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Transnational Filipino Activism and Becoming Part of the Philippine Revolution, 1964-1986
Joy Sales, Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration, Cultures, and Law (American Culture Studies) - WashU faculty and graduate students welcome.
The Religion Clauses
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.
Artist Talk: Matthew Shipp
New York City pianist Matthew Shipp
Dancing Against the Law: Critical Moves in Queer Bangalore
Kareem Khubchandani, Professor in the Department of Drama and Dance and the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts University
Panel Discussion: Resistance Acts
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.
Intimate Partner Violence and Asylum in the Americas: Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru
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.
Blackface Broken Records: On the Eve of the Blues Feminist Experiment
Daphne A. Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University - Faculty Book Celebration 2020
‘Change the Subject’ Screening & Panel Discussion
This documentary tells the story of a group of college students who challenged divisive immigration rhetoric.
Airea D. Matthews Reading
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.
Lecture: The Architecture of Poetry
Film Screening: Metropolis
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
Kling Fellowship Information Session
The Masks of the Commedia dell’Arte/Le maschere della Commedia dell’Arte
Antonio Fava, international maestro of Commedia dell’Arte performance, presents a lecture-demonstration on the masks of the Commedia dell’Arte.
Workshop: Translated Poems as Untamed Texts
Memory/Race/Nation: The Politics of Modern Memorials
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
MUSEUM CLOSED - Truths and Reckonings: The Art of Transformative Racial Justice
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.
The Political Economy of Armed Drone Proliferation
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
Environmental Studies Across the Arts and Sciences
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.
Lecture by Catherine Bradley
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.
Noses, Mustaches, and Lazzi
A lecture/demonstration presented by Antonio Fava, international master of Commedia dell’Arte
LIBRARY CLOSED - The Book Arts of Transformative Racial Justice
Panel Discussion: Truth and Reckonings
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.
Interrogating Incarceration
Inez Bordeaux, manager of community collaborations for ArchCity Defenders, speaks about the Close the Workhouse campaign.
Liberty of Conscience as a Tool of Empire: England and Its Restoration Colonies, 1660-1689
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
Film Screening: M-Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
The Dancing Circle: Opportunities for Connection, Community and Creation
A lecture/demonstration presented by the Performing Arts Department 2020 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, Jessica Anthony
Realist Ecstasy and The Disappearing Christ
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
Germanic Film Series: ‘Fack ju Göhte’
Events are free and open to all of the WashU community!
Global Migration Conference
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
A Conversation with Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo is a three-time Grammy winner. Conversation led by Lauren Eldridge Stewart, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, Washington University.
Diane Seuss Reading
Diane Seuss is the author of four books of poetry.
Informal Cities, Urbanism & Race in Brazil
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.
Film Screening: Triumph des Willens
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
Translating the Untranslatable: Proper Names in the Septuagint and in Jerome's Vulgate
Christophe Rico, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Polis Institute
Screening: ‘Onegin’
Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, directed by Timofey Kulyabin for Stage Russia
‘Spell #7’ by Ntozake Shange
Presented by The Black Rep.
Funk Money: The End of Empire and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960s
Vanessa Ogle, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Figuring Difference in Modern Japanese Literature: The Case for Quantitative Reasoning
Hoyt Long, associate professor of Japanese literature, University of Chicago
Designer Babies and Choosing Disabilities: Ethical Considerations of Deliberately Creating a Disabled Child by IVF
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.
Visiting Hurst Professor Rick Barot Reading
Rick Barot has published three volumes of poetry.
Men on Boats
This dynamic and very funny piece of writing is a provocative lens for re-examining an extraordinary American moment.
In France With James Baldwin
Cecil Brown, James Baldwin protégé and senior lecturer at Stanford University
Migration, Mobilization, and Moving Images: Imagination of ‘Nanyang’ in 1930s Chinese Cinema
Ling Zhang, assistant professor of cinema studies, Purchase College State University of New York
The Great Chernobyl Acceleration
Kate Brown is Professor of History in the Science, Technology, and Society Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Film Screening: Abschied von Gestern
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
Navigating Ancient Waters: The Story of Noah in the New World - CANCELED
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.
Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change
Charles Freilich, Columbia University
Gender Equality, Norms, and Health
A series of TED-style presentations and a panel discussing how to achieve gender equality for better health, both locally and globally. Lancet Series.
