Faith, Family and Flag Book Events

  • flier for book talk at Springfield-Greene County Library

    Springfield-Greene County Library

    May 14, 2026

  • Joanna Dee Das presenting about Branson to a group of students and faculty at Texas A&M

    Keynote presentation at Glasscock Center for the Humanities, Texas A&M University

    March 27, 2026

  • Book talk on Faith, Family, and Flag at UT Austin. Image of author Joanna Dee Das and explanation fo talk

    UT-Austin

    March 25, 2026

  • Flyer for Faith, Family, and Flag Book Talk at University of Arkansas. Picture of author Joanna Dee Das

    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

    February 18, 2026

  • Close-up of a woman smiling with dark hair, with a book titled 'Faith, Family, and Flag' visible in the foreground and a brick wall in the background.

    Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago

    January 10, 2026

  • Three women smiling at a book event, holding books in front of a table with more books and a backdrop with a map outline.

    Center of Creative Arts (COCA), St. Louis

    November 25, 2025

  • A woman wearing a red dress holding a microphone and reading from a book at a book event. Behind her is a sign that reads 'Left Bank Books St. Louis Est. 1969' with a black cat silhouette. Audience members are seated in front.

    Left Bank Books, St. Louis

    November 18, 2025

  • Flyer for an evening event with Professors Joanna Dee Das and Jake Johnson, discussing Joanna Dee Das's book 'Faith Family and Flag'. The flyer features photos of Das and Johnson, the book cover, and event details including date, time, location, and a QR code.

    Commonplace Books, Oklahoma City

    November 17, 2025

  • Flyer for an author talk featuring Joanna Dee Das about faith, family, and flags, with details of date, time, and location at Meyer Library, Springfield, Missouri.

    Meyer Library, Missouri State University-Springfield

    November 12, 2025

  • Upcoming!

    August 19, 10am, "Books and Bagels" event at Clark Family Branch of the St. Louis County Library

    September 18, 2026, 5:30pm, Keynote at Ozarks Symposium, Missouri State University-West Plains

Making Art in a Time of War: Kurt Jooss’ The Green Table (1932) in Weimar Germany and Today

In this public event held at Washington University, Dr. Hannah Kosstrin of OSU joined me in a discussion of choreographer Kurt Jooss’ satirical anti-war ballet, The Green Table, my reimagination of it as The Scattered Chairs, and what it means to connect the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany to the contemporary moment of the 2020s.

Photograph by Rain Stippec

People seated around a table during a presentation or meeting, with a large screen displaying a slide titled 'Making Art in a Time of War: Kurt Jooss' The Green Table' in the background.

December 6, 2024

Brendan Fernandes and Joanna Dee Das: In Two

November 9, 2024

In this conversation at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, I talked with artist Brendan Fernandes about his performance event, In Two, which he created in conjunction with the Pulitzer’s exhibition of Scott Burton’s furniture sculptures. We talked about visibility/invisibility, queer cruising, worldmaking, and the importance of tender, fleeting moments of human connection.

Photograph by Virginia Harold, 2024. Courtesy Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

Two people sitting and smiling in front of a large screen with the names Brendan Fernandes and Joanna Dee Das, with the title "In Two".

"When You See Josephine, You See Her Mother": The Africanist Foundations for Jazz Dance and the St. Louis Context

March 15, 2024

The Petit Palais Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris invited me and my collaborator, Denise Ward-Brown, to talk at their Josephine Baker Symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibit Modern Paris: 1905-1925. We presented our research on Josephine Baker and the Black cultural worlds that nurtured her talent.

Photograph by Koushik Das

A woman in a patterned dress stands at a clear podium speaking to an audience in a wood-paneled conference room. A woman in a striped dress with glasses sits at a table with documents and a microphone. Behind them, a large projection screen displays a presentation with maps and text titled 'Great Migration,' showing a route from the southern United States to the north and details about the migration.

“The Real Deal”: Impersonation and the American Dream in Las Vegas and Branson

November 17, 2023

In this talk as part of the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center Lecture Series at University of Nevada- Las Vegas, I discussed the show Legends in Concert and its importance to the live entertainment industries of both Branson and Las Vegas, allowing us to draw connections between these two tourist destinations.

A woman standing in front of a large screen displaying a neon-lit Las Vegas cityscape with signs and the words "The Vegas Strip and The Branson Strip." She is holding a tablet or notebook and appears to be presenting or speaking.

To find out more about my events and talks, please email me at joanna.d.das@wustl.edu