Chartwells Voice to Vision Survey​

Faculty, staff, and students: share your feedback with Trinity Dining Services in the Voice to Vision survey. Enter your email at the end of the survey for a chance to win $100 in dining dollars. More information​

Oct. 9 | Flip It: John James Audubon's Birds of America

Please join us every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. in Watkinson Library to see what new bird will be revealed when we turn the page of Audubon’s Birds of America! ​​

Oct. 9 | Hamlin Lunch Wednesdays

Noon–1:30 p.m., Hamlin Hall. Faculty and staff are invited to meet, connect, and share a meal. Three-course lunches for $5.00.​​​

Oct. 9 and Oct. 10 | Weekly SMART Recovery and Power Skills Meetings

SMART offers mutual support groups for anyone trying to change a harmful habit or who is seeking support for family or friends with harmful habits. Self-management groups, friends and family support meetings, and personal empowerment meetings are offered weekly. More information​​

Oct. 11 | Introducing LinkedIn Learning (for faculty and staff)

Noon–12:30 p.m. LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) is a rich library of short online courses on a wide variety of topics, from software to soft skills. In this quick online webinar I will introduce faculty & staff to the LinkedIn Leaning interface, highlight some modules that may be helpful for personal use, and explore others modules that could enhance student learning. The workshop will be hosted in the Microsoft Teams video environment, so you can join us from anywhere. Please register for this workshop. A link to join the webinar will be sent to all those who RSVP. Please direct all questions to Amy Harrell​. More info and to RSVP​

Oct. 16 | Of Monsters and Men: The Giants in Greek Visual Art

7:00 p.m., Rittenberg Lounge. Lecture by David Wright, Department of Classics, Fordham University. 

Oct. 17 | Henry 'Box' Brown and the Classical Rhetoric: A New Literacy Studies Approach to the Works of Formerly Enslaved Black Antislavery Activists in Antebellum America | Common Hour

12:15–1:15 p.m., Wean Terrace Rooms, Mather Hall. Lecture by Kelly Dugan, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia at Athens. Co-sponsored by the Departments of English and History, Educational Studies Program, and Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. ​

Oct. 17 | Pattern Play: Widener Gallery Opening Reception

4:00–6:00 p.m., Austin Arts Center. Pattern Play is an exhibition featuring artwork—including paintings and sculptural ceramics—by four artists whose work shares an interest in systematic patterns ranging from textiles to tattoos to create complex compositions. The work by artists Cat Balco, Donnabelle Casis, Francis O’Shea, and Adero Willard is influenced by cultural symbolism, personal and familial history, and natural or built environments. The exhibit opening includes a reception with the artists. Free and open to the public.​

Oct. 22 | Global Vantage Point Lecture Series: A Comparative Analysis of East Asian Migration to the Hawaiin Archipelago | Common Hour

12:15–1:15 p.m., 70 Vernon Street. Talk by Emma Schneck ’20, Tanaka Asian Studies grant recipient. Pizza served.​ More information​

Oct. 24 | 2019 Faculty Research Committee Lecture Series: Kevin Huang ’12 | Common Hour

12:15–1:15 p.m. Dangremond Family Commons, Halleden Hall–North Wing. “Teleopertion–Controlling Robots at a Distance.” A light lunch will be served.

Oct. 25–26 | Trinity College Archives Homecoming Open House

October 25: 2:00–4:00 p.m. October 26: 12:30–2:30 p.m. Watkinson Library. Take a step back in time with the Trinity college archives and remember Trinity as it was during your time as a student here. The college archives will be showing interviews, photos, yearbooks, catalogs, bulletins and other memorabilia that documents Trinity through the ages. In addition, Tess Meagher, a class of 2020 History major, will be demonstrating an interactive story map that uses historical aerial photos to document growth and change of the Trinity campus from 1934 to 1986. We hope to see you for this exciting debut!​

Nov. 5 | The Grammar of Being Human: Greek Grammar and American Slavery | Common Hour

12:15–1:15 p.m., Rittenberg Lounge. The Annual Charles Moore Lecture, delivered by Emily Greenwood, professor of classics at Yale University. 

Nov. 7 | Economics Department Lecture Series: Government Debt Makes Strange Bedfellows: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Big Government Debt | Common Hour

12:15-1:30 p.m., Mather Hall, Terrace Rooms B &C. ​There has been a sea change in economists' and policy makers' views about the economic impacts of government budget deficits and debt. The US Republican Party seems unconcerned as US government deficits and debt greatly increase. Top officials of the European Central Bank call for increased government spending and borrowing. This lecture explores the reasons for this apparent odd convergence, and tries to uncover the truth about government debt: the good, the bad, and the ugly.​

Nov. 14 | From Superman to Spiegelman: Representing the Holocaust in Comics and Graphic Novels

4:30 p.m., Rittenberg Lounge. This talk by Samantha Baskin, professor of art history at Cleveland State University, will discuss the proliferation of comics and graphic novels about the Holocaust, including Superman’s heroics in the Warsaw Ghetto, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, and even comic books about the Holocaust told from perpetrator perspectives. An examination of these varied representations demonstrates a remarkable range of approaches in both word and image, from the cruelties of the Final Solution to wishful thinking at its most fantastical.​ Hosted by Jewish Studies

Nov. 21 | 2019 Faculty Research Committee Lecture Series: John Platoff | Common Hour

12:15–1:15 p.m. Dangremond Family Commons, Halleden Hall–North Wing. “An Opera is not What You Think it Is: Sarti's Fra i due litiganti and Mozart's Don Giovanni.” A light lunch will be served.

Dec. 5 | Classical Studies Seminar Presentations | Common Hour

12:15–1:15 p.m., Reese Room, Smith House.