Arts & Cultural

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Humanities Council Symposium: Building A Just World
Sep 25, 2019

Wednesday, October 2, 20198:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.Rough Ridge, Room 415, Plemmons Student UnionThe event is free and open to the public.The Humanities Counc...

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“Intimate Crime in Early Modern England and Wales”
Sep 23, 2019

With Dr. Anna Field (Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-20)Wednesday, September 25, 20195 p.m.History Lounge in Anne Belk Hall, Room 212This event is ...

Humanities Discussion book discussion

Building A Just World: A Discussion of Leigh Goodmark’s “Decrimnalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence”
Sep 20, 2019

Tuesday, September 24, 20197 - 9 p.m.Watauga County Library - 140 Queen St, Boone, NC 28607 This event is free and open to the public.Appalachian...

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Brewconomy: A documentary film about North Carolina’s craft beer movement followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Camden Watts
Sep 11, 2019

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.I.G. Greer AuditoriumThis event is free and open to the public.North Carolina filmmaker Camden Watts ex...

Book Cover: Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, edited by Zackary Vernon

Rethinking the Space of Southern Studies: Dr. Zackary Vernon on Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies
Sep 11, 2019

Zackary Vernon's edited collection Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies was published last month by Louisiana State University Press. The c...

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Sanford Hall construction brings new homes to two academic departments
Sep 9, 2019

Spring and summer were full of changes for the English department and the languages, literatures and cultures department, formerly housed in Sanford H...

Appalachian alumna Hughlene Bostian Frank ’68, who died in May. Frank matched a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series, which is named in her honor. Photo by Marie Freeman

Hughlene Bostian Frank touched students’ lives through Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series
Sep 6, 2019

Hughlene Bostian Frank ’68, the eponymous patron of Appalachian State University’s Visiting Writers Series, maintained that while she was an ...

Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff author of “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” (2017) and “Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina” (2010) . Photo submitted.

Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff will present a lecture on the Art Collecting Cone Sisters of Blowing Rock
Sep 5, 2019

“The Cones on Blowing Rock: Kultur in the High Country” Thursday, Sept. 19, 20192:30 p.m.Parkway Ballroom, Room 420, Plemmons Student UnionThis ev...

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Anthropology Fall 2019 Brown Bag Series presents Dr. David Orvis
Sep 3, 2019

"'…in quest of a Gang of Sodomites:' Toward New Frameworks for Interpreting Sexuality and Identity and Identity in the Early Modern English Cultural...

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LLC International Speaker Series introduces Nihad Dukhan
Sep 3, 2019

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (DLLC) International Speaker Series introduces“Art Starts with a Line: Foundations of Arabic/...