Fulton School of Liberal Arts Public Humanities Program
The mission of the Fulton Public Humanities Program (FPHP) is to bring the arts and humanities to SU’s surrounding community and to foster dialogue. This includes local, regional, national, and global audiences.
We fund projects that promote an awareness of minority and marginalized groups including those represented by the Heritage Months (African American, Women’s, LGBTQ, Latinx, and Native American). FPHP supports global diversity efforts that highlight the peoples, populations, and cultures of SU’s continental Area Study regions (African, East Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and South Asian).
In addition to diversity, FPHP encourages an expansive view of the humanities by funding interdisciplinary exchanges between the arts and sciences.
Upcoming Events - Spring 2026
March 2 - Celebrating SU’s Collection of Cartonero Books & Translation Workshop, Guerrieri Academic Commons Assembly Hall, 6:30 p.m.
Did you know that SU has the only complete collection of bilingual Cartonero (cardboard) books from the independent publisher Ultramarina Cartonero & Digital? View the collection, hear from several of the featured poets and translators, including translators José Bañuelos Montes (Roanoke College) and Beatriz Botero (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and co-directors of the collective translation group 4W-WIT (Women in Translation) Sarli E. Mercado (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Sally Perret (Salisbury University), and stay for the chance to write your own translations and make your own Cartonero book!
March 12 - Without Arrows: Film Screening & Discussion, Conway Hall 153, 6 p.m.
"Without Arrows: Thirteen Years in the Life of a Lakota family" documentary screening and discussion with Director and protagonist. Filmed over the course of thirteen years (2011-2023), WITHOUT ARROWS chronicles the vibrancy and struggle of a Lakȟóta family. Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, left his reservation as a young man to escape a trauma that splintered his family and built a new life in Philadelphia. A decade later he abandons it all and returns home to fulfill his mother's ambition and carry on the legacy of their thiyóšpaye (extended family). The film has been officially selected for multiple film festivals. A roundtable discussion and Q&A with the audience follows.
March 27 - Knowledge as Wealth: Scholarly Labor & Transregional Networks in 16th Century Indian Ocean, Conway Hall 152, 6 p.m.
Dr. Jyoti G. Balachandran, historian of medieval and early modern South Asia from Penn State University, will give a lecture on Muslim intellectual life in the 16th century based on her research of the Indian Ocean world. She examines the history of knowledge, networks from the Middle East to South Asia, through the life of Qutb al-Din Muhammad al-Nahrawali (d. 1582).
March 29 - April 4 - The Trans Pride Quilt Project: Craftivism in Action
Craftivism is “the practice of engaged creativity, especially regarding political or social causes.” Join SU Libraries in both learning about this concept and putting it into practice, with an exhibit, clothes-altering workshop, a quilt-block-a-thon for the Trans Pride Quilt Project by Emily Zerrenner, and a talk from award-winning, D.C.-based craftivist, sculptor, and collage artist Roxana Alger Geffen.
- EXHIBIT: March 29-April 4, 2026
- GUERRIERI ACADEMIC COMMONS, 1ST FLOOR
- Clothes Altering Workshop:
- Friday, March 27 • 1 p.m.
- Guerrieri Student Union, Nanticoke Room
- Quilt Block-a-Thon:
- Friday March 27 • 3 p.m.
- Guerrieri Student Union, Nanticoke Room
- Roxana Alger Geffen Artist Talk:
- Tuesday, March 31 • 5:30 p.m.
- Conway Hall 179
April 14 – Media & Games: A Cultural Study, Conway Hall 153
Dr. Maxwell Foxman, an expert in media and game studies at the University of Oregon, investigates how play and games shape professional and cultural life, from VR and immersive media to journalism and esports. In this lecture, he'll highlight the student esports ecosystem, exploring issues of diversity, alumni professionalization, fandom, and the ways gaming continues to reshape media industries.
April 22 - Global Environmental History Since 1900: The Great Acceleration & The Anthropocene, Guerrieri Academic Commons Assembly Hall, 7:00 p.m.
John McNeill, past president of the American Historical Association, and past president of the American Society for Environmental History, and Distinguished University Professor in the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service and the History Department of Georgetown University, is the leading global environmental historian writing today. His many books include texts that have focused on the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic and Caribbean (including the Chesapeake), and synthetic global histories. He has agreed to come give a lecture geared towards a general audience of undergrads and interested community members. The lecture will be based on his current project, a re-analysis of his magisterial book, "Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World," given new development since the books publication 25 years ago. His lecture will be given on April 22nd, Earth Day - a wonderful way to celebrate this event. Co-sponsored by the Nabb Research Center & Environmental Studies Department