ReggieCon will welcome Inkpot award-winning author Mr. Alexander Simmons to the panel “Black Panther and Blackjack Team Up” from 7-8:30 p.m., February 24 via Zoom.
ReggieCon panel: Black Panther and Blackjack Team Up on February 24
Publication: CASNews
Obsidian awarded $25,000 NEA grant to support GenderQueer/GenreQueer issue
Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora has been approved for a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Grabill-Homan Community Peace Prize noms due January 31
The Grabill-Homan Community Peace Prize recognizes individual achievements in peacemaking, leadership, community service, and activism. Nominations due January 31, 2022.
Sociology & Anthropology Research Series to discuss anarchist history in Mexico City, January 21
For the first research series of the new year, Dr. Liv Stone, associate professor of anthropology, will share her research titled “Popularizing Anarchist Ethics: Autogestión in Mexico City.”
Black Women Rising: From the Classroom to the Boardroom, January 24
Illinois State University’s African American studies program will host “Black Women Rising: From the Classroom to the Boardroom” on January 24, 2022 in the Rosa Parks Room of Watterson Towers.
Stevenson Center alum’s placement experience helps break down barriers
Cecilia Montesdeoca, an alum of the Stevenson Center, discusses her experience at her placement with the Dakota Resource Council and her current work with MOVE Texas.
Promoting rural residents’ hearing protection and mental health at the 2021 Farm Progress Show
Faculty, staff, and students of Illinois State’s Central Illinois Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic joined with the Agriculture Department on September 1 to provide outreach and a unique focus for the Farm Progress Show.
CAS to host tent/tailgate prior to Homecoming game
The College of Arts and Sciences will host a tent/tailgate on Saturday, October 16 prior to the 2 p.m. football game against North Dakota State University.
COVID-19 art exhibit opening reception, September 16
The Schroeder Hall Gallery will host the exhibit The Material Culture and Visual Ethnography of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the 2021-2022 school year.
Szczepura to deliver Fall College Lecture on September 2
Dr. Lisa Szczepura, University Professor of Chemistry, will deliver the Fall College of Arts and Sciences Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 2, in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center.
