Cracking symbols and codes, deciphering ancient texts, and uncovering millennia-old secrets are some of the mystifying feats for which fictitious archaeologists are often credited. While we can’t all ...

Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago have established a new Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series in an effort to increase the visibility of Native American and Indigenous ...

Bates presents lecturers offering insight into mathematics and medical technology on Feb. 26 and 28. Leila Schneps, a mathematician specializing in number theory (and moonlighting as a murder-mystery ...

Local writers and creatives will have the opportunity to fine-tune their skills this summer at Hood College. The Young Writers’ Conference runs from Aug. 5 to 16 and is open to students in high school ...

Following is the schedule of events for the Lehigh Valley version of the “Year of the Pennsylvania Writer” conference. All programs will be held in Moravian College’s Foy Hall. – 2 p.m. – Lecture on ...

Elk River Arts & Lectures presents a celebration of “A River Dream: The Writing and Art of Russell Chatham’s Clark City Press,” edited by Jamie Harrison, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, ...

If you are at all familiar with the life of author Shirley Jackson, then you already know that her affinity for the supernatural went far beyond her work. Best known for her macabre fable "The Lottery ...

Roy Peter Clark has written five books in the past 10 years. But he is a man of few words — and short songs. His brevity, no doubt, derives from his mother, Shirley Hope Clark. The daughter of Italian ...