Category: Events
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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
Lecture by Professor Michael J. Drexler Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pmHMH Great Room This talk intervenes in memory studies and African American intellectual history by analyzing how the memory of slavery and John Brown’s legacy was contested within the symbolic and institutional space of Storer College, a historically Black school in Harpers Ferry. Drawing…
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Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB, Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 pm, Gallery Theatre, ELC 3rd Fl.
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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Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Iron Front, 434 Market Street #301
November 2, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Dewitt Building, Samek Art Museum Downtown Gallery Exhibitions 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…
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Book Launch: Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction, Thurs, 09/25/2025, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., HMH Great Room
September 25, 2025, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 – Great Room Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction Book Launch Lecture by Prof. Or Rogovin, Modern Hebrew Studies Program The perpetrators of the Holocaust—Nazis, Germans, and their collaborators—have occupied the popular imagination since the end of World War II. We see them everywhere in…
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Black Life in Appalachia: Beyond White Hillbilly Myths, Thursday, Sept. 4, 4:30-6:00pm, HMH Great Room
Keynote address by Professor William Turner Thursday, Sept. 4, 4:30-6:00pm, HMH Great Room
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BHC Convivial Hour Thurs., Aug. 28, 4:30 – 6pm, Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
Please join us as we kick-off the new semester, connect with old friends and new colleagues, and learn all that the BHC has to offer. Light refreshments will be provided and all from the campus community are welcome.