After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Thursday, July 17, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Friday, July 18, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Monday, July 21, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Friday, July 25, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Monday, July 28, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Thursday, July 31, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
After the Peanut Summer Camp
Event Name: After the Peanut Summer Camp. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences. Event Locator: 2025-AASZFK.
Friday, August 1, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Science Center Classroom AS 024S, Science Center Classroom AS 030S, Science Center Classroom AS 018S, Science Center Classroom AS 019S.
Imagining Freedom: 2nd Annual Black August Roundtable on Resistance, Resilience, and Abolition
"Imagining Freedom: 2nd Annual Black August Roundtable on Resistance, Resilience, and Abolition"
Description:Join us for the Second Annual Black August Prison Education Program Student/Faculty Roundtable, a powerful dialogue between Lewis University’s Prison Education Program students and faculty. Together, we’ll explore the lived realities of systems-impacted individuals and the transformative potential of Black liberation struggles. Through the lenses of African American and Abolitionist Studies, this conversation will center voices from within carceral spaces to envision a world beyond violence, rooted in justice, resistance, and radical hope.
Wednesday, August 27th12:30 – 2:00 PMUniversity Dining Room & on Zoom.
Event Name: Black August PEP-Faculty Roundtable. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity. Event Locator: 2025-AATAMG.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
University Dining Room AS 104C.
"Black at Lewis: Building Community, Honoring Legacy" Second Annual Welcome Reception | Black August at Lewis
"Black at Lewis: Building Community, Honoring Legacy"Second Annual Welcome Reception | Black August at Lewis,
Description:You're invited to the Second Annual Black at Lewis Welcome Reception, a vibrant community-building and networking event that brings together Black students (new and returning), faculty, staff, and alumni. Held as part of Lewis University’s Black August observance, this reception offers a space to build meaningful connections, celebrate Black presence and leadership on campus, and welcome new members of the Lewis community.
While the event centers Black community experiences, all are welcome to join in solidarity, celebration, and support.
Tuesday, August 26th4:30 – 6:00 PMFaculty Dining Room (AS 103C), Romeoville CampusLight refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact Dr. Shireen Roshanravan, Vice President for Diversity, at sroshanravan@lewisu.edu.
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Event Name: Black-at-Lewis Welcome Reception. Event Locator: 2025-AATAMK. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Faculty/Staff Dining Room AS 103C.
Black August "Confines of Place" Film Screening + Discussion
Join Dr. Tennille Allen, Lewis professor and chair of sociology, for a Black August screening of a documentary on mass incarceration created in collaboration with men incarcerated at Stateville Prison. Directors of the film will be present for a post-screening discussion. This event is part of Lewis's month-long observance of Black August. All are welcome.
Event Name: Confines of Place - Film Screening. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity. Event Locator: 2025-AATAMJ.
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
University Dining Room AS 104C.
Latinx Testimonios and Pláticas Project - Info Session
Join Dr. Gabriela Veronelli, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, for a unique opportunity to explore language shame, resistance, and identity through guided pláticas and storytelling. This student-centered experience offers the chance to earn experiential learning credit, reflect and share in a supportive environment, contribute to a digital archive that promotes linguistic justice, and build meaningful connections through storytelling. Only 10 students will be selected to participate in the full project. Attend the info session to learn how you can get involved! Registration: This virtual session is completely free to attend! ?
Click the link to register: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054EAFAF2FA0FBCE9-57516267-latinx. ?? A Zoom link will be emailed to all registered participants before the session.
Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity. Event Name: Latinx Testimonios and Pláticas Project. Event Locator: 2025-AATFZG.
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Virtual - Online.
Linguistic Justice Series Launch
The Office of Diversity will launch the Linguistic Justice Series, a new initiative celebrating bilingualism and social justice. Through panels and dialogues, the series will explore how language intersects with power, identity, and equity. Topics include translanguaging, language norms, and culturally responsive teaching. The series aims to empower educators and professionals to serve diverse communities with respect and understanding. Stay tuned for more details!
Event Name: Linguistic Justice Series Launch. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity. Event Locator: 2025-AATBVB.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Faculty/Staff Dining Room AS 103C.
Refusing Silence: A Black Film & Dialogue Series on Resistance and Reclamation
Join the Office of Diversity, Sociology Department and African American Studies Program for a film screening and discussion of Judas and the Black Messiah. In this 2021 award-winning, long-awaited film focused on Fred Hampton, founder of the Rainbow Coalition and the Illinois State Chair of the Black Panther Party, the work and legacy of the Black Panther Party in general and that of Fred Hampton, Deborah Johnson, and other Panthers in refusing state violence through political education, organizing, survival programs, and revolutionary actions are explored.
This film screening is part of Lewis University's Fall 2025 "Refusing Silence: A Black Film & Dialogue Series on Resistance and Reclamation."
“Refusing Silence” is a three-part co-curricular film and dialogue series inspired by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson’s powerful work, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. All are welcome to join this intentional space for collective engagement, healing, and intellectual empowerment through the lens of…
Event Name: Black Film Series. Event Locator: 2025-AATAZP. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
DL 250 Damian Auditorium.
Campus Visit Day
Welcome prospective students to learn more about Lewis University.
Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Admissions-Enrollment Management. Event Name: Campus Visit Day. Event Locator: 2025-AATBGR.
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM.
Academic Building Classroom AS 150A, Science Center Classroom AS 112S, De La Salle Hall Classroom DL 203, DL 250 Damian Auditorium, De La Salle Hall Classroom DL 232, Mother Teresa Hall MT 030, Exercise Lab MT 023, Science Center Classroom AS 130S,…
Screenagers Film
Event Name: Screenagers Film. Event Locator: 2025-AATATV. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: College of Education-Social Sciences.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
DL 250 Damian Auditorium.
Sugarcane - Film Screening + Discussion in Honor of Orange Shirt Day
In observation of Orange Shirt Day, please join the Office of Diversity for a screening and post-film discussion of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, an investigation into abuse of missing children at an Indian residential school that ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane reserve.
The annual Orange Shirt Day on September 30th opens the door to global conversation on all aspects of Residential Schools. It is an opportunity to create meaningful discussion about the effects of Residential Schools and the legacy they have left behind. A discussion all can tune into and create bridges with each other for reconciliation. A day for survivors to be reaffirmed that they matter, and so do those that have been affected. Every Child Matters, even if they are an adult, from now on.
The date was chosen because it is the time of year in which children were taken from their homes to residential schools, and because it is an opportunity to set the stage for anti-racism and anti-bullying policies for the…
Event Name: Film Screening - Sugarcane. Event Locator: 2025-AATAQK. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
University Dining Room AS 104C.
Hispanic Heritage and LGBTQ+ History Month Speaker
The Office of Diversity is proud to host Dr. Ernesto Javier Martínez (he/him/el), an award-winning writer, literary critic, and professor at the University of Oregon, as our LGBTQ+ History and Hispanic Heritage Month speaker. Dr. Martínez’s work explores how marginalized communities use storytelling to reclaim their narratives through literature, film, and art. He is the author of On Making Sense and co-editor of Gay Latino Studies. His creative projects include the bilingual children’s book When We Love Someone We Sing to Them and the acclaimed short film La Serenata, licensed by HBO Max. A leader in both academia and media, Dr. Martínez brings a powerful voice to conversations about identity, justice, and representation. Join us for an inspiring event celebrating the richness of LGBTQ+ and Latine experiences.
Event Name: LGBTQ/Hispanic Heritage Speaker. Event Locator: 2025-AATBCX. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Virtual - Online.
Film Screening and Discussion: When Olive Trees Weep
Join the Office of Diversity for the first installment of the Palestine Film Series, a yearlong exploration of stories from Palestine through the lens of film. We begin with a screening of When Olive Trees Weep, a documentary that centers the lived experiences of Palestinians under occupation, particularly the enduring trauma, resistance, and resilience of women and children. The film’s director will join the post-film discussion. There will be a reception with light refreshments outside of the theater at 5:00 pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm. All are welcome.
Event Name: When Olive Trees Weep. Event State: Confirmed. Organization: Office of Diversity. Event Locator: 2025-AATBBM.
Monday, October 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
DL 250 Damian Auditorium.