Interpolations 2026 Keynote Address
"Synergy or Survival?: On Mergers and Clusters in the Performing Arts"
Past Events
WashU Cinema Presents: Videodrome
Brown 100
Hispanic Film Festival: Yana-Wara
Film Screening + Discussion
Yana-Wara (2023) directed by Oscar Catacora and Tito Catacora
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | 5:30 Screening
Seigle L006
A&S Grad Fall Research Roundtable
This event is accessible to Arts & Sciences Graduate Students only.
McLeod Conference Room | Cupples II Room 102
WashU Law Panel Discussion/Q&A: Sexual Violence, Survivor Advocacy, and Accountability
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
A Fireside Chat with Lindsay Owens
Enjoy a lunch-and-learn session with visiting scholar, Lindsay Owens, and WashU Sociology.
Goldberg Formal Lounge | (Second Floor of the Danforth University Center)
Women Impressionists and the Land: A Talk by Simon Kelly
Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, will present Women Impressionists and the Land, the major exhibition he has curated for the museum.
Interested participants must RSVP using the link below our flyer.
Wrighton 300
Installation of Luis Salas as Tragos Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy
Clark-Fox Forum
The Jewish Body and The Valley Girl, 1982-Now
DUC Goldberg Formal Lounge
The Dead of Chaeronea: Unearthing a Lost Battlefield
George E. Mylonas Lecture in Greek Archaeology
Maria Liston, Professor Emerita, University of Waterloo
St. Louis Art Museum, Farrell Auditorium
Introducing: Affect Theory
“Introducing: Affect Theory” is part of a series of workshops meant to help faculty, graduate students and postdocs explore ideas and approaches.
Hillman Hall, Room 270
Humanities Graduate Workshop: Making mentorship effective
Umrath Hall, Room 201
Mean Girls
Edison Theatre
Hispanic Film Festival: Sou Amor
Film Screening + Discussion
Sou Amour (Love is Who I Am) (2023) directed by André Amparo and Cris Azzi
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 | 5:30 Screening
Seigle L006
Colloquium Series: Sherine Hamdy: "What can comics offer medical anthropology?"
Sherine Hamdy is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine. Her research interests focus on bioethics, medical anthropology, comics, Arab world, Egypt, SWANA diaspora in North America, narrative, ethno-fiction
McMillan Hall, G052
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership for a More Perfect Union: Lessons from America at 250
As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning Author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers a powerful reflection on our nation’s extraordinary journey—from the founding ideals of 1776 to the challenges and triumphs that have defined each generation. Cosponsored by the Weidenbaum Center.
Graham Chapel
Francophone Film Festival: Lovers on the Bridge
Film Screening
October 18, 2026 | 12:00 PM
Brown 100
Brown 100
Francophone Film Festival: Sisterhood
Film Screening
October 17, 2026 | 3:00 PM
Brown 100
Brown 100
Francophone Film Festival: Young Mothers
Film Screening
October 16, 2026 | 5:00 pm
Brown 100
Brown 100
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series Presents: Beyond Conversation - The Feedback Toolkit; Oral Corrective Feedback in the Language Classroom WORKSHOP
Workshop
Friday, October 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Eads 211
Eads Hall 211
The Feedback Toolkit: Oral Corrective Feedback in the Language Classroom (Workshop)
Presented by the Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series
Eads 211
Art + Medical Humanities Symposium - Unstable Evidence: Art, Data, and the Culture of Health
Unstable Evidence: Art, Data, and the Culture of Health is an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together the arts, medical humanities, and sciences to examine the visual, cultural, and scientific dimensions of health.
Holmes Lounge & Busch Hall 100
Beyond Conversation: Designing Effective Virtual Exchanges for Language Learning
Presented by the Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series
Hurst Lounge | Second floor of Duncker Hall
Humanities Faculty Happy Hour
For humanities faculty and postdocs
Orchid Room + Courtyard, Danforth University Center
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series Presents: Beyond Conversation - Designing Effective Virtual Exchanges for Language Learning
Thursday, October 15
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Hurst Lounge
Hurst Lounge | Duncker Hall (2nd Floor)
Francophone Film Festival: Homelessly in Love
Film Screening
October 14, 2026 | 5:00 PM
Seigle L006
Seigle L006
"Crisis," Uncertainty, and Immigration Restriction in the 1990s
Colloquium with Carly Goodman
Goldberg Formal Lounge | DUC (Danforth University Center)
Research 101 with the WashU Research Ambassador Program (WRAP)
Summer Public Humanities Symposium
The Center for the Humanities Public Humanities Fellows will present the findings of their summer research projects.
DUC 276
Middle East - North Africa Film Series Presents Theeb
Busch Hall 100
Symposium Poster Design Workshop
January Hall 110
Francophone Film Festival: Promised Sky
Film Screening
October 11, 2026 | 12:00 PM
Brown 100
Brown 100
Francophone Film Festival: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Film Screening
October 10, 2026 | 3:00 PM
Brown 100
Brown 100
Francophone Film Festival: Souleymane's Story
Film Screening
Oct 9, 2026 5:00 pm
Brown 100
Brown 100
WashU Cinema Presents: Memories of Murder
Brown 100
Devon Carbado on Labor
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
Umrath Lounge
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Samantha Noelle Sheppard, “‘Was She Seeking Cinema?’: Tisa Bryant’s Phantom Cinemas”, Inaugural Event in the Annual Gaylyn Studlar Lecture Series
Seigle Room 301
Book Launch: Chris Dingwall’s “Black Designers in Chicago”
Olin Library, Room 142
Matheson Workshop—Michael Hardt: Marx On Machines
Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author with Antonio Negri of several books, including Empire (Harvard UP, 2000). His most recent book is The Subversive Seventies (Oxford UP, 2023).
Eads 116
Matheson Lecture—Michael Hardt: Labor and the Automation of 'Intelligence'
Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author with Antonio Negri of several books, including Empire (Harvard UP, 2000). His most recent book is The Subversive Seventies (Oxford UP, 2023).
Hurst Lounge | Second floor of Duncker Hall
Anthropalooza!
Join us for Anthropalooza! to explore what it means to be human.
Jill's (McMillan) Courtyard
WashU Sociology's Fall 2026 Colloquium Series: Erin Cech
The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.
Seigle Hall, Room 109
International Conference of Undergraduate Research 2026
Attend the International Conference of Undergraduate Research's Annual Global Conference and Support Participating WashU Researchers
DUC 239 and DUC 233
Fraught Femininity: Sex Work, Transphobia, and Lipstick Regulation
How does lipstick’s colorful past—and present— relate to sex work, class, and transphobic policies? In this panel, Lipstick author and Washington University Professors Eileen G’Sell, Adrienne Davis, Tamsin Kimoto, and Brenda Dvoskin will explore beauty culture’s most controversial tool.
Bryan Cave Moot Court - Room 301 | Danforth Campus - Washington University
The Fanny and Dr. Adolfo Rizzo Endowed Lecture Series Presents: Colonial Resonances - Listening to the Chorus Brasilicus
Featuring Lisa Voigt from Yale University
Eads 216
Conversation on the Value of the Humanities in the Age of AI
Seigle Hall, Room 304
WashU Cinema Presents: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Brown 100
Hispanic Film Festival: Beloved Tropic
Film Screening + Discussion
Beloved Tropic (Querído Trópico) (2023) directed by Ana Endara
Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 5:30 Screening
Seigle L006
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Rebecca Wanzo, “Liberation Among the Stars: Black Fandom and Racial Capitalism”
(co-sponsorship with Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Seigle Room 301
Humanities Graduate Workshop: How to Write an Academic Cover Letter
Umrath Hall, Room 201
Documentary Screening and Story Workshop: The Returning Tide
We hope you will join us for this two-day event featuring a Documentary screening of The Returning Tide, a film on East Asian grassroots feminist movements since Beijing 1995, and a Story Workshop on diasporic feminist and queer experiences
The Odyssey Wars: Nolan, Homer, and Reimaginings
Seigle L006
The Tradwife as a Problem for Research
Workshop with Sarah Brouillette, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
The Odyssey Wars: Nolan, Homer, and Reimaginings
Seigle L006
Platform Fiction
Lecture by Sarah Brouillette, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Book Launch: “Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb” by Kiara Wyndham
Join us at Left Bank Books for a conversation, audience Q&A, and book signing to celebrate the launch of Diversityland by Professor Kiara Wyndham.
Left Bank Books
100 Years of the History PhD Program
Since 1926, the History Department has educated generations of scholars, teachers, public historians, and leaders. Join us as we celebrate one hundred years of research, discovery, and community.
Umrath Lounge | Umrath Hall
2026 A. E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival
For nearly 30 years, the WashU Performing Arts Department has produced the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival in support and development of new student plays.
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
2026 Morrin Lecture: A Conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Through the Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture series we continue to teach our students that theatre does not simply entertain, but in fact emboldens us to make change.
Emerson Auditorium & Frick Forum, Knight Hall
Hispanic Film Festival: Chinas
Film Screening + Discussion
Chinas (2023) directed by Arantxa Echeverría
Thursday, September 17, 2026 | 5:30 Screening
Seigle L006
Davarian L. Baldwin on University and Community
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
What Do You Need to Know About Iran to Understand the World Today: Studying with JIMES Helps
DUC Goldberg Formal Lounge
Advocacy, Objectivity and Method
A Forum to Discuss the WashU/Vanderbilt Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum + Zoom
WashU Sociology's Fall 2026 Colloquium Series: Nina Bandelj
The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.
Seigle Hall, Room 109
After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary: A conversation with author Prof. Erica Moiah James
Join us for a conversation with Professor Erica Moiah James.
ZOOM
WashU Cinema Presents: Clueless
Brown 100
Modeling Alternatives: A conversation with Candace Borders and Sarah Rose
Steinberg Hall Gallery, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Angela Davis on Academic Freedom
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
Graham Chapel
WashU Sociology's Fall 2026 Colloquium Series: Scott Duxbury
The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.
Seigle 109
WashU Cinema Presents: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Brown 100
2026 ACLS Fellowship proposal external review deadline
ACLS Fellowship proposal external review for faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
What Remains: Artifacts, Memory, and Stories of Place
This two-part workshop explores place, memory, and identity through guided discussion, a gallery tour, and hands-on bookmaking.
Kemper Museum Lobby
Flowers, Trees and Forests in Early Chinese and Byzantine Encomium Literature
Online via Zoom
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2026
A motivated, supportive and collaborative atmosphere for WashU humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty, postdocs and graduate students to jump-start their summer writing
Center for the Humanities, various
Indigenous Health Summit
The summit will be held at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center at the Washington University Medical School Campus on May 5, 2026, from 4PM to 8PM.
Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
Abraham Taylor Reparative Research Symposium
RSVP Below
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall | Washington University Danforth Campus
AFAS SENIOR SHOWCASE: Humanizing the Black Experience
Time in Literary Studies
Workshop with Sanja Bahun, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Modernism and Home, with Notes on Method
Lecture with Sanja Bahun, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Classics Student Research Colloquium
Umrath 140
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
Retina Burn 2026
The Performing Arts Department invites you to join the students of the Lighting Technology class as they put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
Edison Theatre
Disability Anthropology x The Engaged City Showcase
Love St. Louis? Want to celebrate and explore the accessibility of its cultural assets?
McMillan Hall, 150, 101 and Courtyard | McMillan 150 can be accessed via the stairs or ramp adjacent to McMillan Courtyard.
Global Postdoc Pathways
Virtual - Register for link
Spring 2026 Final Showings
The end of the semester means opportunities for our students to put into practice what they have been learning in class.
PROTECTION, POWER & PREVENTION: Community Conversations about Sexual Health
4510 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, MO Food provided.
Screening: Black Box Diaries (2024)
Seigle 109
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 8
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Distinguished Visiting Scholar: Dr. David Tumusiime - "Protected Areas and People in Uganda: Moving Towards Win-Win?"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
RHINO 50th Anniversary Reading
English Department graduate students, alumni, and friends celebrate 50 years of poetry
Bel Air Social | 4630 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO 63108
2026 STL Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Wilson 214
Philosophy Art Expo: Cattywampus
Alivia Li & Delanie Osborne
Wilson Hall
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Who's Afraid of Imprecise Sexes?
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
Spring 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Join us!
Frick Forum (1st Floor of Bauer/Knight Halls)
Medical Humanities Film Screening: Nino
Presented by Dr. Kat Haklin & students in French 3760 Cinema & Society: Screening Health (film in French with English subtitles)
Busch 100 | Busch Hall
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Alice Lovejoy "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War”
(co-sponsorship with Environmental Studies)
Seigle Room 106
Department of Music Lecture: Brian Wright, Associate Professor of Music History at University of North Texas
Brian Wright, Associate Professor of Music History at University of North Texas
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Translating Malagasy Literature: Book Launch and Conversation with author Raharimanana and translator Allison Charette
Hillman Hall 300
Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellow Senior Symposium
This year’s graduating cohort of Kling fellows will give presentations of the projects they’ve been developing over two years in the Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship program. All campus community members are welcome to come, hear from the fellows, and celebrate their accomplishments! RSVPs are not required but do help us in our planning.
Seigle Hall, Room 103
The Incubator Unbound: Storytelling
Every person, every place, and every moment has a story. These stories may change over time, but their telling influences our understanding of things, moments, processes, and people. Join us for a deep dive into the art and act of storytelling, and how it creates meanings of the past, in the present, and for the future.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
The Struggle of Visibility: Black Activism and Citizenship in Current Italy
Join us for a discussion on Black visibility and identity in Italy featuring prominent Black Italian Activist, Kwanza Musi Dos Santos
Ridgley 122 & Zoom
Department of Music Lecture: Steve Lamos, Associate Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and English Department at UC Boulder
Co-sponsored event with Emo Con 2026
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Zine Your Research - Part 2
A two-part workshop for humanities graduate students
Olin Library, Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, Mendle Classroom (main floor)
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Black Feminist Prosecutions: Linguistic Violence and Grammatical Justice
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lea Jacobs "Ford at Work: Making Young Mr. Lincoln"
Seigle Room 106
Research Presentation Workshop
All undergraduate researchers welcome!
Rudolph 102
Performing Community: A Roundtable on the Transformational Potential of Theatre
Join the Department of Anthropology's Experiential Ethnography Studio (EES) and the Performing Arts Department for a roundtable discussion on performance in community with a dynamic panel of scholars!
Light refreshments to follow.
McMillan Hall Cafe
Harvey Scholars Information Session
Are you an AMCS rising senior interested in receiving funding for independent research?
Do you want to make academic scholarship accessible and approachable beyond the university?
McMillan 140
Loud Enough - Surviving Justice Screening
Tagore’s Concept of World Literature: A Comparatist Genealogy
Workshop with Bhavya Tiwari, Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
Christina Carney - Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego
The Task of a Comparatist
Lecture by Bhavya Tiwari, Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
National Public Health Week 2026
Celebrate National Public Health Week with the Public Health & Society Student Ambassadors!
locations vary
Zine Your Research - Part 1
A two-part workshop for humanities graduate students
Olin Library, Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, Mendle Classroom (main floor)
The Changing Hats of Teaching: How AI Can Support a Very Complicated Job
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at WUSTL presents
Eads 103
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Legislative Vetoes as Political Theater in Late Roman Republican Lawmaking
Seigle Hall 103
Ocean Vuong
Roundtable: Queering Reproductive Justice
McMillan Hall, McMillan Café
Workshop on Grant Writing Essentials for Humanities Graduate Students
Join us for an interactive workshop with Betty Lai, author of “The Grant Writing Guide,” and learn how to find the right funders and craft compelling, competitive grant proposals that effectively pitch your research.
Danforth University Center, Room 233
From Gaza to Haiti: A Psychologist on the Frontlines with Médecins Sans Frontières
Doctors without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières) coming to WashU!
Nicholas Tessier is a clinical and forensic psychologist who has spent over seven years on the frontlines of the world's most severe humanitarian crises with Médecins Sans Frontières
Seigle Hall 109 | Seigle Hall
The Transatlantic Forum Presents: Workshop - "Realist Vision: Drawing as Ethnographic Method"
Join the Transatlantic Forum and Edward Lowe for this engaging workshop at Kemper Art Museum!
Please RSVP through link in event description.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | Barbizon Artists Room
Colloquium Series: Writing a Counter Narrative for Modern Korea: Borders, Borderlands, and Diasporas
Alyssa Park is a historian of modern Korea. Her research interests include borderlands, transnational migration, and empire in East Asia, including Russia.
