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Please join the English Department for the 2026 Annual Lora Hutchins Heberle Award and Lecture with Professor Amanda Anderson of Brown University.

Some of the most influential frameworks for understanding human thought -- in psychology, in moral and political philosophy, and in cognitive science -- have failed to recognize the quality, form, and significance of slow, persistent ruminative processes oriented toward experiences of moral shock or disturbance. Such experiences include but are not limited to profound loss, grief, regret, or injury, including those fundamental assaults on dignity we might designate as status-injury. Drawing on examples from the literary tradition, I demonstrate that rumination is a productive moral process and not merely a psychological symptom of oversensitivity or trauma endured.

Amanda Anderson is Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities. Her research focuses on broad questions of intellectual history, disciplinary formation, and the relations among literature, moral life, and politics.

Yes, a fine art fair can also be funky. We focus on art that has a bit of an edge. Traditional techniques but non-traditional images. We include all mediums. Audience ranges from art lovers looking for more interesting work to art lovers that have not yet realized that passion. Your most unusual work will sell. Suggested price points under $1000.

Book releasing workshop for discovering purpose.

Yes, a fine art fair can also be funky. We focus on art that has a bit of an edge. Traditional techniques but non-traditional images. We include all mediums. Audience ranges from art lovers looking for more interesting work to art lovers that have not yet realized that passion. Your most unusual work will sell. Suggested price points under $1000.

Yes, a fine art fair can also be funky. We focus on art that has a bit of an edge. Traditional techniques but non-traditional images. We include all mediums. Audience ranges from art lovers looking for more interesting work to art lovers that have not yet realized that passion. Your most unusual work will sell. Suggested price points under $1000.

Professor Jonathan Turley will be discussing his book, "Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution". The New York Times bestseller has been described by former NPR editor Uri Berliner as “Jonathan Turley's birthday gift to America to mark its 250 years of independence... A wise guide to avoid wrecking the American project."

Turley explores the unique elements of the American Revolution in comparison to its counterpart in France. He discusses why one became the world’s oldest democracy and the other became the infamous “Terror.” That story is told with vivid stories of the personalities of the age, including Thomas Paine’s, who was one of two leading figures in both revolutions (the other being Lafayette).

Turley takes that rich history and asks whether the American Republic can survive the 21st Century.

Jean Becker and Tom Collamore, both former staffers to President George H. W. Bush, bring together the most harrowing and hilarious stories behind presidential events over the past sixty years, detailing the art of preparation that goes into these delicate, high stress operations and revealing how they have often been one step away from disaster. “Don’t Tell the President” brings together the uproarious chaos of Veep and the grandeur of The West Wing.

Reception and book signing to follow.

Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. With its revelatory insights, Boot depicts a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns.

Join us for a conversation about the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics and remained a man of profound contradictions, even to those closest to him.

Historian and author of "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States," Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater.

Hughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence, predominance, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture, both in the past and present. When historians focus only on performers and plays with artistic "merit," what communities, perspectives, and cultural trends remain invisible? Join us to think through these and other questions.

This episode is sponsored by Christina and Robbi Karas.

The Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.

Dare to think differently about your health.

Join Dr. Patrick Flynn for I Disagree, a live health seminar coming to Bay College in Iron Mountain on Thursday, October 29, 2026.

Dr. Flynn challenges a common way of looking at health and disease with one foundational idea:

The body does not make mistakes.

Rather than viewing symptoms simply as things that have gone wrong, Dr. Flynn encourages people to ask a different question: Why is the body responding this way in the first place?

Our bodies are constantly responding and adapting to the environment around us—including the thoughts, traumas, and toxins we encounter throughout our lives. For a time, the body may be able to adapt appropriately to those stresses. But when they become too intense, too frequent, or too chronic, our ability to remain within healthy physiological parameters can begin to break down. That is when dysfunction and disease may emerge.

I Disagree invites you to reconsider the way you think about symptoms and the human body and to explore a different approach to pursuing better health.

If you've struggled with ongoing health concerns, wondered why you don't feel well even when you've been told everything looks “normal,” or simply want to better understand how your body works, this evening is for you.