A guide to events on our campuses.

Assembly Series

A tradition of convening thought leaders since 1953

McKelvey School of Engineering

Brown School

Events

Wednesday, June 22

Bound for Beauty
22 Jun

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

Chiura Obata, an Artist Behind Barbed Wire: 80 Years After the Incarceration
22 Jun

Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was a Japanese American painter known primarily for illustrating the West Coast landscape in works that embody his artistic...

Counter/Narratives: (Re)presenting Race & Ethnicity
22 Jun

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

Moving Magic: Movable Books in the Rare Books Collections
22 Jun

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...

Powder, Crinoline, Beasts, Gremlins: Fairytale Subjects in Illustration
22 Jun

Fairytales were a popular subject for books during the Golden Age of Illustration and continue to be so today. The emergence of the children’s book as its...

Stories From World War II
22 Jun

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

Through the Scope: A Small History of Microscopy
22 Jun

The invention of the microscope revealed the invisible and enabled new fields of biomedical research. Explore a small history of microscopy, from Robert...

Ideas, Art and Community: My Zine Collection
22 Jun

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...

(Un)masking Health: Counter Perspectives
22 Jun

As we continue to navigate in the United States both an ongoing health pandemic and an epidemic of racism, public health officials and media outlets are...

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse
22 Jun

With an overarching interest in the possibilities of visual narratives, the artist Chitra Ganesh draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction,...

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Nicole Miller: A Sound, a Signal, the Circus
22 Jun

Known for her evocative videos and multimedia installations, California-based artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller frequently addresses themes such as race,...

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Nine Ways from Sunday: 2022 MFA in Visual Art Thesis exhibition
22 Jun

This exhibition features thesis projects by the MFA in Visual Art candidates in the 2022 graduating class of the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art. MFA...

Pilates Mat & More
22 Jun

Join BearFIT Instructor Leifann in Studio 1904 for this classical mix of Pilates Mat and more.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | 4:30 PM
Dark Room Cycle
22 Jun

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...

Wednesday, June 22