A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan
Phelps Stokes 212 Chestnut St., Berea, KYDr. David Zurick Scattered among the ancient trading towns of the Thar Desert is the largest concentration of fresco buildings in the world. Abandoned and neglected for centuries, their vivid […]
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 […]
Writing Toward a Better World
Phelps Stokes 212 Chestnut St., Berea, KYRoxane Gay Writer Roxane Gay joins bell hooks center founder and director M. Shadee Malaklou for a conversation about hooks' fearless feminism. They think and dream with hooks about how […]
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 Center in Louisville, Kentucky, shares her story as a Latina who immigrated to the United States. La Casita Center is a […]
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.
Emerging as a Climate Leader: Getting to the Future Faster
Phelps Stokes 212 Chestnut St., Berea, KYKiran Bhatraju & Adam Edelen Kiran Bhatraju, Arcadia CEO and environmentalist, and Adam Edelen, CEO of Edelen Renewables, will engage in an interview style discussion about Bhatraju's multi-cultural Appalachian background, […]