Dr. Pablo Peschiera, Associate Professor of English at Hope College, presented the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture on Tuesday, September 17 in the Maas Center Auditorium. The lecture addressed the theme “How I Learned to Open Myself Through Poetry,” in which Peschiera discussed his life and gradual awakening as Latinx in the 20th and 21st …
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Affirming LGBTQ+ Student Lecture 2024
I wondered all along why I came to Hope. Matt Shepard’s death had an extremely profound impact upon my life. Not to mention the events of 1998-99. Those days as rough and difficult as they were for some people really were my pinnacle of all my five years there. Those days were my reason for …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture 2024
Professor Emeritus John Yelding is the best person for helping us recall the legacy of Martin Luther King, and for engaging us in an interactive exercise of what it means to actively invest ourselves into making King’s Legacy a reality in our time. Alfredo M. GonzalesAssociate Provost Emeritusand Emeritus Dean for International and Multicultural Education The 2024 Dr. …
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