“What’s gonna happen…”
Audience members sat patiently, holding their breath, eyes fixed, as with three words Taylor Mac called the room to action in the Clark-Fox Forum at Hillman Hall. The biennial Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture Series invites renowned artists and colloquium speakers to discuss the power of theater beyond entertainment.

Benjamin Hoffmann, associate professor of French from Ohio State University, discussed his recent novel, “L’Île de la Sentinelle,” that celebrates the utopian values of a shared humanity anchored to the destiny of the North Sentinel Island and its people, the Sentinelles, Nov. 10.

Three Conservative public thinkers spoke about the “Assault on Truth” in American politics and how to address it, Oct. 19.

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, anthropologist, and environmental activist, spoke at Graham Chapel last Sunday, Oct. 9, reflecting on defining moments of her career and motivating students to bring positive change to the world throughout their everyday life.

Fashion icon Diane von Fürstenberg spoke alongside YouTube’s former Head of Fashion and Beauty, Derek Blasberg about her career and life lessons, the fashion industry today and its challenges, and her work to empower women, Oct. 12.

Professor Adrienne Davis speaking in her lecture. Screenshot courtesy of Chloe Carlish*   As part of the new “Politics of Reproduction” course, law professor Dr. Adrienne Davis led a guest lecture, “Sexual Political Economies of Slavery and Abortion,” on Sept. 19. In the lecture, Davis draws comparisons between antebellum fugitive slave laws that allowed for […]

Physicist, speaker, and NASA scientist K. Renee Horton, Ph.D., discussed the importance of inclusion, her work at NASA and her nontraditional educational path to a crowd of Washington University community members in Busch Hall Friday afternoon.

One Washington University student said he is descended from a Macedonian mail-order bride. Another said his ancestors barely avoided immigrating to the states on the Titanic. The stories were elicited as part of associate professor Shanti Parikh’s lecture on Tuesday titled “Love, Sex, and Immigration: Regulating Population and Reproduction.

While humans may have created global warming, the problem is too significant to be solved by lifestyle changes, said Dr. Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, to an audience almost filling Lab Sciences 300 to capacity Monday afternoon.

A few weeks ago we ran an editorial that showcased some of the lesser known places of interest on campus that we thought you might have liked to hear about. It turned out to be a pretty popular piece, which got us thinking that maybe there were other events on campus that you’d like to be made aware of. We know that the Wash. U.