Humanities & Sciences

“Every generation, until they educate themselves, thinks that their experience is unique.” 

-Brent Staples, New York Times Editorial Board Member and racial justice activist.

Please join us for our Fall 2020 Common Threads: Intergenerational Dialogue Series.

The Ithaca College Gerontology Institute program is designed to bring individuals together from diverse backgrounds and ages to talk about what we have in common. Gerontology Department faculty and guest speakers host the six-week series during the fall semester. 

“Every generation, until they educate themselves, thinks that their experience is unique.” 

-Brent Staples, New York Times Editorial Board Member and racial justice activist.

Please join us for our Fall 2020 Common Threads: Intergenerational Dialogue Series.

The Ithaca College Gerontology Institute program is designed to bring individuals together from diverse backgrounds and ages to talk about what we have in common. Gerontology Department faculty and guest speakers host the six-week series during the fall semester. 

Tuesday, October 27 - 6:00 p.m.:

Tuesday, November 17 - 6:00 p.m.:

Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 p.m.:

The English Dept has two new regular events that it hopes to advertise to the campus more broadly. First, we will have half-hour literary readings (a short piece of fiction, some poems, a bit of essay), followed by light, informal discussion, each Friday at 4pm on zoom.

Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the memoir The Truth Book, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans: Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the essay collection Island of Bones, and the short fiction collection How Winter Began. Castro teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx Studies at the University of Nebraska.