Category: Annual Themes
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Crystal Wilkinson: “Sable Girls, Black Hill Folk and Brown Country: Examining Affrilachian Freedoms, Ancestral Memory, and Imagination”
Thursday, April 9, 2026: 4:30–6PM Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
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Conversation with Dave Butcher: “Founding the Tablertown, OH, People of Color Museum”
Friday, March 27, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room A conversation with Dave Butcher, the founder and director of the Tablertown, OH, People of Color Museum When he was ten years old living in rural southeast Ohio community called Tablertown, David Butcher received a tin-type photo of his great-great-grandfather, Jerry Sims, and heard…
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“Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere” Symposium
Thursday, February 12th, 10AM & 1PM — Hildreth Mirza Hall, Great Room As part of the BHC’s Theme Year Programming series: “Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere”, panelists will present research on Black life and culture in the Appalachian region, bringing fugitivity and marronage into conversation with Black Appalachian studies. The symposium will take…
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2025-2026: Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere
Programming Fellows:
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2024-25: Narrating Russia’s Empires: Eurasian Resistance/s
Programming Fellows:
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2023-2024: Colonial Entanglements
Programming Fellows:
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2022-2023: Pandemic: Contagion and the Body Politic
2022-2023 Programming Fellow:
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2021-2022: Non/Humanity: Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities
2021-2022 Programming Fellow:
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2020-2021: Learning to Live With Floods: Histories, Change, Remembrance, Resilience
2020-2021 Programming Fellow:
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2019-2020: Confronting Fascism
2019-2020 Programming Fellow: