Cultural Events Calendar

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Interview with Common Book author Hyeonseo Lee

Instructions for Accessing Event: Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must complete the video activity on TechSmith Knowmia. Users must log in to TechSmith with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users may need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Film
Family Friendly: No
Description: Common Book: 'The Defector' a film about escaping from North Korea.

Instructions for Accessing Event: Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must complete the video activity on TechSmith Knowmia. Users must log in to TechSmith with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users may need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This pre-recorded session will delve into life as author Hyeonseo Lee depicts it, as well as her awakening to the notion of human rights. The presentation will open a window into a human experience far different from our own, but also help us see our own human experience in a different light.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must complete the video activity on TechSmith Knowmia. Users must log in to TechSmith with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users may need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This pre-recorded presentation by Dr. Catherine Chang delves into East Asian politics, culture, and recent trends.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must complete the video activity on TechSmith Knowmia. Users must log in to TechSmith with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users may need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Hear the compelling stories of torture survivors and the struggle for human rights around the world.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must complete the video activity on TechSmith Knowmia. Users must log in to TechSmith with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users may need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This event will feature the renowned Ballet Inc. dance company performing various styles of dance, including ballet and contemporary in a highly interactive and engaging show.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Filmmaker Frederick Taylor will discuss his documentary “Counter Histories: Rock Hill,” the history of the Friendship Nine, and the current climate of race and social justice in the United States.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Please join Winthrop University Galleries for a virtual MFA Thesis artist talk by MFA candidate Anna Dean. Dean will be discussing her MFA Thesis Exhibition Dust & Shadow.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The world has faced seismic shifts with the proliferation of COVID-19. Our normal operating procedures have been completely disrupted. What does that mean for Winthrop students and the university?

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

To receive credit for the live virtual event, students must register in advance with their Winthrop email addresses and join the video session on time. They must also enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by fantasy illustrator Ruth Sanderson.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive CE credit, students must register for the event with their @winthrop.edu email address, join the event on time, and enable their web cameras during the event. An attendance survey will be distributed at the end of the event. For questions regarding CE credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Museum of York County presents a Carolina Piedmont Seminar Series: Exploring Our Pleistocene Past, virtually this fall. This three-part series of instructional Zoom webinars will cover the early, middle and late Ice Ages in the Carolinas.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner R. Gregory Christie.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Come help us celebrate Constitution Day by discussing The Centennial of Women's Suffrage and the Constitution with PLSC Professor Dr. Brandon Ranallo-Benavidez. This is the Constitution Day Speaker and the First Event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The presentation will use J. William Worden's Four Taks of Grieving to help participants unpack where they are at and look at what adjustments that they have made and still may need to make to be successful this semester.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A discussion on the importance of childhood cancer awareness.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Film & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Join us for the showing of the movie Unsane (2018) and a discussion of stalking and its warning signs.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Drawing from personal experience of life in Lebanon over the past few years and the pedagogical function of literature and cinema in the Middle East, this talk asks us to contemplate the feeling of crisis in its historical context.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Kym and Mark Hilinski, founders of the Hilinski’s Hope foundation, will share their son Tyler’s story and discuss the importance of seeking help for mental health. Dr. Gretchen Baldwin will share campus resources available to students. NOTE: This program does discuss the topic of suicide.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The HPC members will provide a Webinar on the underlying science of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated health aspects of the disease in an effort to dispel societal misconceptions and provide information and strategies for personal wellness. In addition to short presentations, the panel will answer questions from the audience.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Join Winthrop University Galleries and artist Margaret Curtis as she discusses her current exhibition Portraits of Anxiety.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Reading
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Hear from faculty members Dr. Ephraim Sommers and Dr. Dustin Hoffman, and students from the Department of English as they discuss their experiences in the realm of publishing.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: This is a panel-style lecture that will explore the various racial and social justice issues currently being discussed in America such as police brutality, racial prejudice and discrimination that is impacting the African American community.  This event will highlight these issues and also introduce ideas for how we can collectively make an impact and enact change.

