McDaniel hosts annual fall lectures featuring prominent professors
The annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture presents "Slavery in Two Worlds: East Africans in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean” by University of Virginia professor Kristina Richardson on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The Holloway Lecture features bestselling author and humorist Gina Barreca from the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Oct. 3. Both events take place at 7:30 p.m. in McDaniel Hall's Coley Rice Lounge and are free and open to the public.
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
Kristina Richardson
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: “Slavery in Two Worlds: East Africans in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean”
Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall
On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture features Kristina Richardson, the John L. Nau III Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy and Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia.
Richardson, who specializes in the histories of non-elite groups in the Middle East, will present a lecture centering on the history of the slave trade in Brazil and Iraq with three lenses: plantation slavery, organized rebellions, and processes of creolization. “What historical dynamics come to the fore when we tell these histories together and consider the longue durée of the East African slave trade?”
Phi Beta Kappa
The prestigious Phi Beta Kappa national honor society was founded in 1776 and McDaniel's Delta of Maryland chapter is one of 290 at colleges and universities in the United States.
Holloway Lecture
Gina Barreca
Holloway Lecture with bestselling author and humorist Gina Barreca
Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall
Bestselling author and humorist Gina Barreca delivers the annual Holloway Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 3.
Barreca is a feminist scholar and the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of 10 books, including "They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted."
Fred G. Holloway
The Holloway Lecture is named for Fred G. Holloway, the college’s fourth president. A graduate of the class of 1919, he went on to earn a divinity degree from Drew University and was ordained by the Methodist Protestant church in 1921. He served in Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland, before he became a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1927. He became an administrator at the Seminary, and, after a short time, president of the college.
