Hall Center for the Humanities

Join us at 7:00 PM TOMORROW at the Hall Center for Felwine Sarr as he discusses African futures in "La Fabrique du Présent." Sarr is a Senegalese academic, award-winning writer, economist, musician, and professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University.

This #BlackHistoryMonth, Daniel E. Atkinson spoke about his book on George "Nash" Walker, a Lawrence-born actor who revolutionized Black American theatre alongside Ada Overton Walker & Bert Williams. Watch the recording here! ➡️ crowdcast.io/c/atkinson

This week, we celebrated the opening of our 50th Anniversary exhibit at @WatkinsMuseum. It offers a look through the history of the Hall Center, how it all began, and where we are 50 years later. The exhibit will be on view through March 14!

Making a Riverrun Down the Mighty Missouri kansaspublicradio.org/commentaries/2… @KUHallCenter @FriendsoftheKaw

This week, author @johngreen joined us at the Dole Institute ahead of his program with @KUHallCenter and @kulibraries. @MusicKU students performed “You’ll Never Walk Alone”—a shared favorite of Green and Sen. Bob Dole. Thank you to everyone who helped make his visit possible!

Earlier this week, bestselling author John Green made us laugh, think, and take stock of our humanity. 📚 Thanks to the @KUHallCenter and @KULibraries for helping create this opportunity to learn from a world-class author, advocate, and Anthropocene reviewer. Rock Chalk!

Join us TONIGHT at 7:00 PM, Haskell Auditorium (just south of the Haskell Stadium Memorial Arch) for a talk from award-winning Mohawk author Alicia Elliott! Also online via Crowdcast... crowdcast.io/c/elliott

.@KUHallCenter, in collaboration with The Commons, @SpencerMuseum, and @lawrencelibrary, presents “Obscured Landmarks: Re-activating Buried Histories, Stewarding Sites for Learning.” Learn more & register for a tour this April at the link below. hallcenter.ku.edu/landmarks

Coming April 3-4! Register for the full conference or a single day.

the Hall Center this semester. Fellows conduct humanities-related research and present their work in a public talk during their residency.

public on birth control as a means to improve women's health, reduce poverty, and advance social reform, though it often reflected the eugenicist views of its time, as explained in Wilson's talk. Wilson is a Resident Research Fellow at

"My goal for this research goes beyond the publication of an article or two. I am hoping it will serve as an example of a rich vein of research possibilities in the [Birth Control Review]." Aimee Wilson, an associate professor in KU's

Fabulous lecture and discussion this evening by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, “Journey to the Edge of Space-Time,” for the @KUHallCenter’s Humanities Speaker Series.

Founded in 1947, the Humanities Speaker Series is the oldest continuing program of its kind at KU. It annually brings together an array of humanities and interdisciplinary speakers, reflecting thought and expertise that bridges disciplines and illuminates human experience.

She also does research in Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. Nature recognized her as one of 10 people who shaped science in 2020, and Essence has recognized her as one of "15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers."

"It's important when you think about whose history is cosmic history. There tends to be this narrative that physics and astronomy are a white thing and that they are not for Black people. And also that Black people who are being trained as scientists are being integrated into