PCAL Calendar

Head for the Hill is a free open house event that offers a comprehensive look at the overall Hilltopper experience. 

The Kentucky Archaeological Survey invites the WKU and Bowling Green community to assist with washing and cataloging artifacts collected during their field projects from across the Commonwealth. No prior training necessary.

The PCAL Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and the Africana studies program presents documentary filmmaker, photojournalist, and author St. Clair Detrick-Jules, who will give a talk on "Black Hair + Storytelling as a Form of Social Activism." She will be discussing her journey photographing and interviewing Black women with natural hair for her recent photojournalism book, My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood, a large-scale visual anthropology exploring the deep, complex relationships across generations between Black women and their hair. She will also discuss how hair can be used as an entry point into related topics, such as self-love, anti-Blackness, healing from racial trauma, feminism, and community relationships, and offer a blueprint for using storytelling as a form of social activism.

The presentation is open to everyone, and will be held in the Gary Ransdell Hall auditorium (room 1074). We hope you can join us! Sponsored by the PCAL DEI committee, the Gender & Women’s Studies Program, the Intercultural Student Engagement Center, the OneWKU committee, the School of Media and Communication, and the Departments of History, Sociology & Criminology, and Folk Studies & Anthropology.

WKU Campus Community Band & Symphonic Band

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Student Recital

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Violin recital - Ja Seng Pauhkum and Sydney Ladd

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Katie Drybrough Master's Piano Recital

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Learn about the cultures, customs, and contributions of Afro-Latinos.

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Finding the First Farmers  with Kentucky Archaeological Survey staff and guest curators: Dr. David Pollack, and Dr. A. Gwynn Henderson.Panelists from the Kentucky Archaeological Survey (KAS) will discuss the diverse nature of indigenous farm life in the Barren River drainage of south-central Kentucky during the Mississippian era. Exploring recent archaeological finds, the team will expand on the First Farmers of the Barren River Valley exhibition at the Kentucky Museum to address misconceptions on indigenous peoples’ identity, technology, settlement patterns, foodways, and trade routes to reveal the complex societies present before Europeans arrived in what is now North America. They will also explore the similarities between indigenous farmers and Kentucky farm families of the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries.

Location: Kentucky Museum 

Alpha Kappa Delta & Student Awards Ceremony, time TBA

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

The Kentucky Archaeological Survey invites the WKU and Bowling Green community to assist with washing and cataloging artifacts collected during their field projects from across the Commonwealth. No prior training necessary.

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Student Recital

Brown Bag Lecture

Nikki Wilcox will present "NAGPRA at WKU: The Importance of Ethics in Consultation." The event is free and open to the public.

Join the WKU Department of Poilitical Science for the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on Friday, April 12th, on the third floor of Cherry Hall!

Dr. Corey Reed, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Butler University, will give a keynote address entitled, "Controlling Images: Black Existentialism as the Political Negotiations between the World, the Self, and Racialized Imagery". Dr. Reed specializes in Africana Philosophy and the Critical Philosophy of Race and Racism, with sub-interests in Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism/Male Theory, 20th Century French Continental Philosophy, and Aesthetics.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr. Landon Elkind at landon.elkind@wku.edu. We hope to see you there!

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Western Kentucky University is holding its second undergraduate philosophy conference on Friday, April 12th, 2024. The conference's keynote speaker is Professor Corey Reed (Butler University), whose talk is titled "Controlling Images: Black Existentialism as the Political Negotiations between the World, the Self, and Racialized Imagery".

The deadline for submitting papers is February 4th, 2024. Students currently enrolled (or who will be enrolled during the spring 2024 semester) at any institution of higher education (community college, college, university) are eligible to submit a paper for the event. To submit a paper, please enclose an anonymized paper with an abstract and title, together with an cover sheet that includes your institution.

Please keep papers to a length suitable for reading and/or presenting in 30 minutes (i.e. no more than 5,000 words). Speakers will also have a Q&A of 15-to-20 minutes (depending on the conference schedule).

The review process is as follows: papers will be reviewed by fellow students who are officers of the WKU Philosophy Club, who will then decide which papers to accept.

