"Enthymeme and Emotion from Aristotle to Hoccleve"

Visiting Hurst Professor Percival Everett lectures on the craft of fiction

"Constellation, an Improvisation" by K.J. Holmes

Visiting Hurst Professor Percival Everett reads from his fiction

“The Ever-Modern University”

"The Book as Artifact"

"woke"

“Educating to Innovate: The Liberal Arts in the 21st Century”

Sex Trafficking Panel Discussion

Rickey Laurentiis and Phillip B. Williams read from their poetry

"Facing Ferguson: Reflecting on Racial Innocence"

“Arts & Sciences: The Heart of a University”

"Chinese Constitutionalism at the Crossroads: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects”

Day of Discovery & Dialogue

Labor Trafficking Panel Discussion

"Hip Hop and Asia"

"Robert Heinecken's Photograms"

Visiting Hurst Professor Dan Beachy-Quick reads from his poetry

"Foreign Language Colloquium Workshop: An Integrated Approach to FL Teaching and Assessment"

"Abstraction and Race at Mid-Century: Comparing Histories of Art and Design"

Panel Discussion on Histories of Art and Design

"Foreign Language Colloquium Lecture: L1-Induced Facilitation in L2 Reading Development"

"Identity, Language and Literature in the Caribbean"

"Gawping, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies"

Dan Beachy-Quick lectures on the craft of poetry

"'Everyday Problems and Everyday Things': Selling Scandinavian Design in Mid-Century America"

Screening & Discussion: "The Bronze"

"Family Papers: A Sephardi Journey through the 20th Century"

"Artists, Scholars, and Mothers: Gender Roles in the Ongoing Evolution of Traditional Music in South Korea”

"New Approaches to Islam's Formation: An Arabic Papyrus from the Early Islamic Period"

Screening & Discussion: "The True Cost"

Joshua Cohen reads from his fiction

"The Black Muslim Encounter and Why It Matters"

"On Medieval Islamic Talismans"

Beth Bachmann reads from her poetry

"Black Activism in the Academy: What Can You Do from Where You Are?"

Screening & Discussion: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

"Hearing Is Believing: Children, Disability, American Radio and Popular Culture, 1910-1970"

Walton O. Schalick, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medical History, Rehabilitation, History of Science and Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Using scripts, recordings and archival supporting documentation, Schalick explores the shifting, widespread and often dramatic appearance of disabilities in American radio culture in the 1910s–70s. What emerges is a provocative sense of how important this cultural medium was as a “backdrop” to the increasingly changing place of disability in American life, with children as one locus of that cultural uptake. 

“Global Inequalities: Reflections on Economic Citizenship”

"Hypersexualization or Sexual Agency?"

Structural Racism, Power and Privilege: Residential Segregation and School Resegregation Symposium

"Many Hands Make Light Work: Towards a Digital Book of English"

"The Last Survivor: Listening to Italians Who Lived through Fascism and World War II"

Title IX Panel - Sexual Assault Awareness Month

African Film Festival

"Endurance, Ephemerality: Art and the Passage of Time"

"Temporalities of Impressionism: Painting at the Speed of Consciousness"

Special advanced screening of 'Everybody Wants Some!!'

"Reconstruction Relived: Communists, the South, and Racial Anxiety during the Great Depression"

"Transnational Dissonance: Yvonne Venegas' 'María Elvia de Hank' series"

"Gods, Puppets, and Robots: The Ghost in Japanese Theatre’s Machine"

"Sex Trading and Trafficking in Community Context: Action Research, Prevention, and Dignity"

Gallery talk on 19th-century American landscape painting

"The Moral Treatment of Ambition: Passions, Politics and Mental Illness at the Early 19th Century"

"Taking It Personally: Why Gender Violence Is an Issue for Everyone"

Screening & Discussion: "Wadjda"

"The Dynamic Welfare State"

"Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition—From Antiquity to Modernity and Back"

“From Washington University to the White House”

“Grit: Passion and Perseverance for Long-Term Goals”

"Rethinking the Long Reformation: Purity, Purgation, and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World"