Faculty Book Talk: Rebecca Lester
Rebecca Lester, associate professor of sociocultural anthropology, discusses her book “Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America.”
Music as Medium to the Black Spirit
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.
Chilestinians: Notes on Migration, Assimilation, and the Myth of Palestinian Reawakening in Chile
Lina Meruane, Chilean writer and professor - Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Massie Lecturer
Rabih Alameddine Reading
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.”
Close at Hand: Touch and Tactility in Art
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.
Teaching Vergil’s Georgics in the Agricultural Heartland
Kathryn Wilson, Department of Classics, Washington University
Mr. Jeremy Bentham’s Posthumous Performance Prank… and its Lessons for Contemporary Biocapitalists, Necroliberals, and Political Theorists
Margaret Werry, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota
Film Screening: Jakob, der Lügner
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
Cultural Expo
Melanie Micir Book Talk
Melanie Micir, assistant professor of English, gives a talk about her book, “The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives.”
Women as Patrons of Architecture in Renaissance Rome
Carolyn Valone, Trinity University – Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture
Making an Imperial Henchman: Crispinus in Martial and Juvenal
Cathy Keane, Washington University in St. Louis
Music at the Kemper: Darmstadt School
This program features a selection of works by experimental composers associated with what is known as the Darmstadt School.
CANCELED - Aisha Sabatini Sloan Craft Talk
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.
CANCELED - Screening: ‘Osipova: Force of Nature’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Documentary featuring Natalia Osipova, a Russian ballerina, currently a principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet in London
CANCELED - ‘Thank God I am a Comedian’: ‘Deplorable Exegesis’ in the Activism of Dick Gregory
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Vaughn A. Booker, Jr., Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College. Reception begins at 5 pm.
CANCELED - Film Screening: Angst essen Seele auf
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
CANCELED - Aisha Sabatini Sloan Reading
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.’
CANCELED - Prison Education Project Film Screening and Panel Discussion
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.
CANCELED - Enslaved Histories: Bodies, Capital, and Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Atlantic
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Pablo Gómez, Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison
POSTPONED - Decolonizing Botany: From the Herbarium to the Plantarium
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Banumathi Subramaniam, Professor and Chair, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts
CANCELED - The Sociophonetics of Gender: Acquisition and Processing across the Lifespan
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Ben Munson, University of Minnesota
CANCELED - Dance On
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Thomas DeFrantz, Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, the Program in Dance, and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
POSTPONED - Mindscapes
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - MFA Student Dance Concert
CANCELED - The Triumph of Love
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.
CANCELED - The Triumph of Love
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.
CANCELED - Germanic Film Series: ‘Basta - Rotwein oder Totsein’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Events are free and open to all of the WashU community!
CANCELED - Material Girls: Body Modification and Gender in the Hebrew Bible
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Rosanne Liebermann, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University
CANCELED - Screening: ‘Lady Liberty’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - WashU alum Julia Lindon returns to campus to screen her coming-of-age and coming out half-hour comedy-drama, “Lady Liberty.”
CANCELED - Researching Identity: A Panel Discussion
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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
CANCELED - Mars' Visit to His Temple in Ovid's Fasti: A Comic Tragedy on an Epic Event?
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Wolfgang Polleichtner, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
CANCELED - Film Screening: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
CANCELED - The Ideological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Taisu Zhang, Professor, Yale Law School
CANCELED - Masterclass with Ken Vandermark, saxophone
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
CANCELED - Screening: ‘Suddenly, Last Summer’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Tennessee Williams Birthday Bash - screening and reception
CANCELED - The Feuilleton and the Ornamental Image: Hofmannsthal, Polgar, Musil
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Patrizia McBride, Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies & Professor of German at Cornell University
CANCELED - ‘Reading as if for life’: Dickens, ‘The Dickensian,’ and the Common Reader
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Miriam Bailin, Associate Professor of English, Washington University
CANCELED - With Compliments From the Housewives: Settler Colonialism and Contesting White Public Space in Nairobi
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Meghan Ference is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College
CANCELED - Blue Gold & Butterflies - A Performance Lecture
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative
CANCELED - A Fading Pastime? Baseball’s Past, Present, and Future
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.
