Colloquium Series
Faculty, guests and students support a lively process of research and exchange of ideas that makes history a vibrant discipline. This series features several such speakers each semester.
Fall 2026 Schedule
Hispanic Heritage Month lecture
Don’t Leave it to Chance: Inclusive Placemaking for Belonging and Access
Tuesday, September 15, at 3:30 p.m. in Jack Miller Auditorium
Presented by Dr. Delia Fernandez-Jones
Through her personal and professional journey as a first-generation Latina college graduate and later becoming a professor of Latinx history and a higher education administrator, Dr. Fernandez-Jones will present on how we can create inclusive spaces through placemaking. In understanding how Latinxs have done this in the past in West Michigan, we can learn how to intentionally make places where people can both access necessary resources for their survival and thriving and feel as if they belong. Invoking women of color feminism, Dr. Fernández-Jones asks us to consider our role in intentionally creating space for one another while not leaving it to chance.
250 Years of United States Citizenship
Thursday, October 15, at 7 p.m., Herrick District Library
Presented by Dr. Jeanne Petit, department chair and professor of history at Hope College
workP. 616.395.7620
history@hope.edu