Author event with Sagnaw Valley State University historian Eric Gardner Wednesday, February 25, 12 – 1PM Delta College main campus, room N007 Also available online via Zoom: email hlc@delta.edu In a career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women’s suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance. She fashioned a sense of literature that engaged deeply with both her activism and … Continue reading Brown Bag: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction

Thursday November 13, 12 noon to 1.30 PM Room J-141, Delta College main campus Also online via Zoom: email hlc@delta.edu for details Many of the tropes in horror that we see in books and movies were first developed by gothic horror writers. Over the last two months, Delta Professor Jeff Vande Zande has traveled to libraries around Michigan to give a talk about the history … Continue reading Brown Bag: “Gothic Horror”

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, Delta history professor Michael Evans and politics professor Ryan Petersen debate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was it a war crime that killed tens of thousands of civilians in a war that was practically over? Or did it save the lives of millions who would have died had the USA been forced to … Continue reading Humanities Learning Center “Brown Bag” event – “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War Crime or Tragic Necessity?”

“Summer of Soul … or, when the revolution could not be televised” In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem … Continue reading Black History Month film screening:

Delta college professor to read from his new book and talk about Gothic literature Join in on the spooky fun of a reading from a gothic horror novel read by the author, J.C. Vande Zande, one of Delta’s English Professors. His latest novel, The Dance of the Rotten Sticks, is sure to get your hair standing on end! This event is happening at 1:00pm on … Continue reading Book Reading with Jeff Vande Zande

Thurs. Sept 12, 12 noon, N007 With Kim Klein In December 1979, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan threatened to turn the Cold War hot. Just two months later, athletes from across the world gathered in the village of Lake Placid, NY for the 1980 Winter Olympics. As the summer games were disrupted by politically-motivated boycotts, this was one of the few occasions in the early … Continue reading “Brown Bag” Talk: Lake Placid 1980, the Cold War Olympics

Noon | Wednesday, March 27 | Lecture Theater G160Delta’s Humanities Learning Center invites you to join us for a talk and poetry reading by Michigan’sPoet Laureate, Nandi Comer.There is also an opportunity to meet the Poet Laureate at a reception at 11.15 am in Founders Hall Nandi Comer is the Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Fin-ishing Line … Continue reading Brown Bag: Meet Nandi Comer, Michigan’s Poet Laureate

This award-winning and Oscar-shortlisted documentary tells the story of a Cambodian-American family in Michigan, and their struggle to keep their family restaurant afloat in the face of Covid and rising racial tensions Wed. February 28 12 noon – 2 pm Room S-105 (Delta main campus) FREE and open to the public Continue reading Film showing “Bad Axe” + Q&A with Director David Siev

Join Delta faculty, staff, and students, and the Great Lakes Bay area community for a book group reading and discussing this year’s Great Michigan Read, Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter. The group will meet both in person and online, and we have selected a range of times and days so that hopefully at last one meeting will match your schedule! Thursday 14 March, 10.30-11.30 am, Delta … Continue reading “Great Michigan Read” book group

In inter-disciplinary panel hosted by the Humanities Learning Center and Delta College History Department Subject experts from among Delta College’s faculty and staff will be talking about the current conflict and its historical context Dr. Dan Allen, Associate Dean Social Sciences  Dr. Mark Balawender, Philosophy Professor  Dr. Ray Lacina, English Professor  Jason Szilagyi, History Professor  Liz Ullrich, Political Science Professor Continue reading The Israel-Palestine Conflict:

Poet and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) language expert Margaret Noodin will be virtually visiting Delta by Zoom next week for a Brown Bag talk hosted by the Humanities Learning Center in collaboration with the Karen MacArthur Endowed Teaching Chair. Margaret Noodin writes her poetry in both Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) and English. Her most recent published collection is What the Chickadee Knows (Wayne State University Press).  She will … Continue reading Brown Bag talk with poet and Native American Language expert Margaret Noodin