Please join History Professors Jennifer Thomson, John Enyeart, and Paul Barba for a discussion of the long, evolving meanings of citizenship in the United States, from the nation's founding to the present. The discussion also will explore the influence of authoritarian power-grabs on those meanings, especially since the early 20th century. Light refreshments will be available.

University Faculty Meeting

Reserve your seat in EDGE for this fascinating session presented by Finance - Introduction to Processing Payments.

Writer-in-Residence V.V. "Sugi" Ganeshananthan Fiction Reading and Q&A: Tuesday, April 1, 7pm, Bucknell Hall Craft Talk & Workshop: Thursday, April 3, 12pm, Hildreth-Mirza Great Room V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships. She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.

Lecture: The Comic and the Romantic in Late Imperial Chinese Chuanqi Drama Description: How do we understand comic elements in the elite dramatic genre chuanqi (傳奇) in late imperial China? Does the comic challenge the overall romantic theme of chuanqi plays? This talk tackles the relationship between the comic and the romantic in chuanqi and highlights the intellectual significances of the comic.

Annual Sustainability Symposium

Annual Sustainability Symposium

Title Black Encounters with the Soviet Union Speaker Maxim Matusevich, Professor of History, Seton Hall University Programming Fellows Zukhra Kasimova, Assistant Professor of History Lenora Murphy, Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian Studies Amanda Wooden, Professor of Environmental Studies & Sciences Sponsored by the Bucknell Humanities Center, Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures

Carol Fadda lunch talk

Panelists: Professor Emmanuel Cannady (Sociology & Affiliated Faculty in Critical Black Studies) and Professor George Weddington (University of New Mexico Department of Sociology and Criminology) Light refreshments will be offered for all who attend. Sponsored by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP)

Wednesday, April 9, 7pm, Campus Theatre, 413 Market St, Lewisburg Ann Keeler Evans is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Lewisburg PA. Since retirement she serves as a Hospital Chaplain at Geisinger Hospital. Her life's focus is Peacemaking and Spirituality — which are serious pursuits. David J. Bauman is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Angels & Adultery (2018) and a collaboration with his son Micah called Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems (2021), both from Seven Kitchens Press. David is the executive director of Snyder County Libraries Inc. in Selinsgrove.

University Faculty Meeting

Ian Milligan will be speaking on internet archiving and history.

The 2025 CHINA Town Hall program will take place on Thursday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT, to discuss President Trump's China policy 100 days in, with featured speakers Ryan Hass, Director of John L. Thorton China Center at the Brookings Institution, Matthew Turpin, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Lingling Wei, Chief China Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. The Webinar will be followed by guest lecture by Prof. Zhiqun Zhu (Political Science and IR) and discussion.

Reserve your seat in EDGE for this fascinating session presented by Finance - Introduction to Processing Payments.