Future Events

September 9, 2008 Teach-in, outdoors during lunch, on the theme of sustainability.

Past Events

Spring, 2008: A symposium featuring Barry Lopez, nature writer and author of this year’s common reading, "About This Life." Other symposium events included a presentation about the narratives behind and embedded in American quilts, including family stories and signals to passengers on the underground railroad, given by two Hiram faculty members, and a student-initiated conversation about corporate responsibility.
Seventh-annual Teach-in on the Green. Theme: “Storytelling.”
Fall, 2007: Collaboration with the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities and the theater department on dramatic presentations and discussions of three plays dealing with cancer.
Spring 2007: A symposium, based on the year’s theme of conflict was held in connection with the first year seminar. Simeon Ilesanmi, associate professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Religion at Wake Forest University, was the keynote speaker.
November 8, 2006: A pre-event examination of the ethical, social, and economic issues raised by a Louis Selzer short story Luis that has been transformed into a dance by Verb Ballets of Cleveland.
Sixth-annual Teach-in on the Green. Theme: “Conflict.”
An opportunity to view and discuss the late Masumi Hayashi’s “Panoptican: Photo Collages of Prison and War Sites,” co-sponsored with the Hiram College Art Department.