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Author of “The Black Middle Ages,” Matthew X. Vernon

Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

Vernon is the author of The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018, which examines the influence of medieval studies on African American thought. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives […]

Dinara Klinton in Concert

Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

Praised for her “fantastic virtuosity, energy, and power, combined with deepest comprehension into authors’ idea,” Dinara Klinton is an acclaimed recording artist, performer, and teacher.  Her music education started at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine, and she now tours internationally while serving as professor of piano in the UK Royal College […]

Zoom Lecture with L’Merchie Frazier

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

L’Merchie Frazier is an accomplished visual activist, public artist, historian, and poet. She is a member of Women of Color Network Quilters, founded by Carolyn Mazloomi, Ph.D., whose quilt collection is currently on view at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum. In this lecture, Frazier will discuss the contributions of African American quiltmakers with particular attention […]

Student Thesis Theatre Production: “Constellations”

Hollins Theatre

By Nick Payne. Directed by Elizabeth McDonald When: February 23 at 7:30 pm, February 24 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage What: This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we […]

Movie Screening: “The Philadelphia Eleven”

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

In an act of civil disobedience, a group of women and their supporters organize their ordination to become Episcopal priests in 1974. The Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia welcomes them, but change is no small task. The women are harassed, threatened and banned from stepping on church property. In this feature-length documentary film, we […]

Author of “The Donkey Elegies,” Nickole Brown

Green Drawing Room, Main

Brown is the author of The Donkey Elegies (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020); Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015), a biography in poems about Brown’s grandmother, which won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry; and Sister (Sibling Rivalry Press), which was first published in 2007 and reissued in 2018. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a […]

Continuing Art Exhibitions

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Learning to Look: An Artist’s Perspective, through March 17 African American Quilts from the Collection of Carolyn Mazloomi, through April 14 2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Ying Li: Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness III, through April 14 Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-5 pm, Thursday 12-8 pm (closed Mondays) www.hollins.edu/museum

Nationally Known Psychologist and Author to Discuss “Hope in a Time of Monsters”

Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building

Professor and education expert Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of the new book Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, will speak in Hollins University’s Babcock Auditorium on Monday, March 4, at 9 a.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Cavanagh is the senior associate director for teaching and learning at […]

Women’s Role within the Eastern Siouan Tribes of Virginia’s Interior

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Victoria Persinger Ferguson is an enrolled citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia. She serves on the Monacan Historic Resource Committee and is the program director for Historic Solitude/Fraction on the campus of Virginia Tech. She is a graduate of Marshall University and has 30 years of experience researching science methodologies and historical documentation […]

Author of “Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement,” Ethel Morgan Smith M.A. ’90

Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

Smith is the author of three books: Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement (University Press of Mississippi 2023), Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany (CreateSpace 2012), and From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (University of Missouri Press 2000). Her work has appeared in The New […]

Student Thesis Staged Reading: “Our Family in the Stars”

Hollins Theatre

Our Family in the Stars by Viktor Oler ’24, directed by Faolan Timm ’25 A Student Thesis Staged Reading When: March 7 and 9 at 7:30 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage What: Never stop dreaming about the potential future. When Olive decides to leave their family, they sneak onto a ship to exit from […]