REVEALED: The Making of Dance and Music

Smith Recital Hall

In-Person and Livestream In-Person audience limited to active on campus PSU community.​ Join Amanda Whitworth, dancer and New Hampshire's Artist Laureate, and American Prize winning composer Jonathan Santore for an evening of dance, music and discussion. Whitworth and Santore will show and discuss their collaborative process. Additionally, Whitworth will share performance and discussion around dance-making and physical theatre. When: Oct ...

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Sidore Lecture: Before Anti-Autism: Cow Mania and the Vaccination Debates

Smith Recital Hall

Free and Open to the Public. Ticket Required. Free Tickets Here:  plymouthstatetickets.com Before Anti-Autism: Cow Mania and the Vaccination Debates Understanding and Responding to Social Disruptions. Travis Chi Wing Lau This talk will turn to the late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century debates over Edward Jenner’s campaigns to nationalize vaccination in Britain. Well-before Andrew Wakefield’s retracted article in The Lancet claiming ...

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Eagle Pond Authors’ Series presents: Jeff Oaks

Smith Recital Hall

Jeff Oaks is the author of two books of poetry, The Things and Little What, both published by Lily Poetry Review Books. The recipient of three Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships, he has published poems most recently in Field, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Superstition Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. His prose has appeared in At Length, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, ...

Wixson Professorship Award Lecture: Matt Zawodniak

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       The Plymouth State University Ed and Marilyn Wixson Endowed Professorship of Mathematics was created by longtime PSU mathematics faculty Ed and Marilyn Wixson to celebrate and recognize faculty in the Department of Mathematics who are ...

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 ...