College of Liberal Arts News Archive
Dr. Zelideth Rivas, professor of Japanese at Marshall University, has been selected as the university’s Dr. Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award winner for 2021-2022.
Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages and Japanese Outreach Program will welcome Kenju Murakami, Deputy Consul General Director of the Japan Information Center of the Consulate General of Japan in New York, on Tuesday, April 19. The lecture and panel discussion will begin at 4 p.m. in Drinko Library room 402 on Marshall’s Huntington campus.
Scholars from the Marshall University College of Liberal Arts will gather Thursday, April 7, and Friday April 8, to present their research. The two-day conference will take place in Drinko Library as students from across the college present display posters and host panel discussions.
Marshall University Psychology Professor Dr. April Fugett will lead a discussion Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Anaheim, California, on “Psychology of Fanfiction, Fandoms and Shipping” at WonderCon. WonderCon is part of the Comic-Con International family of conventions.
Marshall University will present “Animal Actions, Human Reactions: Writing a Revolutionary Caribbean and Beyond,” Friday, April 15, at 4 p.m. in Harris Hall 134. The free lecture will be presented by Dr. Charlton Yingling, an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville.
The West Virginia Humanities Council and the Marshall University College of Liberal Arts will present the Rev. Dr. Brian Powers’ lecture, The Loss and Recovery of Meaning: Moral Injury and the Value of Theology. The lecture, free and open to the public, will take place on Marshall’s Huntington campus at 5:30 p.m. in the Weisberg Applied Engineering Complex Room 1203 on Friday, April 8.
The Marshall University Department of History will present the 2022 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture, featuring Dr. Caroline Light, director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer at the Program in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.
Marshall University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will present the 2022 Charlotte Schmidlapp Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Studies Tuesday, March 22, at 6:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center, room BE5.
Marshall University will present a virtual panel discussion at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, with several faculty members, including Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva, an associate professor of history with expertise on war and peacebuilding in the Russian, Eurasian and Asian regions. She was born in the Soviet Union and has worked in Russia.
The Marshall University A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series will host bestselling essayist Melissa Febos and acclaimed poet Donika Kelly, Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.