POSTPONED - Rule of Law in African Security Sectors and Societies
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Catherine Lena Kelly is an assistant professor of justice and rule of law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
CANCELED - The Pogrom at a Displaced Person’s Camp: Intra-Jewish Violence in the Shadow of the Holocaust
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Devin E. Naar, the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle
CANCELED - The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Julia Annas
THESE EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED - Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
CANCELED - The Origins of Chinese Religion: Early Narratives of State Control Over Excessive Sacrifice
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Professor and Eliaser Chair of International Studies, Berkley University
CANCELED - Facing Deportation: Sephardic Jews, Race, and Immigration Restriction in the United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Devin E. Naar, the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Progam, University of Washington, Seattle - Adam Cherrick Lecture
CANCELED - Film Screening: Gegen die Wand
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
CANCELED - Brian Evenson Craft Talk
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.”
CANCELED - Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op, Kinetic, and Participatory Art, 1959-1965
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College and author of “Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth Century Latin American Art.”
CANCELED - Department of Music Lecture: George Lewis
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - George Lewis, the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Composition & Historical Musicology, Columbia University
CANCELED - Routine or Skill? Aristotle on Habituation in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona - Biggs Family Residency in Classics
CANCELED - ‘Guardians of the Body-Territory’ Exhibit Talk and Opening
CANCELED - Symposium featuring a transnational dialogue on toxic landscapes with ecoterritorial defender Martha Villanueva from Cajamarca, Peru, and environmental activist Patricia Schuba from Labadie, Missouri, and pop-up exhibit “Guardians of the Body Territory // Guardianas del Cuerpo Territorio” featuring photographs and oral testimonials of Peruvian defensoras.
POSTPONED - Transnational Solidarity: Dockworkers and Liberation Struggles
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University
CANCELED - Plato on Utopia: The Atlantis Story
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona - Biggs Family Residency in Classics
CANCELED - The Great Merchants: The World of the Sassoons
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.
CANCELED - Brian Evenson Reading
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - 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.”
CANCELED - Panorama
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - WUDance Theatre
CANCELED - IAS Thesis Conference
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
CANCELED - Constructing and Dissenting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics via Design
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Jilly Traganou, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, The New School - Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture
POSTPONED - A Distant Reading of Property
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Jo Guldi, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University
CANCELED - Film Screening: Das weiße Band
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
POSTPONED - Manipulate My Fear: How New Forms of (Mis)Information and Processes of Political and Religious Subjection Contribute to the Erosion of Democracy in Brazil
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED - Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos is a is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist, politician and LGBT rights activist.
POSTPONED - Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
POSTPONED - Darren Dochuk (Notre Dame University) lectures on his research for his groundbreaking new history of the United States that shows how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America’s rise to global power and shaped today’s political clashes.
CANCELED - Ironbound
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Performing Arts Department production
CANCELED - Faculty Book Talk: Sowande’ Mustakeem
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Sowande’ Mustakeem, associate professor of history, Washington University, will discusses her book “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage.”
CANCELED - Women as a Natural Resource in Greek Literature and The Handmaid's Tale
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
POSTPONED - Performing Sanctuary: ‘Urgent Art’ and the ‘Embassy of the Refugee’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Rebecca Schreiber, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
CANCELED - Web Graphic Narrative and Platform Culture
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Heekyoung Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington
POSTPONED - A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: Evidence of Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Mariam Ayad, Associate Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo
CANCELED - Film Screening: Victoria
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
CANCELED - Screening: ‘Anna Karenina’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
CANCELED - An Anti-Imperial Bestiary: Rethinking Empire in Form and Concept
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
POSTPONED - Debilitation in Palestine: Notes Towards Southern Disability Studies
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Jasbir K. Puar is professor and graduate director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
CANCELED - Undergrad Reading
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Undergraduate students in creative writing read from their fiction, nonfiction and poetry in an event hosted by MFA students.
CANCELED - The Syrian Jihad: What Does the Future Hold?
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Charles Lister is the senior fellow and director of the Countering Terrorism and Extremism program at Middle East Institute.
CANCELED - Germanic Film Series: ‘Good Bye, Lenin!’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Events are free and open to all of the WashU community!
CANCELED - 2020 Student Dance Showcase
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Student Dance Showcase is student run, student choreographed and student danced.
CANCELED - French Landscape at the Margins of Survival
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Thomas Crow, the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Keynote address for the Jean François Millet and Artistic Radicalism Symposium.
CANCELED - Film Screening: Toni Erdmann
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) screenings are open to the public.