Religion in the Public Sphere: Case Studies in Hope and Stress

First Book Information Session and Workshop

"Intersection of Aging and the Arts for Health and Wellbeing"

First Book Information Session and Workshop

"Taiwan Is Not China: Aborigines, Colonial Rulers and Democratization in the History of the Beautiful Island"

"The Future of Memory: A Queer Decolonial Approach"

First Book Information Session and Workshop

“Reflections: Unity, Social Justice & Peace”

francine j. harris reads from her poetry

Taming Hazards conference

"Movement, Exchange, and Belonging in the Hispanic World"

Chamber Project St. Louis presents "American Renegade," featuring Nicole Aldrich

Heart Strums featuring Hossein Alizadeh and Hossein Behroozinia

Lecture and Workshop with Hossein Alizadeh

Lucia Stecher

"On Africa and 'New World' Blackness"

"The Rise and Fall of 'Theory' in the Humanities"

Distinguished Humanities Lectures

“The History of Race as Mobilized in Contemporary Popular Music in Dominca”

"Tea, Women & Civilization in 18th Century Scotland"

"The Problem with Modernity"

Ander Monson reads from his nonfiction

"New American Classics," featuring Chris Grymes, clarinet and Xak Bjerken, piano, with special guest Scott Andrews, clarinet

"The Best Show in Town, Straight from the Countryside"

"China’s Porcelain Capital: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen"

"Considering Systemic Injustice in Light of 'Making a Murderer'"

Liederabend, featuring Amy Owens, soprano and Kirt Pavitt, piano

"Legalizing Sin: Moral Reckoning around Abortion Among Catholic Women in Mexico City After Recent Legalization"

"Ugly Intimacy: Racial Policing and Gun Violence"

"The History of Capitalism in the Anthropocene"

“Clothed/Unclothed: Laura Aguilar’s Radical Vulnerability”

William H. Gass Symposium: International Writing

“‘Filipino Seekers of Fortune’: Music, Labor, and Empire in Colonial Asia”

"‘Filipino Seekers of Fortune’: Music, Labor, and Empire in Colonial Asia”

"Between the World and You: Our Duty to Fight for Freedom"

Dedication of the Douglas B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library

Lecture by Professor Douglas B. Dowd

"A Runaway World? Food and Class in the 2nd Millennium BC"

Symposium on American illustration and consumer culture

"Organized Complexity: The Novel and the City”

Teaching East Asia Lecture

"Paris Is Burning" - Film screening & discussion

Visiting Hurst Professor Lynne Tillman reads from her fiction

Visiting Hurst Professor Lynne Tillman lectures on the craft of fiction

A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

Screening: "The Battle for the Arab Viewer"

Library Virtuality, Virtuosity and Virtuousness: Do Students and Researchers Still Need Libraries?

ultant and published author who focuses on the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs and library cooperation.

“What Would Have Happened If? A Debate on Alternate Histories of the Ancient World”

"Perspectives on the Presidential Debate: Bridging Understanding"

"Administration, City Planning and Policing in Imperial and Metropolitan Perspectives: Or, Liverpool as an African City?"

"The Erotics of Tears: Moving Beyond Pornographies of Woundedness"

“Frankenstein,” the Vital Force, and Electricity

Robin Coste Lewis reads from her poetry

"Presidential Candidates’ National and Foreign Policies"

"Gender, Colonialism, and Transatlantic Sex-Trafficking in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature"

"Birth of a Dancing Nation: The Life, Writings, and Choreography of Ted Shawn"

Danforth Dialogues: Envisioning the Future of Religion and Politics in America

"Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America"

Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship Program 25th Anniversary & Celebration

"Provisional Notes on ‘Afronormativity’ and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa"

Spotlight Talk: Elizabeth C. Childs

What Is Can Xue’s Experimental Literature?

“Cuba in Revolution: Ten Iconoclastic Theses”

The topic of the Cuban Revolution is highly controversial and is usually approached from polarized and politicized perspectives. In this presentation, Luis Martínez-Fernández explains his efforts to produce a balanced portrayal of Cuba’s revolutionary process, efforts that required confronting long-standing myths upheld by both detractors and supporters.