Hurst Lounge (located within Duncker Hall)
Global Pathways: A&S Grad International Alumni Panel
Via Zoom
"Sade’s legacies in the 20th century: The Marquis, feminism, and comics"
Whitaker Hall 218
Annual Stanley Spector Lecture: Democratizing Railroads and the Cultivation of a New Postwar Japan
Jessamyn R. Abel, Professor of Asian Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University
Busch Hall room 100
Health as Performance: Hygienic Theater in Interwar Germany
Featuring Corinna Treitel: William Eliot Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Umrath 140
Transduction Workshop: From Graphics to Poetry
McMillan Hall | Room 150
A Fireside Chat with Mary Bruce, AB '05, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News
A Fireside Chat with Mary Bruce, AB '05 Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News (moderated by Peter Kastor, Samuel K. Eddy Distinguished Professor and Associate Vice Dean of Research)
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
2026 African Film Festival
Join us for the 20th Annual African Film Festival at Washington University, a weekend celebrating powerful storytelling and contemporary cinema from across the African continent. All screenings are free and open to the public.
Brown Hall, 100 | Washington University Danforth Campus
Fanny and Adolfo Rizzo Endowed Lecture Series
EADS 216
Who's Afraid of Imprecise Sexes?
Marina DiMarco, WashU
Zoom
Lecture: Understanding Greek and Roman Manumission
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Holmes Lounge | Between Eads and Ridgley Halls on the Danforth Campus. The main entrance to the lobby overlooks Brookings Quadrangle.
Seminar: Reconstructing Monuments with the Help of Inscriptions
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Danforth University Center (DUC) 276
WashU & Slavery Edit-a-Thon!
The St. Louis Integrated Database of Enslavement (SLIDE) team is developing an interactive map of slavery in greater St. Louis. You can help by participating in our edit-a-thon event. No experience required, free pizza and snacks for participants!
Olin Library, Instruction Rm. 2 (Level A)
Herodotus and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in the Nineteenth Century
Colloquium with Suzanne Marchand
Busch 18 (Lower level of Busch Hall)
Ancient Worlds: A Conversation with Leading Historians
Roger Bagnall, WashU
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia and the 2026 Biggs Family Resident in Classics
Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University
Michael Scott, University of Warwick
Goldberg Formal Lounge | 2nd floor of the Danforth University Center
Ancient Historian Panel
Roger Bagnall, WashU
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia
Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University
Michael Scott, University of Warwick
Goldberg Formal Lounge | 2nd floor of the Danforth University
‘Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation’ Screening and Talk with Brent Hayes Edwards
Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge
Colloquium: Manumission in Hellenistic Greece
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Umrath Lounge
2026 Biggs Family Residency in Classics
Elizabeth Meyer, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
Check each event for location.
Department of Music Lecture: Naomi André, Professor of Music at UNC Chapel Hill
Co-sponsor: CRE2
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Domination and Dehumanization
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
Sin Fronteras: Mapping and Writing on Labor, Immigration, and Revolution in Southern California
Global Studies Speaker Series Presents Dr. Kevan Aguilar
Seigle 109
CCHP: Assessing the War in Iran
Krister Knapp presents a lecture on Iran: Assessing the War in Iran
Busch 100 | Busch Hall
Book Talk with Karma Frierson: Local Color and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico
Join the African & African American Studies Department for a book talk with Dr. Karma Frierson exploring Blackness, cultural expression, and Afro-Caribbean heritage in Veracruz, Mexico.
McMillan Cafe
McKenzie Wark - The Cis Gaze and Its Others
Baldwin-Buckley Debate at Cambridge Union, 1965
This event is sponsored/ cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, the James Baldwin Review, the Department of African and African American Studies, the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, the Center for the Humanities, and the WashU School of Law.
Belonging in Opera is presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Washington University’s Department of Music.
Seigle Hall, Room 208 | Washington University, Danforth Campus
Safe Harbor: Black Women and the Art of Friendship
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 7
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Medicine & Society Keynote Address: Dr. Tanya Luhrmann
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Healthcare for Everyone
Seigle Hall L003
Humanities Career Spotlight on Grant Writing and Research Development
Virtual - Register for link
International Humanities Prize nomination deadline
Colonial Incarceration and its Legacies in the Philippines
Join us for a fascinating lecture by Prof. Aurélie Vialette (Yale U) on the disciplinary function of the Spanish Empire's colonial gaze.
Hurst Lounge
Colloquium - Audience Participation as Archetype
Featuring E. B. (Elizabeth) Hunter: Assistant Professor in Drama, Director of the Fabula(b) Theatre + New Media Lab, and co-lead of the Immersive Technology Collective at Washington University in St. Louis.
Umrath 140
St. Louis Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Vivian Feldblyum (Auburn University)
McDonnell 212
Experiential Ethnography Studio Open Studio Hours
Open to anyone (faculty, graduate students, undergrads) interested in learning about or incorporating multimodal, sensory, creative, and collaborative methods into their research projects.
McMillan Hall | Room 348
The 1776–1789 Connection: Transatlantic Revolutions and the Birth of Human Rights
Prof. Iver Bernstein, along with several other esteemed scholars, will host an exceptional afternoon of programming in the presence of His Excellency Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the U.S. & a delegation from the Consolat de France in Chicago.
Sumers Welcome Center (reception will be in Clark-Fox Forum)
The 1776–1789 Connection: Transatlantic Revolutions and the Birth of Human Rights
Lecture at 4:00 PM, Reception to Follow at 5:30 PM
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Mark Minett "Origins/Stories/Conventions: Towards a Poetics of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Superhero Genre”
(co-sponsorship with Department of English)
Seigle Room 106
Building Bridges Speakers' Series - Tenimbè Ouattara
Ampersand’s Safe Asylum Politics and Pathways Program (SAPP) Building Bridges Speakers' Series invites you to a Talk by Tenimbè Ouattara, "Coach T"
Simon 20 (Basement)
A Difficult Language: Aymara Media, Linguistic Labor, and Urban Indigeneity in Bolivia
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
The Reproductive Justice Graduate Student Working Group hosts a panel discussion about third-trimester abortion, the national landscape for abortion care, and local abortion advocacy.
Book Talk with Gabriela Wiener: Reading Beyond Desire and Revolution
Join the Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Latin American Literature Reading Group in an open discussion of "Atusparia" (2024), Gabriela Wiener's most recent novel, with the author herself.
Umrath 201 | Zoom | R.S.V.P for Zoom link
Tyson History Project Roundtable
Environmental Research and Creativity Week, Center for the Environment
Danforth University Center Room 276
Pelagie X
Join us for a screening of PELAGIE X, a new short film by two-time Academy Award winning Breakwater Studios
Umrath Lounge
Department of Music Lecture: Varun Chandrasekhar & Bryce Noe
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Spring internal grants deadline
Deadline for the spring funding cycle
ICUR abstract planning
Virtual - https://wustl.zoom.us/j/3729357007
2026 Grigsby Lecture Series Presents: Turks, Ottomans, and World Conquest in the Medieval French Imagination
Markus Cruse
Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures
Arizona State University
Umrath Lounge
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 6
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Critical Perspectives on Minneapolis and the Current Moment
Join the African & African American Studies and American Culture Studies departments for Critical Perspectives on Minneapolis and the Current Moment, a timely conversation featuring WashU scholars and community voices exploring race, justice, and the social conditions shaping our present.
Food will be provided.
Wilson Hall, Room 214 | Washington University Danforth Campus
2026 Rava Lecture Series Presents: Patrick Bringley
February 16th, 2026
Umrath Lounge
Reception 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Lecture 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Umrath Lounge; Umrath Hall
Department of Music Lecture: Mvstermind, Damon Davis, and Blvck Spvde
Mvstermind, Damon Davis, and Blvck Spvde - St Louis-based hip hop artists
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Crafting Your Humanities Resume
Virtual
The Transatlantic Forum Presents: Dr. Perig Pitrou
Danforth University Center (DUC) | Room 276
Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship information session
Calling all sophomores interested in pursuing a humanities research project! You might be a great fit for the Kling Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Drop in at this information session and chat with current Kling Fellows and faculty to learn more about this opportunity.
Seigle Hall, Room 103
The Transatlantic Forum Presents: Roundtable on the Book "A Matter of Detail": Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics
McMillan Hall, G052
Department of Music Lecture: Walter Parks, guitarist, composer, storyteller based in St Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Revisiting Enclaves of Resistance
Weidenbaum Center seminar room (Seigle Hall, Suite 170, Room 152)
The Black Rep Show: The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body
Stay after the show for a post-performance conversation with playwright Lisa B. Thompson and WashU Law Professor Adrienne Davis as they reflect on The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a vibrant and affirming work that celebrates Black women, community, and survival.
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A.E Hotchner Studio Theatre, Washington University
Panel Discussion: The Political Economy of Translation
A panel discussion with acclaimed translators Ena Selimović, AJ Javaheri, and Mona Kareem.
Hurst Lounge
A Counter-Imaginary to Authoritarian Power: Gender, Passion and other Psychosocial Formations
Featuring keynote speaker philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and author, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” - Faculty Book Celebration
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
Livestream Gathering: Judith Butler Lecture
Women's Building Formal Lounge
Humanities Undergrad Mixer
Looking for your people? Whether you're into languages, literature, history, music, art, film, philosophy or just figuring out why humans are the way we are — this is your chance to find community with fellow humanities students.
DUC Fun Room
2026 Morrell Lecture in Asian Religions: Conflict over the Identity and Future of Korean Buddhism: The Buddhist Purification Movement, 1954–1970
Richard D. McBride II
Brigham Young University
Umrath Lounge
Artist Talk: Ballaké Sissoko, kora
in conversation with Patrick Burke and El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Judith Butler Reading Group
One-time discussion of “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” by Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Judith Butler
Danforth University Center, Room 234
ONLINE ONLY- The Resilience & Recovery of Former Child Soldiers
NOTE: Due to inclement weather, this event will be ONLY ONLINE. This event explores the long-term impact of war on child development, the ethics of cross-cultural trauma research, and how evidence-based interventions can support recovery in the most challenging circumstances.
Virtual
CCHP: Trump, Venezuela, and the Return of the Monroe Doctrine
Krister Knapp presents a lecture on Trump and Venezuela: Trump, Venezuela, and the Return of the Monroe Doctrine
Hurst Lounge (Located on the second floor of Duncker Hall) | Danforth Campus
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Patrick Keating “Postwar Cinematography and the Idea of Italian Neorealism”
Seigle Room 306
Refusing Sustainability - Race, Health, and Environmentalism
A conversation with Dr. Elana Resnick (UC Santa Barbara) about her new book Refusing Sustainability, the connection between racialized labor and waste in Eastern Europe, and the future of environmentalism and health.
McMillan Hall, Room G052
Refusing Sustainability - Race, Health, and Environmentalism
Anthropology Colloquium Series - Spring 2026
This event is free and open to all! A light reception will follow.
McMillan Hall, G052
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Roundtable on Tyson’s Military History
Research from the Tyson Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Umrath Hall, Room 201
Faculty works in progress survey
Fill out the interest survey by Monday, January 5 to join
Stop, Drop (In), and Write Fall Mini-Conference
This event is accessible to Arts & Sciences Graduate Students only.
DUC 276 | Danforth University Center
mosAIcs & brAIns : the computational aesthetics of mosaic art
The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures at Washington University in St. Louis invites you to join an exciting lineup of leaders in the field to address the synergy between art, aesthetics, and AI when applied to contemporary mosaic art. The symposium's objective is to encourage the fusion of (i) contemporary mosaic art, (ii) established computational aesthetics paradigms, and (iii) novel opportunities arising from computational creativity. We invite participants to envision links between their present research and one or more of the three listed scholarly directions.
Holmes Lounge
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Resistance at the Crossroads: Heracles in German Postwar Literature
André Fischer, WashU
Seigle 301
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 4
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Restricted Reading: What Book Bans Mean for Health and Justice
Research from the Banned Books Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Danforth University Center, Room 239
AFAS 5500: Global Black Studies: Approaches, Theories, and Methods - A Student Symposium
CRE2 Conference Room/ Seigle 302
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Captain Abu Raed
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Busch Hall, Room 100
From Variable Stars to Dark Matter – The Expanding Legacy of Henrietta Leavitt
The WashU Departments of Physics & Performing Arts have partnered for a colloquium celebrating the life and contributions of Henrietta Leavitt in honor of the upcoming PAD production of 'Silent Sky' - a play focused on Leavitt's life and discoveries.