CANCELED - MFA Readings
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Second-year MFA students read from their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
POSTPONED - Book Talk: Abram Van Engen
POSTPONED - Abram Van Engen, Associate Professor of English, discusses his new book, “City on a Hill: History of American Exceptionalism.”
CANCELED - MFA Readings
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Second-year MFA students read from their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
POSTPONED - Memory and Resistance: Charles Méryon’s Paris on the Eve of Transformation
POSTPONED - Lacy Murphy, PhD candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology
CANCELED - Religious Studies Senior Symposium
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED - Come hear our graduating majors present their capstone research and celebrate their achievements!
Transnational Framings: The German Literary Field in the Age of Nationalism
25th Biennial St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
Margarita Jover
Margarita Jover, cofounder of the Barcelona-based firm aldayjover architecture and landscape and associate professor in architecture at Tulane School of Architecture
The Artwork in Flux, A Live Q&A
Conversation presented in conjunction with the exhibition Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965.
Constitution Day: 2019-20 Supreme Court Review
Susan Appleton | Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law; Adam Liptak | Journalist, New York Times; and Greg Magarian | Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law - PUBLIC INTEREST LAW AND POLICY SPEAKER SERIES
Race, Work, and Healthcare in the New Economy
Adia Harvey Wingfield is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in the Department of Sociology. Hosted by the Fall for the Book Festival at George Mason University.
‘Giovanni’s Room’ with Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is a professor in the Department of English.
Public Tour: Human Forms
Join us for live, interactive tours on Zoom. Student educators design and lead virtual tours featuring several artworks in the Kemper Art Museum collection, showing images of the artworks through screen sharing and answering participant questions.
Book Talk with Jessica Johnson, author of 'Wicked Flesh'
Jessica Johnson is a WUSTL alum and author, 'Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World' (assistant professor of History, Johns Hopkins University; Mellon Mays Alumna, Washington University in St. Louis).
Race, Sex, and Voting Rights: Past, Present, and Future
‘The Tunnel’: 25th Anniversary Celebration
Collective Memory and National Narrative in Fiction of Disaster
Wash U China Forum with Professor Michael Berry (UCLA) and Professor Letty Chen (WUSTL)
Craft Talk with Jo Ann Beard
'The Devil's Highway' Virtual Book Club
Virtual book club discussion about "The Devil's Highway" by Luis Alberto Urrea
‘Border South’ Screening & Discussion
Film available for screening September 24 at 3 pm CDT to September 25 at 3 pm CDT. Q&A with director Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and Jason De León at 4 pm CDT on September 25. Organized by Hostile Terrain 94@WashU.
Reading with Jo Ann Beard
Hybrid Landscapes
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California
An online database of Greek dramatic meters
HUMANITIES BROADCAST — Timothy J. Moore is the John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor in the Department of Classics.
Faculty Book Talk: Rebecca Wanzo
Rebecca Wanzo is chair and professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Architectural History and Academia
Panel discussion
After the Outbreak: Narrative, Infrastructure, and Pandemic Time
Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English, Associate Director, Northeastern Humanities Center, Northeastern University
Dialectics of Protest Past and Present: A Reconsideration of Postwar Zainichi Activism
Robert Del Greco, assistant professor of Japanese studies, Oakland University
Student-Faculty Discussion on Classics, Race, and Antiracism
A virtual dialogue between undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to discuss how racism intersects with the Classics and how we can cultivate antiracist action in our community.
#realchange: The Continuum: Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Public Tour: Multiplied–Edition MAT
The Birth of Democracy in Ancient Athens: A View from the Graves
Jane Ellen Buikstra, Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University
Two Pandemics, One Election: Race, Identity, and the Future of Democracy
HUMANITIES BROADCAST
Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
Join WashULaw Professor Maxine Lipeles, Founder and Former Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, and Professor Richard Lazarus Howard & Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; author, as they discuss his book “Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court” - PUBLIC INTEREST LAW AND POLICY SPEAKER SERIES
A Picture Says 1,000 Words: Exploring Visual Collections
Jamal Cyrus and Stephanie Weissberg
Conversation between artist Jamal Cyrus and Stephanie Weissberg, associate curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Hope in a Time of Uncertainty
McDonnell Academy International Symposium - Global Town Hall: Hope in a Time of Uncertainty
Was Soviet Internationalism Anti-Racist? Toward a History of Foreign Others in the USSR
HUMANITIES BROADCAST: Anika Walke is associate professor of history; women, gender, and sexuality Studies; and international and area studies at Washington University. Hosted by the University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.
