Humanities students across disciplines sharing their research projects (which have taken them around the globe!) at the WashU Arts & Sciences Office of Undergraduate Research symposium today in a special roundtable hosted by WashU Humanities —

🎉 Congratulations to all #WashU faculty receiving tenure and promotion, and a special shout-out to our former Faculty Fellows Heather Berg (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies) and Christina Ramos (History)!
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Read about the work Anya Yermakova F'22 is doing as an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow WashU Humanities ⬇️

Join us for “The Power of Buttons” — a pop-up workshop engaging the St. Louis community with a small but powerful public text: the pin-back button. Free & all ages welcome!
🗓️ Thurs., April 18, 3:30-5:30 pm (drop-in hours)
📍COCA (U. City Loop)
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TODAY 🎉 WashU humanities faculty: Meet and mingle with colleagues old and new!
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3D artwork comes alive when experienced in the flesh, says #WashU art historian Nathaniel Jones. Here, he describes the storytelling twists and turns a sculpture reveals when viewed dynamically — an effect impossible to capture in a static representation.
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📺 Amazing public history with our former Faculty Fellow!

Applications due Fri., 4/12: Recruiting now for 2024–25! #WashU graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences may apply for a 1-semester fellowship, which offers a workspace, opportunity to workshop their writing & $5,000 stipend. qrco.de/GSF25

By starting with a common set of nonword symbols, the participants in the Abstract Comic workshop suddenly found they could speak the same language—despite diverse backgrounds & disparate ideas, writes graduate student (& new comic artist) Bailey Willden.
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Coins are pocket-sized propaganda, communicating the political messages of the rulers who struck them. Classics scholar William Bubelis examines two ancient Greek coins to reveal the stories their minters — including Alexander the Great — wanted to sell.
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✔️THIS WEEK!
The Humanities in the AI Future: a symposium on the affordances of humanistic scholarship with and about artificial intelligence and machine learning. Programming kicks off w/ Thurs. PM pedagogy session & continues w/ talks on Friday.
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⬇️ Today at 4 pm, Women’s Building Formal Lounge!

Recruiting now for 2024–25! #WashU graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences may apply for a 1-semester fellowship, which offers a workspace, opportunity to workshop their writing & $5,000 stipend. Applications due Fri., 4/12. qrco.de/GSF25

Humanists on the Hill! As part of National Humanities Alliance’s Humanities Advocacy Day, WashU grad students Sewasew Assefa and Skyler Dykes and asst dir
Laura Perry, along with colleagues from Mizzou, met with Missouri’s congressional reps to encourage federal support for humanities programs.

With a background in direct action and creative nonviolence, Bayard Rustin was uniquely prepared to lead the 1963 March on Washington, says Paige McGinley, performance studies & civil rights movement scholar. It’s a story well told in #Oscar -nom “Rustin.”
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We’re ready for you! Join us at the Faculty Book Celebration, today at 4 pm in Umrath Lounge.

📚 .WashU Humanities celebrates #WashU authors of 2023 books in the humanities and humanistic social sciences tomorrow, 2/28, including these #teachingfaculty and practice faculty. See the virtual bookshelf here, and congratulations to all! buff.ly/3IcmxoG

Hayrettin Yücesoy — a speaker at tomorrow’s Faculty Book Celebration on his previous book — is already at work on his next topic: a treatise on governing for an 8th-century Arab ruler who just won enormous power by force of arms.
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