Arts, Lectures and Gatherings

This Week's Events

Prufrock's Days of Hands
Photographs by Tim Bradley

William Rolland Art Center

Prufrock's Days of Hands by Tim Bradley reimagines T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock through photography and collage, pairing decades of images with the poem’s text to explore memory, longing and renewal in a striking visual dialogue.

Free Swedish Language Classes

Samuelson Chapel

The Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation invites the community to participate in free Swedish language lessons.

The British Invasion (Part 1)
Fifty and Better Fall Session

Lundring Events Center and Online via Zoom

This course focuses on the most popular, influential and enduring artists of the British Invasion, which spanned roughly the years 1964 to 1968.

Defending the Homeland: WWII and the Cold War in California
Fifty and Better Fall Session

Lundring Events Center and Online via Zoom

This course will take a closer look at historical sites to provide an overview of how California and the West Coast experienced WWII and the Cold War.

Founders Day 2025

PLTS Campus

Featuring lectures & generative discussion with Dr. Vic Thasiah and Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda; Worship with the Installation of Rector Rev. Dr. Colleen Windham-Hughes; and Community Lunch (registration required)

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Context, Conspiracy and Consequence
Fifty and Better Fall Session

GSFC 253 and Zoom

This course will dive into questions behind one of the most infamous events in American history, Lincoln’s assassination.

Campus Blood Drive

Kingsmen Park

Invite a colleague to take a quick break between classes or meetings, and you both can make a meaningful difference at the campus blood drive

American Regionalism
Fifty and Better Fall Session

Kingsmen Room and Zoom

In this course, we explore the varied works of the Regionalist Triumvirate — Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, as well as the New York-based Edward Hopper and Pennsylvania's Andrew Wyeth.

Geography of Wine
Fifty and Better Fall Session

Online Via Zoom

This course will introduce participants to the history of wine making and the difference between “old world” and “new world” wines.

Leif Erikson Celebration
200 Year Anniversary of the First Organized Emigration from Norway to the U.S.

Overton Hall

Learn about the 1825 emigration from Norway to the United States, followed by a nyckelharpa performance and reception with the Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation.

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