Events

Hank Lazer A brief talk with examples and a brief meditation session, exploring some aspects of Zen’s non-dualistic thinking and the ways in which Zen practice and radical approaches to the arts call into question our habitual attachment to utility, achievement, mastery, and excellence.

RA Isabella would like to celebrate Black History Month by holding an African American Pop Culture Trivia night. We will play a fun game of jeopardy revolving around African American contributions to American pop culture. Food will be provided.

RA Jalen hosts Health Promotion and Wellness personnel, who will give advice on how to stay healthy and safe over Spring Break. Pizza will be provided for the attendees.

Main Hall of Oliver Barnard Closed for Dean's Office Event

Friday, March 1st, an exhibit of works from the Blount Art Collection will open at the Dinah Washington Center downtown. The show will feature 12 works that usually hang in the Blount buildings as well as two new works by local artists Celeste Pfau and Kenya Inge.  The event runs from 5 to 8 pm and

In this presentation I will foreground the ways in which disability challenges the every day practices of educational institutions. Both historical and contemporary practices in (higher) educational contexts construct disability as the outside of educational space even while the very logic of disability animates that space. Additionally, I will use an intersectional lens to demonstrate

In preparation for spring break, we will put on a general spring break safety game of bingo, partnering with URGE. We will be providing pizza.

RAs Katherine and Rachel have decided to bring the writing center into the dorm the night before the first major Blount essay is due. Writing center staff will be available to do last minute corrections and advisement for students so that their essays can fulfill their potential. There will be coffee and donuts provided.

There is no convocation due to the holiday.

Edward Tang During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated over 110,000 Japanese Americans, seeing them as an internal threat to the nation. This talk addresses the efforts of Japanese Americans to document their wartime imprisonment through the arts.

RAs Jalen Cates and Vaughn Gingerich will partner with Deaf Hands Speak to teach the residents about sign language signs. By the end of the program, residents will be able to sign in order to ask for their food. Subway sandwiches will be provided.

Dr. Leslie Harris, Professor of History at Northwestern University, will lecture on the issues raised by the recovery of histories of slavery at higher education institutions in the U.S. and abroad

Design for America, a student organization, will run a hands-on design workshop aimed to teach students how to creatively solve everyday problems.

On Thursday, March 28th at 4.30pm in Tuomey Hall, the Blount Scholars Program will join schools, universities, and communities from around the country for a special screening of the child labor documentary Invisible Hands.  A livestream Q&A, hosted by Harvard University, with a panel of human rights researchers and advocates from the Carr Center for