
United Way Friday at Z Beans
Enjoy great food and support a great cause! Z Beans will donate 10% of its daily sales to Mercer's United Way Campaign.
View EventWalter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures: “Democratic Values in a Secular Age”
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…
View EventWalter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures: “Secularization and the Rise of Political Extremism”
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…
View EventWalter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures: “Secularization and the Fracturing of the American Left”
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…
View EventUnited Way Friday at Yollah
Enjoy great food and support a great cause! Yollah will donate 10% of its daily sales to Mercer's United Way Campaign.
View EventMacon Music Half Marathon
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…
View EventAfrica Film Series “Sara’s Notebook”
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…
View EventWinter Artist Market
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.
View EventIdiosyncrasy: A Mercer Art Exhibition by Craig Coleman’s Junior/Senior Studio Class
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.
View EventThird Thursday Fiction Reading by Sanjena Sathian
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…
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