Learn Something New This Week at These 6 Free Talks in Lancaster County
The exhibit “Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture” at Franklin & Marshall College’s Phillips Museum of Art was co-curated by Nadim Damluji. Damluji will be part of a Sept 25 panel discussion that is part of the fall semester’s Arab Arts Festival.SOURCE: LANCASTER ONLINE
BY ERIN NEGLEY
Here are six chances to learn something new on local college campuses and Lancasterhistory.org this week, from Arab street culture and the Latino experience to cooking for autoimmune disorders and how outdoor cats threaten biodiversity.
Monday, Sept. 25, 6-9 p.m. Arab Youth and Street Culture: A Conversation with Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman, Nadim Damluji and Laith Majali. This is a panel discussion by educator, multi-media artist and Arab hip-hop pioneer Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman; photographer, film editor, and producer (of 2016’s Academy Award-nominated film “Theeb“) Laith Majali; and the co-curator of the current Franklin & Marshall College art exhibit, “Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture,” Nadim Damluji. In the Rothman Gallery of the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College.
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7-8 p.m. The Trouble With My Name, a one-man show with professor and poet Javier Avila, about the American Latino experience. In Esbenshade Hall’s Gibble Auditorium, Elizabethtown College.
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Craft talk with food and health writer and chef Phoebe Lapine. Lapine is releasing a memoir, “The Wellness Project,” chronicling her journey with the autoimmune disease Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. In the Writer’s House Reading Room, Franklin & Marshall College.
Thursday, Sept. 28, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. Dr. Peter Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, will talk about the effects of free-ranging cats on biodiversity, especially among birds. In Mayser Gymnasium, Franklin & Marshall College.
Thursday, Sept. 28, 7-8 p.m. Is That Really God Speaking? Prophecy in the Bible and Today, a talk by Julia O’Brien, professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary. O’Brien explores the question, “When someone claims to have received a message from God, how do we know if they are right?” In Esbenshade Hall’s Gibble Auditorium, Elizabethtown College.
Friday, Sept. 29, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Sink Hole: How Kansas Crises Doomed the Presidencies of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan a talk by Dr. Michael F. Holt, the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Holt will look at how two decisions (the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act and the 1857 Dred Scott Decision) created political tripping stones that destroyed two presidencies. At Lancasterhistory.org, 230 N. President Ave.
