Join the English Department for the Katherine Min Memorial Reading, featuring a live performance by the Black Mountain鈥揵ased podcast Palimpsest Productions. Palimpsest is a single-voiced audio drama exploring memory, identity, and the things that haunt us.

鈥淪outhern Indigenous Waters鈥� is the first event in the 鈥淩ising Waters: Writing Place and Environment鈥� Thomas Howerton lecture series, a series that puts humanities scholars in conversation with natural sciences scholars about issues affecting us all. On October 30, 2025, Duke hydrologist Ryan Emanuel and East Carolina University literary scholar Kirstin Squint will discuss the centrality of place and water for southern Indigenous people.

Diverse ways of thinking can drive extraordinary innovation. In this special lecture, Keivan Stassun, Ph.D., Founding Director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University鈥檚 School of Engineering, explores how embracing neurodiversity鈥攔ecognizing and valuing neurological differences such as autism鈥攃an accelerate scientific discovery.

Ken Wagener, Butler Chaired Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, will deliver 每日大赛入口鈥檚 27th S. Dexter Squibb Distinguished Lecture. A renowned polymer chemist, Wagener will explore the complex role of plastics in modern life鈥攆rom their everyday benefits to their environmental challenges鈥攊nviting audience discussion on their future in society.