A guide to events on our campuses.

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Events

Sunday, August 27

 This image is an illustration by Stanley Galli that was painted for a Weyerhaeuser advertisement. The illustration can be found in Washington University in St. Louis’ Walter Reed Illustrative Archive within the Modern Graphic History Library Collection.
27 Aug

The Artifacts & Fictions exhibition presents selected works from the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Culture (MFA-IVC) students as a part of...

Chakaia Booker: 'Shaved Portions'
27 Aug

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

Domesticated Pulp: Archie Publications and the Comics Code
27 Aug

For over 50 years, the Comics Code Authority enforced its Seal of Approval, a set of self-imposed guidelines used to judge comics as appropriate for all...

Long shalt thou live, if these well be done: Food, Drink and Health
27 Aug

You are what you eat! From medieval humoral theory using food to balance one's complexion to American homesteading recipes on making meals that best aid...

Reaching New Heights: The Life and Legacy of Michael W. Friedlander
27 Aug

Distinguished professor of physics Michael W. Friedlander led an extraordinary life dedicated to his family and students at Washington University in St....

Shakespeare in Hand
27 Aug

Shakespeare’s words have become so famous that there is a quote for just about every circumstance or occasion. Though many miniature books feature an entire...

The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
27 Aug

The Assembled Playwright exhibition presents highlights from the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill. The exhibition includes manuscripts,...

Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
27 Aug

The Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence exhibition discusses the connection between whiteness, gender and violence through women...

Fire & Freedom: 'Food and Enslavement in Early America'
27 Aug

The traveling exhibition from the NLM explore ways in which meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders and...

Sunday, August 27