Sep 24- Apr 17
The Performing Arts Department Announces its 2021-2022 Season
35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Keynote lecture by John Baugh (AFAS, Psychology), "Equality Matters: St. Louisan Contributions in the Quest for Racial Harmony"
Zoom | 7:00 PM
Featuring keynote address by John Baugh (Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Psychology, Anthropology, Education, English, Linguistics, and African and African-American Studies) "Equality Matters: St. Louisan Contributions in the Quest for Racial Harmony"; and performances by Black Anthology, a WUSTL student-run performance arts show celebrating Black culture; and the Washington University Concert Choir featuring Joseph Mosby, Washington University undergraduate student.
Cultivating Empathy and Change: Recognizing the Life and Legacy of Henrietta Lacks, Film and Discussion
Born in rural Roanoke, Virginia, on August 1, 1920, Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman, wife and mother of five. She also became the "Mother of Modern Medicine," changing the world with her immortal HeLa cells. Henrietta's HeLa cells, taken without her or her family's knowledge or consent, would become responsible for some of the greatest scientific advancements of the last century and continue to benefit all of humanity. We will view part of the 1997 documentary film The Way of All Flesh, with reflecting remarks by Darrell Hudson, associate professor at the Brown School. An opportunity for discussion with the audience will also be facilitated.
Transnational Knowledge: A symposium on the production and circulation of scholarship in translation
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Romance Languages & Literatures, Latin American Studies, Film & Media Studies) and Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages & Literatures)
Virtual - RSVP
Featuring "A Critique of Provincial Reason: Located Cosmopolitanisms and the Infrastructures of Theoretical Translation," at 10:15 am with Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Romance Languages & Literatures, Latin American Studies, Film & Media Studies, Washington University) and "Translation and the Archive" at 2 pm with Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages & Literatures). How does knowledge change as it moves from one academic language culture to another? How "placed" are our intellectual concepts? In what ways does the dominance of English-language scholarship shape the production of knowledge around the world? Who is qualified to undertake a scholarly translation? This two-day, online symposium will address these and many other questions related to the location of scholarship in translation. School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas.
Sports & Society Reading Group: A Discussion with Frank Guridy
Stop. Rewind. Replay: Performance, Policing, and dismantling a Use of Force Paradigm
Reading by Visiting Hurst Professor francine j. harris