Phi Beta Kappa - News & Events
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PBKudos
- To Lamont School of Music Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Aleysia Whitmore, one of the inaugural recipients of the PBK Norman G Pauling Research Fellowship for Early-Career Scholars: www.pbk.org/pauling-fellows-2024
Upcoming Events
- New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration: Thursday afternoon, June 12
- Students elected by unable to attend should email phibetakappa@du.edu , as we work on scheduling an abbreviated, "make up" ceremony this summer, and later.
- Alpha Association of Colorado graduate school scholarship deadline is June 30th.
- Stay tuned for 2025-26 school year activities.
newly elected members have been emailed invitation and acceptance instructions
Be sure to check the Alpha Association of Colorado site for upcoming regional events.
Past Events
- 2025 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration, Thursday, 12 June
- Students elected by unable to attend should email phibetakappa@du.edu , as we work on scheduling an abbreviated, "make up" ceremony this summer, and later.
- Chapter Fall social (9/27/24) at the Myhren Gallery, School of Art and Art History
- 2024 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration, Thursday, 13 June
- Chapter Spring meeting (4/30/24) to elect new students.
- Chapter Fall meeting (10/23/23), with reading by member and English Professor Dr Maik Nwosu
- Chapter Fall social (10/6/23): Gallery exhibit: http://vicki-myhren-gallery.du.edu/2023/08/16/exhibition-announcement
- New member induction (9/21/23): abbreviated ceremony for those not able to attend June event
- 2023 Initiation and Graduate Celebration (6/8)
- Spring 2023 Chapter meeting (5/5/23) including new member election
- Spring Member Social (4/21): drop in at Myhren Gallery (Schwayder Art Bldg)
- 2023 Student Scholar Showcase (3/2)
- Chapter Meeting & member lecture (1/25). Brief, mid-academic year business meeting, followed by a talk by member Dr Seth Masket, The 2022 Midterm Elections: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward.
- Alpha Association of Colorado 2022 annual meeting (9/17), lunch, and speaker, DU Lamont School of Music Professor of Musicology (and PhiBete), Jack Sheinbaum.
- Poems as Pots, Circles, Orbits, and Origins poetry reading & discussion (2/24/22) with DU alumn and CSU creative writing professor, Dr Dan Beachy-Quick.
- Chapter meeting (10/21/21) with guest lecture by University Provost and Law faculty, Mary Clark: The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention: “Outgrowing the Compact of our Fathers”
- 2021 Initiation and Graduate Celebration (6/9/21). Access a recording of the event on the DU Mediaspace site.
- 2020 initiation and graduate celebration (6/11/20). View a recording on the DU Mediaspace site.
- Spring 2020 Chapter meeting, including new member election, 23 April via Zoom.
- 2020 Student Scholar Showcase (3/2/20).
- Winter 2020 Chapter meeting (1/28/20), with senior Reanna Magruder and Dr Ashley Hamilton, who shared about their work with the DU Prison Arts Initiative.
- Fall 2019 Chapter meeting (10/30/19)
- Fall 2019 member mixer (10/4/19), at Vicki Myhren Gallery (Schwayder Art Bldg). Preceded by new member initiation (carryover from spring).
- 2019 initiation and welcome banquet (6/13/19) at Newman Center for the Performing Arts
- Contesting Hate: A Critical Response to Christchurch (5/30/2019) --faculty roundtable. Sponsored with the departments of Languages & Literatures, Religious Studies, History, and Political Science; the Office of the Dean (CAHSS); the Center for Middle East Studies; the Center for Judaic Studies; the Center on American Politics; and the Office of Information Technology.
- Member mixer (4/18/19) at Vicki Myhren Gallery (Schwayder Art Bldg)
- Hosted Colorado's CO ΦBK chapter executives meeting (3/9/19)
- Student Scholar showcase (3/8/19)
- Member mixer (2/1/19) at Vicki Myhren Gallery
- Freedom of Expression on campus lecture by Frederick M Lawrence, ΦBK Secretary and CEO (5/10/18) Ref American Council on Education 10/31/2018 piece based on same lecture
Visiting Scholars
The national ΦBK Visiting Scholars program enriches the intellectual life of host campuses by offering chapters the opportunity to compete each year for a visit from a panel of twenty of the nation's most distinguished scholars.
The DU chapter has welcomed multiple scholars, each giving a public presentation, visiting classes, holding office hours, and sharing breakfast with student members. Our most recent Visitors include:
- Professor Kendra McSweeney (April 2025), Professor of Geography, The Ohio State University. Presented The Drug War & Climate Change: Making the Connections.
- Professor Russell Muirhead (January 2024), Dartmouth Professor of Government and New Hampshire state legislator, presented Conspiracy & Democracy. PDF flyer
- Professor Ganesh Sitaraman (October 2022) from Vanderbilt Law, presented The Future of Supreme Court Reform. Hosted with DU Sturm College of Law, University Libraries, Center on American Politics, University Honors Program. PDF lecture poster
- Dr Forest Rohwer (April 2022), San Diego State University professor of biology. Cosponsored with DU Biological Sciences, University Honors Program, University Libraries, and Geography & the Environment.
- Dr Evie Shockley (April 2021), Rutgers University English professor. With co-sponsors ΦBK Alpha Association of Colorado and the DU Department of English and Literary Arts. Virtual visit to classes, and offered two poetry readings and discussions.
- Dr Richard Alley (November 2019), from Penn State, presented on Two-Mile Time Machines: Ice Cores and Abrupt Climate Change. With co-sponsors Biological Sciences, Geography and the Environment, University Libraries, Center for Sustainability, and the Honors Program.
- Dr Jamsheed Choksy (April 2019), of Indiana University, presented on Religious Minorities in Contemporary Iran: The Politics of Tolerance and Intolerance. With co-sponsors Religious Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies.