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2024
Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral
Melissa M. Wilcox (any pronouns) is Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where Dr. Wilcox organizes the annual UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion
The Women’s Chapel
Art exhibit and panel discussion featuring scholars Marie Griffith and Heather Bennett and artist Megan Kenyon
AFAS Speaker Series: Eating Slavery: Queer Consumptions of Blackness in the Telenovela Xica da Silva
Speaker: Dr. John Mundell
Visiting Writer: Paul Tran
The Washington University Writing Program is proud to welcome Visiting Writer, Paul Tran, as a part of its 2024 Spring Reading Series.
Kemper Unplugged
Co-sponsor: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
The Right to Read: A Panel Discussion - A Lowenthal Symposium Event
The Lowenthal Symposium Series is dedicated to understanding and improving the lives and educational experiences of urban youth. The right to read means giving each student the capability to access information that can allow them to reach their fullest potential.
Eliza - Film Screening and Discussion
A free screening of the short film, Eliza, telling the story of Eliza Rone, whose family was enslaved by Robert Campbell, a member of Washington University's Board of Trustees, and whose sons attended WashU. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film co-director Delisa Richardson, cast members, and Campbell House Museum' director about the role of film in reparative processes.
Meet-and-Greet with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Alpha Omega City-Wide Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated Presents: “This Little Light of Mine”, A Political Art Event
The African & African Studies Department will be joining the Alpha Omega City-Wide Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated during their "This Little Light of Mine" Political Art Event. During this event the voices of political artists who aim to inspire their communities and create fervent change will be elevated.
St. Louis County Library Black History Month Celebration: Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
"Washington University and the Saint Louis County Library are partnering for a Black History Month event featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the award-winning author of "Chain Gang All-Stars." Join us for an opportunity to hear about his amazing journey, engage in a discussion about his acclaimed book, and have your copy signed. Don't miss the chance to ask questions and be part of this enriching experience."
Slavery in St. Louis Exhibit
Black History Month Celebration
More information forthcoming
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Lecture
Multidisciplinary artist, educator and activist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - With Heather McGhee
Join the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity and Heather McGhee for an informative conversation surrounding McGhee's book.
Washington University Black History Celebration
The Washington University community is warmly invited to join us for the Black History Month kick-off event on February 1st, 2024. This gathering offers students a unique opportunity to celebrate the rich history, vibrant culture, and enduring heritage of black Americans. This event is open to everyone!
Visiting Writer: Giada Scodellaro
The Washington University Writing Program is proud to welcome Visiting Writer, Giada Scodellaro, as a part of its 2024 Spring Reading Series.
Black Anthology: ‘Pressed’
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
African Film: A Conversation with the STL Art Museum
Join Dr. Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo, Founder and Coordinator of the Washington University African Film Festival, for an engaging conversation about the significance of African films. The event will be followed by a Q&A session.
This event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!
Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives
How can narratives – visual, textual, and oral -- bridge divides between migrants and the communities in which they settle? Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives brings together the work of local and national artists who craft narratives of migration, and holds space for migrants and those affected by migration to tell their stories.
Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives
How can narratives – visual, textual, and oral -- bridge divides between migrants and the communities in which they settle? Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives brings together the work of local and national artists who craft narratives of migration and holds space for migrants and those affected by migration to tell their stories.
“Every Good Boy Does Fine,” a conversation with pianist and author Jeremy Denk
Free and open to the public with required RSVP.
Open Classroom | Art Is My Voice
cbabi bayoc is an internationally renowned St. Louis based visual artist, muralist and New York Times best-selling illustrator for “Good Night Racism,” authored by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.
Open Classroom | Creative Energy: A Tool for Change?
DeBorah D. Ahmed, Executive Director, Better Family Life Cultural, Educational and Business Center
What is Grad School? Options, Funding, Big Picture
Get practical advice to structure your consideration of graduate school
(in-person or virtual)
Josh Kline - Bunny and Charles Burson Visiting Lecture
Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship information session
Calling all sophomores interested in pursuing a humanities research project! You might be a great fit for the Kling Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Drop in at this information session and chat with current Kling Fellows and faculty to learn more about this opportunity.
Earthalujah! Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping: A Conversation with William Talen and Savitri D
The Pangdatsang Trading Firm: Politics, Currency Exchange, and Trans-Tibet Business during WWII
A lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds
Curtis Chin: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Washington University is proud to welcome Curtis Chin to the Hurst Lounge.
New Perspectives Talk: Hung Liu's Re-presentations of Historical Photographs
African Student Association Presents: A Featured Talk with Nnedi Okorafor
Join the African Student Association for a special talk featuring the award-winning author, Nnedi Okorafor.
An Evening with Local Author: Rebecca Copeland
Join us for a visit from local author Rebecca Copeland, as she reads from and discusses her book, The Kimono Tattoo.
Americanist Dinner Forum with Kathryn Walkiewicz - Reading Territory: On Indigeneity, Blackness, and Land as Theory
"Untold Stories: LGBTQ+ Composers through Time"
in partnership with the St. Louis Symphony Community Partnerships Program
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Workshop on Politics, Ethics and Society: Heather Berg
Department of Music Lecture: "Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison"
Ben Harbert, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Georgetown University
Chancellor's Lecture with John McWhorter
Wu Cinema Presents: BEFORE SUNRISE
Assembly Series presents 'The Fate of the Earth': A talk by Elizabeth Kolbert
Mary Mattingly Lecture: Proposals
Ethical Research Data: The Feminist Principle of Examining Power in the Context of Big Data and AI
Lauren F. Klein, the Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University
Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
International Writers Series: Mona Kareem
Poet and translator Mona Kareem
AFAS Featured Event: Jazz and Journaling
Take a moment to unwind while learning about the history of Black people and jazz music. Journals will be passed out during the event!
Please RSVP so we can provide enough supplies!
Visiting Writer: Heather Radke
The Washington University Writing Program is proud to welcome Visiting Writer, Heather Radke, as a part of its 2024 Spring Reading Series.
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Faculty Showcase
Chinese-language Tour of ‘The Body in Pieces’
Politics and Secularity in the Early Islamic World - A Lecture Series
Part of the Global Perspectives on Good Governance and Secularity lecture series covering discursive practices in early Islam.
Series facilitator Professor Hayrettin Yücesoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Reimagining the humanities: Immersive 3D environments for teaching, learning, and research
"Matisse and the Sea": An Overview
Professor John Klein’s research is on European art of the first half of the twentieth century. He is an internationally known specialist in the art of Henri Matisse.
In addition to his first book, Matisse Portraits (Yale 2001), he has published many articles and book chapters on the artist. His recent book, Matisse and Decoration, published by Yale in 2018, is a comprehensive analysis of the concept of decoration in Matisse’s art, with a particular focus on his commissions for ceramic tile, stained glass, tapestry and other fabrics, and decorative objects and paintings during the last twenty years of his career.
HOMAGE: Traveling Black History Exhibit
Join us on a remarkable journey through Black history and culture with the Homage Exhibit. Each original artifact represents an icon, cultural phenomenon, or pivotal historical moment and accompanies works created by artists and creatives. Stop in to Holmes Lounge at anytime between 12:00pm - 6:00pm and view the exhibit at your own pace.
Following Courage: William Wells Brown
Open Classroom | The Last Word: Exploring Identity, Resistance, and Narrative Power in Art
KVtheWriter – rapper, poet, educator, activist
AFAS Speaker Series: "Black Networked Resistance", A Book Talk
Come support AFAS professor, Dr. Raven Lloyd, as she introduces her first published book, "Black Networked Resistance".
Thinking with Infrastructure about Global Development
A talk by Dr. José María Muñoz, a Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science
Faculty Book Talk: Ignacio Infante
Ignacio Infante, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
WU Cinema Presents: PSYCHO
Projected in 35mm film | An iconic Alfred Hitchcock film, a legendary plot twist, an unforgettable slasher, and the reason a generation feared taking a shower.
