Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

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.

The recipient of countless honors, Hussain was awarded the distinction of Padma Vibhushan in January 2023 by the government of India. Previously, he had received the titles of Padma Bhushan in 2002 and Padma Shri in 1988, becoming the youngest percussionist to be awarded these titles that are given to civilians of merit. In 1990, he received the Indo-American Award in recognition for his outstanding cultural contribution to U.S.-India relations. In April 1991, he was presented with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the president of India, making him one of the youngest musicians to receive this recognition from India's governing cultural institute. In 2019, he became a Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow, a lifetime position awarded to only 40 performing artists at a time. In 2007, readers' polls from Modern Drummer and Drum! magazines named him Best World Music and Best Worldbeat Drummer, respectively. While in 2009, Hussain received a Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album for Global Drum Project, from his group with Mickey Hart, Giovanni Hidalgo and Sikiru Adepoju. Also, in 2009, Hussain was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by France's Ministry of Culture and Communication for his extraordinary artistic and cultural contributions. He was presented with SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 for his "unparalleled contribution to the world of music." In 2022, he received the Aga Khan Music Awards' Lifetime Achievement award and the 2022 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy. A child prodigy, Hussain was touring by the age of 12. He came to the U.S. in 1970, performing at the Fillmore East in New York City with Pandit Ravi Shankar and embarking on an illustrious international career. Hussain has been voted Best Percussionist by Modern Drummer's Readers Poll, by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2020, and by the Downbeat Critics Poll in 2020 and 2021.