5-6:30 p.m. | Wednesday, May 17
Main Hall (various classrooms)
First year students! Come join the Program for Leadership of Underrepresented Students (PLUS) for a mock interview event. We’ll have faculty and staff volunteering to act as mock interviewers and give you an opportunity to practice interviewing. Following a few rounds of interviews, we’ll hear some helpful advice from the career center.
6:30-7:30 p.m. | Tuesday, May 16
Memorial Hall 113 – Diversity Center
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, LUNA in collaboration with PAO, will be hosting a kukui nut lei making event that also teaches the cultural importance of both kukui nuts and leis to the Hawaiian and Polynesian people. This event will be open to the public and is something you can further take home.
AAPI Art and Media Exhibit
May 11-13 | All Day | Warch Gallery
In collaboration with LUNA
This exhibit aims to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month by showcasing different AAPI cultures through a variety of artistic means! Gift bags will be provided to visitors on a first-come, first-serve basis.
AAPI Cultural Dinner
May 13 | 5 p.m. | D&IC
In collaboration with Beta Theta Pi
Kukui Nut Lei Workshop
May 16 | 6:30 p.m. | Memorial Hall 114
In collaboration with LUNA
This event teaches the cultural importance of both kukui nuts and leis to the Hawaiian and Polynesian people. This event will be open to the public and is something you can take home.
AAPI & LBGTQIA+ Boba & Movie Night
May 18 | 5 p.m. | Mudd Library 401
In collaboration with Prism
This event aims to celebrate the intersectionality between AAPI and queer identities! Anyone is welcome to join. Boba will be provided to attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Pani Puri Night
May 25 | 5 p.m. | Memorial Hall 105
In collaboration with D&IC and International House
Participants will be given the chance to eat Pani Puri, a famous Indian street food.
May 12-13, 2023
Björklunden – 7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys Harbor, 54202
Door County Climate Change Coalition and Lawrence University invite you to celebrate Björklunden’s new 217kW solar array! Join community members, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and vendors to consider the benefits of solar energy and learn about steps to take to create a robust solar infrastructure in Door County.
The Solar Celebration is free and open to the public. No registration necessary
Friday, May 12 | 10 a.m. – Noon
Hear a talk on “Solar Power: From Science to Policy to Plugging In” from:
Following the talk, all are invited to a walk to the Björklunden array.
Friday, May 12 & Saturday, May 13
Self-Guided Solar Tours
Visit solar installations around Door County and talk to owners and vendors about these projects. A tour map with locations and visiting times will be posted online and provided at Björklunden.
Saturday, May 13 | 4-7 p.m.
Main Hall Green
Are you interested in giving back to your community? Join the CCE for Spring Into Service!
The CCE is here to show you that volunteering can take on many forms and can be easy and accessible. Spring Into Service is an on-campus volunteering session with campus partners, fun activities, raffles, and a picnic/cookout, so you can volunteer at your own comfort level.
Stop by, grab food, do some volunteer work with friends, and have fun!
Lauren Kelly, LU class of ’22, Museum Educator at Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton, will be leading three educational summer camp sessions for students ages 9-12.
In each session, students will learn about historic inventors and inventions connected to the Fox Valley, play with fun experiments, and create their own inventions using curriculum from the Henry Ford Museum.
Each session meets Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Registration is capped at 10 students per session. Cost is $200/student for one session.
For more information and to sign up your children, please visit the Hearthstone Museum website. Email Lauren with questions at lkelly@hearthstonemuseum.org.
A Scholar-Activist Conversation with Dr. Sami Schalk & T.S. Banks
Tuesday, May 2 | 6:30 p.m.
Warch Cinema
Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Department and the Lawrence University Disability Working Group. This talk is free and open to the public.
Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). Dr. Schalk’s academic work focuses on race, disability, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She also writes for mainstream outlets, including a monthly column called “Pleasure Practices” in TONE Madison. Dr. Schalk identifies as a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme and a pleasure activist.
T.S. Banks (he/him) is a Black & QTDisabled, non-binary teaching artist, poet, and playwright from Madison, WI. He is the Founder of Loud ‘N UnChained Theater Co and LNU Publishing House, which is home to Black mad-Krip, neurodivergent, and chronically ill authors and teaching-artists. His work addresses visioning for Black Liberation, a critique of the medical system, radical care + access, madness, QT Mad-Krip Liberation, disability justice, & abolition. T’s chapbooks “Call Me ill,” “Left,” & “SPLIT” can all be found at LnuTheaterCo.com.
Sunday, April 30 | 4 p.m.
First Congregational Church | 724 E South River St, Appleton, WI
Presented by Lawrence University Piano Students of Catherine Kautsky
Join us for a free concert featuring piano music by Bach/Brahms, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Blind Tom Wiggins, as well as music on the Native American flute.
All donations will go to the Menominee Food Distribution Center.
Are you interested in connecting with alumni? Do you ever wonder about the experience of reconnecting to your alma mater after graduation? Apply to be a Reunion Student Rep!
This year, our Lawrence and Milwaukee-Downer alumni will be back on campus the week following commencement (June 13-18). Serving as a Reunion Student Rep is a great way to help welcome Lawrentians back to campus and get a glimpse of the alumni experience.
The deadline to apply is June 2.
Questions? Contact Amy Hutchings ’17 Associate Director of Donor Engagement
amy.s.hutchings@lawrence.edu
920-832-6661
Bright as the Sun: Byzantine Art and Culture in Africa (4th-15th Centuries)
May 1, 2023 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Center | Auditorium
Trained as a Byzantinist, Dr. Andrea Achi’s scholarship and curatorial practice focuses on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa.
Dr. Achi is a dynamic speaker looking at amazing art and breaking through old notions about what constitutes the Middle Ages, Global Art History, and any lingering thoughts about a Euro-centric canon.
