Tree Time with Dr. John Penniman4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PAThis talk by Dr. John Penniman, Religious Studies, will explore the significance of trees within multiple religious traditions, with an emphasis on the central role that trees have played in myths, rituals, and ethics. We will discuss how trees have shaped cultural worldviews and, in turn, how these worldviews affect the meaning humans make of trees.

The STEM Career Community and BU Women in STEM host a Research Expo to provide first year and sophomore students an opportunity to learn more about research experiences on campus.

Reception in begins in Arches Lounge 4:30; presentation begins in The Gallery Theater at 5:15 (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION)Gulay Guzel, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Innovation and DesignReimagining the American Dream from the perspective of GenZ.

Professors Gordon Gao (Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School; Co-Director, Center for Digital Health and AI) and Matt Bailey (Presidential Professor of Analytics & Operations Management) will discuss the role of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Radical Memory, Strategic Forgetting: Race, Symbolic Power, and the Politics of Commemoration at Storer College in West Virginia Lecture by Professor Michael J. Drexler This talk intervenes in memory studies and African American intellectual history by analyzing how the memory of slavery and John Brown's legacy was contested within the symbolic and institutional space of Storer College, a historically Black school in Harpers Ferry. Drawing on A.J. Greimas's semiotic square, I develop a typology of commemorative strategies—radical remembrance, strategic forgetting, sanitized commemoration, and erasure—while Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field reveals how actors like Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, and W.E.B. Du Bois negotiated unequal access to institutional legitimacy and symbolic capital. A case study of Du Bois's failed 1932 effort to install a John Brown plaque at Storer College illustrates the tension between radical memory and liberal respectability. The essay concludes by linking these historical contests to contemporary struggles over military base names, public monuments, and cultural institutions, showing how commemoration remains a site where racial politics and national narratives continue to be shaped, challenged, and constrained.

Tree Time with Amy Levan4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PALocal Shade Tree Commission volunteer, Amy Levan, talks about the importance of urban trees.