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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Lycoming College concluded its inaugural Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference this weekend after presenting awards to six students for their dedication to excellence in research. More than 100 conference goers representing 24 institutions of higher education from across the region and beyond participated in the event, attended student presentations, a keynote address, and enjoyed lunch together, all while helping to bridge the gap between their status as students and their futures as professionals in their fields.
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Lycoming College will welcome published author and expert on American history Robert Parkinson, Ph.D., as keynote speaker for its inaugural Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, with a talk entitled “Making Thirteen Clocks Strike as One: Race, Fear, and the American Founding.” Parkinson’s lecture will be held on Saturday, April 1, at 5 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room of the Krapf Gateway Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lycoming's Sarah Silkey spoke at Mount St. Mary College about Ida B. Wells in a talk entitled “To Tell the World the Truth: Ida B. Wells and the Fight Against Lynching.”
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Lycoming College welcomes T. Cole Jones, Ph.D., for the 48th annual Robert H. Ewing Lecture. The event, entitled “The Tory Rising: Insurrection in the Revolutionary South,” will be held on Thursday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room, at the Krapf Gateway Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary will lecture at both Bucknell University and Lycoming College March 7 and 8 respectively about her book, The Foundling, an historical fiction novel based on the Laurelton Village for Feebleminded Girls and Women of Childbearing Age. Bucknell will host Leary on Tuesday, March 7, at 7 p.m., in Bucknell Hall. Lycoming will host her on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room in the Krapf Gateway Center. These collaborative events are free and open to the public.
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The Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) held its 91st annual meeting at Lycoming College from Oct. 13-15. With a focus this year on “Health and Resilience in the Commonwealth and Mid-Atlantic,” the conference included seminars, student research, film presentations, a keynote banquet, and more.
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Lycoming College students in the course, "Vietnam War at Home and Abroad," had the opportunity to welcome guest speaker Walter T. Steinbacher, a Vietnam War veteran from the Williamsport area. Sarah Silkey, Ph.D., professor of history and department chair, invited him to speak after connecting with him in 2019 when she helped to publish his memoir, "Point Man Up: One Marine's Memories of Vietnam."
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WNEP visits history class learning about how teachings from more than 1,000 years ago relate to what is happening now in Ukraine.
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Medieval historian William Chester Jordan, Ph.D., of Princeton University will speak at this year’s annual Ewing Lecture Series. His talk, entitled “The Harvest Indeed is Great, but the Labourers are Few”: Strangers in the Medieval Countryside, will be delivered on Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m., in the Academic Center, D-001. Jordan was previously slated to speak at Lycoming in March of 2020, but the event was postponed due to Covid-19 concerns.
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Lycoming College is pleased to welcome Crystal Eddins, Ph.D., assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as the keynote speaker for the College’s Race Equity? Symposium. The discussion, titled “Racial Capitalism and Reproductive Justice,” will take place Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m., in the Mary L. Welch Theatre.
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Christopher Pearl, Ph.D., associate professor of history and co-coordinator of American studies at Lycoming College, has earned a fellowship from the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, enabling him to conduct research for his upcoming book about the creation of executive power during the American Revolutionary War.
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Sarah Silkey discusses her book, “Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching and Transatlantic Activism,” and the Ida B. Wells’ recent Pulitzer Prize, with Erika Funke on WVIA’s ArtScene.
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