Events

Many students, faculty and staff came out on Tuesday, February 14 to participate in the fourth annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon, an event held on the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass. The event, sponsored by the Wilkes University Division of Global Cultures, the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Sordoni Art …

Wilkes University Theatre invites audience members to fall in love with Sweet Charity at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23, 24 and 25, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 25 and 26, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre. Sweet Charity, with a book …

Wilkes students, faculty and staff gathered to honor the life of Tyre Nichols and bring awareness to his violent death.  The event was hosted by the Multicultural Student Coalition at the Fenner Quadrangle near the center of campus. Kathrine Ermeus, president of the Multicultural Student Coalition, opened the program. Ermeus …

The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series with a reading by Zakes Mda at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Kirby Hall Salon.  Mda is a South African and American-African Appalachian writer, painter and music composer. He has published 24 …

February is Black History Month, and Wilkes University is celebrating with a variety of lectures and events. Events are free and open to the public and presented by the Division of Global Cultures: History, Languages and Philosophy, the Center for Global Education & Diversity and the Sordoni Art Gallery. Art …

On Thursday, Jan. 19, speaker, coach, consultant and pastor Rev. Shawn Walker spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in the Sordoni Art Gallery with an inspirational message of change honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Walker’s talk included reflections on personal experience with racism, and how we all need to move forward, …

James is a 2006 graduate of the Maslow Graduate Creative Writing program and 2015 winner of the Man Booker Prize. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing will host the Maslow Winter Reading Series at Wilkes University from Jan. 7 to 12. Held in cooperation with the Creative Writing …

What a year! There were so many great happenings at Wilkes in 2022 – here’s a look back at 10 of our top stories from this past year: Wilkes launched a multiphase project at 116 South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre. Residential, student and community destination plans were shared for this …

Wilkes University Theatre invites audience members to join the March sisters for a musical retelling of Little Women at 8 p.m. on Nov. 17, 18, and 19, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 19 and 20 at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. Little Women is based on …

Award-winning writer and historian Jill Lepore will deliver the Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 26, 2023, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. A bestselling author, journalist and professor of history, Lepore’s books and essays explore absences …