"Looking for Lorraine: The Enduring Legacy of a Path-Breaking Playwright"

“Composing Within the Lines, Working Behind the Scenes: Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Dick Vance’s Arrangements for 'At the Bal Masque' (1958)”

“The Spiritual Legacy of Jimmy Carter”

“Spiritual Values and the 2016 Election”

"From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation"

"What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Race, Social Movements and the 2016 Presidential Race"

Rio de Janeiro and the World: Marc Ferrez, Photographic Mobility and International Modernity

"Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms"

Leipzig 1843: An Evening with the Schumanns

Cole Swensen Reads From Her Poetry

"Passing Strange"

"Provisional Notes on 'Afronormativity' and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa"

“The New Field of Afro-Latin American Studies”

"Participation in Reading Locality: Urban Spaces, Regions, Margins"

"God/Sex/War"

“Why Don’t Universities Support Racial Equality?”

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Debate about such issues as affirmative action, university reparations and renaming units like the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton have convinced many people that American universities are centers of egalitarian thought and practice about race relations. But is this reputation deserved? This lecture surveys the evidence that universities are now contributing to the resegregation of the United States, discusses why this is happening, and suggests how universities could instead help fix racial disparity.

About the speaker

Christopher Newfield is professor of literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He brings an interdisciplinary background to the analysis of a range of topics in American Studies, innovation theory, and “critical university studies,” a field which he helped to found. Chris’ books include Mapping Multiculturalism (edited with Avery Gordon), The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America (Chicago, 1996), Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 (Duke, 2003), and Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard, 2008). His writing covers American political psychology, race relations, the future of solar energy, and the power of humanities-based investigation. He teaches courses on Detective Fiction, Global California, Innovation Studies, Critical Theory, the Future of Higher Education, and English Majoring After College among others. He blogs on higher education funding and policy at Remaking the University, the Huffington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and is completing a book called "Lowered Education: What to Do About Our Downsized Future."

"Boxing Wonder: Joseph Cornell and the Tradition of the Curiosity Cabinet"

"Faith and Power: Religion and the American Presidency from the Founding to Trump v. Clinton"

"Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China"

"The Loss of All Lost Things"

"Global City Futures: Desire and Development in Singapore"

Gallery Talk: Allison Unruh

Visiting Hurst Professor Cole Swensen lectures on the craft of poetry

"Segregation by Design"

A collection of haunting and astonishing portraits of African-American life will accompany the book-in-progress Segregation by Design: Conversations for Action and Collected Essay. Working in concert with Catalina Freixas (Washington University) and Mark Abbott (Harris-Stowe), Lacks’ photographs illustrate topics around the issue of segregation.

The book project is the result of two additional projects: an undergraduate course, Segregation by Design, and a series of conversations among scholars from regional institutions, members of nonprofit organizations and government agencies were recorded and later curated as a collection of conversations on American Apartheid.

The course Segregation by Design is supported by The Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation and coordinated by the Center for the Humanities in partnership with the Sam Fox School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design. The gatherings Freixas and Abbott hosted were funded through the Office of the Provost’s Bring Your Own Idea program. The book is funded by the WashU Ferguson Academic Seed Fund through the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost and WashU Libraries, as well as a Sam Fox School Creative Research Activity Grant.

CONTACT: Catalina Freixas, freixas@wustl.edu

“Dvořák, Race and His American Legacy”

"'The Enemy Within': Lawrence Klein, the Politics of the Economy and the Limits of Neoliberalism"

"Seeing Slavery in American Children's Literature"

Once a significant tool of both anti- and pro-slavery advocates, American children’s literature has continued to encapsulate and present often vying definitions of nationhood and race. Beginning with early 1790 illustrations and ending with current controversial texts -- such as A Birthday Cake for George Washington (2016) -- this presentation will explore how visual representations of slavery have been used to educate children on issues of race in America. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paula Connolly, Professor of English, UNC-Charlotte, is the author of Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010 and Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia.

"Holocaust or Genocide: Uniqueness and Universality"

Read German literature and Jewish studies scholar Erin McGlothlin's related article: "The Holocaust and the 'Whew' Effect." 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

DORIS BERGEN is the author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich and numerous articles on issues of religion, gender and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II. Bergen earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1991, and has taught at the universities of Notre Dame and Vermont. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 

"Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940"

Transgender Spectrum Conference: "Education, Liberation and Healing"

"Sex in America, Then and Now: The Lasting Legacy of Masters and Johnson"

"The Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of Its Crew"

Film Screening: "From This Day Forward"

"How and Why Darwin Got Emotional about Race"

Screening: "The Koran: Back to the Origins of the Book"

"Striking Poses: The Tensions of Black Refusal in a Photographic Frame"

“Disruptors, Influencers, Makers: Media Studies at the Crossroads”

John T. Caldwell explores contemporary media practices alongside examples from the speaker’s recent ethnographic fieldwork to address the ways that the commercial digital media enterprise has adopted and mainstreamed the very terms that arts and humanities scholars have employed to critically and systematically “shake-down” a succession of new media forms that have emerged over the past half-century.

Organized by Film and Media Studies.

“Politics and the City”

The year 2016 marks the 10-year anniversary of Washington University’s City Seminar, a forum that brings together scholars from the St. Louis region across disciplines to share research methods, theories, and emerging projects on cities, urbanization and urban issues.

To commemorate the series — in an important election year — the fall 2016 program will comprise a roundtable discussion that takes stock of the contemporary city as a space where citizenship matters and rights can be constructed (Harvey). Some might argue, despite a polarizing presidential campaign at the federal level, party divisions remain blurred in cities. In many places, ideological debates over citizenship and what rights or responsibilities citizenship confers, or who is excluded from those rights, are brisk and hard-fought. In other places, privatization of services and urban spaces, as well as expanding or contracting housing and labor markets, have obscured or sidelined political debates. The City Seminar hopes to spur a new conversation about the relationship between cities—or the imagined urban—and politics.

The City Seminar roundtable will convene a cross-disciplinary panel to discuss the status of the city in the new millennium: Citizenship, policy, markets, and the roles, scales and potentials of the public sector, urban spaces and built environments. 

CONTACT: Tila Neguse, tneguse@wustl.edu

“Theater That Builds Bridges, Theater That Chronicles Our Time”

"Sexploration at Washington University in St. Louis: The Legacy of Masters and Johnson in Sexuality Research and Clinical Practice"

"At the Fair: Music from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition"

“Black or White? The Early Work of Pierre Soulages, C.1948-1955”

"Lunar Landscapes and the Loniliness of Exile: Writing Mexico during World War II"

"Obedience and Resistance: Principles for Ethical Living"

"Thinking It"

"The Organization of Life in Ancient and Early Medieval China: Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Approaches"

"Lying Signs: Gender, Anatomy and Desire in Phaedrus's 'Fabulae'"

Dennis Stroughmatt et l'Esprit Creole

"Performing Global Cultures in Early Modern Lisbon"

Ensemble 32, Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Andrew Zhou, pianos

"Wounds of Charity, Haitian Immigrants and Corporate Catholicism in Boston"

"Sex Trafficking in St. Louis"

"Protests in Lebanon: The 'Trash Uprising' and the End of the Post-War Republic"

Open to the public and free, the talk is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.

Synopsis
In August 2015, mounds of garbage piled up in major Lebanese cities, leading to the biggest non-sectarian protest since the end of the civil war (1991). For a couple of weeks in August and September, Beirut witnessed daily demonstrations, often turning violent, protesting against the corruption of the government. What started as a localized protest against the government’s mismanagement of the waste management sector quickly turned into a crisis of legitimacy of the political system. In a context of global uprisings and regional revolutions, the short-lived protest movement signaled the entry of Lebanon in the current global cycle of discontent. The country did not witness a major upheaval similar to what happened in neighboring countries, but similar processes of de-legitimization of the established political orders are taking place. The talk will examine what came to be known as the “trash uprising,” by locating it in its historical trajectory before presenting some of its afterlives. Through an examination of the protest movement, the talk will put the Lebanese ‘trash uprising’ in conversation with the global wave of protests that started in 2011, in order to probe the changing contours of the present and its discontent.

Biography
Samer Frangie is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration and the director of the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut. His research is at the intersection of the intellectual history of the Arab world and political theory, and examines the history of the Arab left. He has published a number of articles dealing with various aspects of the history of the Arab left, in journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Modern Intellectual History, Third Quarterly and Thesis Eleven among others. He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled The Politics of the Aftermath: Tradition, Tragedy and Temporalityin the Lebanese Left. Aside from his academic work, he is a frequent contributor to the pan-Arab daily newspaper, al-Hayat.

"Can You Have It All?"

"Drawing Sex: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Commix, and Child Sexuality"

"Anatomy and Aporia in Galen’s On the Construction of Fetuses"

"No Place Lie Home: Unique Housing Challenges for Women Experiencing Homelessness in St. Louis"

"Critical Mass"

"Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising"

"Khwaja Sira Politics: Gender Ambiguity in Everyday Life and Activism in Pakistan"

"The U.S. Deportation Machine and Its Uneven Consequences for Latin America"

"Work as Worship: Emerson’s Emancipating Religious and Political Journey"

"'I Don't Believe We've had the Pleasure': Introducing Sex Positivity into Sexual Education"

"Magic Lantern Shows and Early Screen Practice in Colonial Taiwan"

“Beyond the Basics: Community Experts Explore the Intersection of Commercial Sexual Exploitations and Weak Institutions”

"Refusing Optimism: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Anti-blackness, and the Ethics of Anguish"

Equal Play: Celebrating Women Composers

Kling Fellowship Information Session

"The Art and Politics of African-American Faith"

"What does FREEDOM mean? How do we think about freedom with/through our bodies?"

"The Price of Success? The Influence of Equal Rights in Social Movement Identity Strategies"

"Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS" - Library Faculty Book Talk

Jennifer Grotz reads from her poetry

“The Art and Science of Self Control: How to Act in Your Long-Term Best Interests”

"Black & Blue" - Black Anthology

"Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: Kurban Said's 'Ali and Nino' (1937) as World Literature"

"The Sole of Pantalone: Shakespeare and the Masks of the Commedia Dell'Arte"

"Security, Policy, and Military Power in Japan"

"Creativity and the Resting Brain"

"Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice Symposium: From Standing Rock to St. Louis"

Works-in-Progress: A Graduate Student Symposium Series

"The Humanities After 2016: What Do We Want to Become?" - Faculty Book Celebration

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The year 2016 marked a dramatic turning point politically. Now, more than ever, the priority for scholars in the humanities must be to transform how we educate future generations of doctorally trained humanists for careers in the academy and throughout the larger humanities workforce.

We need a model of education that is adequate to the lived realities of the academy, now and to come; to the energies of students who choose to pursue a doctorate; and to the intellectual, affective and social attachments that drive the pursuit of excellence in scholarly inquiry and committed teaching. The “new normal” in the everyday life of academic humanists will require us to become intellectually nimble, energetically collaborative, pedagogically imaginative, and flexible in communicating our intellectual passions and our values in an era of open access and narrowing appreciation for liberal arts education. Transforming how we conceptualize academic work will contribute to creating a new narrative about how humanists work with others in the academy and how we contribute to the hard work, pleasures and reflective insights of humanities-related activities outside it.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sidonie Smith is author of Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times, her contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the humanities in the 21st century. She is a past president of the Modern Language Association of America (2010). Smith's fields of specialization are autobiography studies, narrative and human rights, feminist theories and women's studies in literature.

Ron Mallon
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The Construction of Human Kinds (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Sowande’ Mustakeem
Assistant Professor of History and African and African-American Studies
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (University of Illinois Press, 2016)

RELATED EVENT

Panel Discussion: “Identity Narratives in Anti-Identity Times”

Tuesday, February 7, 12 pm
Washington University, Olin Library, Room 142

featuring

Sidonie Smith, Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker
Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Melanie Micir, Assistant Professor of English
Erin McGlothlin, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies
Long Le-Khac, Assistant Professor of English

RSVPs appreciated to cenhum@wustl.edu. Co-sponsored by University Libraries.

Making [Trans] Media Panel Discussion

Screening & Discussion: "Princess Mononoke"

"The Double Life of Superimposition: W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Christ Cycle"

"Late Moves: Music and Creativity Near the End of Life"

"Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan’s Past"

"We Don't Already Understand the Outlines of Literary History"

"No Human Right to Sodomy: The Christian Right and SOGI Human Rights"

Lunar New Year Festival

"Academic Theorizing Badly on (SOGI) Human Rights"

"North Korean Refugee to American Citizen: Grace Jo’s Story"

"Sonny Meets Hawk!: Contesting Jazz's Identity Through Intergenerational Musical Collaboration"

"The Science (and Art) of Later Life Creativity"

Kanye West and the Impossibility of Black Genius

"Between Islamophobia and Homophobia: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberal Engagements with Islam"

More details to come.

Organized by Aria Daniel Nakissa, assistant professor of Islamic studies, Jewish Islamic & Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Program: arianakissa@wustl.edu

Joseph Massad teaches and writes about modern Arab politics and intellectual history. He has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998. He is the author ofDesiring Arabs (2007), which was awarded the Lionel Trilling Book Award;The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001).  His book Daymumat al-Mas’alah al-Filastiniyyahwas published by Dar Al-Adab in 2009, and La persistance de la question palestinienne was published by La Fabrique in 2009. The Arabic translation of Desiring Arabs was published in 2013 by Dar Al-Shuruq Press in Cairo under the title Ishtiha’ Al-‘Arab.

His latest book is Islam in Liberalism, University of Chicago Press, 2015, and his latest articles are “The Cultural Work of Recovering Palestine,”Boundary 2, Volume 42, No. 4, November 2015, 187-219, “El Trabajo cultural de recuperar la Palestina,” in En-claves, Mexico, Fall 2015, “Recognizing Palestine, BDS, and the Survival of Israel,” in Ashley Dawson and Bill Mullen, eds., Academic Freedom and BDS, Haymarket Books, 2015, “Egypt’s Propaganda and the Gaza Massacre,” in Laila El-Haddad and Refaat Alareer, eds., Unsilenced: Reflections and Responses to Israel's 2014 Attacks, Just World Books, 2015, “Orientalism as Occidentalism,” History of the Present, Winter 2015, “Olvidar el Semitismo,” Revista Foro Internacional, Mexico, July-September 2014, Vol. LIV, No. 3, 696-737, “Love, Fear, and the Arab Spring,” Public Culture, Winter 2014, 129-154, and “Forget Semitism!,” in Elisabeth Weber, editor,Living Together. Jacques Derrida's Communities of Peace and Violence, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), 59-79.

His articles have appeared in many journals, including Public Culture, Interventions, Social Text, Middle East Journal, Psychoanalysis and History, Critique, Umbr(a), and the Journal of Palestine Studies, and he writes frequently for Al-Ahram Weekly, Al-Akhbar, and Al-Jazeera English. He teaches courses on modern Arab culture, psychoanalysis in relation to civilization and identity, gender and sexuality in the Arab world, and Palestinian-Israeli politics and society, with seminars on Nationalism in the Middle East as Idea and Practice, and also on Orientalism and Islam.

Symposium and Masterclass with Ralph Towner

"Be the Designer of Your World: Thoughts About the Process"

Keyboard Fest

"Dostoevsky and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Two Ex-Cons on Justice Delayed and Denied"

"Art Inspiring Music: Paris at the Turn of the 19th Century"

Screening & Discussion: "Spirited Away"

“Circus Maximus: Crime Time and Prime Time in Contemporary Italian Society and Media"

"The Legacy and Challenges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia"

“U.S.-China Relations"

"The God Debate: Does God Exist? Does It Even Matter?"

Henri Cole reads from his poetry

"The Sustainable Development Goals: Toward Better Living Standards for Everyone”

Screening & Discussion: "Sakithi Vibrations"

"French Film at the Turn of the Century: Spectacles de curiosité"

"The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and International Law"

"Executive Orders: The Living Legacy of Japanese American Internment"

“The Changing Status of the Tamil Parai Drum: From Untouchable to Dalit”

"The Dynamics of African-American Identity and the Implications for Health and Well-Being"

"Create or Perish; Innovate or Die: The Power and Promise of the Rise of Innovation Ecosystems in Middle America"

"Vulture in a Cage: Ibn Gabirol in His World"

Mitt Romney in conversation with WashU Law Faculty

"Red Sea Exchanges, Agricultural Shifts, and Domestic Chickens in Ancient Africa"

"Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship and Indigeneity in the Old Northwest"

"Francis of Assisi on Eating and Worshipping with Animals"

Christine Schutt reads from her fiction

"Listening, Muhabbet, and the Practice of Masculinity"

"Art Inspiring Dance: Discovering Loïe Fuller"

“Protecting LGBTQ+ Progress in Challenging Times”

"The Globalization of the Broadway Musical"

"Spectral Meter: Metric Cognition, Conflict, and Form in Grisey’s Vortex Temporum"

Academic Publishing: A Panel Discussion

Gallery Talk: (Re)presenting Heroes, Defining Virtue

"The Digital Future of Early Christian Studies: Utopian, Apocalyptic and Apocryphal"

“An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story” Film Screening and Panel Discussion

"Where the Pipelines End: Water, Urban Development and Resilience in Delhi"

"Imagining Nationalism at the Borderlands: Greater Somalia and the Struggle over Decolonization in Kenya (1955-1963)"

"(Writing in a) small language, (living a) slow life"

“Mumbo Jumbo: The (In)Audibility of Kanye West"

Jews and Muslims Turn Hate to Humanity: Interfaith Collaboration in Times of Religious Violence

"How Bad Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Policy and Racial Typing in the Making of U.S. Citizens"

"Hymns for the Fallen" - Library Faculty Book Talk

Christine Schutt lectures on the craft of fiction

"Disruption Restoration: Illustration and Plot in the 17th Century Chinese Short Story"

"Speak"

"Soccer Without Borders"

"Sacrifice and Utopia in the Anthropocene"

"Star Wars IV: A New Hope" Screening

"Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution"

"Listening Against: Disobedience & U.S. Popular Music in Filipino America"

“Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scholarly Communication”

"Mediated by Images: Entertainment and Experience in Fin-de-Siècle Montmartre"

"Chinese and British Diplomatic Gifts in the Macartney Embassy of 1793"

"The History of The Closet"

Terrance Hayes reads from his poetry

“Violent Sensations: Sex, Murder, and the Self in Modern Central Europe”

Screening & Discussion: "Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices"

Interested in Careers in the Entertainment Industry?

"Labor and Progressive Global Economic Policy in the Trump Era"

"Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in the Sinophone World"

"Liberty, Equality, Hostility - What's Up with France?"

“Music and Dance as Twin Cultural Icons in a Tamil Novel: Tillana Mohanambal”

Tennessee Williams Birthday Bash: Screening & Reception

"Biblical Themes, Muslim Artists"

"Empowering Migrant Women in the Netherlands: A Case Study of Hymenoplasty Consultations"

Jazz Band featuring Provost Holden Thorp and Joel Vanderheyden at Jazz at the Bistro

"American Protestants and the International Origins of the 1960s Democratic Revolution"

“Reading Both: Literary History and the Monolingual Model”

"Son of Soil"

"Expressive Excess: Representations of Women in 1920s Japanese Leftwing Art and Film"

“Linking Libraries to Promote and Preserve a City’s History: Creating the Chicago Collections Consortium”

“East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity”

Gallery Talk: Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha

Eggsploitation: a short film and discussion about the ethics of egg donation

"US-Russia Relations: Reset or Return to Cold War?"

"Sites Unseen"

Paul Lisicky reads from his nonfiction

"Freedom"

African Film Festival

The Spatial Turn

"Chinatowns as Global Laboratories: Lessons from Comparative Analysis"

"Child Witches in Navarre, 1550-1620: Law, Religion, and Families"

A Privilege to Be Objectified: Miss Angola Landmine

"Rouge Parole" Screening

"Healing a House Divided"

"Run Lola Run" Screening

"Jumping the Red Tape: Administrative workarounds, improvisation, and the social world of rumors in a Tanzanian hospital"

"Media Impact on the Female Body Image"