A film series documenting the refugee and immigrant experience from a global to local perspective funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. All events will be held in Willet Auditorium. 6-8 p.m. Sept. 12: The Facility (Seth Freed Wessler, 2021), post-screening discussion with director Seth Freed Wessler 5:30-8 p.m. Sept. 18: Esperanca (Cecile Rousset, Jeanne Paturle and Benjamin Serero, 2019) and Home Is Somewhere Else (Jorge Villalobos and Carlos Hagerman, 2022), post-screening discussion 5-8 p.m. Sept. 26, Chèche Lavi (Sam Ellison), 2019,…

Poet Christina Olson will give a poetry reading as part of the Third Thursday Series on September 19 at 6 p.m. in Connell Student Center Conference Room 1. Christina Olson is the author of The Anxiety Workbook (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Terminal Human Velocity (Stillhouse Press, 2017). Her chapbook The Last Mastodon won the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest. Other work appears in The Atlantic, The Nation, The Normal School, Scientific American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative…

A film series documenting the refugee and immigrant experience from a global to local perspective funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. All events will be held in Willet Auditorium. 6-8 p.m. Sept. 12: The Facility (Seth Freed Wessler, 2021), post-screening discussion with director Seth Freed Wessler 5:30-8 p.m. Sept. 18: Esperanca (Cecile Rousset, Jeanne Paturle and Benjamin Serero, 2019) and Home Is Somewhere Else (Jorge Villalobos and Carlos Hagerman, 2022), post-screening discussion 5-8 p.m. Sept. 26, Chèche Lavi (Sam Ellison), 2019,…

Each Friday from October 4 - November 15, a designated restaurant will donate 10% of the daily sales to Mercer's United Way Campaign. Eat good food and donate to a good cause!

The 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 Dining Room in the University Center on Monday, Oct. 7. The second lecture is named, “Holocene Lost Cause-ism: Ecological Generations and Geographies” and will be…

The 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 Dining Room in the University Center on Monday, Oct. 7. The second lecture is named, “Holocene Lost Cause-ism: Ecological Generations and Geographies” and will be…

The 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 Dining Room in the University Center on Monday, Oct. 7. The second lecture is named, “Holocene Lost Cause-ism: Ecological Generations and Geographies” and will be…

Enjoy great food and support a great cause. Amici will donate 10% of its day's sales to Mercer's 2024 United Way Campaign.

Featuring 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? What unique resources can Christianity offer those who long for racial justice and reconciliation? Also welcoming special guest, Dr. Woody Register, historian and director of…

The Roberts Academy at Mercer University will host a building dedication on Friday, Oct. 18, at 10:30 a.m. to celebrate the completion of its new facility dedicated to serving dyslexic students in grades 2-5. The event will be held at Roberts Academy with Mercer President William D. Underwood presiding over the ceremony.