UPCOMING EVENTS
Looking forward to Fall 2025…
September 3 & 4, 10 & 11, 2025 – 4 p.m., Buskirk Field
Open Quoits Tournament
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are all welcome to play
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September 12, 2025 – 3 p.m., Buskirk Field
President’s Invitational Quoits Match
Open Quoits Winners vs. President Brad Smith’s Team
September 16, 2025 – 10 a.m.-2 p.m., MSC Plaza
National Voter Registration Day
September 17, 2025 – 4 p.m., Drinko Library Atrium
U.S. Constitution & Citizenship Day Trivia
September 19, 2025 – 11 a.m., Buskirk Field
Media Quoits Challenge
Members of the press and civic leaders play Marshall Quoits Teams
September 23, 2025 – 10 a.m., Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
Court on Campus
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Oral Arguments Session
October 23, 2025
Jayne Anne Phillips
AE Stringer Visiting Writers Series
November 6, 2025 – Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
Javier Zamora
Marshall Artists Series
& looking forward to Spring 2026…
March 5-7, 2026
American Milestone Symposium
The American Milestone Symposium will be held at Marshall University with an excursion to the historic HBCU, Land-grant University founded in 1891 – West Virginia State University.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Spring 2025
May 2025 Graduating ACTA Scholars List
May 3, 2025
Dr. Chris White named 30th Distinguished Drinko Fellow at the 2025 Drinko Symposium
May 2, 2025
Honors Convocation
March 11, 2025
3:00 pm – Drinko Library Atrium – Faculty Publication Celebration
March 8, 2025
7:30 pm – Drinko Library Atrium – International Women’s Day Recital featuring Dr. Julie Park and Dr. Johan Botes
February 19, 2025
Video of our standing-room-only Carter G. Woodson Lecture featuring Former West Virginia State Senator Marie E. Redd. She spoke about the Burlington 37, who formed the first free-black community west of the Allegheny Mountains in 1849. 
July & December 2024 Graduating ACTA Scholars List
October 8, 2024
WV Gubernatorial & Huntington Mayoral Candidate Forum
- Candidate Forum Livestream Video
- Candidate Forum Post-Event Press Release
- Candidate Forum Photo Gallery
May 20, 2024
Dr. Vicki Stroeher named Marshall’s 29th Distinguished John Deaver Drinko Fellow
April 23, 2024
Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Symposium: “Investigating Racism in Nursing”
April 19, 2024
62nd Annual Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation
March 8, 2024
The Art Song Recital: A Celebration of Female Composers in Song and Stage
February 12, 2024
The Annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture featuring Brent Leggs
February 7, 2024
“African Americans and the Arts”
February 1, 2024
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum 2024 Black History Poster Contest Event
October 19, 2023
Diminished Trust: How do we restore faith in science?
September 13, 2023
Court on Campus: WV Supreme Court of Appeals
August 30, 2023
Women’s Equality Day Luncheon
April 21, 2023
61st Annual Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation
April 18, 2023
Faculty Publication Celebration
March 30, 2023
Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Symposium
Huntington Black History: Using Oral History to give a Neighborhood Voice
March 23, 2023
Philosophizing Like a Girl: Or Why Philosophy Needs Intersectional Gender Theory Now More Than Ever
March 22, 2023
Whose argument is stronger?
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
March 8, 2023
International Women’s Day
February 15, 2023
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture
“The Future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities” presented by Ericke S. Cage, president, West Virginia State University
January 23, 2023 – February 9, 2023
Celebrating Black Contributions in American Life and History
October 6, 2022
Beyond Taco Tuesday: Complexities of Identity
September 30, 2022
Media Quoits Tournament
September 23, 2022
Presidential Quoits Match
September 20, 2022
National Voter Registration Day
September 19, 2022
U.S. Constitution and Citizenship Day Quiz Competition
September 12-15, 19-21, 2022
Open Quoits Tournament
August 26, 2022
Women’s Equality Day Luncheon
April 28, 2022
Selvage: A solo art exhibition by Sandra Reed
April 26, 2022
Faculty Book Celebration
April 22, 2022
60th Annual Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation
April 20, 2022
Earth Week, Time Capsule transfer to James E. Morrow Library
April 15, 2022
Animal Actions, Human Reactions: Writing a Revolutionary Caribbean and Beyond
April 4, 2022
Marshall Intramural Quoits Tournament
April 4, 2022
A “Singing Lecture” with Dr. Corey Dolgon
March 8, 2022
International Women’s Day
March 3, 2022
A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series with Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly
February 21, 2022
Black History Month Lecture featuring Dr. William H. Turner
February 18, 2022
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture featuring Mr. John Whittington Franklin
January 18 – February 18, 2022
Conceptions of Flight
October 18, 2021
Marshall Intramural Quoits Tournament
September 24, 2021
Media Quoits Tournament
September 22, 2021
National Voter Registration Day
September 17, 2021
Presidential Quoits Tournament
September 17, 2021
U.S. Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
“Take the Pledge” Campaign
September 9 – 16, 2021
Open Quoits Tournament
September 1, 2021
Jean Edward Smith Memorial Symposium
To view the recorded event click here
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August 26, 2021
Women’s Equality Day
Documentary Film and Discussion
“Borderland: The Life and Times of Blanche Ames Ames”
August 20, 2021
Stoicism as a Philosophy for Modern Life
April 28, 2021
Sandra Reed named next Drinko Fellow
April 7, 2021
The Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Symposium
Working Against the Past: Amplifying Student Voices of the Appalachian New Wave
December 4, 2020
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture
The “Nation’s Doctor” US Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams
November 5, 2020
Drinko Academy Honors Mr. Howard Franklin Osburn
October 10, 2020
Marshall Intramural Quoits League
September 24, 2020
Media Quoits Tournament
September 22, 2020
2020 Voter Registration/Voter Information Drive
For more information about Marshall University’s 2020 voter registration efforts, visit: https://www.marshall.edu/herdvotes/
September 18, 2020
Presidential Quoits Tournament
September 17, 2020
U.S. Constitution and Citizenship Day
Click here to Take the Pledge
September 8 – 17, 2020
Annual Open Quoits Tournament
August 26, 2020
Women’s Equality Day
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote in the United States, 1920-2020
June 15 – 19, 2020
2020 Teachers Institute on Black History Instruction
A program of the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum
Click here for the course syllabus
April 24, 2020
Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation – Postponed
April 23, 2020
Drinko Academy Celebration of Academics – Postponed
April 9, 2020
Interfaith Dialogue Dinner – Postponed
April 7, 2020
4th Circuit Court of Appeals Oral Argument Session – Postponed
April 2 -3, 2020
Giorgio Agamben Conference – Postponed
Dr. Corey Dolgon
Sociology of Protest Music – Postponed
Schmidlapp Lecture and Reception
Joan Quigley, author of Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital
Sarah Denman Faces of Appalachia Symposium
Tijah Bumgarner
“African Americans and the Vote”
Fairfield and the Marshall School of Pharmacy Black History Celebration invites the community to a brunch and panel discussion on “African Americans and the Vote.” The panel includes leaders from the Fairfield neighborhood.
February 13, 2020
“2020 Black History Observance with Vice Admiral Jerome Adams
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture
Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
January 21, 2020
Black History Month Poster Competition winner announcement
November 9, 2019
A Conversation with Sarah Vowell
November 8, 2019
Celebration of the Life of Dr. Alan B. Gould
October 22, 2019
A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series
David Treuer
September 24, 2019
Media Quoits Tournament
September 20, 2019
Presidential Quoits Tournament
September 17, 2019
Robert C. Byrd Forum on Civic Responsibility
September 11, 2019
WV Supreme Court of Appeals Oral Argument Session
February 7, 2019
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture
Featuring Dr. Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander