Past Events

Mar

21

Africana Studies Event

‘Imoinda World Premiere – A Youth Production’ Film Screening

Location:

Neville 303

March 21, 2025, 12 - 2:30pm

The film–2 hours 10 minutes–is a screening of the final night of the 2008 Premiere production of Imoinda by students of School of the Arts (SOTA), Rochester, New York with music by composer, Glenn McClure. The project was supported by the New York State Music Fund.

Mar

20

Africana Studies Event

Imoinda Speaks: Authorising the Enslaved Black Woman After Aphra Behn with Joan Anim-Addo

Location:

STEPS 101

March 20, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

The lecture–with PowerPoint presentation–draws on a guest article, “A View from The Outside Looking In: Writing The Libretto Imoinda, Or She Who Will Lose Her Name” published in Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research, (Vol. 9, November 2023).

Mar

18

Africana Studies Event

An Afternoon with Joan Anim-Addo: Faculty/Student Discussion

Location:

Williams 341

March 18, 2025, 12 - 2pm

This event offers a sharing of Joan Anim-Addo's paper, “Taking Black British Literature to the Deconstruction Table,” presented at the 8th “Derrida Today” Conference, Athens, Greece, June 2024. The essay interrogates what might be gained by exploring Black British Literature…

Mar

6

Global Studies Event

Thesis Workshop: How to Review Literature

Location:

UC 225

March 6, 2025, 1:35 - 2:50pm

Join Global Studies and Melanie Hughes, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Gender Inequality Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh as she discusses how to review the state of the field, targeted towards thesis writers.  Lunch will be included! For more…

Mar

4

Global Studies Event

Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria

Location:

Linderman 200

March 4, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

For the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had long lived in Syria as refugees, the advent of civil war in 2011 occasioned not a first experience of displacement but rather another iteration of enforced migration, necessitating encounters with new places of refuge…

Feb

27

Global Studies Event

Film Screening of Writing with Fire

Location:

BIB 108

February 27, 2025, 4:30 - 8pm

Join us as we watched "Writing with Fire", followed by a faculty discussion and Q&A! Food and drinks will be provided.About the Documentary: In a male-dominated media landscape, the women journalists of India's all-female Khabar Lahariya ("News Wave") newspaper risk it all,…

Feb

27

Africana Studies Event

Africana Distinguished Lecture-Speaker Series: Caryl Phillips "Another Man in the Street" Reading and Discussion

Location:

BI 221

February 27, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist Caryl Phillips grew up in Leeds and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He began his writing career as a playwright; his plays include Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter. A prolific writer,…

Feb

24

Africana Studies Event

Black History Month Celebration

Location:

Linderman 200

February 24, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Creative Writing program and Africana Studies program Black History Month Celebration featuring the work of the great Nikki Giovanni. Refreshments provided! Contact: spw3@lehigh.edu.

Feb

20

Africana Studies Event

The Spring 2025 William Scott’s Brown Bag Series: 'Let the Whiskey Question Alone' with Joseph Williams

Location:

HST 211

February 20, 2025, 12 - 1:30pm

'Let the Whiskey Question Alone:' William Calvin Chase's Moral Taxonomy and Anti-Prohibitionist Sentiments in the Washington Bee presented by Joseph Williams, Assistant Professor of History & Africana Studies. He researches Black intellectual history, Black women's history,…

Feb

11

Asian and Asian American Studies Event

A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Chinese Students with Peter Hessler

Location:

STEPS 102

February 11, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

In 1996, Peter Hessler was sent by the Peace Corps to teach for two years at a small college in Fuling, a remote town on the Yangtze River. After finishing his Peace Corps service, he became a foreign correspondent, and for more than two decades he stayed in close contact with…

Feb

11

Africana Studies Event

The Intersection of Parenting, Language, and Literacy Development in Senegalese Communities

Location:

UC 375

February 11, 2025, 12:10 - 1:20pm

This presentation explores Dr. Diop's research examining how parent-child interactions support the language abilities of Wolof-learning toddlers in Senegal and the cultural beliefs about parenting among Senegalese caregivers. It also presents an overview of his current work on…

Feb

11

Asian and Asian American Studies Event

A Narrative Nonfiction Workshop with Author Peter Hessler

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

February 11, 2025, 12 - 2pm

What does it take to research and write a piece of narrative nonfiction? Peter Hessler will explain the process by way of a discussion of his New Yorker article "Dr. Don." He will talk about how he got the idea for the piece, some of the challenges in research, and the decisions…

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Past Events

Mar

21

‘Imoinda World Premiere – A Youth Production’ Film Screening

Mar

20

Imoinda Speaks: Authorising the Enslaved Black Woman After Aphra Behn with Joan Anim-Addo

Mar

18

An Afternoon with Joan Anim-Addo: Faculty/Student Discussion

Mar

6

Thesis Workshop: How to Review Literature

Mar

4

Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria

Feb

27

Film Screening of Writing with Fire

Feb

27

Africana Distinguished Lecture-Speaker Series: Caryl Phillips "Another Man in the Street" Reading and Discussion

Feb

24

Black History Month Celebration

Feb

20

The Spring 2025 William Scott’s Brown Bag Series: 'Let the Whiskey Question Alone' with Joseph Williams

Feb

11

A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Chinese Students with Peter Hessler

Feb

11

The Intersection of Parenting, Language, and Literacy Development in Senegalese Communities

Feb

11

A Narrative Nonfiction Workshop with Author Peter Hessler