Brookings Institution, will deliver this lecture as part of the Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective co-curricular initiative, which serves undergraduates considering careers in policy as well as the greater WashU and St. Louis communities seeking historically-informed discussion about global events.
Noah Cohan book talk
Noah Cohan, a 2015 graduate of the English PhD program, will give a talk about his new book "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers."
Looking Back to the Movement
Reception and short presentations celebrating "Eyes on the Prize"
TAZARA Stories: Remembering work on a China-African railway project
TAZARA Stories tells the story of a train through the memories of those who built it. Set in Tanzania, Zambia and China, the film interweaves oral and visual narratives of workers from three nations who found themselves laboring side by side in a massive infrastructure project at the height of the Cold War. Remembering and reliving their youth, the workers take us on a journey in time from the exhilaration of construction through disappointments and derailments to their own hopeful resilience in the face of enduring change.
The Office of the Provost: Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program present: Professor Richa Nagar "Journeying Together for Justice: Situated Solidarities, Radical Vulnerability, Hungry Translations."
Overcoming Political Tribalism and Recovering Our American Democracy
A Public Conversation Between Amy Chua and John Danforth
Sunghee Hinners, faculty recital, piano
"Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón: conversando con la escritora cubana Anna Lidia Vega Serova" (in Spanish)
Anna Lidia Vega Serova is a Cuban fiction writer, poet, and visual artist. She will give talk (in Spanish) on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
Serenades and Sangria: The 560 Block Party
Co-sponsors: Department of Music, 560 Music Center, & Urban Chestnut
Graphic Thinking: A Panel on Data Visualization
Panel discussion featuring Heather Corcoran, the Halsey C. Ives Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Interim Dean of University College; Lisa Marie Harrison, Art Director, Analytic Production and Design Center, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; and Geoff Ward, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, African and African-American Studies
Faculty Book Talk: Heidi Aronson Kolk
"Taking Possession: The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House," by Heidi Aronson Kolk, Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
St. Louis Symphony on the South 40
Lecture/Demonstration: Afro-Brazilian Music and Dance of Backlands Bahia
Speaker: Mestre Cláudio Costa
Visiting Hurst Professor Jane Brox gives a talk on the craft of non-fiction writing
Divided City Graduate Student Summer Research Fellows’ Presentations
Book Club: Shadow of the Wind
Celebrate Banned Books Week by reading about Daniel Sempere as he unravels the mystery behind a book he has chosen from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books to protect in Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The book discussion will be paired with a showcase of banned books from the Rare Book Collections.
Free Rainer: Germanic Film Series
The fall 2019 Germanic Film Series deals with social differences and struggles, demasking society's true face from different medial angles.
Neural Language Technology in An Under-resourced Setting
Kevin Scannell, St. Louis University
Q&A with Ai Weiwei
Renowned Chinese dissident artist and activist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Sabine Eckmann, the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, on the artist’s wide-ranging practice, including his concern for human rights and the global condition of humanity and his profound engagement with Chinese culture past and present, especially the radical shifts that have characterized China in the new millennium. Free but reservations required.
Visiting Hurst Professor Jane Brox reads from her work
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2019
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition 2020 Announces Selected Plays
Bridging the Divided City: Preparing Students for a New Los Angeles - James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education
George J. Sanchez, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History, and Director of the Center for Democracy and Diversity, University of Southern California
Vince Varvel, faculty recital, jazz guitar
with Ben Wheeler, bass
Rahman Asadollahi: The Sound of Azerbaijan
Three Lives of Michelangelo: Entrepreneur, Aristocrat, Octogenarian
Three lectures by William E. Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Russian Film Series
Screening of Vakhtangov Theatre's presentation of Anna Karenina
Liquid Borders - Fronteras liquidas
South By Midwest International Conference On Latin American Cultural Studies
Anthropocene Vernacular
Representing multiple Divided City projects, this public program spans the St. Louis region through experimental tours, an edible narrative, a community cookout, oral histories, public mappings, and a barge laboratory, alongside a range of research, writing, and publications.
Making Motherhood Work, How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins, Department of Sociology, Washington University - IAS/SIR Speaker Series
“Order and Beauty”: Ensemble-Made Chicago
Chloe Johnston, Associate Professor of Theater, Lake Forest College
Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age: Homeric Heroes, Near Eastern Potentates, or Something Else?
Dimitri Nakassis, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado–Boulder
Medical Humanities and Children’s Studies at the Major-Minor Fair
Learn more about the Center for the Humanities’ interdisciplinary minors in Medical Humanities and Children’s Studies
Mellon Mays Fall Symposium feat. Dr. Joshua Bennett
The Washington University Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program invites you to its Fall Symposium featuring poet/artist/scholar Joshua Bennett on Monday, October 7 at 4:00 pm in Goldberg Lounge in the Danforth University Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Has China Won?
REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY SEPT. 30. Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore - ST Lee Endowed Lecture
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
Workshop led by Younasse Tarbouni and students of Arabic in JIMES
Hindi/Urdu Movie Night
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
Workshop led by Younasse Tarbouni and students of Arabic in JIMES
LGBTQ+ History at WashU
Fiction and Philology: Classics and the Historical Novel
Anne Fortier is a Danish-Canadian novelist, specializing in historical fiction. She earned a PhD in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark.
Visiting Writer Sarah M. Broom reads from her work
Central States Philosophical Association 2019 Meeting.
A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy
Haiyan Lee, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Going Pro: Taking Your Academic Skills to the Writing Market
Anne Fortier is a Danish-Canadian novelist, specializing in historical fiction. She earned a PhD in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark.
Lying and Deception: A Happy Marriage
Ishani Maitra, University of Michigan
Insurgent Public Space Making
A tour and lecture on insurgent public space making in St. Louis with Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Architecture, University of Washington.
The War That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Thinking About the Vietnam War as a Civil War
Edward Miller, Department of History, Dartmouth College - IAS/SIR Speaker Series
Visiting Hurst Professor Micheline Aharonian Marcom gives a talk on the craft of fiction writing
Refuse Lives, Disposable Bodies: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and History
Managing Shakespeare: Text, Company, Playhouse
In this two-part event Leslie Malin, LA ’88 will talk about what it takes to manage a successful theatre, followed by a hands-on workshop which will delve into Shakespeare’s text focusing on form, presentation, diction and delivery.
Germanic Lecture: From Romanticizing the Past to Questioning Historical Knowledge - Historical Crime Fiction in German
Thomas Kniesche, Associate Professor of German Studies, Brown University
Evil Together: The Social Dimensions of Kantian Vice
Karen Stohr, Georgetown University
Michael Brown to Michael Johnson: The American Experiment of the BlackQueer
A “Five Years from Ferguson” Lecture by Professor Jeffrey McCune
Environmental Racism in St. Louis - Panel Discussion of 2019 Report
Part of WashU Food Week 2019, a panel discussion of the recently released Environmental Racism in St. Louis Report, produced by the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at WashU Law.
The U.S. and Iraq Today
Col. Frank Sobchak, co-author of the "U.S. Army in the Iraq War" — the first U.S. government history of the war, will deliver this lecture as part of the Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective co-curricular initiative, which serves undergraduates considering careers in policy, as well as the greater WashU and St. Louis communities seeking historically-informed discussion about global events.
The African American Land Ethic: The Intersection of Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Protection
Lillian “Ebonie” Alexander, executive director of the Black Family Land Trust, Inc. (BFLT). The BFLT is a niche land trust and one of the nation’s only regional land trust dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically underserved landowner’s land assets.
