Monday, February 4th, 2019
Christy S. Coleman, chief executive officer of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Va., will present a free, public talk entitled “Reclaiming Black History…
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Bucknell's Theatre Mainstage will present The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe Friday, Feb. 15 through Monday. Feb. 18 in Tustin Studio Theatre. Performances start at 7:30 p.m. except for the Sunday matinee, which starts at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults, or $7 for students, senior citizens and children. They're available by calling 570-577-1000, online at bucknell.edu/boxoffice, or at any Campus Box Office location.
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Friday, February 8th, 2019
Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a Bucknell professor of history and Africana Studies, will present a free, public talk entitled "Monsters, Genies, and Slaves: The Blurring of Myth and Memory in Modern Iran" on Thursday Feb. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room.
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Monday, February 25th, 2019
Bucknell's Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present award winning author Edwidge Danticat for a free, public talk entitled "The Black Unfamiliar in the 21st Century: (Re)Writing the Black Immigrant Experience" on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Elaine Langone Center's Forum.
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Monday, February 25th, 2019
The Bucknell Chamber Music Series and the Office of the Provost present Seraph Brass, a renown all-female brass ensemble, in two free performances on Friday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall, and Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. with the Bucknell Symphonic Band in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
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Monday, February 25th, 2019
Jasper String Quartet, featuring Bucknell music professor Qing Jiang on piano, will perform on Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for the engagement are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors 62+, $15 for youth 18 and under, $15 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $10 for Bucknell students (limit 2), and $15 for non-Bucknell college students (limit 2). Tickets can be purchased online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or by calling 570-577-1000.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Michael James, associate dean of faculty, Division of Social Sciences, is the recipient of the Class of 1956 Lectureship for Inspirational Teaching. In conjunction with that award, he'll present a free, public lecture entitled "Citizenship and Responsibility for the Past: The Case of Spain's Sephardim and Morisco" on Tuesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre, third floor, Elaine Langone Center. A reception in James' honor will be held afterward in Arches Lounge.
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Robert Wittman, founder of the FBI’s National Art Crime Team and best-selling author, will present Bucknell University's Samek Distinguished Lecture entitled "Art Crime in the 21st Century" on Wednesday, March 6 at 6 p.m. in the Gallery Forum, second Floor, Elaine Langone Center. A reception in the Samek Art Museum's Campus Gallery will follow the free, public talk.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Bucknell's Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present social entrepreneur DeShuna Spencer for a free, public talk entitled "The Black Unfamiliar in the 21st Century: Black Representation" on Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room of Hildreth-Mirza Hall. The event is co-sponsored by the Career Development Center.
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
As part of its celebration of 125 years of engineering education at Bucknell, the College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Wanda Peters, deputy director for planning and business management in the Flight Projects Directorate (FPD) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, for a free, public talk entitled "NASA's Modern Figures: Lessons from My Journey" on Tuesday, March 19, at 5:15 p.m. in the Forum Lecture Hall, Elaine Langone Center (ELC). Her talk will be followed by a reception in Walls Lounge.
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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
The Samek Art Museum will host a panel discussion among four scholars focusing on questions surrounding immigration and migration and the effect they have on the human condition on Tuesday, March 19 at 6 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre, third floor, Elaine Langone Center. This panel is free and hosted in connection with the current exhibition Border Cantos | Sonic Border on display now at the Samek Art Museum’s Campus Gallery, which is just down the hall from the Gallery Theatre.
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Friday, March 8th, 2019
Bucknell’s Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present author Margo Natalie Crawford, a University of Pennsylvania professor of English who is a scholar of 20th…
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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Bucknell junior Nicole Bilotto will present a free trombone recital on Sunday, March 24, at 2 p.m. in Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall, Sigfried Weis Music Building.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican-American artist and composer Guillermo Galindo will collaborate to explore the complexities of the U.S.-Mexico border through photography, sculpture and sound in a Samek Art Museum exhibit entitled "Border Cantos | Sonic Border," which will be on display in Bucknell University's Campus Gallery on the third floor of the Elaine Langone Center.
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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
The Samek Art Museum will team up with the Turkey Hill Brewing Co. and the University's fourth annual Diversity Summit on the popular Art in Bars program on Wednesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in the Iron Front Event Space, 434 Market St., Lewisburg. Tickets are $15 at the door and support the brewery’s costs.
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Friday, March 8th, 2019
Bucknell’s Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present Rochelle Spencer, a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer focused on AfroSurrealism, stories by and about people of color, and female empowerment, in a free, public talk entitled “The Black Unfamiliar in the Twenty-First Century: AfroSurrealism” on Wednesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room, Hildreth-Mirza Hall.
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Friday, March 8th, 2019
Xak Bjerken, professor of piano at Cornell University, will perform a free, public concert in the Bucknell Piano Series on Friday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall, Sigfried Weis Music Building.
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Monday, March 4th, 2019
Aly Raisman — team captain of two gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics teams and a 2018 recipient of ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of victims sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar — will speak Tuesday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell University's Sojka Pavilion. Raisman will discuss her Olympic gymnastics experiences and being a survivor of sexual abuse. Tickets are free and will be available for students on Monday, April 1, beginning at 10 a.m. at the CAP Center and the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets will be available for the general public on Tuesday, April 2, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Sojka Pavilion box office.
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Monday, April 1st, 2019
Cantor David S. Wisnia will share his story as a Holocaust survivor and sing the music he loves, accompanied by his grandson, accomplished jazz pianist Avi Wisnia, in a free, public program on Wednesday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in The Forum at the Elaine Langone Center (ELC).
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Monday, April 1st, 2019
Bucknell senior Allen Taylor will present a trumpet recital on Saturday, April 6, at 2 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
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Monday, April 1st, 2019
The Bucknell University Orchestra will present a free, public concert on Sunday, April 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
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Monday, April 1st, 2019
Bucknell senior composition major Troy Schwab will present a free, public recital on Monday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall,…
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts will host its annual student reading on Thursday, April 11 at 5 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. The free, public event brings together the winners of Bucknell's two literary contests, the Cadigan Prizes for Younger Writers and the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, for a formal reading in Bucknell Hall.
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Friday, April 5th, 2019
The Bucknell Opera Theatre program will conduct a free, public "One Night Only" performance on Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall in the Sigfried Weis Music Building.
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Monday, April 8th, 2019
Angela Riley, professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and director of UCLA's Native Nations Law and Policy Center, will present a free, public talk as part of the Bucknell Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender's (CSREG) "Indigeneity: Making the Visible Seen" Series on Tuesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Elaine Langone Center Forum. Riley's talk is entitled "Between Indigenous Law and Federal Law."
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