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
–Faculty Commons Classroom (ZSR 665)ZSR Library invites you to First Five, a workshop series specifically for early career faculty. Workshops are open to faculty at all ranks who are in their first five years at WFU. In this workshop, we will explore how to revise existing assignments to integrate techniques that help students continue to meaningfully engage with scholarly research in the AI era.
–ZSR Room 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!
–Library Auditorium (ZSR 404)All are invited to attend the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fall Colloquium, featuring Dr. Robin Boylorn. Robin M. Boylorn, Ph.D. is the inaugural Holle Endowed Chair of Communication Arts, the founding Executive Director of the Holle Center for Communication Arts, and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. A cultural critic and interdisciplinary theorist, her work is primarily focused on the lived experiences of Black women in the U.S. American South.
A lecture will be held in the ZSR Library auditorium, followed by a book signing and reception. Filthy Feminism: On Race, Media Representation, and Resisting Being Clean considers how the ubiquitous digital landscape influences racial representation by locking black women into predictable and stereotypical roles. Dr. Boylorn argues that black feminism and a lens of black lived experience can offer a more critical and nuanced perspective of representation that complicates notions of respectability, identity and perception.
Thank you to our event co-sponsors:.
African American and African Studies at Wake Forest University | Department of Communications at Wake Forest University | ZSR Library at Wake Forest University.
–Writing Center (ZSR 426)Find it hard to focus? Want to wind your week down right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday this fall beginning September 3rd for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and Bagel Station. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
–Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625)Join Special Collections & Archives at ZSR Library for an evening celebrating alumnus author Finley Turner’s latest psychological thriller, The Tarot Reader! Set right here in Winston-Salem, the novel follows a phony psychic whose fake vision lands her dead center in a very real murder investigation. Get into the spirit with live tarot card readings, browse a pop-up display of historic tarot and occult materials and enjoy light refreshments. A perfect pre-Halloween event!
–ZSR The Studio, next to The Bridge. Room 262Get ready for passkeys-only, coming November 23. Passkeys use sophisticated authentication technology you already have and use, and IS experts will help you be ready and confident on all your mobile, laptop, and tablet devices. go.wfu.edu/passkeys
–Library Auditorium (ZSR 404)Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity is hosting “Coco y Coco,” a cozy, community-building evening in the ZSR Library Auditorium. Students can enjoy warm hot chocolate and treats while socializing, studying, or taking a study break. To make the event accessible, hot chocolate will be served for $2 per cup, with proceeds supporting future chapter community initiatives.
–Faculty Commons Classroom (ZSR 665)This book group will meet six times this semester on Mondays (9/14, 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, & 11/2) from 1-2 pm in ZSR 665 (Faculty Commons Classroom inside the Faculty Commons space in the ZSR Wilson Wing). We will provide the book for the first 15 registrants. These discussions are very popular so we ask that you register only if you are available to attend all sessions.
This research-grounded guide helps college educators use generative AI to strengthen, not sideline, what they already know about effective teaching.
Drawing on decades of experience in faculty development and learning science, Ludwig and Zakrajsek propose a three-stage progression model, Adapt, Create, Embed, to help faculty from any discipline thoughtfully incorporate AI into their teaching. Rather than chasing the latest tech tools, this book focuses on how AI can deepen student learning by enhancing time-tested frameworks such as TILT, Universal Design for Learning, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Backward Design. Each chapter includes classroom-tested examples, reflection prompts, and activities ready for individual exploration or group discussion.
Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or cautiously optimistic, this book offers a clear, practical path to using AI as a partner, not a replacement, in ways that support students and reinvigorate teaching.
Meeting Schedule.
9/14: Chapters 1 & 2 (Orientation).
9/28: Chapter 3 (The Framework).
10/5: Chapters 4 & 5 (Foundation).
10/19: Chapter 6 (Backward Design).
10/26: Chapters 7 & 8 (Deeper Learning).
11/2: Chapters 9, 10 & Epilogue (Sustaining).
- –ZSR The Studio, next to The Bridge. Room 262Get ready for passkeys-only, coming November 23. Passkeys use sophisticated authentication technology you already have and use, and IS experts will help you be ready and confident on all your mobile, laptop, and tablet devices. go.wfu.edu/passkeys
–Library Auditorium (ZSR 404)The Documentary Film Program invites you to an Alumni Screening Showcase featuring I’m Still Here, Love, directed by Meg Daniels (MFA ’19). A Q&A with the director will follow the film.- –Writing Center (ZSR 426)Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday this fall for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and Bagel Station. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
- –ZSR Room 262Get ready for passkeys-only, coming November 23. Passkeys use sophisticated authentication technology you already have and use, and IS experts will help you be ready and confident on all your mobile, laptop, and tablet devices. go.wfu.edu/passkeys
- –ZSR Room 476Zotero 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 AtriumJoin us for fast and fun tours (30 minutes) that highlight how the ZSR Library is not the library you remember! We will begin in ZSR Atrium and end in Special Collections & Archives. In between, we will visit the wonderful new study spaces in the ZSR Library and drop in on some of our campus partners now located in ZSR!
Library Auditorium (ZSR 404)In this talk, Maya Hey, Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Humanities Lab at KTH Royal Technical Institute, introduces her forthcoming monograph on fermentation, in which she theorises human-microbe relations now and ahead. Microbes are everywhere, all of the time, making up our bodies and environments in ways that confound what it means to be ‘human’ on this highly microbial planet. By focusing on the process of making ferments, versus its outcomes, she examines the hands-on, repeated, material practices of fermentation that render certain futures more possible than others. Based on a sensory/multispecies ethnography at a natural sake brewery in Japan, she uses the brewing process, its environments, tools, rituals, seasonality, and know-how to show the more-than-human entanglements at the scale of a business venture. Uniquely, this brewery does not add vials of yeast and bacteria like an ingredient; so the work of brewing entails perpetually creating conditions for ambient microbes to gather—and only certain microbes, at certain stages, in certain sequences. By taking into account this living world and its specificities, the brewers must attune, adapt, and ascertain which microbes need what and when. They practice what she describes as an improvisational ethic that adapts to the unforeseen. Hey suggests this ethic as a way to continue living with/in unknowable, multispecies worlds and concludes by prompting: what kinds of futures do we want to improvise with microbes?- –Writing Center (ZSR 426)Find it hard to focus? Want to wind your week down right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday this fall beginning September 3rd for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and Bagel Station. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
- –Writing Center (ZSR 426)Find it hard to focus? Want to wind your week down right? Join the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Writing Center every Thursday this fall beginning September 3rd for graduate student coworking hours! You bring whatever it is you need to get done, and we’ll bring the free coffee and Bagel Station. Don’t have time to stay? Stop by and grab some treats on your way. See you there!
–Grad Student Lounge (ZSR 425)GSAS Deacs, celebrate the Last Day of Classes with us! Enjoy FREE all-day, grab-and-go food in the Grad Student Lounge, grab some goodies from the UCC’s exam fairies, and chat with other students and GSAS staff. Food is first come first serve. We’ll be there until 3pm or until we run out!
–ZSR LibraryJoin ZSR Library during finals week for Wake The Library! A long-standing campus tradition, Wake The Library is held to energize, motivate, and help students de-stress during finals. Throughout the week, you can enjoy treats, snacks, breakfast, refreshments, and fun (full schedule to be announced). Held to help our students succeed during exams, it’s the perfect opportunity to refuel and recharge as you finish up the semester.
–ZSR LibraryStop by ZSR for fun afternoon crafts throughout the semester! A perfect time to do a craft, grab a snack, and de-stress. You can also discover more ways to learn about ZSR.
–Faculty Commons Classroom (ZSR 665)Join colleagues to share ideas, seek advice, and explore AI together. AI Café is held monthly on the fourth Friday, on an alternating schedule of Zoom and in-person. See all AI Café events and add to your calendar.