Guidelines for Credit:

To receive credit for attending in person, students must arrive on time to the event and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

To receive credit for attending virtually, students must register in advance with their Winthrop email addresses and join the video session on time. They must also enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Click here to view event flyer

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Film & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: 'Iron Jawed Angels' Film & Discussion is the second event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series. We will show the film Iron Jawed Angels and Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney will lead a discussion at the end.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Mary Jane (a.k.a. MJ) Begin teaches at RISD, and Lynda.com, and is the Chair of Illustration in the Hollins University MFA in Children's Book Writing and Illustrating program. She is best known for her work with MY LITTLE PONY and THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, along with her other book titles. Learn more at new.maryjanebegin.com. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: After the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, there were collective conversations, protests, and reflection like we haven't seen in a long time. In this Town Hall, some COE students and faculty discuss what these events mean to us individually and collectively and how we can use these crises as a healing journey.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join the Diversity Peer Educators to learn more about the Deaf community and their Culture.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join us to hear from Dr. Kimberly Hardy of  Fayetteville State on the importance of  voting. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: An encore presentation of "The Centennial of Women's Suffrage and the Constitution" with special guest Professor Dr. Brandon Ranallo-Benavidez from the Department of Political Science, in honor of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Note: This is an encore presentation. Students who attended "The Centennial of Women's Suffrage and the Constitution" on 9/17/2020 will not receive additional credit.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: "One Vote" shows the fateful 2016 election as seen from five voting stations nationwide — including South Carolina. Following the screening, a discussion about why voter engagement matters will be led with Dr. Sherell Fuller and Dr. Eric Moore.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was bombed mid-flight, and the fiery pieces rained down on the peaceful town of Lockerbie, Scotland.  Two-hundred-and-seventy people lost their lives that day:  243 passengers, 16 crew members, and 11 people on the ground.  The Women of Lockerbie tells the story of a group of women fighting U.S. government bureaucracy to accomplish a stunningly simple, humane goal: washing and returning the clothes of the crash victims to their families.  Playwright Deborah Brevoort uses the structure of Greek tragedy to tell this story of grieving and healing, powerlessness and control, joy and darkness.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend both the virtual performance on ShowTix4U and the talkback on Zoom at the end of the show. Students must enable their web cameras during the Zoom portion of the event. An attendance survey will be distributed at the end of the Zoom meeting.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was bombed mid-flight, and the fiery pieces rained down on the peaceful town of Lockerbie, Scotland.  Two-hundred-and-seventy people lost their lives that day:  243 passengers, 16 crew members, and 11 people on the ground.  The Women of Lockerbie tells the story of a group of women fighting U.S. government bureaucracy to accomplish a stunningly simple, humane goal: washing and returning the clothes of the crash victims to their families.  Playwright Deborah Brevoort uses the structure of Greek tragedy to tell this story of grieving and healing, powerlessness and control, joy and darkness.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend both the virtual performance on ShowTix4U and the talkback on Zoom at the end of the show. Students must enable their web cameras during the Zoom portion of the event. An attendance survey will be distributed at the end of the Zoom meeting.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was bombed mid-flight, and the fiery pieces rained down on the peaceful town of Lockerbie, Scotland.  Two-hundred-and-seventy people lost their lives that day:  243 passengers, 16 crew members, and 11 people on the ground.  The Women of Lockerbie tells the story of a group of women fighting U.S. government bureaucracy to accomplish a stunningly simple, humane goal: washing and returning the clothes of the crash victims to their families.  Playwright Deborah Brevoort uses the structure of Greek tragedy to tell this story of grieving and healing, powerlessness and control, joy and darkness.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend both the virtual performance on ShowTix4U and the talkback on Zoom at the end of the show. Students must enable their web cameras during the Zoom portion of the event. An attendance survey will be distributed at the end of the Zoom meeting.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Black Women and the Suffrage Movement with HIST Professor Dr. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight is the Third Event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent some years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the author of several books for young readers, including Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) and Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow: Four Novellas. He lives with his family in New Jersey.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1921, ÄŒapek introduced the word "robot" and built around it, the concept that humankind would bring about its own destruction. In this play, the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of R.U.R., on a mission to liberate the robots...

