A guide to events on our campuses.

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McKelvey School of Engineering

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Events

Saturday, September 23

Adam Pendleton: To Divide By
23 Sep

“What is your name?” “Where are you from?” “How did you end up here?” “Can you feel it?” “Does it hurt?” With these and other questions, the American artist...

 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.
23 Sep

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...

Directing Scene Auditions
23 Sep

Each student in "Fundamentals of Directing" will direct a two-person scene. These scenes begin rehearsals after Fall Break and will be performed at the end...

Domesticated Pulp: Archie Publications and the Comics Code
23 Sep

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
23 Sep

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...

The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
23 Sep

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

Fire & Freedom: 'Food and Enslavement in Early America'
23 Sep

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...

Disorderly Materials / Contingent Objects
23 Sep

Over the past two decades, several philosophers, art theorists, and cultural critics have turned their attention to the study of matter. Philosopher Jane...

A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2023
23 Sep

We invite you to become a part of the playwriting process at the script-in-hand staged reading of each play. For nearly 30 years, the Performing Arts...

Saturday, September 23