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Art History Symposium: Making Contact: Haptic, Temporal, Spatial, and Conceptual Connections
The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Art History and Archaeology will host its fifth biennial Graduate Student Art History Symposium (GSAHS) titled Making Contact: Haptic, Temporal, Spatial, and Conceptual Connections on February 23rd and 24th. The event will be held entirely in person on the Danforth Campus of Washington University and includes a keynote by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, panels of graduate student speakers, an accompanying art project, and museum and exhibition visits.
The Winter's Tale
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Global Afterlives of America’s First Red Scare: Political Deportees and Transnational Radicalism between the World Wars
A Guest Lecture by Professor Kenyon Zimmer, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington
HOMAGE: Traveling Black Hisory Exhibit: The Heart and Soul of the Movement - The Influence of the "Divine 9"
This exhibit focuses on members of the "Divine 9" who helped create a culture of change and resistance that impacted the Civil Rights Movement in America. Through original artifact, participants discover how the involvement of these students led to tangible social change.
Jason Finch - Urban Comparison & the Myth of the Slum: From St. Louis to London
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome visiting professor, Jason Finch, for a talk and conversation in the Coffee Room.
Department Research Roundtable
The Washington University Department of English welcomes you to the Hurst Lounge for a series of brief research presentations, conducted by English Dept. faculty & graduate students.
Imagined Communities: Myth, Memory, and the Temple of St. Andrew at Old St. Peter’s
Dennis Trout, University of Missouri
Q&A with Kahlil Robert Irving
Artist Kahlil Robert Irving and arts administrator Hamza Walker
Curatorial Tour: ‘The Body in Pieces’
Dimensions of Emotion: Voice and Animation in 1990s Japanese Adventure Games
What is Grad School? Options, Funding, Big Picture
Get practical advice to structure your consideration of graduate school (in-person only)
Congress and Justice: A Conversation from the Front Lines with Carlos Uriarte
Carlos Felipe Uriarte, AB ’02, returns to his alma mater to share his experiences working at the center of American law and politics.
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One: Wadjda
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Unlock the Potential of AI in Higher Education Workshop Series: Build Your Own AI Tutor with GPTs
Open Classroom | Black & Blue: Double Consciousness and the Black Artist
MK Stallings, Research and Evaluation Manager, Regional Arts Commission
Science in the Public Square: Ursula Heise
Culture and Environmental Crisis
A panel discussion featuring Faculty Book Celebration keynote lecturer Nicole Seymour and Ursula Heise
In Defense of Tackiness: The Queer Environmental Politics of Glitter – 2024 Faculty Book Celebration
Featuring keynote speaker Nicole Seymour, professor of English, California State University, Fullerton, and author, “Glitter,” an environmental-cultural history of a substance often dismissed as frivolous
2024 Rava Memorial Lecture Series
"Between Venice and the World: Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmet II and Matters of Italianità"
Graduate workshop: From Climate Anxiety to Climate Action
A writing workshop led by Nicole Seymour, Professor of English and Graduate Advisor for Environmental Studies, Cal State Fullerton
A Conversation with Noa Yedlin
Noa Yedlin is a bestselling and award-winning Israeli writer.
Pranksters, Standups, and Fitness Gurus: New Perspectives on Parody
Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics Fannie Bialek will moderate this panel discussion featuring new scholarship in the realm of parody, religion, and politics.
William H. Matheson Reception and Lecture Featuring Craig Monson
The Lord, The Slave, & The Tailor’s Son: A Case of Identity Theft in Renaissance Italy
Matheson Lecture with Craig Monson
More information forthcoming!
