Mercer will host the 20th annual Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State Nov. 13-14 on the University’s Atlanta and Macon campuses. This year’s lecturer is Dr. John Compton, professor of political science and chair of the Political Science Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. The three lectures will be delivered under the theme “The Politics of Secularization.” Dr. Compton’s first lecture, titled “Democratic Values in a Secular Age,” will be hosted by the…

Mercer will host the 20th annual Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State Nov. 13-14 on the University’s Atlanta and Macon campuses. This year’s lecturer is Dr. John Compton, professor of political science and chair of the Political Science Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. The three lectures will be delivered under the theme “The Politics of Secularization.” Dr. Compton’s first lecture, titled “Democratic Values in a Secular Age,” will be hosted by the…

Enjoy great food and support a great cause! Yollah will donate 10% of its daily sales to Mercer's United Way Campaign.

The second annual Macon Music Half Marathon will be held on Saturday, Nov. 16, and part of the race course will take runners through the Macon campus. The course highlights the musical and cultural heritage of Macon including the McDuffie Center for Strings.  The race begins at Carolyn Crayton Park at 8 a.m. and should be completed by 11:30 a.m. During the race, certain roads and intersections will be closed, including College Street, Mercer University Drive, and Little Richard Penniman…

Do films have the power to break barriers, open minds, and transform lives? Discover the answer at the Africa Film Series, hosted by Dr. Obidoa and sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and Quad Works. On November 20, students, faculty, staff, and the public are welcome to join us in Stetson 251 as we watch and discuss "Sara's Notebook," a film about the effects that the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo have on a woman trying to find…

This is the second annual community artist market held at the MAC, opening the gallery up to vendors in Macon and surrounding local cities to both fine artists and crafters looking to sell their goods for the holiday season.

An exhibition of artworks created in the Junior/Senior studio course. Paintings, Graphic Design, Photography, Animation, and Sculpture will be displayed. Light refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public.

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…

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."

Join us for the reception to celebrate the opening of the Mercer student-curated exhibit at Macon's Tubman Museum. Freedom Seekers: Runaway Slave Advertisements in the Macon Telegraph, 1826-1865 Between 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…