The St. Louis Black Repertory Company brings Loy A Webb's play The Light to Hotchner Studio Theatre on the campus of Washington University.

Every week in honor of Black History Month, the Brown School hosts a new event centered on raising black voices. Each are offered virtually for accessibility. Registration is required.

February 8 | 12:30-1:30pm | Virtual

From Darkness to Light: Examining Oppression & Liberation Through Poetry 

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February 15 | 12:30-1:30pm | Virtual

Resistance Requires Excellent Scholarship: Seeding a Vision for Change

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February 22 | 12:30-1:30pm | Virtual

Anti-oppressive and De-colonial Approaches to Community Engagement in St. Louis

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As part of the Inclusive Excellence Speaker Series, the WUSM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is thrilled to host Kevin Brown, the Richard S. Melvin Emeritus Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the Mitchell Willoughby Professor of Law at University of South Carolina School of Law. Professor Brown will be a keynote speaker during Black History Month and was one of the original scholars who met in Madison, Wisconsin in 1989 to develop Critical Race Theory.

Dr. Ezelle Sanford, III will present at this hybrid event co-sponsored by Bernard Becker Medical Library and the Center for the History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.

The presentation opens the exhibit featuring images and stories of desegregation at WashU School of Medicine on display from February until June.

Change Gon' Come will bring to light the struggles African Americans face in their everyday lives and in neighborhoods. We get to see first-hand generations live through a seemingly similar cycle.
Pre show at 6:15pm!

James Baldwin’s 1974 novel comes to the big screen chronicling two star-crossed lovers in 1970s Harlem. 

Join us in a peace walk commemorating Black History Month. The walk will start outside the Danforth University Center. After the walk, enjoy delicious food from local Black Owned Food Trucks and listen to great music! The block party will take place in Tisch Park on the East End.

Interfaith Week is a week-long series of programming to celebrate the religious, spiritual, and philosophical diversity in our WashU community.

Join members of your campus community in service to the wider St. Louis community. The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is sponsoring a service event with Operation Food Search this month. 

This weekend, Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4th view and celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival. This is a student-run production and highlights acting, dancing, martial arts, and more all to appreciate Asian heritage. 

This Friday, February 3rd, celebrate National Women Physicians Day and learn about and celebrate women leaders at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Read flyer for more details.

In this series, learn what the team at Health Equity Works has studied inequity created by geographical divide resulting from conscious choices to create a segregated city, and then explored recommendations and activities that dismantle regional divides.

February 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Virtual

Global Indian, Nubile Indian: Caste and Marriage in the Making of the Indian Diaspora

Join Zoom  Passcode: 203868

February 25 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Virtual

The Importance of Racial Socialization Messages in the Lives of African-American Youth

Join Zoom Passcode: 377564

Outdated attitudes and practices limit the potential of the extension of human life; and social work and public health professionals play in role in social transformations to ensure quality of life for people of all ages.

Join Dr. Morrow-Howell as she provides an overview of the professional and personal implications of the current demographic realities, as well as trends toward promoting wellness and age justice across the longer life span.

Vivienne Chang and Eugenia Yoh, debut author-illustrators of the incredibly heartfelt and humorous picture book about Lily a little girl forced to move back to Taiwan. The book launch of "This Is Not My Home" at Subterranean Books will be followed by fun activities, free giveaways, snacks, a book signing, and a Q+A session.  

Event location: Subterannean Books 6271 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63130

You’re invited to join the Office for Religious, Spiritual & Ethical Life for a Zoom lunch hour conversation. 

Our topic this month: Do you bring your whole self to work, especially your religious/spiritual/philosophical identities and practices?

This informal conversation is open to WashU staff and faculty of any/no religious background.

The first session of the Spring 2023 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Film Series begins this month with In Between (2016 / 103 min.) - Directed by Maysaloun Hamoud.

Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

This talk draws from an ethnography of a little-known therapeutic community of undocumented Mexican immigrants living in the United States.

The Department of History, the Center for the Humanities, and the Early Modern Medicine Reading Group welcomes Dr. Jacob Baum to discuss their research on Sebastian Fisher, a shoemaker who was also deaf. Various documents chronical how Fisher searched for a cure for deafness during their lifetime. This is a two-day event with a lecture and an informal workshop the following day. 

Take part in a craft talk led by Professor Cedar Sigo. Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute.

Show out in black for the women's basketball team at 5:30pm and the men's basketball team at 7:30pm. Black organizations across campus will be showcasing their programs in the hallway. There will be NPHC halftime shows.

Help support the Buder Center and raise funds for their annual Pow Wow on April 22, 2023 by attending their upcoming Trivia Night. 

Details: 

• 8-10 players per table/ $20 per person
• Raffles, prizes, & silent auction
• Costume contest

The Center for Community Health Partnership & Research invites faculty and staff to the next installment of the Know Your Level of Community Engagement lecture series. This webinar will discuss why participating in community-engaged research is important and ways that both academic and community researchers can benefit from partnerships.

This panel discussion features keynote speaker Davarian Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College, and author, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities”

This talk ponders: What good is higher education for our cities?

The Medical Humanities Program and the Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity will co-host a Forum on Medicine, Race, and Ethnicity in St. Louis, Past to Future.

Take part in six moderated panels at this all-day event:

• The History and Legacy of Pruitt-Igoe
• The History and Legacy of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
• Questions of Health and Wellbeing in the St. Louis Latin American Community
• Bodies at Risk: Obstetrics, Trauma, and Disease
• Questions of Health and Wellbeing in the St. Louis Asian Community
• Activist and Reparative Art

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is honored to host Professor Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, for a public conversation on the state of legal and social movements against mass incarceration.

The James E. McLeod Honors & Awards Program acknowledges students who demonstrate a commitment to:

• individual pursuits promoting expression of Black culture, history, and values,
• academic excellence and advancement of scholarship, and
• cultivating community through service to improve quality of life for Black people at WashU, in St Louis, and globally.

Save the date & RSVP for the upcoming awards on May 1, 2023.

The William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award (STLCA) is designed to elevate WashU’s investment in the St. Louis Region by encouraging and rewarding faculty research that enhances impact in St. Louis. Join the STLCA as they honor faculty members for ongoing and completed research.