Bill Clegg in Conversation with Mary Jo Bang – ‘End of the Day’
"#WEREWOLFGOALS" by Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney discloses the nexus of lycanthropy, a poetics of prepositions, the catharsis hustle, and cinematic special effects in this lecture of private and public myths/truths.
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Balkan Route (2015-17)
Danilo Mandić postdoctoral college fellow in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Gender, Race, and the Election
Chryl N. Laird, assistant professor of political science at Bowdoin College, and co-author of “Steadfact Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior.”
Fake News, Propaganda and Misinformation: Learning to Critically Evaluate Media Sources
Department of Music Online Lecture: Dr. Alisha L. Jones, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
“I Am Delivert!”: The Pentecostal Altar Call and Vocalizing Black Men’s Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality
Eos Project READS for Black Lives: A Discussion of Critical Race Theory and Antiracism in Classics
Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op, Kinetic, and Participatory Art, 1959-1965
Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College
Public Tour: House and Home
The Racism Inherent in Current Immigration Laws and Policies
Javad Khazaeli, JD, founding member, Khazaeli Wyrsch, LLC - Brown School Open Classroom
Black and Brown Voices Matter
Hosted by UC Irvine Language Science Talks on Linguistic Diversity. John Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences and a Professor of Psychology, Anthropology, Education, English, Linguistics, and African and African-American Studies.
Toe Tag Event
Data Is Lit
Lab Model for the Humanities: A Timid Manifesto
Joseph Loewenstein, professor of English and director of the Washington University Humanities Digital Workshop & the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. UMSL Digital Humanities Series.
Sprawl Session 1: White Suburbias
Sponsored by the Divided City
International Writers Series: Ali Araghi
In this virtual reading and discussion, PhD candidate Ali Araghi will present his recently published novel “The Immortals of Tehran” with Marshall Klimasewiski, senior writer in residence, Department of English.
‘More Than Just Hummus: A Gay Jew Discovers Israel in Arabic’
Author and WUSTL Alumnus Matt Adler discusses his new book, “More Than Just Hummus: A Gay Jew Discovers Israel in Arabic”
The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality
Robert McCarter is the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture
Visiting Writer Steven Dunn
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2020
Public Tour: Multiplied—Edition MAT
Reading: Danielle Dutton & Sawako Nakayasu
Hosted by the Poetry Project. Danielle Dutton is is the author of Margaret the First, SPRAWL, and Attempts at a Life. Her writing has also appeared in Harper’s, BOMB, Fence, NOON, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, The White Review, etc. She is an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis and co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.
Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellow Presentations
CripAntiquity: Making Ancient Studies More Accessible
Supporting and promoting neurodiverse and disabled teachers and students in ancient history and related disciplines
‘Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook’ Screening and Discussion
A panel discussion following the screening will include School of Law professor Greg Magarian, whose research interests include election law.
The City is Burning! Street Economies and the Juxtacity of Kigali, Rwanda
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Samuel Shearer is assistant professor of African & African American studies at Washington University. Organized by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research.
Black Bodies, Black Votes: Election 2020
Panelists include: Nadia Brown (Political Science, Purdue), Jelani M. Favors (History, Clayton State), Denise Lieberman (Dir. MO Voter Protection Coalition; Law, Washington University), and Lester Spence (Political Science, John's Hopkins)
River Styx: Liberating the Spoken Word
Not Just the Wall: Barriers Faced by Migrant Communities
Immigration & the 2020 Election series, Danforth Center on Religion & Politics
Open October Panel: Publishing at WashU
Sharing Our Families' Stories: Hearing from Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
Eleanor Davis
Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illlustrator. Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture.
Third Presidential Debate Watch Party
Reading with Mark Bibbins
Rule of Law in African Security Sectors and Societies
Catherine Kelly, Assistant Professor of Justice and Rule of Law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Hostile Terrain 94@WUSTL Community-Wide Virtual Remembrance and Reflection
A War on Science? The Death of Expertise? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
Black Moves: Race, Dance, and Power in Early Modern Europe
Noémie Ndiaye, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Chinese-Language Tour: Public Art on Campus
Apocalypses surréalistes de l'entre-deux-guerres à Paris
Kyle Young, graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Washington University - French ConneXions Webinar Series
Film Screening: ‘Picture a Scientist’
Halloween Lucian Reading
A Virtual Reading in English Translation of Two Dialogues of Lucian: Lover of Lies & Dialogues of The Dead.
