The Center for the Humanities produces these events and series:

Monday Noon Cultural Series

Poetry & Short Story Reading Series

What Is a City? Conference

• Monday Noon Cultural Series
  • Mondays, Sept. 14-Nov. 16, 12:15-1:15 p.m. in the J.C. Penney Conference Center
  • This free cultural series presents interdisciplinary lectures and performances by artists, dancers, musicians, historian, fiction writers, social and political analysts, and cultural leaders. No registration is required. Light refreshments are served.
• Poetry & Short Story Reading Series
  • The Poetry & Short Story Reading Series is cosponsored with the University of Missouri-St. Louis Department of English. The series is organized by the Department of English faculty members Mary Troy, Howard Schwartz, and Steve Schreiner.
  • The Series features contemporary poets and short story writers who read from their original works. The Series gives our faculty, students, and community the chance to hear the original works of writers from throughout the United States.
  • All of the readings are free; no registration is needed. For the current schedule, call (314) 516-6845.
• What Is a City? Conference  
  • Oct. 29-30 in the J.C. Penney Conference Center
  • The theme of the 15th annual What Is a City? conference is Urban Infrastructure.
  • This year's conference presenters and audience members will explore urban infrastructure needs and problems, along with related social justice concerns, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Speakers and panelists will focus on urban highways and streets, riverways and riverfronts, mass transit, pedestrian/bike transit, political aspects of infrastructure funding (including stimulus), and possibly sewers—all in the context of the humanities, arts, and social/environmental justice. They will include community organizers, political analysts, urban planners, photographers, historians, geographers, environmentalists, members of the media, architects, and local/state legislators.

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