Two Israeli soldiers spoke in Seigle Hall on Sunday about their lives as Israelis and the Arab-Israeli conflicts as a part of the StandWithUs tour, hosted by Washington University’s Students for Israel.

Appearing as a part of the Student Union Speaker Series and brought in by the Association of Black Students, actor, producer and education advocate LeVar Burton spoke to a full Graham Chapel on Thursday night.

Israeli-Arab writer Sayed Kashua addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his family’s experiences in Israel in his lecture on Thursday.

Students at Stephen Prothero’s Assembly Series lecture on Thursday dove into the chasm of culture wars and partisan divisions in American politics.

Former CIA Acting Director of Operations Jack Devine spoke to a packed auditorium Tuesday evening in Steinberg Hall. Co-sponsored by the Washington University Political Review and the University Assembly Series, his lecture dealt with the importance and ethics of national intelligence.

In Wednesday’s Assembly Series event, speaker Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., suggested that Mike Brown’s death on Aug. 9 unveiled a decades-old problem with continuing racial tensions.

Kenji Yoshino, author of this year’s First Year Reading Program book, “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights,” touched on his own experiences with trying to fit in to society as well as the development of the bisexual and transgender rights movements in the opening assembly series lecture Monday night.

Although the event stretched for more than two hours on a Thursday evening, about 300 students, faculty and community members gathered to hear an impassioned speech about the importance of remembrance given by Holocaust survivor Philip Bialowitz.

Celebrating its 60th year with a roster including celebrities, noted scientists and social activists, Washington University announced its spring 2014 Assembly Series schedule on Monday.

An audience of mostly older St. Louis community members and a handful of students filled Graham Chapel to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative political columnist George F. Will on Tuesday evening. His speech, focusing on how the government has overstepped its proper regulatory role, was this semester’s keynote lecture for the John C.