LGBTQ+ History Month 2020
The Death of Breonna Taylor
Washington University School of Law Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series and the Assembly Series featuring Hedwig Lee, professor of sociology, Washington University
The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages
Geraldine Heng, is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies.
Washington University Dance Theatre: Aperture
This "Dance for Camera" Film Festival Premiered December 18, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. and Streamed On-demand thru January 3, 2021.
Environmental Racism in Saint Louis
George Floyd in Context: A Historical Perspective on Racial Violence in the U.S.
Michael J. Pfeifer, professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice & and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York - Brown School Open Classroom
Americanist Dinner Forum: Faith, Hollywood, and Presidential Rhetoric
Systemic Racism & Poverty
Brown School Open Classroom
Architectural History and Diversity
Panel discussion
Book Club: “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet”
Join the October University Libraries Book Club discussion featuring “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” by David Mitchell.
Why People of Faith Should Care about Immigration
Immigration & the 2020 Election series, Danforth Center on Religion & Politics
Silas Munro
Silas Munro is partner of the bi-coastal design studio Polymode; associate professor of communication arts at the Otis College of Art and Design; and advisor, founding faculty and chair emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture.
Willi Winkler (Max Kade Critic) Colloquium: Maxim Billers Blick zurueck aufs Literarische Quartett
Willi Winkler is the 2021 Max Kade Critic-in-Residence.
Craft Talk with Mark Bibbins
Relevance of Hindi/Urdu in the 21st Century
World-renowned Urdu poet and writer Amjad Islam Amjad
Origami Workshop
This event will be conducted in English, and all WashU students and faculty are welcome.
A Visual Breakdown: Confronting the Strange in Max Ernst’s ‘L’oeil du silence’
Max Dunbar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History & Archaeology. He focuses on 20th-century modernism in North America and Europe, and he is especially interested in political art, public mural painting, and artistic formation during the 1930s.
Public Tour: Multiplied: Edition MAT
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences - Diversity Science Colloquium: The “Social Control Setback” within U.S. Schools
Shuffleyamamba: A special evening with Yasuko Yokoshi
Yasuko Yokoshi, dancer and choreographer
Corey Escoto
Corey Escoto is an artist and alumnus
‘MLK/FBI’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Sam Pollard and co-writer/producer Benjamin Hedin, moderated by Lerone Martin, director, American Culture Studies, and associate professor, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University.
‘The Place That Makes Us’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Karla Murthy, moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University.
‘River City Drumbeat’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with directors Anne Flatté and Marlon Johnson, moderated by Andy Uhrich, curator of Film & Media at Washington University Libraries.
‘Unapologetic’ Screening & Discussion
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Q&A with director Ashley O’Shay, moderated by Tila Neguse, project coordinator of the Divided City Initiative, Center for the Humanities, Washington University.
Divided City Film Series - SLIFF
Free virtual screenings, and most have Q&As with scholars and/or filmmakers - St. Louis International Film Festival
Drawn Apart: Rebecca Wanzo and Lauren Mcleod Cramer in Conversation about 'The Content Of Our Caricature'
I Am a Wanderer: Paek Sin-ae (1908-1939) and Writing Travel
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University). Organized by Princeton University’s East Asian Studies Program.
Racial inequality and mass incarceration in Missouri
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - A discussion of the documentary “13th” with David Cunningham, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, and Geoff Ward, professor of African and African American studies, Washington University. Organized by Missouri Science & Technology.
Embodied Authority: Women’s Experiences as Exegesis
Open to Washington University faculty and graduate students
Public Tour: Human Forms
Archival Artifacts
First Fridays @ Becker - Bernard Becker Medical Library
#realchange: Baldwin and the American Theatre
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department, and Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., associate professor of African & African-American studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, both at Washington University
The Autonomous Future of Mobility
Beyond the Gender Binary
Alox Vaid-Menon, gender non-conforming writer and performance artist - Brown School’s Masters and Johnson Annual Lecture
BLM Before BLM: Black Resistance in Colonial Latin America
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - The Cabildos Speaker Series presents Miguel Valerio, assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Valerio’s talk will historicize black self-affirmation and struggle and propose a more hemispheric perspective/approach to thinking about black struggle and self-affirmation. Organized by Oregon State University.
