Speaker Events, Spring 2025

 

• Attend two (2) speaker events on campus or in the community. See information below. 
• After the speaker completes their presentation, ask for a photo with the speaker and post on your blog. 
• A photo from each speaker event is required for this class. Except for the exhibition of my work on Friday, March 7 (does not include speaker presentation). For this event, a selfie of you with one of my artworks from the show is required. 
• If you see others from your class in attendance you can ask for a group photo with the speaker. 
• All events are open to the public.

Stories and Structures

Opening Reception

Friday, February 7, 5:00 - 7:00

Location:

First Floor Proctor Library

Flagler College Campus

Profesor Trevor Bryant Speaks 5:30 - 6:00. 

This event is co-curricular for Flagler students.

Exhibition Walkthrough 

+ 

Reception 

with the artist Meredith Laura Lynn

Friday, February 7, 5 to 8pm

Artist will speak at 5:30.

Location:

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum

Flagler College Campus

(located between Student Center and Library, set back from the road)

Read more about the artists in link below:

https://www.flagler.edu/news-events/news/bad-outdoorsmen-katie-hargrave-and-meredith-laura-lynn

This event is co-curricular for Flagler students.

Wakanda Forever: Exploring African Art and Culture through Black Panther

The Center for Global Education, Black Student Union, International Living Learning Community, RA Dasha, and the Office of Campus Excellence and Engagement invites you to Wakanda Forever: Exploring African Art and Culture through Black Panther on

Thursday, Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. in the Multicultural Center.

Join us as we explore African art and culture through its costumes, textiles, and soundtrack. This discussion will feature traditional African clothing and art, as well as desserts. Free food while supplies last. This is a Co-Curricular event. For information, contact Ashley Coffey at global@flagler.edu or (904) 819-6218.

Garden Plants in Spain and St. Augustine

DATE: Feb 26th, 2025
TIME: 7:00 PM EST
LOCATION:
Markland House, Flagler College
102 King St. St. Augustine, FL 32084

Join the St. Augustine Historical Society in welcoming Marsha Chance for her presentation Garden Plants in Spain and St. Augustine.

DATE: Mar 4th, 2025
TIME: 7:00 PM EST
LOCATION:
Tiffany Room, Flagler College
74 King Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084

Join us in welcoming Austin Bell, the Chief Curator at the Museum of Florida  History for his presentation, “The Nine Lives of Florida’s Famous Key Marco Cat.” SAAA lectures are free and open to the public!

Excavated from a waterlogged archaeological site on the shores of subtropical Florida by legendary anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1896, the Key

Marco Cat has become an icon of Florida’s history and heritage. The Nine Lives of Florida’s Famous Key Marco Cat, winner of a 2021 Florida Book Award in the Florida Nonfiction category, explores nine periods in the life of the small wooden carving, including how and why it was sculpted by its Calusa creators, its route to the Smithsonian, and its modern-day role as a coveted ambassador of Florida’s past.

Austin Bell is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee. He is the author four books, including The Nine Lives of Florida’s Famous Key Marco Cat, published through the University Press of Florida. He is also the former Curator of Collections for the Marco Island Historical Society, where in 2018 he helped orchestrate a loan of the Key Marco Cat that remains active. Austin holds degrees in Museum Studies (M.A.) and Anthropology (B.A.) from the University of Florida.

Creating Weathering the Storm

DATE: Mar 4th, 2025
TIME: 7:00 PM EST
LOCATION:
Markland House, Flagler College
102 King St. St. Augustine, FL 32084

Join the St. Augustine Historical Society in welcoming Nicole Diehm, Librarian and Curator at the St. Augustine Historical Society Research Library, for her presentation, Never Repeats, Often Rhymes: Creating Weathering the Storm.

Laura Mongiovi: Empire

The Reception for Empire will take place on 

Friday, March 7 from 6:00-7:30 pm

You need a selfie of you with one of my pieces. 

Location: Lightner Museum. Across the street from main entrance to Flagler College, on King Street. Enter through the Radzinski Garden located at the rear of the Lightner Museum.

Kim Bradley, Associate Professor of English

Ben Atkinson, Associate Professor of Science

and Jeanette Vigliotti, Assistant Professor CORE

will give readings of their work during the opening reception, between 6:30 – 7:00.

Link below for more information about the exhibition:

https://lightnermuseum.org/exhibitions/laura-mongiovi-empire/

Tuesday, March 11, at 7 p.m.

Location: 

Virginia Room 

Second Floor Student Center

Flagler College Campus

50 Sevilla Street

Chuck Todd is chief political news analyst for NBC and a three-time Emmy Award Winner.  Learn more about him on his NBC bio page.

This event is co-curricular for Flagler students.

Ken Walsh

"Architects of Toxic Politics in America"

Wednesday, April 2, at 7 p.m.

Location: 

Virginia Room 

Second Floor Student Center

Flagler College Campus

50 Sevilla Street

Kenneth T. Walsh is a renowned author, speaker, and award-winning 

White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. 

This event is co-curricular for Flagler students.

DATE: April 7

TIME: 7:00 PM 

LOCATION:
Markland House, Flagler College
102 King St. St. Augustine, FL 32084

Join the St. Augustine Historical Society in welcoming Dr. Marty Dobrow, author, journalist, and Professor of Communications at Springfield College, for his presentation, Civil Rights in St. Augustine.