Lyceum Lecture Series
Every quarter, Centralia College's Office of Student Life schedules free, open lectures on topics of widespread interest. These lectures are open to all.
Winter 2025 Lyceum Lectures
Lyceum lectures are held at 1pm on the Wednesdays listed below in Washington Hall room 103.
Jan. 15 - Black History Mobile Museum: Marching for Justice Exhibit
This presentation will take place in TransAlta Commons 105 This is the 30th anniversary of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum. Dr. Khalid el-Hakim started the museum with his own collection of Black historical memorabilia into a public educational resource. The 2025 exhibit promises to be a monumental journey, featuring an extraordinary collection of artifacts that highlight resilience, contributions and enduring spirit of African Americans. The exhibit will be available from 9 am to 2 pm.
Jan. 22 - A Tribute to Martin Luther King: Living the Dream
In this educational and motivational presentation, Dion Jordan reflects on the extraordinary life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the legacy left behind. He emphasizes not only Dr. King's dream but he encourages his audience to have their own dream as well as how to draw from the blue print Dr. King left us all on how to make dreams come true. Jordan is a JEDI Champion (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) located in Portland.
Jan. 29 - The Child Experience During the Holocaust
This presentation will explore the experience of children throughout the Nazi Regime with special emphasis given to the time between 1939-1945 where over 6 million European Jews were murdered as apart of Nazi racial ideology. In this presentation we will explore children as a separate social group, distinct from adults in the same cultural or ethnic groups. Secondly, the presentation will look at the ways in which children lived and survived throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich. Special distinction will be given to the stories of Jewish children and adolescents, but we will also explore the experience of other targeted groups as well as German children.
Centralia College Alumnus Michael Ready is a veteran teacher of 10 years, having been at Kalama High School for the past five years teaching World History, US History, and drama. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at Gratz College out of Pennsylvania in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He holds an MA. He is an Alfred Lerner Fellow with the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and a Powell Teacher Fellow with the Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity. Michael is also the Southwest Coordinator for the Seattle Holocaust Center’s Student Leadership Board. His research focuses on the experience of Queer people during the Holocaust, Queer persecution, the experience of Children in genocide and Christian culpability in the Holocaust.
Feb. 5 - Creating a Microplastic Community Science Network
This presentation will cover efforts to expand community science-based microplastics monitoring of the waters and sediments throughout Puget Sound. Presented by Anna S. Bachmann, Clean Water Program Director at Puget Soundkeeper Alliance.
Feb. 12 - A Space for Black History
Across the country, efforts to suppress Black history in libraries and classrooms have taken root. Anger against “critical race theory” and “wokeness” has led to new laws prohibiting what can and cannot be taught to students of all ages, and what books can remain in libraries. Why are there efforts to limit this knowledge? Are some ideas just too dangerous? If so, how do we decide what those are as a society? Shouldn’t we have the freedom to think, to know, to aspire? To counter some of these efforts, professor Luther Adams – Free Man of Color, uses Black thought, images, and poetry, as well as local history, to create an open space to ask questions about Black history and why it matters to all of us. Adams is an associate professor of ethnic, gender, and labor studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. This presentation is part of Humanities Washington
Feb. 19 - A Tribute to Martin Luther King: Living the Dream
In this educational and motivational presentation, Dion Jordan reflects on the extraordinary life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the legacy left behind. He emphasizes not only Dr. King's dream but he encourages his audience to have their own dream as well as how to draw from the blue print Dr. King left us all on how to make dreams come true. Jordan is a JEDI Champion (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) located in Portland.
Feb. 26 - Connection through Storytelling
Maggie Lott and Tobey Ishii Anderson are enthusiastic and experienced storytellers who will be sharing both folktales and personal stories, to explain the value of the oral art of storytelling. They will share stories from different cultures around the world and personal stories of their own lives. They will demonstrate how stories reveal human nature, the values of a community, and how stories, both old and modern, reveal our common bonds. Lott and Anderson are both members of the South Sound Story Guild in Olympia.
March 5 - Combatting Fatphobia in the Wellness Industry
This talk is to begin the process of unlearning fatphobic habits that permeate the wellness industry. Learn some terminology within fat activism, the history of fatphobia becoming a part of mainstream culture, and some techniques you can start to implement to treat yourself and others kindlier, regardless of body size.
Haley Hann (she/her/hers) currently serves as the Wellness Coordinator at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology. She has received a Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science from North Dakota State University and a Master's degree in Kinesiology from Seattle University. Haley is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer, American Council of Exercise Certified Group Fitness Instructor, and YogaFit Level 1 Instructor. She is passionate about broadening the scope of college recreation to focus on holistic wellbeing and allowing students to experiment with personal wellness strategies that aren't toxic or discriminatory.
March 12 - Money Finance
During this session, we will play an interactive game on navigating money decisions for when life happens.Throughout the activity, we will discuss resources that can help you better understand how you manage money. In addition, we will review key personal finance topics to help raise awareness for life after college. Don’t miss out - your future financial self will be glad you stopped by! Jennifer Wilson, MS, AFC®, joins us with 12+ years in the field of personal finance with experience in the non-profit sector, academia, and financial services. Her educational background started on an athletic scholarship at Centralia College, and from there, she attended East Carolina University, then finally landed at Texas Tech University, where she received a master’s in financial planning.
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