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Spend 30-minutes immersed in art and return to your afternoon with a fresh perspective. October’s Kemper Creative Break will take place in the fall special exhibition Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots, inviting participants to slow down and observe artworks while engaging in short, low-stakes drawing activities. 

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kemper-creative-break-tickets-2002755133517

Guitarist Vincent Varvel, Director of Guitar Studies, brings his quartet to the 560 Music Center in the WashU Jazz Series.  The quartet, featuring WashU faculty Joel Vanderheyden on saxophone and electronics, Eric Warren on bass, Joe Meyer on drums, and Varvel on electric guitars, plays music that combines atmospheric electronica, deep grooves, and captivating melodies with exploration and jazz improvisation.

Explore highlights from Becker Library’s archival and rare book collections! Come and go as you please, as this is an open house style event. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

Register: https://becker.wustl.edu/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=952

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Join us for the opening reception of “As Long As It Lasts, an exhibition of new work created by the MFA in Visual Arts first-year students in their first month of the program.

Refreshments will be served

Exhibition On view: Oct 1, 2026

Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. Chowdhury will discuss some projects featured in the first full monograph of the practice, “Meditations In Entropy.” He will focus on works related to culture, history, and climate change in Bangladesh, which are incisive, critical responses to varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions.

Attend the International Conference of Undergraduate Research's Annual Global Conference and Support Participating WashU Researchers

The International Conference of Undergraduate Research is an annual interdisciplinary undergraduate conference showcasing researchers from all over the globe. Students at ICUR’s membership institutions convene in interdisciplinary panels in a day-long, virtual convening. This year, five WashU students will present their research as part of the conference. 

You can attend any of the below panels in person or register online to be a virtual audience member. 

Tuesday, September 29 (DUC 239)

Session 7B (9:30-10:30 am) Language and Labels 

Julia Li     The Rhetoric of Private Equity: A Case Study of Toys “R” Us

Session 8C (10:40-11:40 am) Relating and Relationships

Ava Giere     Geometry Lessons: Love Triangles in Film as Social and Political Critiques

Session 9B (11:50 am-12:50 pm) The Digital Age

Astrid Burns     “Kamala IS brat”: Women's Political Representation in the Digital Age

Wednesday, September 30 (DUC 233)

Session 15B (8:20-9:20 am) Narratives of Women

Sarah Johnston     An Caoineadh Nua: Irish Women’s Lament Literature and Contemporary Reimaginations of the Keening Tradition

Session 16C (9:30-10:30 am) Age and Identity

Kevin Ramirez     Sexual Identity as Fetishistic Discourse

The exhibition Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots showcases new and recent works in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and video that address humanity’s relationship with nature.  

This panel discussion will bring together artistic and scientific perspectives to explore interconnected relations between plants, people, and places. The conversation will touch upon key themes informing the exhibition, including perennial agriculture, prairie ecosystems, plant nomenclature, and environmental activism.  

Co-sponsored by the WashU Center for the Environment. 

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-planthumanland-relations-tickets-2000512140665

Lawrence Blough will deliver the Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.

Lawrence Blough is a professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and principal of GRAFTWORKS Design Research. In addition to being head of the core design sequence in the BArch program, he is co‐director of the SoA’s Housing Futures Research Lab. Previously the coordinator of degree project and the third‐year housing studio sequence, he now teaches advanced design studios and elective seminars concentrated on contemporary collective environments. He has also held teaching appointments at Washington University in St Louis, Tulane, and Catholic University.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Daveigh Chase, William Hurt, Sam Robards, Brendan Gleeson

PG • Length 140 min • Year 2001

Tickets: Doors open at 7:30pm

Unless otherwise noted, admission is:

Free for Washington University students with proper ID.

$7 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Washington University alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Washington University staff and faculty

We offer general admission seating with payment of cash or credit.

Note: Last-minute changes may occur.

Join us to hear from a panel of WashU experts who will detail their experiences and thoughts about a wide range of concern for humans, communities, resource use, teaching approaches, research governance, and technological advancement.

Free and open to all, registration is requested. https://wustl.libcal.com/event/17333643