Public Events Calendar

Dr. Anna Baeth, director of research for Athlete Ally, discusses pressing issues facing LGBTQ athletes, as well as ways to foster inclusion and combat discrimination in sport. This event is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the gender studies program.

In this lecture, Barfield will examine the importance of storytelling and narrative in the integral processes of health and healing.

Nikole Hannah-Jones will give a powerful keynote on history, race, and democracy that speaks to our current moment. She will draw on ideas from The 1619 Project to reframe our understanding of American history. This talk will include discussing the contributions of Black Americans and how they have helped our country. It will also focus on key moments in American history where people of color have struggled and resisted. Finally, the talk will explore the legacy of slavery in America's cultural, political, educational, and legal institutions. This will have a profound impact on our understanding of America's past and present.

A reflection on our need to appreciate and cooperate with nature in order to continue our rightful place in the ever expanding and evolving cosmos.

Dr. Sarah Teets will speak about what people can learn from the indigenous and Black agricultural movements in America. She will also talk about the parallels between Solon's poetry and North American indigenous approaches to the land. Teets is currently a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Virginia. This event is free and […]

The N-word is a word that gets a lot of attention when celebrities say it. Paula Deen, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Mel Gibson, Hulk Hogan, Jesse Jackson, Kyle Larson, Jennifer Lopez, John Mayer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Richards, Joe Rogan, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Barbara Walters, or, Larry Wilmore are all people who have said it.

This word is also in songs, rhymes, and ditties that children learn, and it can be found in commercials, too. Some rap songs have this word in them, and it's bleeped out of TV shows and movies.

This presentation is an opportunity to discuss a single word that has been called "the most inflammatory, shocking and historic word in the English language." Ultimately, this presentation asks how words construct identities — individual, communal, and even national.