04/10/2019
Saint Louis University celebrated its global community with a week of parades, panels,
performances and cultural exchange during this year’s Atlas Week.
SLU's many nations parade around the Lipic Clock Tower on Friday, April 5. Photo by
Amelia Flood
A language enthusiast chills out at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures's
Polyglot Cafe. Photo by Garrett Canducci
A representative of Afghanistan takes part in the Parade of Nations. Photo by Amelia
Flood
Guest come together to enjoy cuisine from across Africa at the African Student Association's
Afro-World Showcase. Photo by Mehamed Abdi
Musicians meld traditional Korean music with Western instruments at the Eine Korean
Cultural Performance. Photo by Garrett Canducci
A student poet reads about the real Africa at the Afro-World Showcase. Photo by Amelia
Flood
Students strike a pose with the Billiken and the flag of Brazil at the Billiken World
Festival. Photo by Amelia Flood
The Parade of Nations makes its way to the Center for Global Citizenship. Photo by
Amelia Flood
SLU's Atlas Week is a 19-year tradition on campus. Photo by Amelia Flood
Panama is proudly represented. Photo by Amelia Flood
Students and flags represented every continent but Antarctica at the Parade of Nations.
Photo by Amelia Flood
A musician performs at the Eine Korean Cultural Performance at St. Francis Xavier
College Church. Photo by Garrett Canducci
Earth's nations come together in song at the Billiken World Festival. Photo by Amelia
Flood
Students, faculty and staff members bond across languages at the Polyglot Cafe's Atlas
Week session. Photo by Garrett Canducci
A student samples food from around the world at the Billiken World Festival. Photo
by Amelia Flood
The Parade of Nations begins! Photo by Amelia Flood
Performers combine European and Korean musical forms. Photo by Garrett Canducci
Students await the start of the Billiken World Festival in traditional Afghani dress.
Photo by Amelia Flood
The Billiken helps lead the crowd in song at the Center for Global Citizenship during
Atlas Week 2019. Photo by Amelia Flood
A Jesuit scholastic carries the flag for Lithuania. Photo by Amelia Flood
The flags fly for Atlas Week. Photo by Amelia Flood
Atlas Week included opportunities for students, faculty and staff members to connect
across languages, over delicacies from a host of countries and by bearing the flags
of nations near and dear to their hearts in a cavalcade that encircled SLU’s Lipic
Clock Tower.
The week, a 19-year-long tradition on SLU’s campus, examined migration and finding
a place to call home.
Kicking off with a keynote speech by noted journalist John Quinones, the week’s highlights
included the Eine Korean Cultural Performance, which blended the peninsula’s traditional
music with Western instruments at St. Francis Xavier College Church, the traditional
Parade of Nations and Billiken World Festival, among the 85 events included in this
week’s offerings.
