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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Artist, hip-hop performer and global ambassador for Moral Courage® Genesis Be, a prominent voice for social change through the past decade, will discuss her unique and wide-ranging efforts to encourage conversations across differences during a special September appearance at Hanover College. Widely known for her efforts to remove the Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state
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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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Educator, author and activist Alison Kafer, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker for The Bill and June Rogers Peace and Social Justice Speakers Series during a two-day visit to the Hanover College campus in March. A specialist in disability, feminist and queer theory, Kafer is an associate professor of feminist studies and director of LGBTQ
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Alma Gene Prince Saunders, Hanover College’s first Black graduate, will be commemorated with a commissioned portrait to be displayed in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center. The unveiling will be held at 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 7, in the Campus Center. A 1951 Hanover graduate, Saunders was raised in nearby Carrollton, Ky. She applied for
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Hanover College has just received a grant of $30 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its initiative, College and Community Collaboration (CCC). The grant, administered by the College, will support “Jefferson Together,” a holistic community development strategy that begins to address the economic, social, cultural, and connectivity needs of residents in Jefferson County by leveraging
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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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Hanover College will commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 15-19 with a collection of conversations and volunteer activities. The week-long series of activities will be highlighted by a presentation by Sue Wells Livers. Livers, a local community leader, historian and storyteller, was influenced by a childhood interaction with King. She
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Through the release of six studio albums and performances around the globe at venues ranging from the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to National Public Radio’s “Tiny Desk” concert series, genre-bending cellist Ben Sollee has continued to amass fans of his unique mixture of folk, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, and jazz. An electrifying performer, Sollee
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Jonathan LeMaster-Smith, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker for a special virtual presentation of The Bill and June Rogers Peace and Social Justice Speakers Forum. LeMaster-Smith will present “Process of Social Justice in Rural Context(s): A Conversation,” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 21, via Zoom. The online presentation, slated to include discussion of local experiences
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