A guide to events on our campuses.

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Events

Friday, April 1

Bound for Beauty
01 Apr

Before publishers started mass producing books with standardized bindings, owners took their books to be bound individually according to their tastes and...

Counter/Narratives: (Re)presenting Race & Ethnicity
01 Apr

The Counter/Narrative exhibition examines the way in which objects are preserved and collected through archives, museums, and exhibitions and investigates...

Israeli Women's Art Festival
01 Apr

Please join us for this all-day event featuring lectures, craft talks, and performances which is funded through a grant from the Israel Institute Yael...

Moving Magic: Movable Books in the Rare Books Collections
01 Apr

Though many consider pop-up books to be for children, books with moving parts have been around for centuries and encompass all genres. The Rare Book...

Out of Scope: Unexpected Items in the Rare Book Collections
01 Apr

Rare book collections usually coalesce around a unifying theme. As a medical library, it’s no surprise that most of the rare books in the Becker collections...

Ideas, Art and Community: My Zine Collection
01 Apr

The Collect O’Rama table is a space for individuals to share unique personal collections. Director of Development at the ACLU of Missouri Nicole Rainey has...

Institute for Informatics (I2) Annual Scientific Symposium
01 Apr

FORWARD: Exploring the future of data science, informatics and the workplace The Institute for Informatics (I2) at Washington University School of Medicine...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 8:30 AM
Virtual Event
AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
01 Apr

Please join us for our annual AMCS Research Colloquium! We are excited to present AMCS Majors who will share their culminating research with the community....

The Magic in His Hands: Charles Johnson’s Artistic Versatility
01 Apr

Charles Johnson is a wildly prolific and widely acclaimed novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, cartoonist and more. "The Magic in His Hands"...

AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
01 Apr

Please join us for our annual AMCS Research Colloquium! We are excited to present AMCS Majors who will share their culminating research with the community....

Emergency Communications Test
01 Apr

WashU will test its emergency communication system at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, April 1, 2022. The test ensures WashU can effectively communicate with the...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Dr. Venkat Subramanian
01 Apr

Venkat Subramanian, Ernest Dashiell Cockrell Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science University of Texas at Austin Model-Based...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Sociology Colloquium Series: Helen Marrow
01 Apr

The Colloquium Series invites guest faculty to Washington University to give research presentations and meet with members of the University community. In...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 11:30 AM
Skin Tone and Mexicans’ Perceptions of Discrimination in New Immigrant Destinations
01 Apr

Sociology Colloquium Series: Helen Marrow While prior research in “new” U.S. immigrant destinations suggests that the “context of reception” greeting Latino...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 11:45 AM
Hope Ginsburg, Matt Flowers, and Joshua Quarles, Swirling, 2019. Video still from four-channel video installation with sound. Dimensions variable. 12 min., 58 sec.
01 Apr

Hope Ginsburg will deliver a public lecture, presented in collaboration with the Sam Fox School’s Fox Fridays workshop series and Laumeier Sculpture...

Hindi-Urdu Table
01 Apr

Games, songs, poems, etc. & discussion of culture and current events in Hindi! All levels and dialects welcome! Student Leader Contacts: Padma Dubey -...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 12:00 PM
Cycle Express
01 Apr

Join BearFIT Instructor Meghann in The Dark Room for this 30 min cycle class! We will get a quick sweat on and feel like we packed in 50 mins of work! ...

Learning to Improvise: Essential Skills for Entrepreneurs
01 Apr

Join Skandalaris’ Nancy Nigh for a low-key, fun session of improv games where we will explore three main concepts of improv and how to use them to enhance...

She Was Sure She Was In Hell: Women's War Trauma In/As History
01 Apr

The First World War provided one of the first definitions of war trauma in modern history, and is continually invoked in present-day narratives of PTSD. But...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 1:00 PM
Combating Caste on U.S. College Campuses
01 Apr

Panel discussion 2:30-4 pm; reception in McMillan Courtyard immediately to follow. Please RSVP below. In this student-faculty collaborated talk, Shailaja...

Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, PhD
01 Apr

In collaboration with the Mindfulness Working Group at WashU, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity and the Kathryn M. Buder Center for...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Skandalaris No-Code Hackathon: Innovate the New Normal on a Post Pandemic Campus
01 Apr

WashU Students are invited to the Skandalaris Center to collaborate, problem-solve, and innovate with solutions towards a post-pandemic campus and world....

'Now is the Right Time. Come, Come!': Unpacking Gender, Caste and Humor in Bharatanatyam Performances of Eroticism
01 Apr

Anusha Kedhar, assistant professor in Dance, University of California, Riverside, will present this talk.

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 4:00 PM
University Shield
01 Apr

Presenting on “Motion Field Integrated Reconstruction Using Deep Learning for MRI and PET/MRI Respiratory Motion Correction” Read the full abstract. Sihao...

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 4:00 PM
Virtual Event
Energy Flow
01 Apr

Join BearFIT Instructor Hele for this beautiful flow of Yoga, Strength and Cardio

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 4:30 PM
Dark Room Cycle
01 Apr

Join BearFIT Instructors Steve and Estephanie as they hold down your 5:30pm Dark Room Cycle throughout the week. This dynamic and fun ride is beat driven...

BearFit Vinyasa Yoga
01 Apr

Join BearFIT Instructor Zahra in Studio 1904 for this gentle but challenging Yoga class.

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 6:00 PM
Faculty Recital: Silvian Iticovici, violin with Mitsuko Morikawa, piano
01 Apr

Recital to feature the works of Schumann, Brahms, Salonen Health and Safety Requirements - 560 Music Center (Please review full details for the Health &...

Friday, April 1