Events & Outreach
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library features a variety of events, workshops, and more. The library often partners with other units on campus to offer these programs. For more information, contact the library.
Upcoming Events
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)Join the Department of Sociology and co-sponsors (Program for Leadership and Character and Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability) for an invited talk with Professor Hillary Angelo (UC Santa Cruz) where she will discuss her current research on public lands in the American West:.
It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland relationship and the American West, and based on five years of fieldwork related to renewable energy, conservation, and housing development on public lands in Nevada and Utah, this talk gets purchase on these questions by presenting climate change as a form of macro-social change. I draw on classical and contemporary macro-historical sociology and critical geography to show how this framework provides new insights on climate transitions and describe its implications for understanding contemporary climate politics, policy, and visions of a just transition.
Free and open to the public.
–ZSR Library, Room 204To register for the required 3 sessions, visit: ResilientWake Spring 2026 on Workday.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, YOU MUST ATTEND AND ENGAGE IN ALL THREE IN PERSON SESSIONS (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM: March 24, March 31, and April 7, 2026) in the the Z Smith Library, Room 204. Beverages and light snacks will be provided.
Resilience is our ability to face those inevitable challenges and changes we all have, with grace. You might have heard people talking about resilience as “bouncing back”, “overcoming obstacles”, or “finding a silver lining” – resilience consists of a range of skills that improve as you practice.
The ResilientWake Workshop Series is an opportunity for faculty and staff to learn how to develop and integrate resilience skills into our everyday life using a cohort model.
Each session will take place in the ZSR Library Room 204. Beverages and light snacks will be included. If you need an accommodation, please notify Paige Edwards-Werhan via werhanp@wfu.edu.
To enroll in the course, you will need to attend all 3 sessions:.
Tuesday, March 24 at 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Tuesday, March 31 at 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Tuesday, April 7 at 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
–ZSR Library, 477Zotero is a powerful (and free!) tool for saving, organizing, and citing research sources. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to install Zotero, how to use it to build your own library of sources, and save yourself time when writing research papers. This hands-on session is oriented toward first-time users of Zotero. No familiarity with Zotero is required. Participants should bring their own Mac or Windows laptop (Chrome browser required). Register for a workshop here!
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)“Artist, Body, Rupture in Warped Time”. Guest Lecture: Prof. Yin Mei, CUNY–Queens College. Wednesday, April 1, 2026. 5:00–6:30 pm. ZSR Auditorium (Room 404). Free Admission; Open to the Public.
This lecture examines how the artist’s body became a living archive during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), a decade when ideology reorganized aesthetics, labor, and memory. Having grown up within the strict artistic regime that permitted only two revolutionary model ballets—The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women—I was formed as a dancer inside a system where the body was both an instrument of state narrative and site of political inscription.
Through three intersecting historical encounters, I investigate how rupture produces what I call warped time:.
First, Nixon in China, which stages the 1972 diplomatic meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon. In 2012, I choreographed this opera at Théâtre du Châtelet, bringing embodied memories of performing The Red Detachment of Women into a Western operatic reconstruction of the same historical moment. Thirty years later, I returned those stories—once tightly controlled by ideology—back to the global stage.
Second, Chung Kuo Cina by Michelangelo Antonioni, filmed in China during the Cultural Revolution and subsequently banned. Antonioni documented the Red Flag Canal in Lin County, a monumental irrigation project constructed manually by workers and artists sent to “experience life.” I was among 400 performers from the Henan Song and Dance Company assigned to live and labor alongside those builders. The canal was framed domestically as a heroic collectivist triumph, yet Antonioni’s lens diverged from the image the state wished to project. Representation itself became rupture.
Drawing from Daoist cosmology, the I Ching, and Deleuze’s Body without Organs, I articulate my choreographic methodology, The Inner Technology of Knowing, as a somatic epistemology emerging from these historical fractures. My current project, Body in Warped Time, extends this inquiry, proposing the body as a dynamic technology for survival when official narratives collapse.
Through philosophical reflection, archival materials, and performance excerpts, this lecture situates the artist’s body as witness, sensor, and counter-memory—revealing how history persists not linearly, but through embodied recurrence.
https://wakethearts.wfu.edu/2026/02/half-the-sky-yin-mei-dance/.
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Additional Events in the Series.
Half the Sky – Yin Mei Dance.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
7:30–8:30 pm.
Brendle Recital Hall, Wake Forest University.
“Wellness through Dance and Somatic Education”.
Guest Lecture & Demonstration: Prof. Yin Mei, CUNY–Queens College.
Thursday, April 2, 2026.
5:00–6:00 pm.
Benson 409.
–ZSR Library, The Studio @ 262Deed-Mapping Training Session is a part of The Studio Workshop Series.
This session combines a brief historical and technical orientation with hands-on practice. The first half introduces the historical background of housing discrimination in Forsyth County and walks participants through platform navigation. The second half allows participants to actively transcribe deeds with guided supervision.
