The Big Little University Rising
Shenandoah University’s Spring 2017 History Fellows will begin at 7 p.m. in Hester Auditorium, Henkel Hall. Presented by Tony Williams, “The Pox & the Covenant: The Curious History of Science and Religion in Colonial Boston.” Tony Williams is a Senior Fellow at the Bill of Rights Institute, where he writes and lectures on history and […]
Virginia Humanities Conference (VHC) is from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and explores the unbearable within the humanities. Panels are held in Henkel Hall, Halpin-Harrison Hall and the Health & Life Sciences Building. Sponsored by the university’s College of Arts & Sciences, this conference examines the concept of that which cannot be endured or tolerated—with scholars, […]
Pressures of the Unbearable: A Critical Conversation, a keynote address given by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, is held from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, April 7, in Halpin-Harrison Hall, Stimpson Auditorium. Berlant, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, and Edelman, the Fletcher Professor of English […]
Virginia Humanities Conference is from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and explores the unbearable within the humanities. Panels are held in Henkel Hall, Halpin-Harrison Hall and the Health & Life Sciences Building. Sponsored by the university’s College of Arts & Sciences, this conference examines the concept of that which cannot be endured or tolerated—with scholars, activists, […]
Can the 21st Century America Bear the Humanities?, a humanities panel discussion, is held from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 8, in Henkel Hall, Hester Auditorium. The panel is moderated by Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Jeff Coker, Ph.D. Participants include: David Bearinger, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; Robert Ehrenreich, […]