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Monday, November 14

Chakaia Booker: 'Shaved Portions'
14 Nov

Chakaia Booker is renowned for her artistic practice that pushes the limits of abstraction through the use of her signature material—discarded rubber tires...

Ervin Scholars: Honor the Legacy
14 Nov

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...

Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood
14 Nov

Leaving China is an exhibition of work by accomplished artist James McMullan that focuses on watercolor paintings about his childhood during World War II....

Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste Land
14 Nov

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...

Ron King, Hick, Hack, Hock, 1995. Julian and Hope Edison Collection, Washington University Libraries
14 Nov

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...

STL Startup Week 2022
14 Nov

Celebrate the successes of 2022 and learn about the resources available for powering your startup and growing your company. Engage and connect with the...

Stories From World War II
14 Nov

The "Stories From World War II" exhibition brings together stories from the Second World War told through special collections. A variety of personal accounts...

Valuable Dregs: Research in the William Gaddis Papers
14 Nov

Novelist William Gaddis famously shunned the spotlight and dismissed attempts to tie his private life to his creative work. However, Gaddis also kept an...

Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols: Selections from the Collection of Tim Huskey
14 Nov

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...

Glaser Gallery Exhibit: 'How did we get hear? Historic hearing devices, 1800-2000'
14 Nov

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...

Pause @ Graham Chapel
14 Nov

The Office for Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life will be holding space in Graham Chapel. The Chapel will be open for reflection, prayer or a moment of...

Monday, November 14, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Working with Spatial Data Using Python
14 Nov

Python can be an important component of your geospatial data and analysis toolbox. This Geography Awareness Week workshop will explore common geospatial...

Ambivalent Pleasures: Advertiser Content in American Art
14 Nov

This installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Bringing together modern and contemporary...

Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions
14 Nov

Katharina Grosse is internationally celebrated for her large-scale, on-site works that she paints across built and natural environments. To date, less focus...

Monday, November 14, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Katharina Grosse: On the Edge of Something Else
14 Nov

The renowned contemporary artist Katharina Grosse, whose exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions is on view...

Jule Shatz
14 Nov

Jule Schatz PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science, University of Michigan. Binary trees and more specifically binary search trees, provide...

Monday, November 14, 2022 | 11:30 AM
McKelvey Hall , Room 1020
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Richard Hennig, Physics '00, Alumni Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida
14 Nov

Richard Hennig, Physics '00, Alumni Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida Machine learning can identify new symbolic...

The Politics of Reproduction Presents: Professor Alison Kafer, 'Disability and Reproductive Justice'
14 Nov

Alison Kafer, associate professor of Feminist Studies, University of Texas - Auburn Disability justice activists have long been concerned with ableist...

Monday, November 14, 2022 | 4:00 PM
Virtual Event
Decolonizing Thanksgiving
14 Nov

Join OISS and AISA as we discuss the first Thanksgiving and how to honor the poeple and the land that WashU currently resides on. Come with an open mind and...

Monday, November 14, 2022 | 5:00 PM
Middle East and North Africa Film Series - Session Two
14 Nov

Join us for the second session of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Film Series. For this viewing, we are showing the 2014 Jordanian film,...

Monday, November 14, 2022 | 6:00 PM

Monday, November 14