Events

Monday, February 21

Celebrate You in '22!

Celebrate YOU in ’22 is going to be a 6-week challenge targeting our ECU Faculty, Staff, Alumni (and their households) Community who are not currently active...

Lifeguarding Certification Course

The primary purpose of the American Red Cross Lifeguarding course is to provide lifeguard participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize...

The 14th Annual School of Art and Design Graduate Student Art Exhibition

The 14th Annual Joyner Library School of Art and Design Graduate Student Art exhibition will be on view from December 8th, 2021 until February 28th, 2022 in...

Introduction to Canvas

Prepare to build your Canvas course with confidence! This presentation provides an overview of the core features, dynamic tools, and functionality of Canvas...

10am
Virtual Event
Mindful Mondays - Relaxation

Come stop by our Well-Being Centers to participate in Progressive Muscle Relaxation Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) involves tightening and relaxing...

Mindful Mondays - Relaxation

Come stop by our Well-Being Centers to participate in Progressive Muscle Relaxation Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) involves tightening and relaxing...

Graduate Program Directors and Coordinators Meeting

Monthly meeting of the Graduate Program Directors and Coordinators.

3pm
Virtual Event
Flyer reads: Lecture 21 Feb 2022 7pm-8pm. Student q&a 22 feb 2022 10am via webex link https://bit.ly/35GQrSd. ECU History presents 2022 Brewster Lecture “’The Place For Which Our Fathers Sighed’: A Vision for the Future.” Lecture Abstract" When James Weldon Johnson wrote the poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” he eloquently linked the past with the present, our present. Quickly transformed into song by his brother John Rosemond Johnson, and adopted by the NAACP in 1919 as the Negro National Anthem, the poem calls out to the black community “Let us march on till victory is won.”   But, right in the middle of this poem turned song, Weldon Johnson acknowledged the recent past events in his own time, and in ours, and condemns America as he says we are “treading” this pathway to victory “through the blood of the slaughtered.” He also asks that America become the place that its’ creators envisioned, a “place for which our fathers sighed.” A place where black people were truly free from the threat of a race war and mass violence.   Yet, white America’s purported never-ending fear of a war between the races continues to inform as well as fuel concerns over racial differences and racial violence in this country to this day. This paper seeks to address how we get beyond this historical paradigm in our own time."  For any questions about the Brewster Lecture, please contact Department of History  Research & Publications Committee chair,  Dr. Jason Raupp, rauppj14@ecu.edu  Dr. Kay Wright Lewis completed her PhD in the department of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2011. Her research focuses on slavery and abolition, African American intellectual history, Atlantic World history, and the history of violence.  She was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 after joining the faculty at Howard University in Fall 2017.  Image Description: left side mid page - image of a book jacket titles "A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom and Extermination in America and the Atlantic  World Kay Wright Lewis"  right side mid page - image of a woman standing in profile, facing the camera smiling. She is wearing a dark long sleeve blouse, standing in front of a large bookcase with her hair tied back.

Each year, the Department of History at East Carolina University sponsors the Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History. The department sponsored the first...

7pm
Virtual Event
ECU Chamber Singers

Free and open to the public. For more information, please call 252-328-6851. Live stream available at https://www.youtube.com/ecuschoolofmusiclive Face...

Monday, February 21