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email addresses, attend the performance, and complete a petition survey which will distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1921, ÄŒapek introduced the word "robot" and built around it, the concept that humankind would bring about its own destruction. In this play, the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of R.U.R., on a mission to liberate the robots...

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email addresses, attend the performance, and complete a petition survey which will distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1921, ÄŒapek introduced the word "robot" and built around it, the concept that humankind would bring about its own destruction. In this play, the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of R.U.R., on a mission to liberate the robots...

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email addresses, attend the performance, and complete a petition survey which will distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: In 1921, ÄŒapek introduced the word "robot" and built around it, the concept that humankind would bring about its own destruction. In this play, the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of R.U.R., on a mission to liberate the robots...

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email addresses, attend the performance, and complete a petition survey which will distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by New York Times best-selling author/illustrator Brian Lies.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Lyndon Barrois is an award-winning director, animator, and visual effects pro. He is the founder of "It's A Wrapper!" Films where he creates socially-driven content using stop-motion animation.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: A panel discussion that highlights African American student's experince at a predominantly white insituiton versus a historially black college/university. This discussion is derived from an age old Twitter debate between PWI black students and HBCU students.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This is an uplifting mental health promotion and suicide prevention event that with interactive booths and peer-to-peer messaging, with broad campus support in a lively social setting.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for the event with their Winthrop email addresses, and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design and a M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register with their Winthrop e-mail address, attend the entire event, and complete a petition survey which will distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This is an uplifting mental health promotion and suicide prevention event that with interactive booths and peer-to-peer messaging, with broad campus support in a lively social setting.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join Winthrop University Galleries and artist Andrea Downs as she discusses her ongoing project Airing Out the “Dirty” Laundry. A small selection of pieces will be installed at Winthrop’s DiGiorgio Campus Center lobby and the Arts Council of York County in downtown Rock Hill.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A talk featuring Dr. Linda Bell, MD, DHEC Epidemiologist and public health expert 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A panel discussion on adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen's work.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design and a M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register with their Winthrop e-mail address, attend the entire event, and complete a petition survey which will distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Special event
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The evening will be full of performances from our students and faculty members, as well as surprise appearances by special guests.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register with their Winthrop e-mail addresses, attend the entire event, and complete a petition survey distributed via email after the event (for this, students will be asked to type a 250-word reflection on the event).

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by debuting illustrator Ashley Belote.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Dr. Karen Kedrowski will discuss "Hard Won, Not Done: Suffrage History in the US." This is the fourth event in the five-part series The Centennial of Women's Suffrage.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time, attending the entire event, and write a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: MFA thesis proposal.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time, attending the entire event, and write a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Learn about conflict management from our presidential candidates and the debates.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This program will explore how people responded to a pandemic, in this case the Black Death, in Europe during the Middle Ages.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Individuals, groups and communities of people are invited to engage in Airing Out the “Dirty” Laundry project. Laundry Day Workshops are a call for women to gather together, opportunity to listen and to be heard, and to foster the love and understanding that resists hate and injustice. Laundry Day Workshops provide basic artmaking materials and brave, supportive, and safe spaces for women to create pieces of visual storytelling.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: MFA thesis proposal.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time, attending the entire event, and write a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Reading
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Students from Winthrop's Creative Writing Program will showcase their poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Hear exciting stories from Winthrop Students who have studied abroad, and learn about the process for students to take advantage of Study Abroad opportunities.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The Winthrop Association of Black Social Workers will be discussing contributing factors to black student fatigue and how to address it.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A film discussion on the Frank Capra classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Participants are encouraged to watch the film prior to the event.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Discussion of exhibition
Family Friendly: No
Description: 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Edison Peñafiel creates experiences about those on the underside of the world’s major conflicts: the migrant, the laborer, the surveilled. Clashing ideologies and the repetitive cycles of history produce the human catastrophes that his multimedia installations speak to.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must (1) attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, (2) enable their web cameras during the event, and (3) complete and attendance survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Discussion of exhibition
Family Friendly: No
Description: William Major is a time-based media artist based in Harlan, KY. Through his artistic practice he has been thinking about better ways to ethically represent the folks he collaborates with in visual projects as well as better engagement with his Appalachian homeland. In his lecture he will be contemplating visual extraction as a toxic practice, how to better collaborate with friends and community members on an artistic project, identity politics of the body and place being important visually, curbing harmful photographic traditions, and how to start thinking beyond yourself within your practice. 
www.williammajorphotographs.com 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must (1) attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, (2) and enable their web cameras during the entire event, and (3) complete and attendance survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Eugene Yelchin is originally from Russia with quite the story of coming to America. He is an award-winning author (Newbery winner), painter & illustrator of children's books (National Book Award Finalist), who has also worked in film (Rango). Learn more at 
https://www.eugeneyelchin.com/about. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: An expert social work panel will share their personal journeys and how their internship experiences prepared them for practice. We hope to convey the message that social work internships can prepare you for what you think you want to do and also discuss important factors such as professionalism, working within a team, adhering to policies in the workplace, and the social work code of ethics. (Not restricted to only social work majors)

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Registrants will hear from female strength coaches about their current role in the S&C industry, barriers specific to being a female in the industry, recommendations they suggest to aspiring coaches (or even current ones), and opportunities they have taken advantage of to further their own education and career.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join the International Center as they celebrate International Education Week and explore the cuisine and culture of Brazil!

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Special event
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Learn about the world and compete with friends in the World Trivia!

Guidelines for Credit: 

OPTION 1. To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

OPTION 2. In-person event. To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: No. This production contains mature content language and is not suitable for children.
Description: A lively, entertaining and eclectic mix of one-act plays directed by advanced theatre students.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email address, attend the performance, and submit a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed via e-mail at the end of the event.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: No. This production contains mature content language and is not suitable for children.
Description: A lively, entertaining and eclectic mix of one-act plays directed by advanced theatre students.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email address, attend the performance, and submit a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed via e-mail at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Students are engaged in oral communication skills approximately 70% of their day (speaking and listening); yet of all the core literacy skills, listening is the least taught, the least modeled, and the least practiced. This presentation will model strategies that you can use to help facilitate more authentic engagement in teaching and practicing listening skills in the classroom.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: This event will present and highlight some national, ethnic, and communal items and tendencies that are often at the root of the salient and manifest differences in workplace cultures around the world. Specifically, the countries of Haiti, Oman, and Senegal will be used to illustrate how concepts about power and relationships affect ways in which activities and tasks are carried out, supervised, and managed in the workplace environment.

Guidelines for Credit: 

OPTION 1. To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

OPTION 2. In-person event. To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must (1) attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, (2) enable their web cameras during the event, and (3) complete and attendance survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This webinar will focus on the COVID-19 virus and the impact it has had on frontline medical providers. It will also provide an insight from a survivor of the virus.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must (1) attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and (2) enable their web cameras during the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Please join Winthrop University Galleries for a virtual MFA Thesis talk by MFA candidate Lauren Taylor League. League will be discussing her MFA Thesis Exhibition, Nurture.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: 'The Divine Order' Film and Discussion is the fifth and final event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series. Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney will lead a discussion after the film.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join expert panelists and community practitioners as we explore building our capacity to be emotional resilient in turbulent times.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A seminar on the mental health impact of pandemic-related racism.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must attend the entire event, joining the video session on time, and enable their web cameras during the entire event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: No. One piece contains mature/explicit content.
Description: A showcase of modern dance films featuring the choreographic talents of senior dance majors. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email address, attend the performance, and submit a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed via e-mail at the end of the event.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: No. One piece contains mature/explicit content.
Description: A showcase of modern dance films featuring the choreographic talents of senior dance majors. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email address, attend the performance, and submit a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed via e-mail at the end of the event.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: No. One piece contains mature/explicit content.
Description: A showcase of modern dance films featuring the choreographic talents of senior dance majors. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must purchase a ticket with their Winthrop email address, attend the performance, and submit a 250-word reflection in a survey distributed via e-mail at the end of the event.