An art exhibit by Radiance Campbell featuring photographs of performers of color in a modern U.S. circus will be on display at Illinois State University’s Rachel Cooper Gallery beginning February 25.
Dr. Gregory Michie, the author of Same as It Never Was: Notes on a Teacher’s Return to the Classroom, will be the keynote speaker for Bilingual Advocacy Week.
Kambui Olujimi’s Skywriters complements his work showing at the University Galleries, An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky exhibit.
Mayan Archaeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe examines six different Mayan archaeological sites and their connection to the Universe.
Kathleen O’Gorman, Ph.D., will present Children in Cages: Speaking of the Unspeakable.
Students in China and in Normal are taking part in Designing Authenticity: Shanghai–Normal, which aims to raise awareness of heritage and cultural identity through the design of letter forms.
Rabbi Deborah Prinz, author of On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao, will give several local presentations on chocolate February 9-10.
From 1979-1981 a serial killer abducted and killed two dozen black children, almost all of whom were boys. Scholar and author Adolph L. Reed will explore the 40th anniversary of the Atlanta Child Murders, and the questions that linger.
Scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of How to Bake Pi and The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng, will give the lecture “Character vs. Gender in Mathematics and Beyond.”
Dr. Nancy Tolson will discuss the cultural, social, political, and historical images of black women characters found in folklore.
