Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, will present Women Impressionists and the Land, the major exhibition he has curated for the museum.

The French Connexions Franco-American center is pleased to welcome novelist Laure Gouraige to WashU as writer-in-residence from September 6 to 12, 2026. Her visit is part of the Jules Verne Writing Residency, which brings contemporary French and Francophone writers to several universities across the US.