WashU Center for the Humanities

Applications open!
This 2-year fellowship is designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
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Join us tomorrow! In-person and online registration available: https://qrco.de/bfNZlk

Join us this spring! The humanities center has 3 opportunities for WashU humanities grad students looking for an MPE this spring: Graduate Mentor, Banned Books; Graduate Mentor, Environmental Humanities; and Humanities Digital Communications.
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WashU Arts & Sciences undergrads!
Applications are now being accepted for the Banned Books Undergraduate Fellowship, a noncredit (but paid) research experience that helps you envision and carry out a project on banned books. All levels and majors welcome! Due Nov. 15. More info: https://bit.ly/4dJuQpu

Ahead of Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s 10/24 lecture, “The Unbearable Burden of Black Studies and the Enduring Fight for American Democracy,” postdoc John A. Mundell reflects on his experience in the field—a discipline forged in struggle but buoyed by community.
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Introducing the Engaged City!
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Funded by and with additional support from the WashU Office of the Provost, the Engaged City aims to highlight St. Louis’ cultural resources — and to reframe how the city sees, understands and talks about itself.

The Divided City “transformed the way we work with off-campus organizations,” said assistant director Laura Perry.

“Now, with the Engaged City, we’re thinking about how to create tools that will be useful to people beyond the academy.”

Anxiety over new technology replacing jobs is nothing new, writes Graduate Student Fellow Ki Cora Chow. But, she reminds us, even cutting-edge machines have always needed human minders.
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Read and attend! Film studies scholar John Powers previews his 9/26 lecture on experimental film pioneer Stan Brakhage (1933–2003), who introduced now-mainstream techniques such as rapid editing, handheld camera and lens flares. https://bit.ly/4emJZOD

We’re thrilled to host our sixth BECHS-Africa Fellow! Meet education scholar Araba Osei-Tutu (University of Ghana), in residence at the center for the fall 2024 semester.
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While the Reflecting on Reproductive Justice symposium begins on Friday, we’re starting the conversation early with a free public screening of the documentary “Aftershock” at the Hi Pointe Theatre, 6:30 pm, Thursday, September 5. A student-moderated discussion will follow. Details, trailer & RSVP: https://humanities.wustl.edu/reflecting-reproductive-justice

Hope you can join us, September 5, 6 & 7! Mark your calendar and RSVP here: https://humanities.wustl.edu/online-rsvp-reflecting-reproductive-justice