A guide to events on our campuses.
Assembly Series
A tradition of convening thought leaders since 1953
McKelvey School of Engineering
Events
29
Oct
Chakaia Booker is renowned for her artistic practice that pushes the limits of abstraction through the use of her signature material—discarded rubber tires...
29
Oct
The John B. Ervin Scholars Program honors the memory of a nationally renowned educator and community leader who believed in giving students a first-rate...
29
Oct
Inspired by the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine upend the "Happily Ever After" trope to...
29
Oct
Leaving China is an exhibition of work by accomplished artist James McMullan that focuses on watercolor paintings about his childhood during World War II....
29
Oct
On view October 20–November 6 in Ann and Andrew Tisch Park of Washington University, this exhibition by German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi...
29
Oct
The Waste Land by St. Louis native TS Eliot was published in 1922 and forever changed literature. The Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste...
29
Oct
The Miniature Museum is a new series of exhibitions in which books are displayed as sculptural objects in a custom-built dollhouse museum. The first...
29
Oct
Rett syndrome is a rare genetic neurological disorder that affects 1 in 10,000 females (and even more rarely in males) and begins to display itself in missed...
29
Oct
The "Stories From World War II" exhibition brings together stories from the Second World War told through special collections. A variety of personal accounts...
29
Oct
Novelist William Gaddis famously shunned the spotlight and dismissed attempts to tie his private life to his creative work. However, Gaddis also kept an...
29
Oct
Tim Huskey has been collecting Cardinals baseball memorabilia since he was five years old, when he stood in line to get an autograph from his favorite...
29
Oct
The hearing aids we are familiar with today are both tiny and mighty, but they weren’t always that way. This exhibit highlights the long history of hearing...
29
Oct
One of Arthur Holly Compton’s first actions as Chancellor was to reach out to Joseph Kennedy, the head of chemistry, metallurgy and scientific security at...
29
Oct
This installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Bringing together modern and contemporary...
29
Oct
Katharina Grosse is internationally celebrated for her large-scale, on-site works that she paints across built and natural environments. To date, less focus...
29
Oct
The renowned contemporary artist Katharina Grosse, whose exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions is on view...
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Oct