It was a Good Day: Black Optimistic Realism and Law in the United States

Location: Henry Student Center, 2nd Floor, Jean and Paul Adams Commons (JPAC) A Black History Month Lecture.  Members of the Wilkes community are invited to a free lecture presented by Dr. Scott Hancock, associate professor of history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. In 1992, artist Ice Cube released the…

Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Brionne Janae

Location: Kirby Hall Salon Brionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They are the author of Because You Were Mine (2023) which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave…

Max Rosen Lecture: A Conversation with Award-Winning Bestselling Novelist Amor Towles

Amor Towles, bestselling author, will deliver the annual Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the newly-renovated Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than…