From the Rice Field to Tik Tok: A Rural Woman’s Transformation during China’s Post-Reform Era
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYBerea College professor of Chinese, Jianfen Wang, will share reflections on how rural Chinese women's lives changed as a result of the end of liberalizing reforms introduced from the late […]
An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, 1500–1700
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYNorth Carolina State University professor of history, Xiaolin Duan, will share her research on how ebbs and flows in Chinese silk production impacted global trade and politics between the 16th […]
Roxane Gay
Phelps Stokes 212 Chestnut St., Berea, KYDescription and title forthcoming.
A Journey of Hope: From the Land of the Eternal Spring to My Old Kentucky Home
Phelps Stokes 212 Chestnut St., Berea, KYKarina Barillas Karina Barillas, Executive Director of La Casita in Louisville, Kentucky, shares her story as a Latina who immigrated to the United States. Ms. Barillas, who will be recognized […]
How to Listen after the Flood
Phelps Stokes 212 Chestnut St., Berea, KYCelesta J. Riffe In July 2022, a flood in eastern Kentucky killed 39 people and left thousands homeless. Part of healing is being able to share, somehow with someone, what […]
Japanese-American Identity and Art
Draper 308 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KYBerea College professor of art, Michael Litzau, will discuss the relationship between Japanese-American identity and art in his artistic work.