New York Times best-selling author, educator and speaker Rachel Macy Stafford ’94 will be the featured speaker during Hanover College’s third-annual Women’s Brunch. The event will begin at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 14, in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center. For more than 25 years, Stafford has worked to help people live with greater presence,
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Educator, historian and author Eileen Yanoviak, Ph.D., will delve into the inspirational story of 19th-century Union Army nurse Lucy Higgs Nichols during a special Black History Month presentation at Hanover College. Yanoviak will discuss her book, “The Tenacious Nurse Nichols: An Unsung African American Civil War Hero.” Published in May 2025, the work examines the
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Former Kentucky legislator and government official Charles Booker will be the featured speaker for Hanover College’s Bill and June Rogers Peace and Social Justice Speakers Series. Booker will visit campus Thursday, Feb. 12, culminating with a keynote address and book signing. Reserve your seat for the keynote! (reservations due by Jan. 31) Booker has dedicated
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Historian, educator and author Michael Koncewicz, Ph.D., will be on the Hanover College campus Saturday, April 5, to present the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture as the keynote address for the 45th-annual Indiana Association of Historians’ annual conference. An associate director at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University (NYU), Koncewicz
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Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler will deliver a Black History Month address on Hanover’s campus Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Duggan Library. The appearance, open to the public free of charge, is part of Indiana Humanities’ Indiana Authors Awards Speaker Program. An award-winning poet and young-adult author, Crisler serves as professor
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Brent Smith ’76, a former minister and professor at Grand Valley State University, gifted a small library of books about Abraham Lincoln to the History Department this fall. Smith presented Hanover history professors Dan Murphy ’81 and Matt Vosmeier with more than 50 books. Among the works was “Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from
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Silas House, award-winning novelist, Kentucky poet laureate, educator and environmental activist, will deliver a special address during a mid-September appearance on Hanover College’s campus. Since 2010, House has served as associate professor and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, where he teaches Appalachian literature and a writing workshop. He
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Shadow puppetry, an art form more than 2,000 years old, will be celebrated during two March events on the Hanover College campus. Esther Fernández, renowned early modern scholar and co-founder of the acclaimed Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe, will present “Puppets in the Spanish Golden Age” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, in Science Center, room 137.
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Educator and author Leah Milne, Ph.D., will delve into the connections between reading and empathy during a special presentation through the Indiana Humanities’ Advancing Racial Equity Speakers Bureau. Milne will present “Mirrors and Windows: Reading for and Beyond Empathy,” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Feb. 7, at Hanover College’s Duggan Library. The event is open to
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Indiana University English Professor Jonathan Elmer will be on the Hanover College campus Tuesday, Oct. 24, to present the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture. Elmer’s address, “In Poe’s Wake: Form, Media and Graphic Horror,” will help celebrate Hanover’s acquisition of a first edition of “The Works of the late Edgar Allan Poe: with
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