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Keynote address by Geoff K. Ward, professor of African and African-American studies, faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology and Program in American Culture Studies and director of the WashU & Slavery Project
Americanist Dinner Forum: Introducing "Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s"
The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education
From February 6-8, the Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences will be hosting Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, author of The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education, with Robert Weisbuch, The Graduate School Mess, and a regular writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education about graduate education.
A Fading Pastime?: Baseball's Past, Present, and Future
Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture presents "The Football Helmet: A Cultural History of an American Icon" with Noah Cohan
What is the football helmet? More than perhaps any other object in American sports, the football helmet is densely packed with contested meaning. It is the symbolic focal point for the fascination and love of millions of American sports fans, even as it has emerged as the site of trauma so great, it threatens to destroy the sport itself.
AMCS Study Abroad Information Meeting
AFAS Featured Event: Works of Dr. Zachary Manditch-Prottas & Dr. Gabriel Peoples
Dr. Zachary Manditch-Prottas, a lecturer in African and African American Studies and American Culture Studies & Dr. Gabriel Peoples, Ford Foundation Fellow Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University will both present their works-in-progress
Graduate Conversation with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman, Award-Winning Author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993
Applications Are Now Open for On Location 2023: Performing the Past: Black History and Collective Memory in Charleston and the Sea Islands
This traveling summer course will take place in multiple locations in St. Louis and several places in South Carolina from May 16th to June 4th, 2023.
Application deadline is Monday, March 13th.
AMCS and AAS Major / Minor Welcome
Sports & Society Program Initiative: A Discussion with Lucy Montgomery
Indigeneity and the Production of History: Oral History Praxis in a Native American Community
The History Department and American Culture Studies Program present a Distinguished Visiting Scholar...
Americanist Dinner Forum: Public Humanities Workshop, Part I: A Conversation with Malinda Maynor Lowery
AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
Public Humanities Workshop, Part 2: A Forum for Practitioners with Malinda Maynor Lowery
"On the Aesthetics of Black Inexpression"
Tina Post, Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Chicago
Americanist Dinner Forum "Doc Du Jour" with Alex Mouw
A New Global Studies? Global-South Perspectives, Activist Engagement, Interdisciplinary Innovation
Join us for a public lecture with Paul Amar, Professor, and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies
AMCS Hosted Teaching Center Lunch with Meg Gregory
Join us on Wednesday, April 12th from 12pm to 1 pm in McMillan 150.
Americanist Dinner Forum: Moonscape of the Mind
SLU's Department of American Studies presents Building Progressive Social Movements in St. Louis, 1960–1980
Co-sponsored by St. Louis University's American Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, and African American Studies Departments, and by Left Bank Books
‘Target: STL (Vol. 1)’ Screening and Panel
Pleasure, Danger, and The Long History of (Social) Media: A Symposium
Film Screening: "Becoming Yamazushi" followed by Q&A with Director G Yamazawa
A son honoring family legacy discovers how art can be a champion for healing, lost history, and cultural liberation, as he takes us on the poetic journey of Yamazushi.
Sports & Society Program Initiative: A Discussion with David Hollander
G Yamazawa - Live at Tisch Commons
Join us for a night of live spoken word and Hip Hop performances by G Yamazawa!
SLU's Department of American Studies presents "Ex Uno Plura (Out of One, Many): Pop Cultural Pluralism in America"
Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The Office of Undergraduate Research is thrilled to host the Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Memory for the Future Showcase
Studiolab Open House - RSVPs appreciated
AMCS Spring Gathering
The Spring Gathering will take place in the Orchid Room from 4-6pm on Thursday 4/27!
AMCS & AAS Undergraduate Commencement Reception
Sports & Society Reading Group: Big Money in Sports
Weird Barbie: Feminist, Queer, and Industry Issues in Greta Gerwig's Blockbuster
Americanist Dinner Forum "Doc Du Jour" with Marc Blanc
AMCS/AAS Welcome Back Gathering
STL in AMCS: Tour of the National Building Arts Center
Join us on Friday 9/29 for a tour of the National Building Arts Center!
College of Arts & Sciences Major Minor Fair
Sports & Society Reading Group: A Discussion with Alex Squadron
Alex Squadron (WashU ’17) will be joining us on Friday, October 13, from 3:00-4:30pm in Seigle 301.
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, the Last of the Bentonia Bluesmen, with William Lee Ellis, guitar
Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The Office of Undergraduate Research is thrilled to host the Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Asian American Studies Fall Mixer
Learn more about the Asian American Studies (AAS) minor at WashU, meet the AAS minors, connect with our campus APIDA organizations, and enjoy some good food!
Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop Through Film and Music
Join the St. Louis International Film Festival as they celebrate their 32nd annual film festival. This will be an unforgettable evening featuring entertainment by DJ Charlie Chan Soprano, the official DJ for Run DMC, complimentary beer and wine for those 21+. Buy tickets using the link provided.
Americanist Dinner Forum: What Else Can Borders Do? Architecture, Infrastructure, and Enactment
All are invited for dinner and conversation on Tuesday, November 14th at 5:30pm at Keuhner Court in Weil Hall.
Book Talk: Phil Maciak's "Avidly Reads Screen Time"
Join us for a Book Talk celebrating Phillip Maciak's Avidly Reads Screen Time.
Sports & Society Reading Group: A Discussion with Steve Gietschier
Sports & Society meeting will feature Steve Gietschier discussing his recent book, Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years: