June 8, 7 p.m.
• Kelly Sharp, history, discusses the role of slaveholding women’s recipe collections and the enslaved black women who performed the labor.
• Virginia Van Dine, art history, examines the political and religious content of the obelisk of Bernini’s Fountains of the Four Rivers in Rome.
• Corrie Hendricks, art history, gives a hands-on knitting session with a discussion of crafting in today’s political climate.
• Arielle Rebek, art, talks about her collection of found and gifted archives.

June 10, 2 p.m.
• Renata McRee, art history, gives a talk about the Buddhist concept of emptiness in connection to Zhu Da’s 17th century landscape paintings and the film YúYú(showing at the museum).
• Chelsea Bryan, creative writing, gives a retro radio show presentation of her novel Echo about an Osage/white woman in 1950s Oklahoma.

June 11, 2 p.m.
• Lorella Silvestri, art history, discusses originals vs. replicas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Jamil Kochai, creative writing, will read from his novel about an Afghan-American boy’s return to his parents’ ancestral village.

All events are held at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Musuem of Art and are free and open to the public.