Seigle 206
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Eliminating the Engines of Gender
Ophelia Vedder (Political Science, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Entitled to write: Identity and Poetic Authority in the Titles of Early Roman Epic
Emilia Barbiero, New York University
Seigle 301
International Writers Series: Dabin Jeong and Safa Khatib in Conversation
Peer Research Writing Group (4 of 4)
Eads 203
People1st: Civil Society Call to Release Civilian Prisoners Related to the War in Ukraine
Global Studies Speaker Series
Women's Building Formal Lounge
The Fire of Life: Energy, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and Other Animals
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Fall 2025
McMillan Hall, G052
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: The Erotic Interest in Privacy
Brenda Dvoskin (Law, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Imaginative Fieldnotes: A Strictly No-Writing-Allowed Workshop
St. Louis ArtWorks
Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
The James Baldwin Lecture - Achieving Our Country: Baldwin and U.S. Politics Today
Save the Date!
Emerson Auditorium | Washington University
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Annie Sullivan "Broadcasting Resistance: A History of Black Media Activism and Civic Life in 1960s Detroit”
(co-sponsorship with Department of Sociology)
Seigle Room 106
Peer Research Writing Group (3 of 4)
Eads 203
Autogestion in Motion: University Insurgents, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Fall 2025
McMillan Hall, G052
St. Louis Reads Dante - Inferno 3
Ginkgo Room; Olin Library
Engaged City Community Fellows Introduction
Meet the Engaged City Fellows!
Olin Library, Room 142
‘Unimaginable Atrocities’: The Neglected Catastrophe in Sudan and the History of Genocide in the Region
Scott Straus, Professor and Chair, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley — Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Umrath Lounge
POSTPONED: Humanities Career Spotlight: Panel on High School and Intermediate Teaching
Featuring three WashU alumni from Anthropology, History and Romance Languages & Literatures/Comparative Literature
Virtual - Register for link
A House Divided: Translation, National Identity, and the Rise of Pluricentric Korean
Daniel Pieper, Korea Foundation Lecturer in Korean Studies and Director of Korean Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
Seigle 106
Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Craft Lecture
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Measuring Belief Polarization
Esther Ng (Philosophy, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)
Civil Society Brunch: Sex, Gender, and Sports
Zack Bowersox (Political Science), Marina DiMarco (Philosophy), Ophelia Vedder (Political Science), and Lucy Vollbrecht (Philosophy)
Knight Center Room 220
Censoring Education and Policing Minds – A Global Trend
Eve Darian-Smith is Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Global and International Studies; and affiliated faculty in the Law School, Department of Anthropology and Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine and author of “Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters.” — James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education
Women's Building Formal Lounge
A Conversation on Religion and the Environment: Academia, Community, Activism
The planetary ecological crisis impacts every dimension of human life, not least the religious and spiritual. This event will feature flash-talks and panel discussion from six speakers whose academic research, environmental activism, and faith-based community building are informed in distinct ways by concern for life on our planet. Their backgrounds span the humanities and STEM, and blend community leadership inside and outside academia. This event seeks to speak across disciplines, and to build bridges between the university community and the broader public. All are welcome; food and drinks provided!
Ann W. Olin Women's Building Formal Lounge | Standing reception to follow
Peer Research Writing Group (2 of 4)
Lopata House 21
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One: Wadjda
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
Busch Hall, Room 100
Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society: Detention and the Limits of Vision in David Taylor’s COMPLEX
Ila Sheren (Art History and Archaeology, WashU)
Weidenbaum Center Room 152 (Seigle Hall suite 170)
Critical Race Theory at the Bottom of the Well: Derrick Bell’s ‘Grandchildren’ Reflect on the Future of CRT
Join us for a roundtable with Adrienne Davis, Robert Chang, and Anthony Farley as they reflect on Derrick Bell’s legacy and the future of Critical Race Theory.
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (A-B Hall, Room 310)
Weaving “Brocades”: Rules, Textuality, and Games of Reading
The Global Studies Colloquium presents Jiayi Chen
McMillan 259
Graduate Writing Commons
This weekly group offers community and accountability for graduate students working on writing projects.
The Graduate Center (Lower level of the Women's Building)