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Past Events

Feb

11

Feb

11

Event

A Narrative Nonfiction Workshop with Author Peter Hessler

Location:
Linderman 200
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The Asian & Asian American Studies program is organizing a visit by New Yorker writer Peter Hessler on Feb. 11, and faculty and students in the English Department have been invited to attend. Hessler will be hosting a lunchtime workshop on narrative nonfiction at noon in…

Oct

29

Event

Notations: Clint Smith

Location:
Baker Hall
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Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary…

Oct

18

Event

Art Within Reach: Visions of Queer Community in the Lehigh Valley

Location:
STEPS Concourse: 1 W Packer Ave. Bethlehem, PA 18015
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The IAC committee invites you to join us on Oct. 18th from 2:30-4 in the STEPS concourse to see an exhibition titled "Art Within Reach: Visions of Queer Community in the Lehigh Valley" and to engage with panelists who will discuss the import of regional LGBTQIA+ archives and…

Oct

17

Oct

15

Event

B. Brian Foster: Art in Dialogue: Placemaking Practices by Folk Artists from the American South—Walk and Talk

Location:
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Main Galleries, Zoellner Arts Center
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B. Brian Foster is an ethnographer and multi-medium storyteller working to document and interpret the culture, folklore, and placemaking practices of Black communities in the rural U.S. South. For the last ten years, he has set his work in several towns and small…

Oct

11

Event

B. Brian Foster: We Travel, We Dance, We Make—Film Screening and Talkback

Location:
Sinclair Auditorium
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B. Brian Foster is an ethnographer and multi-medium storyteller working to document and interpret the culture, folklore, and placemaking practices of Black communities in the rural U.S. South. For the last ten years, he has set his work in several towns and small…

Oct

10

Event

B. Brian Foster: Trouble in Mind—Theatrical Performance and Talkback

Location:
Zoellner Diamond Theater
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B. Brian Foster is an ethnographer and multi-medium storyteller working to document and interpret the culture, folklore, and placemaking practices of Black communities in the rural U.S. South. For the last ten years, he has set his work in several towns and small…