Below is an amalgamated list of all of the events that will occur throughout the year. The links above sort these events into different categories. 

  

Spring Semester, 2013

  Panelists: Al Gray, Doug Jones, Mike Vandiver, and others.  

Monday, March 4; 7pm
Speaker: Eboo Patel
Title: City-Wide Read of "Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America"
Leonard Auditorium

Tuesday, March 5; 11am
Speaker: Eboo Patel
Title: Sandor Teszler Award for Moral Courage and Service to Humankind
Leonard Auditorium

Tuesday, March 5; 4pm
Speaker: Natalie Grinnell
Title: "Why Everyone Should Read Boethius"
Faculty Talks Series
Montgomery Room, Burwell

Thursday, March 7; 7pm
Concert: Carl Sandburg and the Spanish Guitar, Troubadour Series Concert
Featuring: John Akers
Leonard Auditorium

Tuesday, March 12; 11am
Speaker: Robert Pleasants
Title: “Why Violence and Abuse Aren’t Just Women’s Issues”
Location: Olin Theater

Thursday, March 14; 7-9pm
Opening Reception: "Women at Work" Exhibit 
Location: Hub-Bub 

Tuesday, March 19; 11-12:30pm
Speaker: Ty Tessitore
Title: “Liberal Education and Democracy”
Location: TBA

March 20-23; 8pm
March 23-24; 2pm
Title:  "The Clean House"
Written by: Sarah Ruhl
Tony White Theater

Thursday, March 21; 11:00am
Speaker: Lewis Hyde
Title: "The Cultural Commons and Collective Being"
Phi Beta Kappa Convocation
Leonard Auditorium

Tuesday, March 26; 11am
Speaker: Susan Kidd
Title: "Sustainability and the Liberal Arts"
Santee Cooper Lecture Series
Leonard Auditorium

Tuesday, March 26; 2:30pm
Speaker: Jack Byrne
Title: "Sustainability and the Liberal Arts": Q&A
Santee Cooper Lecture Series
Leonard Auditorium

Tuesday, March 26; 4pm
Gender Studies Conference
Location: Montgomery Room, Burwell

Wednesday, March 27; 12 noon
Speaker: Jack Byrne and Angela Halfacre
Title: "Sustainability and Strategic Planning"
Santee Cooper Lecture Series
Leonard Auditorium

Thursday, March 28; 7pm
Chamber Music Series
Featuring: Violinist William Preucil, Lexi Preucil, William Ransom, Charae Krueger, and Eun-Sun Lee
Performing: Dohnanyi Piano Quintet, Op. 1 in C minor, along with other works
Leonard Auditorium

Thursday, April 11; 4pm
Speaker: Christine Dinkins
Title: "Socratic-Hermeneutic Shared Inquiry and Student-Driven Qualitative Assessment"
Faculty Talks Series
AAAS

Monday, April 15; 7pm
Chamber Music Series
Featuring: TBA
Performing: TBA
Leonard Auditorium

Thursday, April 18; 11am & 2:30pm
Seminar: "Liberal Education in a Global Context: A Seminar for Students"
Moderator: Todd Breyfogle
Anna Todd Wofford

Thursday, April 18; 4pm
Speaker: Bill Barnet
Title: “Civic Engagement and Higher Education: Spartanburg's Northside Community”
Sponsored by the Center for Innovation and Learning
AAAS

Tuesday, April 23; 11am
Speaker: Arthur Meltzer
Title: “Why Nature Wants You to Get a Liberal Education”
Olin Teaching Theater

Thursday, April 25; 4pm
Speaker: Bill Demars
Title: "Liberal Education under Pressure"
Faculty Talks Series
AAAS

Thursday, May 2; 7pm
Wofford College Music Department Pops Concert
Featuring: Men’s Glee Club, Women’s Choir, Goldtones and Wofford Men
Pavilion

Friday, May 3; 7pm
Choral Spring Concert
Featuring: Wofford Singers
Leonard Auditorium

Monday, May 6; 7pm
Spring Concert
Featuring: Wofford Concert Band and Chamber Players
Leonard Auditorium

 

Fall Semester, 2012

 

 

Thursday, Sept. 6; 11am
Speaker: President Benjamin B. Dunlap
Title: “Why Are We Here? / The Liberal Arts & the Meaning of Life”
Leonard Auditorium

Thursday, Sept. 20; 11am

Speaker: Professor Tobias Wolff
The Novel Experience Convocation
Leonard Auditorium
Re:Thinking Education Book Club Event
 

Wednesday, Sept. 26; 7pm

Screening: The Conformist 

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Olin Theater
 

Thursday, Sept. 27; 4pm
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Cathey,
Title: “Symmetry: How the Mathematics of Beauty Illuminates the Beauty of Mathematics”

Faculty Talks Series
AAAS
 

Tuesday, Oct. 2; 4pm

Speaker: Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden

Title: "Optimize This, or Can the Corporate and Academic Discourses Talk to Each Other?"

AAAS

 
Thursday, Oct. 11; 2:30pm
Title: “Thinking Like a River? Roundtable Discussion and Workshop”

Environmental Studies Symposium
Anna Todd Wofford Center

Thursday, Oct. 11; 4pm
International Poetry Event: “Native Tongues”
Sandor Teszler Library Gallery
 

Thursday, Oct. 11; 7:00pm
Title: Confluence Thinking: A Science/Humanities Conversation  

Environmental Studies Symposium
Anna Todd Wofford Center
 

Environmental Studies Symposium
Hub-Bub Showroom  

 

Friday, Oct. 12; 5:00-7:00pm

Presidential Scholar Art Show, Opening Reception

Artist: Amy Powers ('13)

Show dates: Oct. 12-26

Campus Life Building

 

Monday, Oct. 15; 4:00pm

Speaker: Dr. David Warren

Title: “Child of the Manhattan Atomic Project: Life Chances, Life Choices, and the Liberal Arts” 

Leonard Auditorium

 

Monday, Oct. 15; 7:30pm

Speaker: Dr. Corey Dolgon
Title: “In Search of One Big Union: The Role of Folk Songs in the American Labor Movement”

Sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee and the Department of Sociology
McMillan Theater

Tuesday, Oct. 16; 11am
Speaker: Dr. Corey Dolgon
Title: “What’s Justice Got to Do with It? Moving from Civic Engagement to Social Change”

Sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee and the Department of Sociology
Olin Teaching Theater

Tuesday, Oct. 16; 4pm
Speaker: Dr. Lloyd Gardner
Title: “The Imperial President”

Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor Lecture 

Sponsored by the History Department

Leonard Auditorium

 

 

 

Nov. 8 - 10, & Nov. 14 -17; 8pm
Performance: The Shadow Box
Written by Michael Cristofer
Directed by Dan Day
Tony White Theater

Tuesday, Nov. 13; 7 pm
Speaker: Rabbi Judith Schindler
Title: “On Being A Jew in the South”
Leonard Auditorium

 

Thursday, Nov 29, 11am

Roundtable Discussion featuring Dr. Andrew Delbanco

 Anna Todd Wofford

 Re:Thinking Education Book Club Event 

 

Re:Thinking Education Book Club Event  

 

 

Friday, Dec 7; 6pm

Opening Reception: "'Awakened From Years of Slumber': The Economic Impact of the Charleston Renaissance Painters"
Curated by Sara Shealy ('13)

Gallery Talk: Dec 7; 6:30pm

Exhibition Dates: Dec 7 - Feb 21

The Johnson Collection Gallery; West Main Street, Spartanburg, SC 29306 

 

 

Check back regularly; events will be added to the schedule throughout the year.