Malcolm Lester Lectures: How We Got Here: Attacks, Detachment and Self-Inflicted Wounds
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconThe Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Zeta Chapter of Georgia at Mercer University will host the seventh annual Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life on March 31 and April 1 in the Presidents Dining Room on the Macon campus. Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals for…
Love For Medicine Pre-Medical Mixer
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconCalling all pre-med students! Mark your calendars because Mercer's Student National Medical Association - Minority Association of Pre-medical Students is having a mixer on Monday, February 24th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m! This mixer is an amazing opportunity for pre-med students to not only network with medical students but doctors of various specialties! Put on your…
Thomas Robinson Prize: Jill McCorkle
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconMercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2025 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to award-winning author Jill McCorkle. The prize will be presented Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in the University’s Presidents Dining Room.
2025 Byington Lecture
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconThe 2025 Laurie Byington Lecture Series speaker John Blake will give his lecture, "The Power of a Hopeless Cause," on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room. Blake is an award-winning author and senior writer at CNN.com. His memoir is "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the…
Fostering Civil Discourse: How Do We Talk About the Issues That Matter?
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconCome out and join the re-launch of the Center for Leadership, Ethics, and Service with a panel discussion on civil discourse and engaging difference. The event will be held on November 19th at 5pm in the President's Dining Room, Macon campus. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScju5LpA1_83ovseAsP574V61G48nmOYfZ4CFZ9wWxrT_U7LQ/viewform
2024 Greenberg-Williams Lecture
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon2024 Greenberg-Williams Lecture honoring two former faculty who have made a lasting impact on how ethics and professionalism is engendered throughout MUSM. “From Vocation to Profession: Developing Identity, Vision, and Accountability in the Practice of Health Care” with Dr. D. Micah Hester. Read More: https://den.mercer.edu/medical-school-to-host-renowned-ethicist-for-inaugural-greenberg-williams-lectureship/
The 19th Annual Building the Beloved Community Symposium
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconFeaturing our keynote speaker, Dr. Christina Edmondson, psychologist, Christian thinker, nominee for the NAACP Image Award, co-host of the award-winning Truth's Table podcast, and co-author of Faithful Anti-racism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change (Intervarsity Press, 2022). As we pursue the beloved community, are Christians a help or a hindrance? What does the data say?…
AI in Isolation: Relationship Apps and the New Subjectivity
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconIn this talk, Dr. Samantha Pinson Wrisley, of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, will discuss the gendered and sexual implications of relational AI. Through the examples of AI girlfriends and AI dating assistants, they will explore what constitutes genuine interaction and what the use of AI indicates about the…
2024 Lamar Lecture Series
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconThe Lamar Lecture Series is proud to announce the 2024 lecturer as Dr. Jay Watson of Ole Miss University. Dr. Watson's three-lecture series is entitled “Ruinate Green: Southern Literatures and Environmental Lost Cause-ism.” The first lecture in this series entitled, “Framing the Problem: Environmental Lost Cause-ism,” will be held at 10:10 a.m. in the Presidents…
2024 Lamar Lecture Series
Presidents Dining Room 1501 Mercer University Drive, MaconThe Lamar Lecture Series is proud to announce the 2024 lecturer as Dr. Jay Watson of Ole Miss University. Dr. Watson's three-lecture series is entitled “Ruinate Green: Southern Literatures and Environmental Lost Cause-ism.” The first lecture in this series entitled, “Framing the Problem: Environmental Lost Cause-ism,” will be held at 10:10 a.m. in the Presidents…