Past Events
Book Talk: Game Changers Name, Image, and Likeness Law Creates College Millionaires
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom
The Jewish Body and The Valley Girl, 1982-Now
DUC Goldberg Formal Lounge
The Practice of Citizenship Series presents: Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership for a More Perfect Union: Lessons from America at 250
This Practice of Citizenship series event is part of the WashU’s Leadership Week and is cosponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Emerson Auditorium, Knight Hall
Department of Music Lecture: Graduate Student Conference Lectures
WashU Graduate Students
Lopata House, Room 16
Francophone Film Festival: Homelessly in Love
Film Screening
October 14, 2026 | 5:00 PM
Seigle L006
Seigle L006
"Crisis," Uncertainty, and Immigration Restriction in the 1990s
Colloquium with Carly Goodman
Goldberg Formal Lounge | DUC (Danforth University Center)
Asian American Studies Fall Panel - Invisible Barriers: Asian Americans and Public Health
Join us on October 13th for our annual Asian American Studies Fall Panel discussion.
McMillan Cafe
Fall 2026 Major-Minor Fair
Come by the American Culture Studies and Asian American Studies booth to learn more about our majors and minors!
Athletic Complex
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Samantha Noelle Sheppard, “‘Was She Seeking Cinema?’: Tisa Bryant’s Phantom Cinemas”, Inaugural Event in the Annual Gaylyn Studlar Lecture Series
Seigle Room 301
Devon Carbado on Labor
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
Umrath Lounge
Sports & Society Reading Group: Samantha Sheppard discusses "The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History"
On Thursday, October 8th at 1:30 p.m. in DUC 233, we’ll be joined live and in person by Samantha Sheppard to talk about her new book The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History!
DUC-233
Book Launch: Chris Dingwall’s “Black Designers in Chicago”
Olin Library, Room 142
The Practice of Citizenship Series presents: “They are real Americans and entitled to citizenship: Revisiting the American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924”
Join us for this Danforth Distinguished public lecture with Philip J. Deloria (Dakota descent), highlighting his research and teaching on the social, cultural, and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States.
Knight Hall’s Emerson Auditorium
Americanist Dinner Forum "Doc Du Jour" with J.P. Cupps
"Document Du Jour" Dinner Forum is an opportunity for an AMCS graduate student to present an intriguing or puzzling document or artifact from their dissertation research - one that will be of wide interest to Americanists across disciplinary lines - and to puzzle through it with colleagues.
DUC-234
Fraught Femininity: Sex Work, Transphobia, and Lipstick Regulation
How does lipstick’s colorful past—and present— relate to sex work, class, and transphobic policies? In this panel, Lipstick author and Washington University Professors Eileen G’Sell, Adrienne Davis, Tamsin Kimoto, and Brenda Dvoskin will explore beauty culture’s most controversial tool.
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (Room 310)
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Rebecca Wanzo, “Liberation Among the Stars: Black Fandom and Racial Capitalism”
(co-sponsorship with Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Seigle Room 301
The Odyssey Wars: Nolan, Homer, and Reimaginings
Seigle L006
2026 Morrin Lecture: A Conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Through the Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture series we continue to teach our students that theatre does not simply entertain, but in fact emboldens us to make change.
Emerson Auditorium & Frick Forum, Knight Hall
Sports & Society Reading Group: Zoom Discussion with Jules Boykoff
The Sports & Society Reading Group is thrilled to host Jules Boykoff to talk about the spectacle and spectacular corruption of the recently concluded men’s World Cup!
ZOOM
Davarian L. Baldwin on University and Community
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum
Advocacy, Objectivity and Method
A Forum to Discuss the WashU/Vanderbilt Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum + Zoom
AMCS/AAS Fall Welcome Back Gathering
McMillan Cafe
After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary: A conversation with author Prof. Erica Moiah James
Join us for a conversation with Professor Erica Moiah James.
ZOOM
Angela Davis on Academic Freedom
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
Graham Chapel
The Longest Table 2026
The Longest Table, a civic dialogue event featuring (you guessed it) a long table and guided discussion, has taken place in communities across the US.
Tisch Park
AMCS & AAS Open House
McMillan 140
Moby-Dick at 175 with Hester Blum
Leviathan Bookstore | 3211 South Grand Boulevard
What Remains: Artifacts, Memory, and Stories of Place
This two-part workshop explores place, memory, and identity through guided discussion, a gallery tour, and hands-on bookmaking.
