Events Fulfilling JEBI Requirements

Thursday October 19th, 2023
Hogan Suite B/C - 4th Floor
2:30 - 3:00 PM

Come learn about how accessibility and universal design are different. Universal Design is best for the Deaf and signing communities.

Sponsored by: Deaf Studies & Sign Languages Department
If you need disability-related accommodations please email hcaccessibilityservices@holycross.edu

Thursday October 19th, 2023
Rehm Library
7:30 PM

Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, a book that takes readers on a tour of real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of writers.  His previous books include Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South.  Eubanks has written for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, American Scholar, New Yorker, WIRED, and National Public Radio.  In 2023, he was honored with the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for literary excellence.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, New America Foundation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and, most recently, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.  Eubanks will present the annual talk on the Vocation of the Writer, co-sponsored by Creative Writing and the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.

The Working Writers Series is an annual lecture series that brings writers to campus to read from their works, discuss their craft, and answer questions from students and community members.

Tuesday October 24th, 2023
Hogan Ballroom
7:30 PM

On July 17, 1982, a young woman was raped by a black man whom she said was a total stranger. At trial, the victim testified in detail regarding the assault and identified Marvin Anderson as her assailant. At age 18, Anderson was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to 210 years in prison. In 2001, after years of effort to draw attention to exculpatory evidence, the Innocence Project won access to DNA testing that excluded Anderson as the person who committed the crime. Anderson was granted a full pardon. Today, he is the father of three children and serves as Chief of the Hanover, Virginia Fire Department and on the Board of Directors for the Innocence Project.

Christina Swarns, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, and Marvin Anderson, that exoneree, talk about the challenges we face to prevent wrongful convictions and how we can create fairer, more compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

Monday October 30th, 2023
Luth Concert Hall
6:30 PM

Resistance, Resilience, and Survival in Africatown, U.S.A.

The film “Descendant” documents the search for and historic discovery of the Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States illegally carrying 110 enslaved Africans — 52 years after the importation of enslaved people was declared a federal crime. Descendants of the Clotilda survivors, now predominantly residing in Mobile’s neighboring community of Africatown, fight to preserve their heritage while claiming the power to shape their destinies. 

The screening will be followed by a conversation with “Descendant” co-producer and co-writer Kern Michael Jackson, the African American Studies program director and an Associate Professor of English and Folklorist at the University of South Alabama, Mobile.

Presented by the Department of History, co-sponsored by Office of the Provost; Peace and Conflict Studies; Africana Studies; Environmental Studies; Department of Theatre and Dance.

Tuesday October 31st, 2023
Booth Media Lab, Prior Performing Arts Center
7:30 PM

Francisco Cantú is a writer, a translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction.  A former Fulbright fellow, he has also received a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and an Art for Justice fellowship.  His writing and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Essays, Harper’s, and Guernica, as well as on This American Life.  A lifelong resident of the Southwest, Cantú now lives in Tucson, where he coordinates the Southwest Field Studies in Writing program at the University of Arizona.

The Working Writers Series is an annual lecture series that brings writers to campus to read from their works, discuss their craft, and answer questions from students and community members.

Monday November 6th, 2023
Rehm Library
4:30 PM

As the era of “NewSpace” takes hold, corporations and private capital are increasingly involved in space science, exploration, and conquest. Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University, explains the escalating NewSpace race as a mythological project. Grounded in God’s gift of the Promised Land (Canaan), this mythology backs the corporate-military seizure of the solar system. The question, then, is whether there might be a different approach to exploring outer space. Is there a way to visit or even to live on multiple planets without ransacking them? And might we find ways to heal our ravaged Earth in the process?