All lecture Events (8)

Charles L. Blockson Lecture on Frances E. W. Harper

February 22, 2011 from 2pm to 3pm – Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University A lecture by Charles L. Blockson on Frances E. W. Harper. Charles L. Blockson is founder and curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University which incudes rare texts,… Organized by Charles L. Blockson | Type: lecture
Falaka Fattah and The Political Legacy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

February 22, 2011 from 7pm to 8:30pm – The Moonstone Arts Center Falaka Fattah is the founder of House of Umoja, a Philadelphia activist, and mother of Congressman Chaka Fattah. Falaka Fattah’s great grandmother married the brother of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’… Organized by Larry Robin | Type: lecture

A Brighter Coming Day: Rediscovering Frances E. W. Harper

February 25, 2011 from 7pm to 8pm – Ruth Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall, Drexel University A lecture by Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Emory University. Frances Smith Foster compiled and edited A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen… Organized by Larry Robin | Type: lecture

To Be an Effective, Justice-Seeking People

November 5, 2011 from 1pm to 4pm – King's Chapel Rev. John Buehrens, who served as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1993 to 2001, will lead the first of three lectures on "Composing Our Unitarian Universaliist Future." The N… Organized by Rev. John Buehrens | Type: lecture

Immanuel: Henry O. Tanner Paints ‘God With Us’

March 18, 2012 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm – Sanctuary This spring, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) will present the international exhibition Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit. The son of a bishop in the African Methodist Episcop… Organized by Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Type: lecture
Du Bois, Inclusion, and Power

March 18, 2012 from 7pm to 9pm – Ethical Society The third in the Great Thinkers Discussion series will be on Sunday, March 18, at 7:00 PM: “Du Bois, Inclusion, and Power,” a discussion with Professor Prof. David McBride, Pennsylvania State Univers… Organized by Amy Hillier Fraatz | Type: documentary, lecture, discussion

Property Working Group Presents: ADA Compliance for Historic Churches

January 22, 2017 from 5pm to 6pm – Parish Room Property Working Group Presents: ADA Compliance for Historic Churches Sunday, January 22, 5:00 PM, Parish Room In the first of a series, the Property Working Group of the First Unitarian Church, in c… Organized by Communications Director | Type: lecture

The Furnaces of Invention, lecture by George E. Thomas, Ph.D.

November 10, 2019 from 3pm to 4:30pm – First Unitarian Church Sunday, November 10, 3-4:30pm, Sanctuary This lecture by noted cultural historian and Furness scholar, George E. Thomas, will link the progressive values of the Furness family with the rising trans… Organized by Communications Director | Type: lecture, history