Kemper Museum Lobby
AMCS & AAS Undergraduate Commencement Reception
Please join us for a special reception to recognize and celebrate our students' success in American Culture Studies and Asian American Studies!
McMillan Courtyard
Indigenous Health Summit
The summit will be held at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center at the Washington University Medical School Campus on May 5, 2026, from 4PM to 8PM.
Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
AMCS Spring Gathering
The Spring Gathering will take place in the Orchid Room from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on Wednesday, April 29th!
Orchid Room in the DUC
2026 Harvey Scholar Maggie Lu Presents: Would You? Gallery show opening
Stix House Lounge | 6470 Forsyth Blvd.
Inequality and Athlete Activism: Past, Present, & Future
In this one day mini-conference event, hosted at Washington University in St. Louis by the Sports & Society Program Initiative in American Culture Studies, students, faculty, and scholars from across the St. Louis region will discuss the past, present, and future of inequality in sport and athlete activism.
Olin Library, Room 142
Talk with Adria Brown - From Charter to Action: Dartmouth's Indigenous Initiatives (1970-2026)
Adria Brown, Director of the Native American Program at Dartmouth, joins us to give a talk on Thursday, April 16th.
McMillan Cafe
Participatory-Action Workshop to Community Engagement with Dr. Kong Pha
McMillan Cafe
2026 Harvey Scholar Da’juantay Wynter Presents: How Policy Anchors the Double Consciousness of Black America
Hillman Hall, Clark Fox Forum
Americanist Dinner Forum with Dr. Kong Pha - Sexuality, Belonging and Race Among Asian Americans in the Midwest
All are invited for dinner and conversation with Dr. Kong Pha on Monday, April 13th!
Kemper Museum Atrium
36th Annual Buder Center Powwow
The Buder Center Powwow is free and open to the public on Saturday, April 11th, 2026.
Washington University Field House, 330 N. Big Bend Blvd.
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lea Jacobs "Ford at Work: Making Young Mr. Lincoln"
Seigle Room 106
Harvey Scholars Information Session
Are you an AMCS rising senior interested in receiving funding for independent research?
Do you want to make academic scholarship accessible and approachable beyond the university?
Do you want to make academic scholarship accessible and approachable beyond the university?
McMillan 140
AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
Please join us for our annual AMCS Spring Research Colloquium!
DUC-234
Sports & Society Initiative: Conversation with Tracie Canada
The Sports & Society Initiative is thrilled to be joined in conversation by Tracie Canada, the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
DUC-234
AMCS and AAS Major / Minor Welcome
McMillan 140
Lunch with Distinguished Visiting Scholar Jarvis Givens
Graduate students and faculty are invited for lunch and conversation with Jarvis Givens.
McMillan Cafe
Americanist Dinner Forum with Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Jarvis Givens
All are invited for dinner and conversation with Dr. Jarvis Givens on Tuesday, February 10th!
Umrath Lounge
AMCS Study Abroad Information - Zoom Session
ZOOM
Americanist Dinner Forum - Graduate School in 2026: Questions, Concerns, and Community
Come join fellow AMCS students and faculty for an evening of casual conversation and community-building.
DUC-234
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration: The Annual Celebration
Graham Chapel
A&S Summer Session 2026 Webinar
Join us for an informational webinar to get your questions answered and learn more about A&S Summer Session 2026.
The James Baldwin Lecture - Achieving Our Country: Baldwin and U.S. Politics Today
Save the Date!
Emerson Auditorium | Washington University
Censoring Education and Policing Minds – A Global Trend
Eve Darian-Smith is Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Global and International Studies; and affiliated faculty in the Law School, Department of Anthropology and Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine and author of “Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters.” — James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education
Women's Building Formal Lounge
The Mormon Giant: a live documentary about religion and wrestling
The Sports & Society Initiative is proud to co-sponsor a screening of “The Mormon Giant,” hosted by the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University.
Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Cook Hall, St. Louis, MO 63108
Critical Race Theory at the Bottom of the Well: Derrick Bell’s ‘Grandchildren’ Reflect on the Future of CRT
Join us for a roundtable with Adrienne Davis, Robert Chang, and Anthony Farley as they reflect on Derrick Bell’s legacy and the future of Critical Race Theory.
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (A-B Hall, Room 310)