Category: Annual Themes
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Won’t you take me to… Tablertown: A Tabletalk of Tablertown, OH, People of Color Museum
Athaliah Elvis ’26, BHC Communications Intern
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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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“Radical Memory, Strategic Forgetting: Race, Symbolic Power, and the Politics of Commemoration At Storer College In West Virginia”
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pm HMH Great Room
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Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined
November 2, 2025, 3:00 p.m.Iron Front Event Space, 434 Market Street Artist Marie Cochran reimagines the novel “Those We Thought We Knew,” by David Joy that explores themes of generational trauma, and betrayal through the story of a young Black artist who returns to her ancestral home. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Bucknell’s Critical…
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Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 pmGallery Theatre, ELC 3rd Fl. As part of the Bucknell Humanities Center’s Themed-Year-Programming, “Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere” we are hosting a Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB, followed by a virtual Q and A session from the director, William Isom II after the viewing. Film screening located in the…
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Black Life in Appalachia: Beyond White Hillbilly Myths
Keynote address by Professor William Turner Thursday, Sept. 4, 4:30-6:00pm, HMH Great Room
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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: