Award winning journalist Michele Norris to keynote Messiah College’s spring Humanities Symposium
February 11th, 2015
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (Feb. 11, 2015) — Michele Norris, host and special correspondent for NPR, will deliver the keynote address “Eavesdropping on America’s Conversation on Race” Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in Parmer Hall in the Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts. The lecture is sponsored by the Messiah College Center for Public Humanities and is part of the College’s annual Humanities Symposium. Admission is free, but a ticket is required. To obtain a ticket, contact the Messiah College Ticket Office at 717-691-6036 or visit messiah.edu/tickets. For more information, contact Shirley Groff at groff@messiah.edu.
About Michele Norris
Michele Norris is one of the most respected voices in American journalism. As NPR host and special correspondent, Norris produces in-depth profiles, interviews and series, and guest hosts NPR News programs. Norris also leads “The Race Card Project,” an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America she created after the publication of her 2010 family memoir, “The Grace of Silence.”
About the Humanities Symposium
Since 2004, the Center for Public Humanities at Messiah College has sponsored an annual Humanities Symposium devoted to the discussion of a common theme. Past symposium themes have included community and belonging, the human imagination, and technology and humanity. Keynote speakers have included James Leach, Alan Wolfe and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Over the past 10 years, faculty and students have regularly contributed to the Humanities Symposium.
About Messiah College
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Mechanicsburg, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg.
