On November 8th and 9th, The Transgender Spectrum Conference will explore the spectrum of sex and gender from multiple vantage points: lived experience, academic investigation, clinical practice, and activism.

The Academy launched at the beginning of the 2019-202 academic year. The Academy supports employees through programming, training, events and other resources, and on Sept. 20, it held an event to celebrate its initial engagements and to look ahead to the work that remains to be done.

On September 11, 2019, at 4pm, Richa Nagar lectures about “Journeying Together for Justice: Situated Solidarities, Radical Vulnerability, Hungry Translations” in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

The Legacy Project is a nationally-recognized traveling monument that celebrates 4,000 years of LGBTQIA+ history around the globe, and will be displayed on the 3rd floor of Hillman Hall October 1-12.

This year, African and African American studies celebrates its 50th anniversary. AFAS, as it is called, was started in 1969, in response to protests by the Association of Black Collegians (now the Association of Black Students) the year before.

Commemorating the fifth year anniversary of Michael Brown’s homicide in Ferguson, MO, The Academy for Diversity & Inclusion launches “In St. Louis” and an interactive documentary. #InSTLProject

In her new book, “Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in The New Economy,” Adia Wingfield studies ‘racial outsourcing’ specifically the roles of African American health care workers.

This fall, the newly expanded and renovated Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will reopen with a major exhibition of work by Ai Weiwei—renowned Chinese dissident artist and activist.

Caitlyn Collins, assistant professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences, is one of 10 junior faculty nationwide selected as a 2019 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.