An article written by Peter Schwartzman (Environmental Studies) entitled “Responding to Climate Change in Galesburg,” was published in the Galesburg Register-Mail, the week of November 12.
An online version can be read at:
http://www.galesburg.com/opinion/20181113/peter-schwartzman-responding-to-climate-change-in-galesburg

An article entitled Afro-Hispanic Aesthetics and Identity through Cuban Underground Hip Hop of Los Paisanos and Obsesión by Jesse Dixon-Montgomery (Spanish) was recently published in PALARA.

In the last two weeks of October, Frank McAndrew (Psychology) engaged in a wide-range of Halloween themed media activity.

McAndrew gave a talk on “the Psychology of Creepiness and Horror” at Western Illinois University’s Quad City campus, he did a radio interview about zombies on the Lisa Valentine Clark Show for KUMT Radio in Utah, […]

Fred Hord (Africana Studies), was invited–by the University of Illinois Press–to present on a panel at the “100 Years of Publishing Lincoln” symposium in Springfield, Illinois. The book on African American views of Lincoln, which he co-edited with Knox alum, Matt Norman, and contributed to, will be published next spring by that press as part […]

Tim Kasser (Psychology) recently gave two invited talks. The first, entitled “Materialism, Consumerism, & Capitalism,” was part of the “Isms” series at the Hawthorne Club in Galesburg. The second was a virtual talk as part of a panel for the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Global Action Project in London, UK; Kasser spoke about the […]

Malaga by Lukas Bärfuss, translated from German by Neil Blackadder (Theatre) is being produced in Chicago by Theatre Y, running through December 16. Theatre Y performs at The Ready in Lincoln Square, and does not charge for admission – but does recommend seat reservations. Details at theatre-y.com.

Peter Schwartzman (Environmental Studies) served as a panelist at the Rural Community Engagement Summit, Campus Compact Conference held on Western Illinois University’s Quad Cities Campus on October 30, 2018.

Robin Metz, Department of English and Director of the Program in Creative Writing, presented a reading of his poetry as the featured reader at The Yale University Club in Manhattan at a poetry event sponsored by The Yale Poets and Cross Cultural Communications press on June 14, 2018. Three of his poems will appear in […]

Monica Berlin’s (English) collection of poems, Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live, winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Poetry Open Prize, has been published (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), and is now available directly from the publisher or at your preferred online bookseller.

Katie Stewart (Political Science & International Relations) attended a workshop on “Urban Activism and the Development of Civil Society in the Russian Federation” at Indiana University’s Europe Gateway in Berlin. Organized by the Russian Studies Workshop at IU, the workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the causes, forms, and consequences of […]