Pre-Eclipse Talks: "A New Day" A Spiritual Awakening of Earth's Children
Wednesday, April 3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Crouse Hall, Room 101, The University of Akron
Join the Institute for Human Science, Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences, and Urban STEM Center to celebrate and prepare for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse! Indigenous storytellers Sharon Bird (Opaskwayak Cree First Nation) and Shianne Eagleheart (Haudenosaunee-Seneca; Executive Director, Red Bird Center) will share cultural traditions and preparations for a solar eclipse. They will be joined by additional faculty and student speakers from The University of Akron. Attendees will also have the opportunity to pick up a free ISO certified solar eclipse viewer and make their own pinhole solar viewer!
This event is free and open to the public. Please note that this Institute-sponsored event will take place at the Crouse Hall Auditorium, Room 101, located on The University of Akron campus.
Full Program
5:00 PM - 5:05 PM: Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
5:05 PM - 5:20 PM: Professor of Physics Dr. Sergei Lyuksyutov will present Ring of Fire 2024.
5:20 PM - 5:35 PM: Associate Professor of History Dr. Michael Levin and Professor of History Dr. Kevin Kern will present From Sun-Swallowing to Saros-Cycling: Predicting Eclipses in the Ancient World.
5:35 PM - 6:15 PM: Indigenous storytellers Sharon Bird and Shianne Eagleheart will present "A New Day" A Spiritual Awakening of Earth's Children.
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM: Professor of Physics Dr. Ben Yu-Kuang Hu will present The 1919 Solar Eclipse and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.