Monday, Sept. 21, 2026
Let’s Talk Raciolinguistics: Language, Race, and Racism in Global Context
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 4:30 p.m.
Faculty/Staff Dining Room, CC302 (hybrid)
The kickoff event in the Arts & Ideas Series, Dr. Eva Michelle Wheeler presents raciolinguistics as a framework for understanding how racial and linguistic categories are historically produced and socially constructed. Drawing on examples from the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Cape Verde, and beyond, she invites the audience to question assumptions, reflect critically on their positionality, and envision language as a tool for liberation.
Hybrid Link: https://zoom.us/j/96494069868
Meet the Author: Dr. Eva Michelle Wheeler
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1:30 p.m.
Alumni Room, McCarthy Center
What does it mean to find a place to call home?
Join us for a conversation with the author of Alfacinha, a multilingual memoir that takes us from Lisbon to the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Cape Verde, and beyond. Come explore how language, culture, love, and the places we call home shape who we are.
Danforth Fall Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday, Sept. 26, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Danforth Art Museum
Please join the Danforth staff and artists to celebrate the Spring Exhibitions! Our Fall exhibitions include: Suzanne Gainer, Elizabeth Clark Libert, and Neal Rantoul.
There will be light refreshments and a cash bar. We are excited to celebrate with all of you--our members and friends!
The Opening Reception is free, but registration is required.
Any questions, please contact Mary at merickson2 [at] framingham.edu.
Local Business Collaboration: Fresscafe at the Dining Commons
Friday, Sept. 25, 4:30 to 7 p.m.
McCarthy Center Dining Commons
As part of a new collaboration with local restaurants in our area, FSU will host Fresscafe in the Dining Commons where they will be preparing food from their menu that will be provided as part of your regular meal swipe! Learn more about Fresscafe here.
CELTSS Scholarly and Creative Showcase: Writing Experiences - a practical and critical approach
Thursday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Heineman Ecumenical Center
This event brings together two visiting lecturers from Framingham State University's English Department— nonfiction writer Talia Adry and scholar Dr. Bryan Counter—for a reading and conversation on literatures ability to recount hardship without falling into problematic tropes, and the difficulty in defining genre when the subject is life itself.
The first of three volumes, Adrys memoir, Complicit, centers around the disjunction between the narratives we tell ourselves, and the ones we seek to define in the world. Set in Framingham in the early 2000s, Adry chronicles a disturbing adolescent relationship with a 32-year-old man and examines such issues as consent and abortion in a post-Roe era. Told in a series of flashbacks and present-day meditations, Complicit examines the intersections of poverty, single-parent households, sexual abuse, and reproductive justice in America today.
Dr. Counter will present the work through a critical lens, showing how Adrys form and subject matter exacerbate one another, disassembling and reassembling genre, and asking us: does a plotless narrative exist? A discussion and Q&A will be moderated by Associate Professor Sam Witt, with Professor Adry and Dr. Counter addressing issues of genre, form, style, and narrative in both the theory and practice/
Implementing Interaction with VoiceThread
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1:30 p.m.
Hemenway Hall 107
Join us to take a look at Voicethread and learn what distinguishes it from other media delivery platforms. We'll demonstrate how to create interactive asynchronous assignments that help build community and social presence that can be used in any class!