The Lycoming College community was well represented at the recent Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) Annual Meeting & Conference, with five presenters on the day’s agenda. Held in in York, Pa., Lycoming faculty, students, and alumnae contributed to the theme of day, “Rights, Reform, and Protest in the Mid-Atlantic,” with presentations or posters that addressed the many ways people in the region have struggled to expand rights, press for reform, and challenge entrenched authority from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Lycoming College hosted students from colleges and universities throughout the region for its third annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference. The conference, which is dedicated to furthering the humanities through high-level research, saw six students awarded for their research papers.
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For many creatives, the last step of their work — getting it published — remains elusive and confusing. This is where literary agents, like Kate McKean, come in.
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Lycoming College will welcome author Zara Chowdhary to its third annual Lycoming College Undergraduate Research Conference for a reading from her debut memoir, “The Lucky Ones.” The event is slated for Saturday, April 5, at 5 p.m. in the Trogner Presentation Room in Krapf Gateway center on the Lycoming campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge.
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Eric J. Goldberg, Ph.D., professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will visit Lycoming College as the annual Ewing lecturer to deliver a talk entitled, “Soldiers, Rapine, and the Decline of an Empire,” at Lycoming College on Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m., in Trogner Presentation Room in Krapf Gateway Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lycoming College released the second volume of its Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Research (MHR), featuring fifteen essays from undergraduate students from the mid-Atlantic region, including three from Lycoming College. The annual publication is available in both print and on the Lycoming website.
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"What’s so great about Charlemagne? We’re about to find out. This week, Danièle speaks with Cullen Chandler about the reign of Charlemagne, how he ruled such a massive empire, and how he still took the time to care about font."
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Visiting scholar David Stasavage, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled, “Democracy: Past, Present, Future,” on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 4:30 p.m., in Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Center, on the Lycoming College campus. The event, co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and the history, political science, and anthropology/archaeology departments, is free and open to the public.
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Visiting Scholar Robert Parkinson, Ph.D., will deliver a talk on his new book, “Heart of American Darkness,” on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 4:30 p.m., in Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Center, on the Lycoming College campus. The event, co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and the history department, is free and open to the public.
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More than 100 attendees from 24 colleges and universities joined Lycoming College’s second annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on April 6 on the Lycoming campus to celebrate the region’s bright minds who are dedicated to furthering the humanities through high-level research.
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Fulfilling the requirements of a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the Humanities Research Center, Lycoming College today launched the Lycoming College History Podcast Series. The podcasts serve the dual purpose of functioning as one component of a larger strategy to digitally preserve the institution’s 200+ year history, as well as providing research experiences for student interns as they prepare to embark on careers or graduate studies.
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Due to unforseen circumstances, this keynote address has been cancelled.
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Kathryn Palmer writes: Lycoming College is providing more research and experiential learning opportunities for students in hopes of setting itself apart in a tough enrollment environment.
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A $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of Lycoming College’s Humanities Research Center (HRC) has enabled student interns to spend the summer months working collaboratively with faculty members to develop a digital history of the College.
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