We hope you will join us tonight and tomorrow for what should be an exciting series of conversations about the Crisis of Democracy, it’s ramifications, and what can be done.
Category: Recommended Events
Please join us this week for what should be a fascinating keynote Wayne Winborne and a series of wonderful panels on Friday in honor of Sondra and Morey Myers.
This Thursday, September 26th, 4:30-6pm, Dr. Bernard Prusak, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, will offer a free public lecture entitled “Threading the Needle’s Eye: The Opioid Crisis and the Controversy over Harm Reduction.”
The lecture will be held in the Moskovitz Theatre, the 4th floor of the DeNaples Center on the campus of The University of Scranton.
Join us on Wednesday, April 10th as we bring a group of illustrious Humanities alums back to campus for a special panel on careers, their majors, and life after being a Royal!
Suzy Krugulski (2011, English), Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights Magazine
Jason Brubaker (2009, Criminal Justice, minor in Theatre), The Irish Repertory Theatre
Frank Castellano (1993, History), Court Administrator, Lackawanna County
Cathy Seymour (1990, Theology), The University of Scranton, Campus Ministries
Stephanie Longo (Italian and French, BA 2003; History, MA 2009), Expert/author of books on Italian American history in NEPA; Director of Marketing & Communications at the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce
This Thursday, March 28, H.I. Executive Committee member and Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Adam Prat, will host a community conversation following screening of the documentary film “American Creed” at 6:30 p.m. in the Albright Memorial Library’s Henkelman Room.
In the documentary film, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy come together from different points of view to investigate the idea of a unifying American creed. Their spirited inquiry frames the stories of citizen-activists striving to realize their own visions of America’s promise across deepening divides. At the heart of this film, Rice and Kennedy lead a moving discussion with first-generation college students about the question: what does it mean to be American today?
American Creed Community Conversations are film screenings and scholar-facilitated discussions that mirror the type of conversation Rice and Kennedy have in the film and are designed to engage Americans in reflection and dialogue about their own part in the American story and in acting to shape that story for the better.
Registration is free and required for all events. To register online, visit albright.org or call Jessica Serrenti at the Albright Memorial Library at 570-348-3000 ext. 3023.
The events are made possible through a partnership with the University and the American Library Association’s American Creed: Community Conversations grant program, in partnership with Citizen Film, WTTW Chicago, Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment of the Humanities and the National Writing Project. This event is supported by the Humanities Initiative.
Today, UNC professor Juan Carlos González Espitia will giave a talk on syphilis and literature at 5pm in Leahy 235. Dr. González Espitia is an Associate Professor of Spanish and affiliated faculty in Comparative Literature. From a literary and historical perspective, his work is a diachronic approach to Latin American and Spanish literary production in dialogue with critical medical humanities and questions of public health from the eighteenth century to the present, with a strong focus on the associations between the discourses of disease, literature, and public policy. He is the editor of the established North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures book series as well as the editor of the journal Hispanófila.
González Espitia teaches courses and guides doctoral candidates in multiple periods and through an array of disciplinary perspectives, from Spanish American and Peninsular literature of the Enlightenment to Avant-Garde literary production, to LatinX literature, and from seminars on cultural representations of disease and (dis)ability to courses on the theory of poiesis or literary creation. His research focuses on non-canonical, heterodox, or otherwise hidden literatures, ideas and authors that, although oftentimes absent from the canons, reveal profound trends in culture and society. More pointedly, his work deals with representations of disease, forms of writing that challenge the status quo, and nation building, including the complex dynamics from a colonial condition to one of budding independence.