College of Arts and Sciences announces 2016 commencement speakers
Apr 25, 2016
BOONE - The College of Arts and Sciences has announced their 2016 Commencement Speakers for the Spring Commencement ceremony, taking place Saturday, May 14 at 5pm in the Holmes Convocation Center.
College News, EventsPoet and memoirist Luiz Rodriguez reads from his work April 28
Apr 18, 2016
BOONE—Luis J. Rodriguez, the official Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, will read from his work April 28 at Appalachian State University. His presentation is sponsored by the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.
College News, EventsRenowned New York based Imam, Shamsi Ali to speak with Rabbi and Revered in interfaith dialogue Monday at Appalachian State University
Apr 15, 2016
BOONE - The Department of Philosophy and Religion, in cooperation with the Center for Holocaust, Judaic, and Peace Studies, and the Muslim Student Association, are sponsoring an interreligious dialogue this Monday, April 18, at 5pm in Reich College of Education, room 124.
College News, EventsThe Center for Appalachian Studies and Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies to host three-part lecture and fundraiser focused on social justice activism
Apr 14, 2016
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and the Center for Appalachian Studies, are hosting a three part series on the voices of the Civil Rights Movement, April 25 through April 26. The program will begin Monday, April 25, 7pm, with a lecture by Charles E. Cobb, Jr., entitled "This...
College News, EventsAppalachian to host conference on economic history with panel from Cuba
Apr 7, 2016
The 11th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics: "Institutions and Development," returns to Appalachian State University, Saturday and Sunday, April 15, 16 and 17th.
College News, Events, Global LearningYom HaShoah Commemorations at Appalachian to Begin with Play by Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor
Apr 6, 2016
Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is working with a multitude of partners throughout North Carolina to organize several events around this year's Yom HaShoah commemoration.
College News, EventsLecture on slave impressment during the Civil War in North Carolina presented April 14
Mar 25, 2016
Civil war historian Jaime Amanda Martinez will speak April 14 at Appalachian State University on “Slave Impressment and Political Dissent in Governor Zeb Vance’s North Carolina.” Her lecture begins at 6 p.m. in room 114 Belk Library and Information Commons.
College News, EventsAuthor of “The Vegan Studies Project” to speak April 21 at Appalachian
Mar 24, 2016
Laura Wright, author of “The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror” will speak April 21 at 5:30 p.m. in room 114 Belk Library and Information Commons at Appalachian State University.
College News, Events, SustainabilityMichael Eric Dyson to speak April 12 at Appalachian
Mar 22, 2016
Michael Eric Dyson, an American academic, author and radio host, will speak Tuesday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State University. His talk, originally scheduled for Jan. 21 as part of the university's Martin Luther King Jr.
College News, EventsAward-winning poet and journalist Dannye Romine Powell talks about her craft March 31
Mar 14, 2016
During her career as a book review writer and editor, Dannye Romine Powell has interviewed some of the South's most notable literary talents: James Dickey, Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Reynolds Price and Lee Smith to name a few. Powell will talk about her work and her poetry March 31 during
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