Past Events
William H. Gass Symposium
Susan Bernofsky
About Last Night
Tim Shenk and Jim Newell
Tea Time
Tim Shenk and Charlie Lesch
Annual Comparative Literature Potluck
Colloquium: "The Sole of Pantalone: Shakespeare and the Masks of the Commedia Dell'Arte"
Robert Henke, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature
We Don't Already Understand the Outlines of Literary History
Ted Underwood
Varieties of Cultural History: Scaling in Chinese Digital History
Hilde De Weerdt, University of Leiden
The History of The Closet
Henry Abelove
Colloquium: “Sophocles: Interpreting Tragedy”
Robert W. Wallace
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Poor
Lennard J. Davis
Crazy
Lennard J. Davis
Re-Covered Books Contest
Hidden Authorial Labor in the Early Modern Social Network
J.R. Ladd
Race & Distant Reading
Richard Jean So
St. Louis Community Tour
The Problem of Passion for an Individualist Society
Gerald Izenberg
Annual IPH Banquet
Mocktails!
Alarm Will Sound
Critical Engagement with Prisons and Punishment
Incarceration Panel
A conversation about the work of Marilynne Robinson
Humanities Lecture Series 2018
Marilynne Robinson
Holy Moses: An appreciation of Genesis and Exodus as literature and theology
Marilynne Robinson
Issues in Digital Humanities: Tanya Clement
Resonant Frequencies: Towards A Rationale of Audio Texts in Literary Study
Tanya Clement
Nineteenth-Century Classicisms in the Visual Arts
Meg Galindo
Nineteenth-Century Classicisms in the Visual Arts
Living with Others: Conscience, Coercion, and Freedom
Living with Others: Conscience, Coercion, and Freedom
A Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry conference
IPH and Text & Traditions Major-Minor Welcome
Slavery and Philosophy
Henry Abelove
Art History as a Systematic Science?
Maxmilian Schich
IPH End-of-Semester Picnic
The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, Text & Traditions, and Digital Sciences in the Humanities programs invite you to an end-of-semester picnic.
Pedagogy Workshop: Wretched of the Earth
Neural Language Technology in An Under-resourced Setting
Kevin Scannell, St. Louis University
Three Lives of Michelangelo: Entrepreneur, Aristocrat, Octogenarian
Three lectures by William E. Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis.
James Baldwin and the Moral Crisis of American Democracy
Eddie Glaude, Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor
Major-Minor Welcome
IPH, Comp Lit, T&T, Legal Studies
Liberty of Conscience as a Tool of Empire: England and Its Restoration Colonies, 1660-1689
Daniel K. Richter, the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania
CANCELLED: 'Reading as if for life’: Dickens, The Dickensian, and the Common Reader
A lecture by Miriam Bailin, Professor Emerita of English, 2020 Junior Comp Examiner
A Distant Reading of Property
Jo Guldi, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University
IPH Open House
A Welcome to the Class of 2024!
HDW Colloquium: Haley Shoaf and LaunchCode
Haley Shoaf is a principal at LaunchCode, a nonprofit organization that trains people for job placement in the broader technology industry through free courses in computer programming.
HDW Colloquium: Access Exploit
Join us for Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow Setsuko Yokoyama's presentation on her book project, "Access Exploit"
Study Abroad Showcase
Overseas Programs is excited to offer an event for Danforth Campus students to learn more about available study abroad opportunities on December 4th, 12:00-2:00 pm (CT)
HDW Colloquium: A Distant Reading of Property
Join us for a lecture and workshop by Jo Guldi, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University
HDW Colloquium: A Computational Approach to Latin Prose Rhythm
Tom Keeline
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Raffaella Cribiore
How to be a Medievalist – and Why
An undergraduate workshop by Christian Schneider
Fall Classes Begin
Humanities Mocktails
Humanities Mocktails Party for Current and Prospective Students
Major-Decision Workshop
Matt Rickard, "Comedy Three Ways"
Lyceum Event: Text & Traditions Student Event
Visit the Kemper Art Museum and tour the exhibition Colonizing the Past: Constructing Race in Ancient Greece and Rome with Professor Wilson
In Conversation: Colonizing the Past: Constructing Race in Ancient Greece and Rome
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Kathryn Wilson, senior lecturer in the Department of Classics; and Claudia Swan, Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History & Archaeology; in conversation with Margo Hendricks, professor emerita in the Department of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz
2021 Humanities Lecture Series
The 2021 Humanities Lecture Series will feature three talks by Ian Bogost, the noted media studies scholar, game designer, and WU faculty.
Crisis in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future
The Office of the Provost and Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective, Department of History, invite you to join a thoughtful discussion with a panel of distinguished Washington University faculty members.
Why the Romans Should Care about Roman Law: the Perspective of the Early Empire
Matthijs Wibier, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Kent, UK
"The Role of Law and Lawyers in Time of Crises" with Law Professor Brian Tamanaha
Join IPH and Legal Studies for a lecture by Brian Tamanaha, John S. Lehman University Professor of Law. We ask that new Legal Studies Minors attend a short welcome session before the lecture (at 4:00 p.m.) with Professor Frank Lovett.
Bound for Beauty: A Book Binding Demonstration
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War
Alice Baumgartner, assistant professor, Department of History, University of Southern California
Geography of Identity in Artistic Creativity
Professor Abdelilah Ennassef, Columbia University
Faculty Book Talk: Heidi Kolk and Iver Bernstein
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Iver Bernstein (History, AFAS and American Culture Studies)
Freedom | Information | Acts
Studiolab Open House
Socrates the Seer
Lecture by Kirk Sanders, Departments of Philosophy and Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Digital Humanities” as a Method for Studying Pre-modern Korean Culture
Maya Stiller, associate professor of Korean art history & visual culture, University of Kansas
A Roundtable Discussion of Erin McGlothlin’s New Book, The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Moderator: Flora Cassen, Associate Professor of History; Chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Halloween Humanities Mocktails
Humanities Mocktails Party for Current and Prospective Students
A Conversation with Jerome Harris
Host, Rami Toubia Stucky
2023 Humanist Games
Join us for this year's Humanist Games to celebrate the end of the spring semester!
Humanities Mocktails
Humanities Mocktails Party for Current and Prospective Students
2023 Holiday Gathering
Celebrate the end of the fall semester and the holiday season with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities!
William H. Matheson Reception and Lecture Featuring Craig Monson
The Lord, The Slave, & The Tailor’s Son: A Case of Identity Theft in Renaissance Italy
The Computational Humanist from University to Industry
A lunch discussion with Matt Jockers
Matt Jockers Lecture: "Linguistic Entailments, Bestselling DNA, and other Absurd Ideas”
In this talk, Jockers describes how algorithms reveal the unique patterns of individual linguistic style and allow us to predict which authors and which books are mostly likely to hit the New York Times Bestseller list. He discusses foundational work in authorship attribution, stylometry—and even some neuroscience and behavioral genetics—in a talk that ultimately leads us to question the entire notion of creativity and authorial agency.
2024 IPH Junior Comp Exam Lecture featuring Brian Copenhaver
Lawn Care, Magic and the Art of Poetry Today
"Becoming" Tea
Thinking of applying to graduate school or pursuing a career in academia?
2024 Humanist Games
Join us for this year's Humanist Games to celebrate the end of the spring semester!