WU Cinema Presents: OPPENHEIMER
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Civil Society Brunch: "Making Rulers Our Equals"
Claudio López-Guerra (University of Richmond)
Kemper Unplugged
Co-sponsor: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant March Info Session
EALC Lecture Series: Beyond Borders: Navigating the Fluidity of K in K-Pop
Wonseok Lee, lecturer in Korean studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Stop! Shakespeare, Boal, and the Italian Spect-actor
Robert Henke, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. in Performance Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Music Lecture: "Interpreting Chromaticism in Post-Millennial Pop/Rock"
Brad Osborn, Professor of Music Theory, University of Kansas
Visiting Hurst Professor: Amitava Kumar - Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Amitava Kumar as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
SIR Cultural Expo
“Meet the Makers, An Insider’s Look at OTSL’s New Works Collective”
Co-presented by Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Washington University’s CRE2, and Department of Music
A Conversation with Salwa Abu Ghali in Jenin
Salwa Abu Ghali is a Palestinian resident of Jenin refugee camp who works with the refugee organization NaTakallam.
An Evening with Gerald Early, "Reconceiving the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Black Baseball Exhibit"
An award-winning essayist, author, and American culture critic, Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies Department and executive editor of WashU's interdisciplinary journal The Common Reader.
Experimental Cinema of Germaine Dulac and Maya Deren
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Education Speaker Series:The Importance of Schools as Protective Factors for LGBTQ Youth Mental Health - Visiting Speaker Myeshia Price, Ph.D.
Friday, March 8
11:30am - 12:30pm Seigle Hall 148
Lunch to Follow
St. Louis Philosophy of Science Association
Climate Change and the Philosophy of Science &
The Physical Signature of Computation: Authors Meet Critics
Losing HER Voice: Mental Health Implications of Abortion Restrictions
Megan D. Keyes, PhD, Adjunct Faculty, Brown School, Washington University and Founder, Trauma Empowered Consulting, LLC
Healthmaking in Ancient Egypt
Anne Austin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Francesco De Angelis
Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Colloquium--The Making of Victory: Triumphal Arches and Their Representation in Roman Art.
Francesco de Angelis, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
EALC Lecture Series: Territorial Sovereignty and Socialist Landscape Paintings
Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Book Making Workshop: Abstract Comics
The End of Çatalhöyük and Archaeology in the Time of Climate Change
Presented by Dr. Peter Biehl, Vice Provost & Professor of Archaeology University of California Santa Cruz
Visiting Hurst Professor: Tracy Fessenden - Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Tracy Fessenden as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Leading the Van Gogh Museum: 50 Years and Counting
The Department of Art History & Archaeology welcomes Dr. Emilie Gordenker, Director, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Seminar--Paying Attention: Images of Arches on Ancient Roman Coins.
Francesco de Angelis, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Matt Jockers Lecture: "Linguistic Entailments, Bestselling DNA, and other Absurd Ideas”
In this talk, Jockers describes how algorithms reveal the unique patterns of individual linguistic style and allow us to predict which authors and which books are mostly likely to hit the New York Times Bestseller list. He discusses foundational work in authorship attribution, stylometry—and even some neuroscience and behavioral genetics—in a talk that ultimately leads us to question the entire notion of creativity and authorial agency.
International Writers Series: Verónica Gerber Bicecci
Toxic Sublime: Art and the Climate Crisis
Science in the Public Square: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Lecture--What Monuments for a Modern Century? Italian Colonial Arches in Africa
Francesco de Angelis, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
And you are…? Measuring Blackness and Black Identity in Federal Statistical Research
Join Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, assistant professor in the African and African American Studies department, for a talk entitled "And You Are...? Measuring Blackness and Black Identity in Federal Statistical Research".
3.21.24
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hillman 60
Insurgent Literacy on the Aymara Altiplano: Following the Paper Trails
Talk by Prof. Brooke Larson (Stony Brook University), a leading history scholar focusing on racial formations in postcolonial Latin American history, particularly in Bolivia.
Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series: Author Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Editor Callie Garnett
Intercultural German Film Series, featuring “Cherry Blossoms” (Kirschblüten—Hanami), preceded by the short film “Dark Red” (Dunkelrot)
German graduate students, in collaboration with the Japanese section of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, are pleased to present two films in German, Japanese, and English, with English subtitles.
2024 STL African Film Festival
2024 MFA Student Dance Concert
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Center for the Literary Arts Breakfast Meet-and-Greet: Author Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Editor Callie Garnett
Workshop on Politics, Ethics and Society: Fannie Bialek
Online Chinese-language Tour of Special Exhibitions
Public Tour of Special Exhibitions
Curator Chat on ‘Gateway to the East’ Exhibition
"The Sea and the Overseas: Matisse, Africa, Polynesia"
Dr. Alastair Wright, Associate Professor, Saint John's College, Oxford University
A Masterclass with Joyce Yang, piano
Free and open to the public!
French Historian Pierre Savy - Seminar Discussion of Jewish History in the Italian Renaissance
Pierre Savy is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
Capitalist Humanitarianism: A Dialogue on Labor, Loss, and Religion
A book talk and discussion with religious studies scholar Lucia Hulsether
The Eurasian Studies Seminar presents…. "Mnemonic Hybrids in a Hybrid Regime: Remembering the Soviet Past in Putin's Russia"
Sergey Toymentsev, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Visiting Hurst Professor: Camille T. Dungy - Craft Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Camille T. Dungy as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Virtual Book Club: ‘Margaret the First’
Humanitarian Danger and Palestinian Life in Gaza
Ilana Feldman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, George Washington University
Black Sex: Past, Present, Future Virtual Roundtable
The African & African American Studies Department's Intellectual Life committee is hosting another insightful roundtable with distinguished individuals, discussing the impact of sex on the black family. RSVP to join the discussion!
Roundtable: Writing as Advocacy
Visiting Hurst Professor: Camille T. Dungy - Reading
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Camille T. Dungy as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Kemper Unplugged
Co-sponsor: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Department of Music Lecture: Alexis Rose & Chinenye Okoro (Graduate student conference practice session)
Panel Discussion: Storytelling from an Invisible World
Tour de Museo en Español
Elliot H. Stein Lecture in Ethics with Richard Haass
Inaugural Dean’s Distinguished Lecture with Carl Phillips, “Pressure Against Emptiness: Some Thoughts on Making”
Carl Phillips is a celebrated poet, essayist, and professor whose work has garnered critical acclaim and captivated readers around the world. With numerous accolades to his name, including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Phillips is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary literature.
To Academia or Not to Academia?
Grad school = being a professor, right? Well... (in-person or virtual)
Americanist Dinner Forum - What is Digital Humanities?
All are invited for dinner and conversation with WashU faculty on April 2nd.
Visiting Hurst Professor: Lidia Yuknavitch - Craft Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Lidia Yuknavitch as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
*Event Cancelled* Visiting Hurst Professor: Kiese Laymon - Craft Talk
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Kiese Laymon will be unable to visit during this year's Hurst Reader Series.
Roundtable Discussion - Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage
Join us on April 3rd in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall for this roundtable discussion of Julia Walker's book: Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage
J.S.G. Boggs: Money as Performance Art
Kahlil Robert Irving and Andrea Achi: Archaeology and Contemporary Art
The Humanities in the AI Future
Symposium
Visiting Hurst Professor: Lidia Yuknavitch - Reading
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Lidia Yuknavitch as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
WUDance Collective: GLIMMERS
Italian Film Festival
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Ethics of Belonging of Indigenous Contemplative Tradition
Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant April Info Session
The Buder Center Powwow
International Writers Series: Esther Kinsky
Join the International Writers Series for an evening of fiction in translation with the 2024 Max Kade Visiting Writer Esther Kinsky
‘Learning to Disagree’ Book Event
Panel discussion features WashU scholars John Inazu, John Hendrix, Peter Boumgarden, Jennifer Duncan, Penina Acayo Laker and Frank Lovett
Indigenous Perspectives: Interpretation and Stewardship of Cultural Heritage in Museums
Please join us a series of three lectures on Tuesday, April 9th from 5:00-6:45pm at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
2023-2024 Annual Weltin Lecture: “Theft, Forgery, and Scholarship: The Trafficking of Ancient Jewish and Christian Manuscripts”
Brent Nongbri, professor of History of Religions at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo
On Palestinian Literature: past, present, and future
A talk on art, scholarship, and community
*Event Cancelled* Visiting Hurst Professor: Yiyun Li - Craft Talk
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Yiyun Li will be unable to visit during this year's Hurst Reader Series.
Visiting Hurst Professor: Laird Hunt - Craft Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Laird Hunt as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Humanities Happy Hour
WashU humanities faculty: Meet and mingle with colleagues old and new.
AFAS Featured Event: Works of Dr. Samuel Shearer and Dr. Thembelani Mbatha
Samuel Shearer is assistant professor in the Department of African and African American Studies. Shearer's work focuses on the design, production, and destruction of urban space in African cities and how these processes inform popular politics and cultures across the continent. His current book project, tentatively titled The Kigali After: A New City for the End of the World is about the politics of urban design, displacement, and the dual crises of capitalism and ecology in one of the fastest urbanizing cities the world: Kigali, Rwanda.
Dr. Thembelani (Themba) Mbatha is an interdisciplinary scholar of global black thought and the literary and cultural histories of Africa and the African diaspora. His work focuses on the intersections between the histories of blackness and the politics of memory in the postcolonial and black Atlantic worlds. His current book project, titled Registers of Black Witnessing: Archives of Testimony in Africa and the African Diaspora, sets to offer a decolonized framework of testimony and witnessing while investigating the implications of this on contemporary and future discourses of blackness.
Visiting Hurst Professor: Laird Hunt - Reading
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Laird Hunt as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Student Dance Showcase: A Picnic in the Park
Student Run, Student Choreographed, Student Danced!
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Spring Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
Dr. Younasse Tarbouni is a Teaching Professor of Arabic for the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. A.J. Robinson is the reference/subject librarian for Islamic Studies and South Asian Studies in Olin Library.
Movement Workshop with Sathya Sridharan and Paton Ashbrook
Join PAD alum and Broadway actor, Sathya Sridharan ('09), and Juilliard alumni, actor, and teacher Paton Ashbrook for a movement workshop.
Department of Music Lecture: "The Rise and Fall of the Azmaribet: Traditional Music and Urban Imaginaries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia"
John Walsh, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley
Human Revelations Art Exhibit
Bei Qi
Listening Into: Bunkers, Bodies, In-betweens
Unveiling of Archer Alexander Memorial
All are invited to an unveiling of a memorial being planned for Archer Alexander, who was formerly enslaved in St. Charles and escaped via the Underground Railroad to St. Louis, in part through the assistance of WashU co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot and his wife Abigail Adams Cranch. On Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 3:30 pm at the U.S. Grant National Historic Site (7400 Grant Road) the St. Louis Arts Chamber of Commerce will share the proposed sculpture by renowned artist Abraham Mohler that will be placed at the St. Peters UCC Cemetery, where Alexander is buried in an unmarked grave, to preserve and honor his remarkable story.
The Barbara & Michael Newmark Endowed Sociology Lecture: Dr. Marshall Ganz
You are cordially invited to join the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis for the third presentation of this recently established lecture series. This lectureship honors Barbara and Michael Newmark, alumni and longtime community leaders in St. Louis. The series supports visits to Washington University in St. Louis by scholars whose work engages with the concept of a pluralistic society where diverse religious, racial, and ethnic groups live and work together, and their differences enhance the community.
Politics and Secularity in the Early Islamic World - A Lecture Series
Part of the Global Perspectives on Good Governance and Secularity lecture series covering discursive practices in early Islam.
Series facilitator Professor Hayrettin Yücesoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Mandoob
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Playing Sacred: The Camp Aesthetics of Feminist and Queer Art
Anthony Petro is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University.
The Eurasian Studies Seminar presents "Exiles, Zeks, and Theologians Evaluating Dostoevsky's House of the Dead"
Elizabeth Blake, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Saint Louis University in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
"An Art of Immersion: Matisse’s Oceanic Escapes"
Dr. John Klein, Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Panel on the Vital Role of the Arts and Sciences in Public Health: Reconceiving the Sexual and Reproductive Body
TRIADS Speaker Series with Catherine Knight Steele
The Power of Buttons
A pop-up workshop engaging the St. Louis community with a small but powerful public text: the pin-back button.
Walter Johnson: On Racial Capitalism (Redux)
Join the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) for a lecture and discussion with Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (2020) which was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times prize for History and the National Circle Book Critics award for Nonfiction. Johnson is a founding member of the Commonwealth Project, which brings together academics, artists, and activists in an effort to imagine, foster, and support revolutionary social change, beginning in St. Louis. Reception to follow.
Asia in St. Louis: Stories of Community Building and Resilience
A forum on the contributions of the Asian American community to St. Louis
Visiting Hurst Professor: Santanu Das - Lecture
"The Sepoy Body in the First World War: The Archive, the Empire, and the Library"
The War on Black Birthing Bodies: A conversation about historical and present harm of Black women in the field of obstetrics and gynecology
The Department of African & African American Studies is honored to present AFAS alumna Dr. Heather Skanes. Dr. Skanes will be delivering a talk entitled "The War on Black Birthing Bodies: A Conversation About the Historical and Present Harms of Black Women in the Field of Obstetrics and Gynecology."
4.18.24
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Hillman 60
"The International War on Drugs" Sigma Iota Rho Town Hall
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Visiting Hurst Professor: Santanu Das - Seminar
"The Colour of Memory: India, Empire, and a War Hospital"
Workshop on Politics, Ethics and Society: René Esparza
Special Collections Open House
Stepping through the Mirror: Identity, Choice, and Dismantling Preconceptions, Seen through the Prism of an Expat American Living in Ukraine during the 1990s
A Eurasian Studies Seminar and Global Studies Speaker Series event
The Right to Read
High school reporters, librarians, educators and booksellers — Banned Books Fellows report on how various communities have responded to book bans across the U.S., as well as the frequent targets of bans.
The strategic reader: capturing voices, revealing perspectives
Lecture by Joe MacDonald, Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation at the Olin Business School
With Heart and Humor: A Screening with Julia Lindon
Julia Lindon (WashU class of 2013) has worked on Saturday Night Live (NBC), Ted Lasso (Apple), Survival of the Thickest (Netflix), and In the Know (Peacock).
Chinese-language Tour of Special Exhibitions
To Academia or Not to Academia?
Grad school = being a professor, right? Well... (in-person only)
MFA Readings
Second-year MFA students read from their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Slow Violence: French Nuclear Imperialism in Film and Literature
Please join us for a lecture by Professor Jill Jarvis, Associate Professor of French at Yale University, and a screening of Amira Khalfallah’s award-winning short film, Esseghayra (Miss) (2020), followed by an artist-scholar discussion and Q&A.
Retina Burn 2024
The students of the Lighting Technology class will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
Artistic Research at Tyson
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Student Q&A with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
"Becoming" Tea
Thinking of applying to graduate school or pursuing a career in academia?
Feathers and Facepaint: The Making of Redface in American Theatre
Bethany Hughes, Assistant Professor of American Culture, Native American Studies Program, University of Michigan
Special Exhibitions
A Masterclass with Christine Goerke, soprano
Free and open to the public!
Virtual Book Club: ‘Endpapers’
2024 Humanist Games
Join us for this year's Humanist Games to celebrate the end of the spring semester!
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2024
WashU scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to jump-start their summer writing.
McLeod Lecture on Higher Education: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Save the date! Khalil Gibran Muhammad is Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.