Join the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts for the 2023-2024 Third Thursday Poetry Series!...
Join the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts for the 2023-2024 Third Thursday Poetry Series!...
The Native American and Indigenous Alliance (NAIA) invites the community to celebrate the first 56 days of the semester on the lawn at Cater Hall. The event will feature Danielle Fixico, instructor and artist at the College of the Muscogee Nation in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Fixico’s work has been featured in...
Join Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center at this incredible event to experience a holiday market, artist demonstrations, and more! Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center is a non-profit organization based in Camden, Alabama. The organization was started with the objective to stimulate the economy in Alabama’s Black Belt region...
Join Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities to celebrate the publication of children’s book Betsey Scott Harper: The Story of an Auburn First Family with author Dr. Terrance Vickerstaff and other Harper descendants at Pebble Hill. Betsey Scott Harper was enslaved to Nathaniel J. Scott, a founder of...
Join the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Pebble Hill for the Third Thursday Poetry Series featuring Julia Phillips & Rodney Leonard. Julia Phillips is the author of the bestselling novels Bear and Disappearing Earth, which was a finalist for...
Mell Classroom Building - Room 4550
Auburn, Alabama, United States
Dr. Clayborne Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the African-American freedom struggle. In 1985, the late Coretta Scott King invited Dr. Carson to direct a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Under Carson’s...
Mell Classroom Building - Room 4550
Auburn, Alabama, United States
In Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, Catherine Coleman Flowers explores the intersection of environmental issues, civil rights, and social justice through both personal and political lenses. Flowers draws on her experience fighting for vulnerable rural communities of color who lack access to clean, safe environments, weaving...
Mr. Gray, perhaps the most noted civil rights attorney in the nation, will reflect on his unique and storied journey arguing for the constitutional rights of African Americans. In his first ten years as a lawyer, Attorney Gray was legal counsel in what would become four landmark U.S. Supreme Court...
Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM. Jacqueline Allen Trimble is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow (2017, 2023). Her poetry...
Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM. Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative...
Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM. Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative...