Pollinators and Their Plants Thinking about creating a pollinator garden this spring? Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy as we discuss native plants that attract pollinators like butterflies and bees and different methods of planting to make your pollinator garden more diverse and welcoming to a multitude of different species. Space is limited and prior registration is required.
“We are all Gang Chen” MIT Professor Gang Chen will discuss his recent wrongful prosecution by the U.S. government under the Justice Department’s “China Initiative,” how the scientific community mobilized to fight it, and the increasing fear of such prosecutions—particularly among scientists of Asian origin. The talk will conclude with his reflection on the question, “who are Americans?”
Bertin Louis: “Embodied Worship in a Haitian Protestant Church in the Bahamas” Dr. Bertin Louis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky and author of My Soul is in Haiti: Protestantism in the Haitian Diaspora of the Bahamas, will lecture on the development of religious habitus through embodied worship at a Haitian Protestant church. There, second-generation Haitians worship within a Black, Christian and anti-Haitian Bahamas. Adherent use of Haitian Protestant hymnody, liturgical dance and prayer reflects social processes of individual and collective self-remaking through embodied and linguistic practices. This creates a unique, hybrid Christian habitus which helps them negotiate cultural belonging.
Word-Beggar in a Jewish Graveyard: A Dispatch from a Jewish Life in Poetry Poet Jacqueline Osherow, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, will present this year’s annual Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture. Jacqueline Osherow is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple (LSU Press, 2019). Her ninth poetry collection, Divine
Catskill Conversation: Taking Our Water For Their City Vassar professor April Beisaw will reveal archaeology of communities displaced in the creation of the Ashokan Reservoir including many woman-owned businesses that once thrived along the Ulster & Delaware Railroad in the Town of Olive. (virtual and in person). All receive zoom link and 1 year access to archived video of the event.