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

  • , Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)
    The 1960s and 70s saw a flowering of African-American poetry unprecedented in American literary history. The poets of the Black Arts Movement fused artistic experimentation with political engagement, giving voice to the complexities of the Black experience in the years immediately following the civil rights movement. Unlike previous generations of African-American poets, many of these writers were able to make their work available to the public through Black-owned and operated presses, thus freeing themselves from the editorial control of the white literary establishment. Black publishing outlets such as Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press, Haki Madhubuti’s Third World Press, and many others, allowed for a diversity of voices within the African-American community while also linking individual poets to a larger cultural enterprise.

    This exhibit draws on ZSR Special Collections’ extensive holdings to highlight the achievements of both the poets and the people who published them during these pivotal decades in American history.

  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665, Faculty Commons Classroom (6th floor, Wilson Wing)
    To teach well, we must monitor our students’ progress and adjust when necessary. We design assignments that make learning visible and are rightly worried that AI-generated work will distort this observation. In this workshop, offered on two different dates in two different modalities, participants will explore alternative assignments designed to minimize this risk. The follow-on clinic will provide further opportunities to design assignments and assessments that make learning visible.
  • ZSR Library, ZSR 664 (Faculty Commons Conference Room inside the Faculty Commons space in ZSR Wilson Wing)
    In a book written by and for college teachers, Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy provide tips and advice on how to make all students feel welcome and included. They focus on practices such as structure in course design and interaction, including more voices in different contexts, and reflection on how you might demonstrate attention to inclusion in a teaching portfolio/dossier. Let’s meet and discuss how we might implement some of these practices into our own classrooms.

    Meets four times this semester (2/7, 2/21, 3/6 & 3/20) on Wednesday from 2:00-3:00 in ZSR 664 (Faculty Commons Conference Room inside the Faculty Commons space in ZSR Wilson Wing). We will provide the book for the first 12 registrants. These discussions are very popular so we ask that you register only if you are available to attend all sessions.

    (Please note: You must register before the first session to attend)

  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665, Faculty Commons Classroom (6th floor, Wilson Wing)
    This follow-on clinic will provide further opportunities to design assignments and assessments that make learning visible.
  • ZSR Library, ZSR Classroom 665
    As academic writers, we know that good academic writing is incredibly difficult, requiring multiple drafts, feedback from our friends and colleagues, and loads of time. However, no matter how much we encourage students to start their writing projects early and build in that time for thinking and drafting, we know they are often motivated by the final deadline alone.

    In this workshop, we present a range of options for building writing processes into your course design, such as prewriting, phased drafting, rough drafts, and reflection. Importantly, we discuss how these processes might be built into a course without taking too much time away from course content (or the faculty member!). Participants will leave with options that work best for their course and writing assignments that will ultimately improve student engagement with writing projects.

    Lunch provided to first 25 registrants.

  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665, Faculty Commons Classroom (6th floor Wilson Wing)
    If some uses of AI undermine learning and assessment, we must work to prevent such use. In this workshop, offered on two different days in two different modalities, we discuss the challenges AI creates for traditional strategies (detection and punishment) and propose a number of alternatives that leverage what we know about student motivation to cheat. The follow-on clinic will provide further opportunities to design assignments and activities that motivate integrity.
  • [virtual]
    Please register in advance for this event. A link will be sent closer to the date.

    Bathanti will read a handful of his poems and discuss the process of composition and revision, where poems come from, and how to strike the necessary balance between aesthetic distance and intimacy. He’ll also examine issues of maintaining writing habits.

    Joseph Bathanti joined the Appalachian State English Department faculty in 2001. He is Professor of English & McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Education and Writer-in-Residence of Watauga Residential College, as well as affiliate faculty in Appalachian Studies & The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies. Bathanti is the former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-2014) and recipient of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine and the 2016 North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor. He served as the 2016 Charles George VA Medical Center Writer-in-Residence in Asheville, NC, and is the co-founder of the Medical Center’s Creative Writing Program.

    He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently Rising Meadow (Poems in collaboration with photographer, Houck Medford), Horse and Buggy Press (Durham, NC), 2021; Light at the Seam (Poems), Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2022; The Act of Contrition (Short Stories), Eastover Press (Rochester, MA), forthcoming May 2023; and The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, and Joseph Bathanti, eds., forthcoming September 2023

  • ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)
    24th Annual Poteat Lecture April 3, 2024 at 4.p.m. ZSR Library Auditorium A reception will follow Sponsored by: Jackie Krasas, Dean of the College and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Dr. Oana Jurchescu Baker Family Professor, Department of Physics, will lecture on “Printed Flexible Electronics: Making a Big Impact with Small Circuits.”
  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665, Faculty Commons Classroom (6th floor Wilson Wing)
    This follow-on clinic will provide further opportunities to design assignments and activities that motivate integrity.
  • Wise Man Brewing
    Come join supporters of the ZSR Library for some refreshments and Wake Forest history at Wise Man Brewing. There will also be a Special Collections & Archives popup exhibit focusing Wake Forest history. Feel free to stay and enjoy Music Bingo which starts at 7:30 PM. This event is family-friendly. We will have Special Collections & Archives coloring cards for children, along with buttons, magnets, and stickers for all ages. For further information, please contact archives@wfu.edu
  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665 (Faculty Commons Classroom)
    Facilitated by Dr. Anita McCauley.

    This workshop is designed for those leading the assessment of student learning for academic programs, such as department chairs and assessment and curriculum committee members. By the end of our time together, we hope that you:

    better understand the process and purpose of student learning assessment,feel more prepared to submit annual learning assessment reports such as the Academic Program Evaluation Report (APER) in the College, and develop ideas and strategies to make your program’s assessment plan more meaningful and sustainable. In particular, we will focus on having meaningful outcomes, aligned and manageable measures, and a plan for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. You will also have an opportunity to talk with colleagues to share assessment processes, consider strategies for common challenges, and discuss questions associated with conducting meaningful assessment that leads to learning improvement in your program.

    Register here

  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665, Faculty Commons Classroom (6th floor Wilson Wing)
    In the closing session of our workshop series, offered on two different dates in two different modalities, we’ll focus on our own work as teachers. We’ll explore how AI can improve our practice, while acknowledging the risk of outsourcing teaching tasks to machines. We’ll propose strategies that enhance our pedagogy while retaining the human core of our work. The follow-on clinic will provide further opportunities to practice using AI as a tool for pedagogical development.
  • ZSR Library, ZSR 665, Faculty Commons Classroom (6th floor Wilson Wing)
    This follow-on clinic will provide further opportunities to practice using AI as a tool for pedagogical development.
  • ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)
    The Annual HI Spring Symposium will take place on Thursday, May 2nd beginning at 2:00pm. The events will take place in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404) and ZSR Room 403.

    The event will include faculty presentations on their HI-supported work throughout the 2022-2023 academic year and a Keynote Lecture by Dr. Ignacio Sánchez Prado.

    Ignacio Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities.

    A reception will follow the keynote in the ZSR 403.

    Contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, with questions.