The conference venue will be in Cherry Hall (Room TBA). Cherry Hall is an accessible building. At present we are unable to offer funding for travel and lodging, but we strongly encourage you to seek funding through your department, college, undergraduate student government, and other available resources. Lunch or dinner will be provided to presenters.

Those with questions can contact the Philosophy Club faculty advisor, Professor Landon D. C. Elkind (landon.elkind@wku.edu) directly.

Jazz Honor Band

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This Sexual Assault Prevention Month event will feature students, faculty, staff, and community members showcasing their creative talents via spoken word, nonfiction essays, and other works which highlight issues surrounding sexual assault awareness & prevention, domestic violence, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, and more. Hope Harbor representatives will be in attendance to speak about the services they offer to the community for those affected by sexual trauma.

The Kentucky Archaeological Survey invites the WKU and Bowling Green community to assist with washing and cataloging artifacts collected during their field projects from across the Commonwealth. No prior training necessary.

Milan Rericha is a professor at Musikhochschule in Lugano, Switzerland and guest professor at Janacek Academy of performing arts in Brno. He has led master classes in Dresden (Musikhochschule C. M. Weber), Milano (Conservatorio di G. Verdi), Enschede and Amsterdam (Royal Music Academy), JAMU in Brno, in Prague Conservatory and Conservatory Teplice as well as in other places in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, China, USA, Mexico, Italy, Slovenia and Spain, Russia (Gnessin Special Moscow School of Music), Ukraine (Central Music School in Kiyv), Kazakhstan (Kazakh National Conservatoire), Hanoi (Viet Nam National Academy of Music), Hungary (Ferenc Liszt Music Academy), Norway (Royal Music Academy in Oslo), Sweden (Royal College of Music).

Already in early youth he manifested himself as a major musical talent and drew attention to himself by winning the national competition for music schools. He graduated with honours from the Conservatoire in Teplice and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (S. Koutnik, J. Hlavac, V. Mares). He studied then at the International Academy of Contemporary Music at the Paris Conservatoire in the class of A. Damiens and P. Boulez as well as with prof. F. Benda as a fellow of the Swiss Government at the Academy of Music in Basel. He attended master classes of Milan Etlik, Michel Arignona (Conservatoire Briten in Perigeux in France) and Charles Neidich (Julliard School in New York). Milan Rericha recieved PhD under the guidance of prof. M. Polak at the Janacek Academy in Brno.

Milan Rericha is a prize winner of many national and international competitions such as Mozart Chamber Music Competition in Prague, Prix Mercure ORF in Vienna, Swiss Rides, International Music Competition BOG in Basel.

Admission is free.

Evening of Dance, 50th Anniversary

Campus Community Band / Symphonic Band Concert
Van Meter Hall

Community Band and Symphonic Bands

Evening of Dance, 50th Anniversary

WKU Wind Ensemble

Wind Ensemble Concert
Van Meter Hall - WKU

Evening of Dance, 50th Anniversary

Chinese Music Ensemble Concert

Evening of Dance, 50th Anniversary

WKU Choirs

WKU Chorale, University Singers, and Treble Chorus with special features from the WKU Treblemakers and Redshirts! 

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Student Recital

The Kentucky Archaeological Survey invites the WKU and Bowling Green community to assist with washing and cataloging artifacts collected during their field projects from across the Commonwealth. No prior training necessary.

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

WKU Film Festival

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Last Chance to Dance

Masterworks: WKU Symphony & Choirs 

WKU Symphony and Choirs

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WKU Film Festival

WKU Film Festival

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Join the WKU Department of Poilitical Science for the Kentucky Philosophical Association Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 27th, on the third floor of Cherry Hall!

Dr. Robert Talisse, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will give a keynote address entitled, "The Civic Value of Solitude". Dr. Talisse specializes in contemporary political philosophy, with particular interest in democratic theory and political epistemology. In addition, he pursues topics in pragmatism, analytic philosophy, argumentation theory, and ancient philosophy.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr. Landon Elkind at landon.elkind@wku.edu. We hope to see you there!

WKU Film Festival

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Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition

Spring 2024 Graduating Seniors Exhibition