Arts & Humanities Week: Two Career Panels Aimed at Creatives in the Arts & Humanities
Athaliah Elvis ’26, BHC Communications Intern
Athaliah Elvis ’26, BHC Communications Intern
Friday, March 27, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room A conversation with Dave Butcher, the founder and director of the Tablertown, OH, People of Color Museum When he was ten years old living in rural southeast Ohio community called Tablertown, David Butcher received a tin-type photo of his great-great-grandfather, Jerry Sims, and heard stories about Mr. Sims being a Civil War veteran. From that moment forward, Butcher was inspired to learn more about his family lineage and to preserve his community’s history and culture. In 2003, he curated an exhibit on Black life in the Ohio River Valley […]
March 26, 2026, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room How did AI become conflated with human intelligence, and how is this myth being used to build infrastructure, rewrite laws, and alter norms that will fundamentally change how we work, recreate, communicate…and ultimately think about what it means to be human? Based on a two-part documentary produced in collaboration with Cornell University. Funding provided by the Departments of Music, Philosophy, the Dominguez Center for Data Science, and the University Lectureship Committee.
Thursday, March 26, 202612:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 – Great Room Join Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-founders of The World According to Sound, a 90-second podcast and touring live audio experience all about sound, for a lunch discussion about their career paths that led them to radio and podcast production. Chris Hoff was an engineer with KALW News’ Crosscurrents for about eight years, and before that he volunteered and reported for the show starting in 2006. He was a Classics major at Cornell University and also worked as a Freelance Translator in Berlin for several years. Sam Harnett worked […]
Wednesday, March 25, 20267:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Elaine Langone Center, 213 – Walls Lounge Ways of Knowing: a sonic celebration of the humanities. For 70 minutes you are going to put on an eye mask, sit in the dark, and be taken on a sonic trip that asks you to rethink the world through your ears instead of your eyes. You’ll hear everything from the vibrations of the Golden Gate Bridge, footsteps of ants, and ancient Latin, to the first piece of musique concrete, recordings of Berlin made in 1930, a sonified essay about the gendering of glial cells, and the theory […]
Tuesday, March 24, 20264:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room A birthday celebration of life and legacy of the British designer, printmaker, poet, social critic, utopian, activist, and proto-environmentalist, William Morris. A panel of Bucknell scholars in the arts and humanities will present snaptalks on the themes of: • Useful work vs. useless toil• Craft and the dignity of making• Print, design, and the Kelmscott Press• Ecology, sustainability, and the common good In collaboration with Special Collections, the event will highlight Bucknell’s Kelmscott Press holdings, including the famed Kelmscott Chaucer.
Monday, March 24, 202612:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room Explore careers that excited Bucknell Humanities majors and learn about their interesting careers in this panel discussion. This panel of alumni will share their career paths and how their education and experiences played a role in preparing them for their professions. Panelists: Moderated by Susan Falciani Maldonado, University Archivist & Director, Special Collections Co-sponsored by Bucknell Humanities Center, Bertrand Library, and the Center for Career Advancement, as part of Arts and Humanities Week.