The Shade of Private Life: American Art and the Origins of Modern Privacy, 1875-1900
Nicole Williams, Honorary Guest Scholar in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University
Black Bodies, Black Votes: Post-Election Reflections Panel Discussion
Panelists include Don Calloway (former MO State Rep, MSNBC commentator) Jonathan Metzel (Vanderbilt; Medicine, Health & Society) Khalilah Dean Brown (Quinnipiac; Political Science) Jacinta Mwende (University of Nairobi; Media Ethics, Political Economy)
Vanessa German
Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist
‘Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide’ (Book Talk)
Chris Caterine, PhD, discusses his new book.
International Writers Series: Ignacio Infante & Michael Leong
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ignacio Infante, professor of comparative literature and Spanish, Washington University, and translator Michael Leong read and discuss their translation of Vicente Huidobro’s “Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven,” published recently in a tri-lingual edition with the original Spanish and French.
Beyond the Model Minority Myth: Understanding the Diversity and Service Needs of Asian/Pacific Americans
Kelley Lou, MSW, Director of Member Empowerment, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development - Brown School Open Classroom
Why So Small? Curator Talk
Cassie Brand, Washington University Libraries Curator of Rare Books
Legacies of Violence and Genocide: Can Memorials and Museums Help Us Build a Better Future?
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Panel discussion featuring the following participants: Avril Alba, Ph.D., senior lecturer in Holocaust studies and Jewish civilization in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney; Zahava D. Doering, PhD., editor emerita of Curator: The Museum Journal and worked as senior social scientist at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; David Cunningham, Ph.D., professor and chair of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis; and moderator Erin McGlothlin, Ph.D., chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures and professor of German and Jewish studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
After the Election: Feminist and Queer Possibilities
Department of Music Online Lecture: Thomas DeFrantz, Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, the Program in Dance, and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
"Dance On"
Black Bodies and the Lie of White Innocence
George Dewey Yancy, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
Multidirectional Memories, Implicated Subjects, and the Possibilities of Art
HUMANITIES BROADCAST: Lecture by Michael Rothberg, the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and conversation with Rothberg and WashU professors Anika Walke (History) and Geoff Ward (African and African-American Studies).
Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Israeli and Iranian Perspectives
Elai Rettig, PhD, invites panel to discuss Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Israeli and Iranian Perspectives
Henrietta Lacks Centennial CELLebration: Honoring Her Life and Legacy
Laboratory for Suburbia Book Launch
The editors will facilitate a brief online discussion about the process of creating the book against the constantly shifting, often fraught, backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests, and consider student projects in light of the recent divisive election season.
Climate Conversation: Greenwashing
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Panelists include the following Washington University scholars and community experts and activists: Tim Bartley, professor of sociology; Jenn DeRose, Known & Grown manager; Victoria Donaldson, Green Dining Alliance program manager; Jessalyn Kohn, MBA/MPH Candidate; Net Impact Olin Chapter; David Webb, Lecturer in environmental studies.
Craft Talk with Cristina Rivera Garza
Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Washington University - Brown School Open Classroom
Plagues, Practitioners and Prints: Visualizing Pre-Modern Medical Know-How
76th Historia Medica Lecture, given by Suzanne Karr Schmidt, the George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library and the Center for History Of Medicine.
Staging ‘habla de negros’ in Iberian Early Modernity
Nick Jones, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies, Bucknell University
‘Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making’ (Book Launch)
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Nancy E. Berg, professor of Hebrew language and literature, Washington University, and Naomi B. Sakoloff, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of Washington, discuss their book “Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making.”
The State of Education
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Panel discussion featuring Michelle A. Purdy, associate professor of education; Rowhea Elmesky, associate professor of education and Christopher Rozek, assistant professor of education.
Nation Space Lecture Series: Ersela Kripa & Stephen Mueller
Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish studies and chair of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, gives a lecture with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University.
The Unfinished Business of Cruel Optimism: Crisis, Affect, Sentimentality
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago) in conversation with Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University) and Dana Luciano (Rutgers University). Lynch Distinguished Lecturer Series at the University of Toronto’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies.
Everybody is on their way to Russia or Back: The Conference of Women of Africa and African Descent, Cold War Politics and the Ghanaian Nation State
Adwoa Opong is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity. Her PhD is in African History with a focus on African women social workers and the development imaginary of the post Second World War period. Her research sits at the intersections of histories of gender, decolonization and development in modern Africa.
