Campus Events

We invite you to visit soon! Discover what it's like to be a Wilson student and learn more about our flexible adult degree programs. With 29 majors and more than 40 minors - including five majors that can be completed exclusively at night - you're sure to find something of interest. Visit campus, talk with students and faculty and learn how a comprehensive liberal arts education will prepare you for a successful future.

We invite you to visit soon! Discover what it's like to be a Wilson student and learn more about our flexible adult degree programs. With 29 majors and more than 40 minors - including five majors that can be completed exclusively at night - you're sure to find something of interest. Visit campus, talk with students and faculty and learn how a comprehensive liberal arts education will prepare you for a successful future.

We invite you to visit soon! Discover what it's like to be a Wilson student and learn more about our flexible adult degree programs. With 29 majors and more than 40 minors - including five majors that can be completed exclusively at night - you're sure to find something of interest. Visit campus, talk with students and faculty and learn how a comprehensive liberal arts education will prepare you for a successful future.

We invite you to visit soon! Discover what it's like to be a Wilson student and learn more about our flexible adult degree programs. With 29 majors and more than 40 minors - including five majors that can be completed exclusively at night - you're sure to find something of interest. Visit campus, talk with students and faculty and learn how a comprehensive liberal arts education will prepare you for a successful future.

FRESH 2016

Series Schedule

Love in the End Times: On Samuel Delany and #blacklivesmatter
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Samuel Delany is the preeminent African American science fiction writer. His novels and memoirs tackle the complexities of identity, race, and personal relationships. How might his writings help us respond to anti-black racism, from police violence to microaggression?

Tue. Nov. 3 - Black Apocalypse & Christian Hope
Dr. Vincent Lloyd

Beyond Pragmatic Politics: African American Science Fiction as Political Theology
12 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Evening: With a Shamble and a Moan: Zombie Apocalypses in American Culture
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Zombies bring about the end of the world over and over again in popular culture. These monster tales provide not only visions of a dystopian end, but also say much about current moment's humanity and inhumanity.

Tue. Oct. 20  - Doomsday Scenarios
Dr. Kelly Baker

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: Tim LaHaye's End-Times Theologies
12 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

I'll talk through some of LaHaye's more recent apocalyptic visions and how they are different, and less popular, than his previous Left Behind series. Signs of end times emerge as political events.

Evening: With a Shamble and a Moan: Zombie Apocalypses in American Culture
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall