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“Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere” Symposium

Thursday, February 12th, 10AM & 1PM — Hildreth Mirza Hall, Great Room As part of the BHC’s Theme Year Programming series: “Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere”, panelists will present research on Black life and culture in the Appalachian region, bringing fugitivity and marronage into conversation with Black Appalachian studies. The symposium will take place on Thursday, Feb. 12th in the Great Room of Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 760 Fraternity Road in Lewisburg PA. Panel 1 is at 10am and Panel 2 at 1pm, with a post-panel reception and concert at 4:30PM.

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BHC Student Fellows Event: “What Can You Do With a Humanities Major?”

Wed, Jan 28, 11:30am–1:30pm — Willard-Smith Library (125 Vaughan Lit) Bucknell Junior and Senior majors in many Arts & Humanities Departments will be tabling to speak with attendees about their experiences in their discipline, to help students prepare for selecting their majors. They will discuss career paths, internships, and research opportunities, focusing on Humanities. Please share with those interested in exploring liberal arts options and encourage first-year or sophomores to attend. Pizza will be served.

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BHC Convivial Hour

The Bucknell Humanities Center and the Bucknell Arts Council invite you to celebrate the end of the semester, at our winter Convivial Hour. Light refreshments will be provided and all from the campus community are welcome.

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Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined

November 2, 2025, 3:00 p.m.Iron Front Event Space, 434 Market Street Artist Marie Cochran reimagines the novel “Those We Thought We Knew,” by David Joy that explores themes of generational trauma, and betrayal through the story of a young Black artist who returns to her ancestral home. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Bucknell’s Critical Black Studies program.

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Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB

Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 pmGallery Theatre, ELC 3rd Fl. As part of the Bucknell Humanities Center’s Themed-Year-Programming, “Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere” we are hosting a Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB, followed by a virtual Q and A session from the director, William Isom II after the viewing. Film screening located in the Gallery Theatre, ELC 3rd Fl. The Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) was founded in 1969 by Appalachian families who migrated out of the coalfields to mostly northern cities. This organization, with chapters all over the country, was established to provide continued connection and reunion for […]

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Book Launch: Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction

September 25, 2025, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 – Great Room Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction Book Launch Lecture by Prof. Or Rogovin, Modern Hebrew Studies Program The perpetrators of the Holocaust—Nazis, Germans, and their collaborators—have occupied the popular imagination since the end of World War II. We see them everywhere in film and fiction. But how should they be portrayed? As cartoonish characters in leather jackets? As educated, well-dressed, and soft-spoken Nazis? As SS officers in black uniforms screaming orders in German with trains and chimneys in the background? This artistic dilemma is crucial for Israeli […]

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BHC Convivial Hour

Please join us as we kick-off the new semester, connect with old friends and new colleagues, and learn all that the BHC has to offer.  Light refreshments will be provided and all from the campus community are welcome.

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