Writing Empathy: A Conversation with Author Cho Haejin and Translator Ji-Eun Lee
Cho Hae-jin is one of South Korea’s major writers and the winner of several prizes. Translator Ji-Eun Lee is associate professor of Korean language and literature at Washington University. Hosted by the Gateway Korea Foundation.
Reading with Cristina Rivera Garza
Mapping Social Justice Panel Discussion
Global Displacement and Local In-Placement: Transnational Stories of Rustbelt Revitalization
Faranak Miraftab is professor of urban and regional planning with joint appointments in the Departments of Women and Gender Studies and of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Online Piano Division Recital
Honoring Trans Remembrance Day a Community Panel: Who Decides Who You Are?
A panel of community activists will be moderated by Jaqui Melton from the Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence at Barnes Jewish Hospital.
Chinese-Language Tour: Multiplied—Edition MAT
Public Tour: House and Home
Virtual Event: Letter Writing Party In Solidarity with Incarcerated Survivors
Letter Writing Party In Solidarity with Incarcerated Survivors
How Latino Voters Decide U.S. Elections
Geraldo Cadava, Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
Imagining Digital Transformations in the Humanities
Seminar and lecture with Ian Bogost, the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Book Club: The Weight of Ink
Nation Space Lecture Series: Katja Perat
Dreaming Liberation: Afro-Surrealism and Pop in the 1960s-70s
Abbe Shriber, Tyson Scholar of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Getting It Together Before It’s Too Late: Building Solidarity Across Race and Class
Ian Haney Lopez, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Idle Hands: How Windows Solitaire Invented Modern Computing
Ian Bogost, the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Josep Lluís Sert: The Architect of Urban Design
Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art, Washington University
Defining a Comic Tradition: Plautus and the Marx Brothers
John Gruber-Miller, Edwin R. and Mary E. Mason Professor of Languages, Cornell College
RDE 30-Minute Briefing
Annual Display of Rare Anatomical Texts
Anxious Ears: Soundscapes and the Art of Listening in Postwar German Radio Drama
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Caroline A. Kita is associate professor of German and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of ‘Jewish Difference and the Arts: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater’ (Indiana UP 2019). Her research encompasses German and Austrian Literature, German-Jewish Culture, music, theater and radio drama.
Opacity, Rézonans, Biguidi: Music and Dance as Decolonial Praxis in the French Caribbean
Jérôme Camal, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"To Be on the One: Worldmaking in the Global Hip Hop Cypher"
Imani Kai Johnson, Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies at University of California, Riverside
Myths of the Orient: Deconstructing the European Vision of the Middle East
Eve Rosekind, PhD student in the Department of Art history & Archaeology, Washington University - New Perspectives Talk
‘Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody’
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Saul Zaritt, former WUSTL Friedman Fellow, will discuss his book with Erin McGlothlin (Washington University) and Nancy Berg (Washington University)
How Your ZIP Code Impacts Your Future
Wednesdays with WashU is a webinar series featuring Washington University alumni, faculty, and parents from around the world.
History in the Time of Pandemic: A Conversation with Paul Ramírez
Paul Ramírez, associate professor of history, Northwestern University
International Writers Series: Katja Perat
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Katja Perat, PhD student in comparative literature and member of the International Writers Track, will present her new novel “The Masochist” (translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins) in a virtual reading and discussion with Lynne Tatlock, director of the Program in Comparative Literature, Washington University.
‘Remember...That Time Before the Last Time’
World premiere — conceived and directed by Ron Himes; choreographed by Heather Beal
Discussion with French academic and novelist, David Diop (in French)
French ConneXions Webinar Series
Online Piano Division Recital
Public Tour: Human Forms
Student Journalism in the Age of Disinformation
In this Power of Arts & Sciences Week event, Laura Meckler, AB ’90, speaks to Arts & Sciences reporters on the staff of Student Life.
Science and Society Amid a Pandemic
In this Power of Arts & Sciences Week event, five Arts & Sciences faculty members share research and perspectives on COVID-19.
Fireside Chat with award-winning author Susannah Cahalan, AB ’07
Pitching for Publication: Translating Your Academic Expertise for a Popular Audience
Being First: What It Means to Be the First in Your Family to Earn a College Degree
Part of the Power of Arts & Sciences event series
‘Aperture’
Washington University Dance Theatre