National tour set to take the stage at Transylvania Oct. 9
On Tuesday, Transylvania and the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith Concert Series present Grammy award-winning Conspirare in a performance of “Considering Matthew Shepard.”
Events
Transylvania PumpkinMania on Oct. 30
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University invites the community to campus for the eighth annual PumpkinMania on Oct. 30. Hundreds of jack-o’-lanterns will light up the Old Morrison steps and student groups and campus organizations will host trick-or-treating the night before Halloween. “Last year, we had more than 5,000 people participate in PumpkinMania,” said Hannah Piechowski, director of student transitions and parent programming at Transylvania and PumpkinMania committee chair. “As this event continues to grow, we’ve added more food trucks, an activities area for kids, more space for trick-or-treating, as well as an information center and meeting location. PumpkinMania celebrates so many things I love about working at Transylvania—a wonderful campus, amazing neighbors, the downtown community and fall,” Piechowski said. The event kicks off at 6 p.m. with trick-or-treating, live music, food trucks and children’s activities. The pumpkin lighting will be at 7 p.m. To get the pumpkins ready for the display, the public is invited to help carve them on Sunday, Oct. 28, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Back Circle on the residential side of campus off West Fourth Street. Later that evening, be sure to catch the PumpkinMania float in the Lexington Halloween Thriller Parade. The jack-o’-lanterns will be lit every night and remain on display until Nov. 2. PumpkinMania is made possible by the generous support of the Bluegrass Community Foundation and Tetra Tech.
Moosnick Lecture at Transylvania to foster interreligious dialogue on Oct. 24
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Professor Marcie Lenk—who is academic director of Bat Kol: Christian Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Israel—will give this year’s Moosnick Lecture at Transylvania University on Wednesday, Oct. 24. Her talk titled “Truth and Faith: Can Jews and Christians Really Open Ourselves to the Truth of the Other?” will be free and open to the public at 7 p.m. in Carrick Theater. It continues the annual Moosnick Lectureship in Judaic Studies’ tradition of fostering interreligious discourse. The event is part of Transylvania’s Creative Intelligence Series and New Frontiers season, which focuses on the university’s yearlong campus theme of civility. “In a time of intense polarization in both our country and our world, this year’s Moosnick lecturer models the importance of an intelligent and conciliatory voice to better understand Jewish-Christian relations,” said Paul Jones, a Transylvania Professor of Religion. “Because her sensitivity to, and her appreciation of, the religious other are grounded in texts and contexts, Dr. Lenk will help us identify and examine both the opportunities and limitations of our shared conversations.” For most of history, many Jews and Christians have rejected the possibility that we have anything to learn from each other’s faith and religion. This talk will examine the history of this rejection as well as recent changes of attitudes among both Christian and Jewish religious leaders, and it will consider the opportunities and limitations of interfaith dialogue and understanding. Lenk has devoted her intellectual life and
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Transylvania to serve as host site for Lexington mayoral candidate forum on Oct. 29
In the final week before this year’s general election, Transylvania University will serve as the site for a televised forum with mayoral candidates Ronnie Bastin and Linda Gorton.
Transylvania welcomes families to campus Oct. 25-28
Family Weekend is a way for Transylvania to thank those who have entrusted the university with their children’s education—and a chance for families to spend time together.