WashU Center for the Humanities

In less than two weeks, Laboratory for Suburbia will be hosting their second sprawl session, "Black Suburban Imaginaries." More information below. Join in on T...uesday, June 29th from 2-4pm (CST). RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sprawl-session-2-black-suburba Starting with a postmortem on Campaign 2020’s suburban strategies, turning to the pivotal Black voter blocks that decided landmark elections in suburban St. Louis and Atlanta, and opening up to address the ways Black spatial imaginaries inhabit and transform suburbanized landscapes of power, Laboratory for Suburbia’s next online event will consider predominantly Black suburbias as sitesand sourcesfor critical art and design practice. #laboratoryforsuburbia #theluminary #thedividedcity #samfoxschool #washu #sprawlsessions #blacksuburbs #blacksuburbia #blackspatialimaginary #suburbs #suburbia #criticalsuburbanpractice

Kudos to Hannah Ward! #WashU21

Felicitations Kaysie Wachs! #WashU21

Hear, hear Elizabeth Schwartz! #WashU21

Three cheers for Efua Osei! #WashU21

Congrats to Nicci Mowszowski! #WashU21

Are you a graduate student at WashU, UMSL, or SLU working on themes of segregation? Check out this timely funding opportunity for students in the Humanities, Hu...manistic Social Sciences, Architecture, and Urban Design. Applications are due March 29th. Details below. The Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the College and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, is pleased to announce our annual summer research fellowship opportunity for graduate students. As part of our interdisciplinary initiative on The Divided City, we are awarding multiple grants of up to $5,000 each in support of two months of full-time research by graduate students (M.U.D., M.Arch., M.L.A. DrSU, or Ph.D.) on urban segregation broadly conceived. This opportunity is open to students at Washington University in St. Louis, UMSL, and SLU. Alt text description: [Flyer for Divided City Graduate Student Fellowship. For the call for proposals and application, see links below.] Call for proposals: http://thedividedcity.com//Divided-City-Graduate-Summer-Re Application: http://thedividedcity.com//Summer-Graduate-Research-Applic

The Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the College and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, is pleased to announce our annual summer re...search fellowship opportunity for graduate students in the Humanities, Humanistic Social Sciences, Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. The deadline for the 2021 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship is March 29, 2021. As part of our interdisciplinary initiative on The Divided City, we are awarding multiple grants of up to $5,000 each in support of two months of full-time research by graduate students (M.U.D., M.Arch., M.L.A. DrSU, or Ph.D.) on urban segregation broadly conceived. This opportunity is open to students at Washington University in St. Louis, UMSL, and SLU. Alt text description: [Flyer for Divided City Graduate Student Fellowship. For the call for proposals and application, see links below.] Call for proposals: http://thedividedcity.com//Divided-City-Graduate-Summer-Re Application: http://thedividedcity.com//Summer-Graduate-Research-Applic

PhD candidate Olivia Lott (Romance Languages & Literatures) was named to the longlist for a prominent literary award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. In this Q&A, Lott, who is also a Graduate Student Fellow in the Center for the Humanities, talks about the process of bringing Katabasis to new audiences, about her reaction to the PEN shout-out, and for her recommendations of additional must-read translated poetry books. http://bit.ly/2YZwijx

Remember...That Time Before the Last Time is an exploration of the effects of race, social injustice and the traumatic impact of slavery on the creative impulse...s of a people/artists through spoken word, music and dance from the diaspora. Our lens focuses on survival from 1619 to 2020 New Premier Date: Friday, December 11 at 7 p.m. Conceived and Directed by Ron Himes Choreographed by Heather Beal Developed by The Company Free for WashU students

Who will be the recipient of the 2022 Washington University International Humanities Prize? Thanks to the Center for the Humanities‘ new selection process, the answer is in the hands of our faculty! Nominations due 3/15/21. https://bit.ly/2IHdiC4

Tomorrow at 12 pm. All those registered for this event should have received a confirmation email with Zoom link. If you haven’t, let us know!

Reflecting on the #AIDS epidemic and the #COVID19 pandemic, scholar of women, gender and sexuality studies René Esparza finds a striking similarity in the U.S.’s historical treatment of viruses that disproportionally affect minority communities. https://bit.ly/33qP1r1

In a season steeped in dark magic, flesh-ripping beasts, and mysterious hauntings, what is the scariest thing about Lovecraft Country? Genre literature scholar Michael Sanders on the unnamed horror of the HBO series. https://humanities.wustl.edu//michael-sanders-unnamed-horr

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Norwegian sailors, businesspeople and missionaries moved and settled throughout Asia, Africa and Oceania, their wide distribution thanks in part to their home country’s massive shipping force. In his book-in-progress, Sounding the Seven Seas: Norwegian Ships and ‘World Music’ at the Margins of Empire, 18501950, ethnomusicologist Patrick Burke investigates their encounters with a wide variety of unfamiliar musical traditions, which helped to create Europeans’ understandings (and misperceptions) of the music of the global South. https://humanities.wustl.edu//patrick-burke-norway-world-m

Gironima Spana has gone down in history as one of Europe’s most famous 17th-century serial killers. Accused of leading a ring of lethal wives in poisoning their unsuspecting husbands, Spana and her accused conspirators met their end at the hangman’s noose. But are the legends accurate was justice served? Scholar of early modern Italy Craig Monson investigates in his new book, The Black Widows of the Eternal City: The True Story of Rome’s Most Infamous Poisoners. https://humanities.wustl.edu//craig-monson-black-widows-et