On Friday September 21st Cedar Crest College hosted visiting writer Staceyann Chin, author of The Other Side of Paradise, a memoir in which she details her childhood and her experiences as a lesbian of Chinese-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican descent. The event was…
Category: Events
Upcoming Event! Urban Renewal: Community Dialogue @ the Sigal Museum 09/27, 6:30pm
On Thursday, September 27th from 6:30 – 8:30pm, State Representative Bob Freeman and a gathering of community members (including LVEHC Co-Director Dr. Andrea Smith, Lafayette College) will be re-visiting the history of local urban renewal projects of the 1960s, 1970s,…
Easton Film Series Fosters Discussions on Issues of Local Relevance
This Summer, the Easton Summer Cinema series ran every Tuesday from May 29-July 31 at the Landis Cinema, Buck Hall, Lafayette College and screened a total of 10 films. The series was co-sponsored by the Village on College Hill and…
Happening Now!: Summer Film & Discussion Series
Have you been to the Summer Film and Discussion Series, Tuesdays @ 7pm at Buck Hall yet? If not, there’s still time! The free film and conversation series is open to the community and features a discussant for every film…
APPLY NOW: Oral History Workshop (05/24/18)
SAVE THE DATE! The Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium (LVEHC) is pleased to announce that the application is now open for the May 24th day-long Oral History Workshop, to be hosted at Lafayette College. You can complete the straightforward application…
“The Chinese Exclusion Act: Screening and Talkback” explores what it means to be American
On Monday, March 26th, the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks hosted an advance screening of “The Chinese Exclusion Act,” a film by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, as well as a talk-back with a panel of history professors. The panel included…
First LVEHC Mellon Grant Awards Announced
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium (LVEHC) is pleased to announce its first award recipients. We are excited to follow these wonderful projects as they develop; we hope that you will follow their progress on our…
“A Celebration of Black History in Easton” commemorates local icons, stories, at the Sigal Museum
Building on the success of a December 6th, 2017 round table event held at Lafayette College, the collaboration between the NAACP Easton Branch #2260, the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, Lafayette College Libraries, and the Andrew W. Mellon Lehigh Valley…
LVEHC Mellon Grant Supports Oral History Projects in Easton
The Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium Mellon Grant has recently collaborated on a series of events highlighting the importance of Oral History in community engagement. The first of these events was a November 27th presentation on oral history practice and…
Welcome to the LVEHC!
Hello and welcome to the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium (LVEHC) website. Here, we will be posting periodic updates on the status of the grant, featuring blogs and gallery entries from grant participants, and posting upcoming events related to the…