Join the UE community for a series of online lectures presented by UE faculty and guests.
Ever wondered what it was like to work as an underwater archaeologist? Join Dr. Emily Stammitti, a British-American underwater archaeologist and community activist, as she explores the discovery of an underwater castle in Scotland and the treasures it revealed. There’s no cost to attend this virtual chat on Zoom!
Learn more and register at https://www.evansville.edu/lostcastle/.
Professor Emeritus Margaret McMullan joins us to discuss the history and research behind her award-winning novel Where the Angels Lived.
The moment she discovers the existence of Richard, a long-lost relative, at Israel’s Holocaust Museum, Margaret McMullan begins an unexpected journey of revelation and connectivity as she tirelessly researches the history of her ancestors, the Engel de Jánosis. Propelled by a Fulbright cultural exchange that sends her to teach at a Hungarian University, Margaret, her husband and teenage son all eagerly travel to Pécs, the land of her mother’s Jewish lineage. After reaching Pécs, a Hungarian town both small and primarily Christian, Margaret realizes right then and there how difficult her mission is going to be.
Winner of the 2020 Nonfiction Mississippi Arts and Letters Award.
Sarton Women’s Book Award Finalist.
Honoree for the 2020 Bernard Brommel Award for Memoir, Society of Midland Authors.
Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books including the novel, In My Mother’s House, the story collection Aftermath Lounge, the anthology, Every Father’s Daughter, and the memoir, Where The Angels Lived, winner of the 2020 Nonfiction Mississippi Arts and Letters Award and now in a new 2nd edition. Margaret’s young adult novels How I Found the Strong, When I Crossed No-Bob, and Sources of Light have received best book awards from Parents’ Choice, School Library Journal, the American Library Association, and Booklist among other educational organizations.
Margaret’s essays have appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, Glamour, The Millions, The Morning Consult, Teachers & Writers Magazine, The Montréal Review, National Geographic for Kids, Southern Accents, Mississippi Magazine, and other periodicals. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Deep South Magazine, StorySouth, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Other Voices, Boulevard, The Arkansas Review, Southern California Anthology, and The Sun among other journals and anthologies. A recipient of a National Endowment of Arts Fellowship in literature and a Fulbright at the University of Pécs in Pécs, Hungary, Margaret has served as a MFA faculty at Converse College and Stony Brook Southampton in New York where she also taught on the summer faculty. She was the Melvin Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Evansville, where she taught for 25 years. She writes full time now in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she lives with her husband, filmmaker, Patrick O’Connor.
This virtual event is free and donations are gladly accepted.
Alumnus Andrew Reinhard, PhD and Director of Publications at the American Numismatic Society in New York, shares information about the archaeology of video games. In this alumni lecture, Reinhard discusses ideas of rapid consumerism and accelerated nostalgia while exploring video games as examples of digital built heritage and the second homes of billions of 21st-century humans.
This lecture is part of a series of alumni talks in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Department of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Evansville.
We look forward to the winter holidays when we gather with friends and family to reflect on the year and share the joy of the season. This is also a time that can be very stressful! All of the planning, negotiations, family disagreements, and loss of loved ones can make this season of joy quickly turn to a season of anxiety and stress. This year is bringing a new challenge to the holiday season, COVID-19.
Presented by Dr. Lora Becker, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Neuroscience Program, University of Evansville
She earned her MA in Psychobiology in 1995 and PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2022. She teaches a variety of neuroscience topics at UE including Sensation and Perception, Neuropharmacology, Neuropsychology, and a variety of special topics courses including Neuromechanisms of Stress and Resilience. Dr. Becker has published primary research in the areas of stress response and developmental effects of phytoestrogens. Her neuromarketing work has benefited several local Evansville companies. She has been recognized at UE with the 2017 Eykamp Prize, the 2009 Dean's Teaching award and the 2002 Dean's Student Advising award. Dr. Becker serves on the executive committee for several national neuroscience organizations, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience and Nu Rho Psi, the honor society for neuroscience. She is the President-Elect for the Board of Directors of Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest, largest, and most selective academic honor society.
This virtual event is free and donations are gladly accepted.
During World War II, the city of Evansville was one of the most important cities in the country, manufacturing hundreds of ships, thousands of fighter planes and literally billions of other items that contributed hugely to the Allies’ victory. It was an exhilarating time of great change and opportunity for everyone who lived and worked in Evansville, but also a period of extremely difficult challenges and of profound loss. In this captivating lecture, illustrated with scores of images, James MacLeod explains how all of this industry came to be in Evansville, reveals the enormous impact that it had on social, economic and cultural life, and analyzes how the city dealt with what was a time of astonishing transformation.
Dr. James MacLeod was educated at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, receiving an MA in 1988 and a PhD in 1993. He taught history and British Studies at Harlaxton from 1994-1999, and since 1999 he has been a member of the History Department at UE, where he teaches courses in European History and the two World Wars. Dr. MacLeod is the author of Evansville in World War Two, which was published in 2015. In 2016, he wrote and co-produced a 2-part documentary on Evansville in World War II for WNIN PBS titled Evansville at War, and has also written over 30 other scholarly publications. He was UE’s Outstanding Teacher in 2009. McLeod is an active local historian, and serves on the Boards of the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, and the Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science.
This virtual event is free and donations are gladly accepted.
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