Join the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Black Student Union and many other campus groups for a series of events in celebration of Black History Month.
Browse the preliminary schedule below, and watch your email for more event details (times and locations are subject to change).
- Jan. - March in the Bulmash Exhibition Hall in Chalmers Library: Black History of Knox County
- Jan. 30 at 3:10 p.m. in the Community Foundation Theater and Kresge Classroom 101: New Views on the Renaissance
- Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. in the Community Foundation Theater: Screening of "We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe" and a Q&A with director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
- Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Community Foundation Theater: Screening of "The Blackening"
- Feb. 11 at 6 and 8 p.m. in the Lowry Center: Black History Month Double Header Basketball Games
- Feb. 13 from noon - 3 p.m. in Chalmers Library: Douglass Day Activities
- Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Oden Hall's Archon Auditorium: "History in the Crosshairs: Educators, the Public Square, and the Fight for the American Past," a lecture by Hasan Jeffries from The Ohio State University
- Feb. 19 at 11:10 a.m. in Chalmers Library 320: Panel discussion with Sylvie Coulibaly, associate professor of history; Glenn McNair, professor of history; Jené Schoenfeld, associate professor of English; and Anna Scanlon, director of the Writing Center, presented by Chau Vu ’26, ODEI student intern; Hung Nguyen ’26, CSAD student associate, and ODEI
- Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Horn Gallery: Performance from Cadre Noir with a Kenyon band opener
- Feb. 25 at 5 p.m. in Weaver Cottage: Black Jeopardy
Please email odei@kenyon.edu if you have any questions or to discuss access considerations needed to participate fully in our events.