Calendar of Events

The Student Center for Equity & Inclusion and the will program cordially invite you to attend “An Evening with ALOK”, an Asian, Pacific Island, Desi, & Arab (APIDA) Heritage Month and Transgender Day of Visibility Event, on Monday, March 31st from 7 – 8:30 PM at the Queally Center.Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed poet, comedian, public speaker,...

Neumann Lecture: Robert Fink, What is Playlist Culture?

Join the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies for a book talk with Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.

Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the School of Art & Sciences for the Talk of the Town Lecture Series featuring psychology professor Janelle Peifer.

Inspired by the tradition of a pre-meal aperitif, this bi-weekly event offers a chance to cleanse the mental palate, spark close-looking, and ignite deep thought.

Join Modlin Center and Boatwright Library for a community drum circle led by the Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion.

Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Molly Conger, a journalist and activist who investigates American alt-right, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi movements in past and present. Conger gained national prominence while covering the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, during which neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched with tiki torches, shouting “Blood and soil!” and...

Have you ever heard that ancient Greeks killed disabled infants at birth? This story shows up in academic scholarship, textbooks, even popular media and memes. In this talk, I discuss where this idea comes from—focusing on ancient passages in Plutarch, Plato, and Aristotle—and assess what this evidence tells us about the realities of ancient life. I then present literary,...

Free, registration required

In the 1970s the Lora Robins Gallery received multiple donations of Ancient and Medieval coins.  These donations predominantly contained coins of the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic Caliphates, and the Crusader States.  The coin collection totals more than 15,000 pieces, of which only a fraction of have previously been on display or available to the University Community.  With the...