Calendar of Events

The 2024-25 Jepson Leadership Forum invites scholars and experts to discuss how division and polarization affect American democracy. We will explore how and why divisions have manifested historically and currently in the United States, focusing on their impact on justice, education, politics, culture, technology, and class. 

Jack Halberstam is professor of gender studies and English, David Feinson Professor of Humanities, and director of the Institute for Research on Gender, Women, and Sexuality at Columbia University. He is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, Female Masculinities, In a Queer Time & Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Gaga...

Adult $60/40/20 | Non-UR Student/Youth $10 | UR Credited Student - Free

Dr. Mike Davison and Ed Tillett have produced a documentary about the indigenous music of Santiago de Cuba. "The Sound of Santiago" is about the music of Santiago de Cuba and the effect it has had on Cuba and the world.

Lecture by Caitlin Earley, assistant professor of art history at University of Washington. Dr. Earley is an art historian studying the art of the ancient Americas, with a focus on ancient Maya sculpture. She has conducted over a decade of fieldwork in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, and she has worked with museum collections throughout North America. 

Adult $60/40/20 | Non-UR Student/Youth $10 | UR Credited Student - Free

Join the Department of Art & Art History for the Frames of Reference series, an annual program of artists' films and videos. The event is programmed and organized by Jeremy Drummond, associate professor in visual and media arts practice.

Join the Department of Art & Art History for the Frames of Reference series, an annual program of artists' films and videos. The event is programmed and organized by Jeremy Drummond, associate professor in visual and media arts practice.

Sharon Holland is Townsand Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the author of three books: Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, The Erotic Life of Racism, and an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, and the co-author, with Tiyana Miles, of Crossing Waters,...

Alice Jepson Theatre, Modlin Center for the Arts