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Light snacks will be provided
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time: 12:15 pm (Common Hour)
Location: Seabury Hall, S-204
Join us for a German luncheon! Enjoy delicious pizza followed by authentic German desserts.
The Delicate Beast: A Book Talk
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Reese Room, Smith House 4:30pm
Open to the public
In the 1950s, a boy lives amid opulence and privilege, spending days at the beach or in the cool hills above the sweltering capital of “The Tropical Republic,” enjoying leisurely Sunday lunches around the family compound’s swimming pool. That is, until the reign of The Mortician begins, unleashing unimaginable horrors that bring his childhood idyll to an end. Narrowly escaping the violent fate visited on so many of his fellow citizens, he and his brother follow their parents into exile in the United States where they must start a new life. But as he grows, he never feels at home, and leaves his family to travel across Europe and outrun the ghosts of the past.
Roger Celestin is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. The Delicate Beast is his first novel. He lives in Manhattan.
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Reese Room, Smith House
Speaker: Dr. Carol Any, Professor of Language and Culture Studies, Emerita
What is involved in the creative process? How should aspiring writers be trained? In an age of reading for entertainment, Bolshevik leaders intent on remaking culture for the communist era believed that their success would depend on the books people read for fun. They hoped writers would produce fiction with engaging heroes whom readers would view as role models. This lecture will address the various aesthetic views held by prominent Bolsheviks, as well as their disagreements over practices of teaching and mentoring young writers in academic seminars, workshops, and publishing houses.
Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Human Rights Studies Diana Aldrete was awarded an American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship Program grant from the American Association of University Women to support the completion of her first book.
The 19th Trinity International Hip Hop Festival spread its message about the transformative power of hip hop throughout the city of Hartford this year as it highlighted artists from around the world and formed new creative connections.
More than 40 faculty members received honors during Trinity’s first Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony on October 17.
