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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Fiction Reading by Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Sanjena Sathian\, Mercer’s 2025 Ferrol A. Sams Distinguished Chair of English\, will read from her fiction on January 23. Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers\, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her second novel\, Goddess Complex\, will be released in March 2025. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories\, The Atlantic\, Conjunctions\, One Story\, Boulevard\, and more. She’s written nonfiction for The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, The Drift\, The Yale Review\, and NewYorker.com\, among other outlets. She also writes for screen and is co-writing the television adaptation of Gold Diggers\, which is in development with a major streamer. \nSathian is an alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at Emory University\, the University of Iowa\, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. This semester at Mercer\, she is teaching an advanced fiction workshop\, CRW 485: The Shape of Imagination. \nThis event is free and open to the public. A Q and A will follow the reading.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/third-thursday-fiction-reading-by-sanjena-sathian/
LOCATION:Connell Student Center\, Conference Room 1\, 1501 Mercer University Dr\, Macon\, 31207
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:2025 Byington Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 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 White Mother He Never Knew.”
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/2025-byington-lecture/
LOCATION:Presidents Dining Room\, 1501 Mercer University Drive\, Macon\, 31207
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception\, Freedom Seekers Exhibit at the Tubman Museum
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the reception to celebrate the opening of the Mercer student-curated exhibit at Macon’s Tubman Museum. \nFreedom Seekers: Runaway Slave Advertisements in the Macon Telegraph\, 1826-1865 \nBetween 1826 and 1865\, nearly every issue of the Macon Telegraph included advertisements for enslaved people: runaways\, auctions\, and detainees. This exhibition\, researched and interpreted by Mercer University students\, highlights the humanity of the enslaved people escaping bondage. In these newspaper notices\, we can see the personalities\, skills\, loved ones\, stories\, and resilience of Macon’s freedom seekers. \nExhibit will run from January 24 to March 22\, 2025.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/opening-reception-freedom-seekers-exhibit-at-the-tubman-museum/
LOCATION:Tubman Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\, 31201
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:"Freedom Seekers" Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:When: The exhibit runs through March 22. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.\nWhere: Tubman African American Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\nDetails: In collaboration with the museum\, Mercer Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Dr. Matt Harper and students in his African American history course researched and curated an exhibit that features advertisements for runaway slaves published in the Macon Telegraph from 1823-1865. Museum admission is free for museum members and Mercer students and $5 for all others.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/freedom-seekers-exhibit/2025-01-29/
LOCATION:Tubman Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\, 31201
CATEGORIES:Public
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T090000
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SUMMARY:"Freedom Seekers" Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:When: The exhibit runs through March 22. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.\nWhere: Tubman African American Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\nDetails: In collaboration with the museum\, Mercer Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Dr. Matt Harper and students in his African American history course researched and curated an exhibit that features advertisements for runaway slaves published in the Macon Telegraph from 1823-1865. Museum admission is free for museum members and Mercer students and $5 for all others.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/freedom-seekers-exhibit/2025-01-30/
LOCATION:Tubman Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\, 31201
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:2025 College Town Film Series
DESCRIPTION:The College Town Film Series is an annual collaboration of Middle Georgia State University\, Wesleyan College\, and Mercer University\, which brings students\, faculty\, and the public together to view and discuss educational and entertaining films with a common theme. A professor from each college/university hosts a discussion following the films. The films focus on the theme of journalism this year. \nJan. 30: “Ace in the Hole” \nFeb. 6: “The Paper” \nFeb. 13: “Spotlight” \nFree for college students and $5 for the public. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/2025-college-town-film-series/2025-01-30/
LOCATION:Douglass Theatre\, 355 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.\, Macon\, GA\, 31201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty & Staff,Public,Student
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SUMMARY:"Freedom Seekers" Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:When: The exhibit runs through March 22. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.\nWhere: Tubman African American Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\nDetails: In collaboration with the museum\, Mercer Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Dr. Matt Harper and students in his African American history course researched and curated an exhibit that features advertisements for runaway slaves published in the Macon Telegraph from 1823-1865. Museum admission is free for museum members and Mercer students and $5 for all others.
URL:https://events.mercer.edu/event/freedom-seekers-exhibit/2025-01-31/
LOCATION:Tubman Museum\, 310 Cherry St.\, Macon\, 31201
CATEGORIES:Public
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