James Baldwin and the Moral Crisis of American Democracy
A public lecture by Eddie Glaude
Visiting Hurst Professor Micheline Aharonian Marcom reads from her work
“Legally Blonde”
Music & lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin; book by Heather Hach based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
Foxes, Gods and Monsters in the Edo Anthropocene
Michael Bathgate, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology, Saint Xavier University - Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions
Sankofa on My Mind: The Role of the African Diaspora in U.S. Politics, Foreign Policy, and Development on the African Continent
Menna Demessie, vice president of policy analysis and research, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and the secretary, Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Advisory Council — Africa Week events “From Tunis to Cape Town” take place Oct. 23–Nov. 1.
When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom
Lecture by Asma Uddin, Senior Scholar with the Religious Freedom Center at the Freedom Forum Institute in Washington, D.C., and panel discussion with Tazeen Ali and Laurie Maffly-Kipp
New Perspectives Talk with Tola Porter
Tola Porter, PhD Candidate, Washington University
Faculty Book Talk: Jonathan Fenderson
Jonathan Fenderson, assistant professor of African and African-American Studies, will be interviewed by Monique Bedasse, associate professor of history and African and African-American studies, about his new book, “Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s.”
What You Need to Know about Antisemitism and Islamophobia to Understand the World Today
Dr. Hillel J. Kieval, Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought and Chair of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Slumming: Germanic Film Series
The fall 2019 Germanic Film Series deals with social differences and struggles, demasking society's true face from different medial angles.
Screening: ‘Night of the Living Dead’
Free screening! Free food & drink!
Informal Cities Workshop Kickoff Lecture: Geeta Mehta
Geeta Mehta, co-founder of urbz: User Generated Cities and adjunct professor of architecture and urban design, Columbia University
Halal Food: Global Linkages and Controversies
Bahia Munem, Postdoctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University, and Lauren Crossland-Marr, Graduate Student of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University
Skin Temperature: Air Conditioning and Cross-Racial Identification in “Orfeu Negro” (1959)
Julia Walker, Associate Professor of English and Drama, Washington University
A Two-Way Mirror: Set Design and Social Reflection in Shanghai Cinema, 1937-1941
Yuqian Yan, postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures, Washington University
The Color of Compromise
Public dialogue between Jemar Tisby and John Inazu on Tisby’s acclaimed book “The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism.”
Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West
Michael Harrower, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
What You Need to Know about Islam and Politics to Understand the World Today
David Warren is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Russian Film Series
Screening of Vakhtangov Theatre's presentation of Uncle Vanya
The Euro at 20: Achievements and Unfinished Business
Special guests from the Delegation of the European Union to the United States: Dr. Kristian Orsini (Counselor for Economic and Financial Affairs) and Mr. Moreno Bertoldi (Special Advisor to the Ambassador and Head of the Economic and Financial Section)
‘What Is the Word’: Celebrating Samuel Beckett Colloquium
This two-day colloquium is devoted to the writings of Samuel Beckett, with a particular focus on questions of translation and performance.
The Biblical Prophets and their Social World
Victor H. Matthews, Dean of the College of Humanities and Public Affairs and Professor of Religious Studies, Missouri State University
Complex Harmony: Rethinking the Virtue-Continence Distinction.
Nick Schuster, Washington University in St. Louis
Art Inspiring Music - Challenging Perceptions: Harmonic and Social Dissonances
The Kemper Art Museum exhibition “Ai Weiwei: Bare Life” serves as inspiration for this unique program featuring the violin/clarinet/percussion ensemble F-PLUS.
Do Objects Have Something to Say? Performance, Agency and Ontology of Objects in Greek Tragedy
Anne-Sophie Noel, University of Lyon
2019 Transgender Spectrum Conference
How Democracies Fight Cyberwar: Effects of Deterrence, Punishment, and Countermeasures
Nori Katagiri, Political Science, Saint Louis University - IAS/SIR Speaker Series
Mean Streets: Viewing the Divided City Through the Lens of Film and Television
Lineup of films at the St. Louis International Film Festival sponsored by the Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative and the Washington University Center for the Humanities
Four Hundred Years Forward: Freedom in Our Time
Karine Jean-Pierre, NBC and MSNBC Political Analyst and author of “Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America”
Japano-Koreanic: Evidence for a Common Origin of the Japanese and Korean Languages
Alexander Francis-Ratte, the James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Furman University
“The Judge” Screening & Panel Discussion
“The Judge” tells the story of the Palestinian judge Khulud al-Faqih, the first woman to be appointed as a judge on a religious court anywhere in the Middle East.
The screening (81 min.) is followed by a panel discussion featuring the film’s award-winning director, Erika Kohn, joined by Washington University faculty members Tazeen Ali (Danforth Center on Religion and Politics) and Nancy Reynolds (History). David Warren (postdoctoral research associate, Jewish, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies) moderates the conversation.
Böse Zellen: Germanic Film Series
The fall 2019 Germanic Film Series deals with social differences and struggles, demasking society's true face from different medial angles.
The Bridge #2.2
Jazz performance by Mai Sugimoto (alto saxophone), Raymond Boni (guitar), Paul Steinbeck (electric bass) and Paul Rogers (double bass).
The Bridge intends to form a network for exchange, production, and diffusion, to build a transatlantic bridge that will be crossed on a regular basis by French and American musicians as part of collaborative projects.
Visiting Hurst Professor Patricia Smith reads from her poetry
Jade as a Local Product: Objects and Empire in Eighteenth-Century China
Yulian Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University
Aaron Jay Kernis
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis presents his music
Lecture by The Bridge Founder, Alexandre Pierrepont
Name Dropping: The Critical Fortunes of Rembrandt’s Portraits
Ann Jensen Adams, Department of Art History and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ensemble Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark
Harold Blumenfeld Memorial Event
Her Body, Our Laws: On the Frontlines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma
Michelle Oberman, the Katharine and George Alexander Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
Our Nonprofit Sector Is At Risk. Does It Matter?
Robert Shireman, director of higher education excellence and senior fellow at the Century Foundation
Global Asias as Imaginable Ageography
Tina Chen, Associate Professor of English and of Asian American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Holloway House and ‘The Black Experience Book’
Zachary Manditch-Prottas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African and African-American Studies
Inter-Imperial Interventions: A Feminist-Decolonial Reframing of Literature, Translation, and Geopolitical Economy
Laura Doyle, Professor of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-Coordinator of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP)
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Unseen and at Hand: Slaves, Tablets and Roman Literary Production
Joseph Howley, Department of Classics, Columbia University
Dancing in Circles in the Arts on India and Its Neighbors - Nelson Wu Lecture
Forrest McGill, Wattis Senior Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Writing and Singing Crusade in 1330s France
Anna Zayaruznaya, Associate Professor of Music at Yale University. The reading and discussion are in English.
Book Talk: Phillip Maciak
Phil Maciak, lecturer in American Culture Studies, discusses his new book, “The Disappearing Christ, Secularism in the Silent Era.”
Monument Lab: A Conversation with Co-Founder Paul Farber and Research Director Laurie Allen
Monument Lab is a Philadelphia-based independent public art and history studio critically engaging the past, present and future of monuments.
“Let’s Read A Photoplay!” Popular Photographic Histories in Nigeria
Olubukola Gbadegesin, Visiting Associate Professor of African & African-American Studies, Washington University
Russian Film Series
Screening of Vakhtangov Theatre's presentation of The Brothers Karamazov
Divided City Grants Information Session
If you’re interested in submitting a grant proposal and would like additional information, we invite you to join us for an informational gathering and lunch. RSVP is required.
The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the US-Mexico Border
Jason De León, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles - Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana): Decolonizing Knowledge, Thought and Praxis
Rachel Engmann, Assistant Professor of African Studies, Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College
New Perspectives Talk with Kirsten Marples at the Kemper Art Museum
Kirsten Marples, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Undergraduate student readings
Washington University Dance Theatre: COALESCENCE
Artistic direction by David Marchant
Symposium on Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Featuring talks by Sophus Reinert, Christy Pichichero and Thomas Dodman.