The Reformation, After 500 Years: Religion, Society, Music, Ethics
This semester-long, interdisciplinary event explores a movement that continues to shape our economy, political and legal systems, morality and ideas about marriage.
Our University brings Bucknell to the world and the world to Bucknell, including speakers from all disciplines who help make this connection.
Departments across the University's curriculum regularly host outstanding speakers, including various colloquia in the humanities, society and technology, and social science, as well as other disciplines, that bring nationally and internationally renowned guests to campus to talk with students and the campus community about issues affecting our world.
Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility
This spring 2018 series organized by the Griot Institute for Africana Studies will engage the topic of erasure from multiple disciplinary, artistic, and intellectual perspectives. Centering Percival Everett's novel Erasure as a focal point, the series will bring to campus a wide array of scholars and artists to consider the impacts of this eviscerating phenomenon of erasure.
Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters
The Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters is an award given biannually to honor and recognize an individual who represents the very highest level of achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, non-fiction, or biography. The award was established in 2002.Recent recipients have been author Elizabeth Kolbert, poet Rita Dove, historian Robert A. Caro, playwright Edward Albee, novelist John Edgar Wideman, and biographer David McCullough.
Bucknell Forum
This national speakers series began in fall 2007 to focus on major issues facing America and the world. Guests have already included beloved newsman Tim Russert, renowned investor Jim Cramer, distinguished presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Nobel Laureate F. W. de Klerk, environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and award-winning author Niall Ferguson.