Welcome to the Humanities weekly newsletter, the Lindsay Bulletin Board.
Do you have an event or opportunity you would like to feature in our newsletter? Please email Madison.stokes@chatham.edu before Thursday evening for your event or opportunity to be included!
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On-Campus Events
Rachel Carson Conference 2025: Write to Resist
Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Location: Mellon Center
Note: If you have any specific questions or concerns, please contact SigmaTauDelta@chatham.edu.
Humanities Spring Course Preview
Date: Monday, October 20
Time: 4:30 pm (updated time, please disregard the time on the flyer!)
Location: Falk 010
Learn about all the courses offered this spring and how they fit into the majors, minors, certificates, and gen-ed requirements. Come ask questions before you meet one-on-one with your advisor to register for spring classes and meet with professors who can describe their classes and answer questions.
Please contact Dr. Helms at c.helms@chatham.edu if you have any questions.
Holding Space on the Page: Celebrating Author & Poet Frank X. Walker
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Location: Lindsay House 100, Lindsay House First Floor Conference Room
Holding Space on the Page is a writing workshop open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Light refreshments will be provided.
If you have any questions, please contact Madison.stokes@chatham.edu.
Pennsylvania Center for Women in Politics (PCWP) Trivia Night
Date: Monday, October 27
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Rea Coffeehouse
Join the PCWP for a fun night of trivia about women and politics, a great chance to team up with friends, test your knowledge, and enjoy some good company.
There will be free food and drinks, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic cider. Just a heads up: you must be 21+ with a valid ID to have alcoholic cider.
Registration link: https://www.chatham.edu/_events/verify.cfm?EventID=35625
Off-campus Events
University of Pittsburgh Writer’s Cafe: Ecstatic Grief, Writing Radical Futures with Jasmine Reid
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: PITT Writing Center (3rd Floor of O’Hara Student Center)
Save the date for an upcoming Writer’s Cafe session on Nov 14.
Find more info at: https://writingcenter.pitt.edu/
Interlocutor Goddess: Book Launch & Reading
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Please visit this website for more information: https://www.caapp.pitt.edu/events/interlocutor-goddess-book-launch-reading
LitFest 2025: Black Womanhood in Pittsburgh with Yona Harvey & Tahirah J. Walker
Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Location: Alphabet City (City of Asylum), 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
LitFest 2025 sessions will be occurring at various times. Please visit this website for more information https://cityofasylum.org/programs/
LitFest 2025: Love & Family, India & America, Tradition & Modernity with Booker Prize Winner Kiran Desai (“The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”)
Date: Sunday, October 19
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Location: Alphabet City (City of Asylum), 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
LitFest 2025 sessions will be occurring at various times. Please visit this website for more information https://cityofasylum.org/programs/
Open Mic Night at KLVN Coffee Lab
Date: Tuesday, October 28
Time: doors open at 6:30 pm and performances begin at 7 pm
Location: KLVN Coffee Lab, 6600 Hamilton Ave Fl 1, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Performers are encouraged to read anything between 5 and 10 minutes (though there is flexibility with this timeframe). Costumes are encouraged, but not required.
Bring friends! The coffee bar will be open for the night.
Career Development Corner
JKM Library Library Outreach Associate (graduate or undergraduate)
Job description: communications and marketing focused position, requires understanding of media creation and strong writing skills
Secondary responsibilities: event planning, book display development
$11/hr position, 10-12 hours a week, need availability between 9am-5pm on weekdays
Application link: https://chatham.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ChathamUniversityStudent/details/Library-Outreach-Associate_JR00000280-1
Note: You can also view the application via Handshake if you have already been employed at Chatham.
Casa de Esperanza: Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Program
Description: caring for infants and children up to age six who are at risk for abuse and neglect in Houston, TX
“Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Members will serve vulnerable children throughout a 12-month commitment, living in a private, gated community (at no cost) and receiving a living allowance. Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Members will work collaboratively with other AmeriCorps Members in the home to ensure that children’s physical, emotional, and mental needs are met. While the commitment is only one year, the impact AmeriCorps Members have on the children in their care is lifelong. In turn, the children’s strength, resilience, and love will also make a lifelong impact on them.” – Darean Talmadge, Human Resources Coordinator, Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos, Inc.
Duration of program: September 2026 – August 2027
For more information, please contact Darean Talmadge, (713) 529-0639, dtalmadge@casahope.org
Application link: https://forms.office.com/r/St0UmVLKH4
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