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Sidore Lecture: Reverberations: Making Prolonged Change as Individuals and as a Community

Smith Recital Hall

This event is free and unticketed Unmasked performers will be tested for Covid19 immediately before the performance. Reverberations: Making Prolonged Change Social disruptions and widespread trauma have created reverberations that have inspired a new generation of changemakers throughout society. For this lecture, we will gather a group of leaders for a panel discussion to share their individual journeys and the ...

Abbott Professorship Lecture: Kerry Yurewicz

Smith Recital Hall

This event is free and unticketed. Masks required for all patrons. Unmasked performers will be tested for Covid19 immediately before the performance. ​​Janice Griffin, a former student from Union, NH, established the Helen Abbott ’39 Professorship of Environmental Studies to honor her friend, teacher and mentor, who graduated from the Plymouth Normal School (which is now PSU), for her commitment ...

Eagle Pond Authors’ Series Presents: Susan Lilley

Smith Recital Hall

This event is free and unticketed. Masks required for all patrons. Unmasked performers will be tested for Covid19 immediately before the performance.  Susan Lilley is a Florida native and is currently serving as Orlando’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, The Southern Review, Drunken Boat, Saw Palm, Hippocampus, The ...

Sidore Lecture: Len Reitsma

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

The 2022-2023 Sidore Lecture Series focuses on Building Justice in our communities and our world, today and beyond. What is social justice? What would that look like? Who benefits from social justice and who benefits from resisting it?Lectures will explore the broad spectrum of justice issues facing us today and how we can modify society towards a more “just” future. ...

SIDORE LECTURE: Environmental Justice and Health: the ecosystem mindset for urban green spaces in retrospect and moving forward

Smith Recital Hall

Speaker: Viniece Jennings, Ph.D. Dr. Viniece Jennings is a purpose driven scholar, educator, and environmental professional. Her innovative research on urban green spaces and health was recognized as top research for practice by the National Recreation and Parks Association. She has published in multiple journals such as Nature Communications and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. She ...

Sidore Lecture: Lori James-Townes

Smith Recital Hall

The Civil Rights Fighters of Our Time For every client's criminal charge, there are other problems that call for repair. The client has a circle of loved ones - partners and children and parents and employers who enter into the equation, too.  Public defender professionals are in the lion’s den with their clients witnessing and pushing back on a broad ...

Eagle Pond Authors’ Series Presents: A Reading and Book-signing with Allison Joseph

Smith Recital Hall

​NAACP Image Award in Poetry finalist, poet and editor Allison Joseph will read from her most recent poetry collections Lexicon and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, both from Red Hen Press, as well as from newer work. Of the poems in Lexicon, Lee-Ann Roripaugh writes that they “hum, croon, and belt out their refrains with heartbreaking candor, shimmer, and sashay--revealing a poet so ...

Sidore Lecture: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Boyd Hall Room 144 Main Street, Plymouth

​Decolonizing and Indigenizing Environmental Justice As the topic of environmental justice has gained greater currency in the US with growing environmental and racial concerns, scholars are refining what EJ means in various communities. For American Indians environmental injustice begins with the history of invasion, genocide, and land theft, as Dina Gilio-Whitaker writes about in her acclaimed 2019 book As Long As ...

Sidore Lecture: Alynna Lyon

Smith Recital Hall

Building Global Justice in the Face of Mass Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide.   The global community has been shocked by recent accusations of mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, and genocide in places like Ukraine, China, and Myanmar.  Considering these developments, the discussion will trace the development of international responses and tools to address these crimes at the global level. ...

Eagle Pond Authors’ Series Presents: A Reading and Book-signing with Patrick Donnelly

Smith Recital Hall

Frost Place Poetry Seminar Director, poet and translator Patrick Donnelly will read from his poetry collections Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge, as well as from newer work. From the sexual abandon of the 1980s gay demimonde, to a New England mill town whose mill has closed, to a mother’s decline into mental illness, Nocturnes of the Brothel of ...

Sidore Lecture: Trevor Chandler: Getting Along Is Boring, Let’s Fight: Embrace Conflict and Live the Most Interesting Life

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

The world is a fascinating place! The 2023-24 Sidore Lecture series will explore how curiosity and creativity feed passion for life. 9/14/2023 Trevor ChandlerGetting Along Is Boring, Let’s Fight: Embrace Conflict and Live the Most Interesting Life Political toxicity and polarization continue to strain our institutions and civic cohesiveness with studies showing less trust between Republicans and Democrats than between ...

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Eagle Pond Authors’ Series: Cheryl Savageau

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Cheryl Savageau will read from her poetry collections Dirt Road Home and Mother/Land, which explore facets of New England / Indigenous place and identity. Siobhan Senier writes, in Studies in American Indian Literature, that Savageau’s poetry “comes out of a long line of Abenaki writing traceable all the way back to the precontact birchbark maps called awikhiganak” and “challenges readers ...

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