Participants will learn:.
How housing discrimination shaped urban development in Forsyth CountyHow to identify restrictive clauses in primary source documentsHow to accurately transcribe and categorize covenant languageHow individual contributions help build a searchable public datasetBest practices for efficient and accurate archival workThis format balances education and productivity and is especially well-suited for first-time groups who want to leave with completed, meaningful contributions.
Equipment & Preparation:.
Participants should bring:.
A laptop (strongly recommended for ease of transcription)Access to Wi-FiZooniverse runs in a web browser, and creating an account prior to the session is encouraged.
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This program is led by Studio intern Roksanna Keyvan, whose interdisciplinary background in Environmental and Social Justice focuses on strategy, governance, and public impact. She has experience developing digital tools and leading workshops that support data-driven social justice initiatives, including work connected to Mapping Prejudice in Forsyth County.
–ZSR Library, 426Find it hard to focus? Want to wrap up your week right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and bagels. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)Named in honor of Hubert McNeill Poteat, who taught at Wake Forest from 1911 to 1956 and was widely known and respected as a Latin scholar, this lecture series is designed to recognize and celebrate the many achievements of our faculty in research, scholarly and creative work.
The 2026 Poteat Lecture, “Beyond Measure: Chemical Analysis in a Complex World,” will be presented by Dr. Christa Colyer, James and Courtenay Harton Faculty Fellow for Chemical Industry, Professor of Chemistry, & Worrell House (London) Program Director. Light refreshments will follow the lecture.
The annual lectures are held each spring and are sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
–ZSR Library, 425Calling all graduate students! Take a break and grab some FREE coffee and treats in the Graduate Student Lounge, courtesy of GSAS and ZSR Library. Hang out and chat with other graduate students, or grab and go on the way to class.- –ZSR Library, 426Find it hard to focus? Want to wrap up your week right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and bagels. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
–ZSR LibraryRelax, recharge, and make something fun! Swing by the ZSR atrium for snacks and craft kits to make or take for later, while supplies last. April 13: WakerSpace Kit.- –ZSR Library, 426Find it hard to focus? Want to wrap up your week right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and bagels. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
–ZSR Library, The Bridge/AtriumCelebrate the arrival of spring with a new student art show, on exhibit at The Bridge in the ZSR Library. Information Systems is pleased to host Botanical Bridges – Observation and Invention, featuring student works from Professor Lydia Smith’s Spring 2026 Life Drawing (ART 218) class. Inspired by the Wake Forest University Herbarium and its intriguing collection of plant specimens, Professor Smith’s students created and personally framed each of the twenty-four watercolor and colored pencil drawings in the exhibition. Through a Wake The Arts grant-funded initiative, the works are on view now at The Bridge (atrium level of ZSR) through Spring 2027. An opening reception will be held Friday, April 17, from 2-4 pm at The Bridge. IS extends special thanks to Professors Lydia Smith, Art, and Christopher Krieg, PhD., Biology, Wake The Arts, Erin Kye, University Collections, and most of all, WFU’s talented student artists. More details and add to calendar
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)Paris, 2024. Olympic Games. Blandine, 30, arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disoriented by the bustling and chaotic city where nothing seems to go her way, she will unexpectedly renew ties with her estranged half-sister and niece.- –ZSR Library, 426Find it hard to focus? Want to wrap up your week right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and bagels. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
–ZSR Library, ZSR Library 665 CAT ClassroomJoin us for casual monthly meetups to share and discover artificial intelligence together in this new conversation series. Join colleagues to share ideas, seek advice, and explore the potential of AI together. Attendees may add or review topics in an AI Café collaborative agenda (restricted to WFU faculty and staff).
AI Café is held monthly on the fourth Friday, on an alternating schedule of Zoom and in-person. Online: July, September, November, January, March, May. In person, August, October, December, February, April.
See all AI Café events and add to your calendar.
- –ZSR LibraryRelax, recharge, and make something fun! Swing by the ZSR atrium for snacks and craft kits to make or take for later, while supplies last. April 27: Sun Catcher.
- –ZSR Library, 426Find it hard to focus? Want to wrap up your week right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and bagels. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
- –ZSR LibraryRelax, recharge, and make something fun! Swing by the ZSR atrium for snacks and craft kits to make or take for later, while supplies last. May 4: DIY Study Buddies.
–ZSR Library, Faculty Commons Classroom 665 (6th floor, Wilson Wing)Following the momentum of our recent AI discussions, please join faculty from across the World Language programs for a collaborative sharing session. As we wrap up the semester, we invite you to a roundtable discussion focused on sharing new assessment designs developed as part of the Spanish Department’s curriculum review and the lessons learned from our recent classes.
This is a space to celebrate our collective expertise, exchange innovative ideas, and kickstart a new tradition of cross-language collaboration at Wake Forest. We look forward to seeing the diverse ways our programs are evolving! This workshop is facilitated by Daniel Jung, Lauren Miller, and Rebekah Morris.