SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Troubadour Concert Series performances, a Mainstage theater performance, art exhibitions and a variety of guest speakers highlight March events at Wofford College.

These events are open to the public and are free of charge unless otherwise noted. Please check the online calendar at  calendar.wofford.edu for frequent updates. For athletic events, please go to  woffordterriers.com.

For more information, contact Laura Corbin at  WoffordNews@Wofford.edu or  864-596-4180.

Thursday, March 6
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Paige West ’91, Barnard College and Columbia University
11 a.m.
Leonard Auditorium, Main Building
Dr. Paige West ’91, assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and author of “Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea," will be the guest speaker for the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture.

Thursday, March 6
Affordable Care Act Round Table Discussion
6-7 p.m.
McMillan Theater, Campus Life Building
The Wofford College Wellness Center will host a panel of health care experts to discuss the Affordable Care Act and the current state of health care policy in the United States.

Thursday, March 6
Tyson Family Lecture Series on Preservation and Restoration of Southern Ecosystems
Speaker, Johnny Stowe, S.C. Department of Natural Resources
7-8 p.m.
Olin Teaching Theater, Franklin W. Olin Building
Johnny Stowe, the Heritage Preserve manager for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources’ Heritage Trust Program will be a guest speaker for the Tyson Family Lecture on the Preservation and Restoration of Southern Ecosystems. He will speak on “Fire in the Southland: The Natural and Cultural Heritage of Woods-Fire in Southeastern North America.” Stowe, a native of the ridge and valley physiographic region of northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama, has been the Heritage Preserve manager since 1996, restoring and managing longleaf pine sand hills and wet savannas, switch cane and other grassland species, and wetlands ecosystems, such as bottomland hardwood forests, Atlantic white cedar bogs and pocosins.  The lecture series is presented by the Wofford Environmental Studies Program.

Thursday, March 6
Troubadour Concert Series
Stephen Robinson, guitarist
7-8 p.m.
Leonard Auditorium, Main Building
Heralded by the New York Times for his “effortless virtuosity with intelligence and good taste,” Stephen Robinson tours extensively as a recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist. He has appeared as guest soloist with orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, and conducts master classes at leading musical institutions and festivals worldwide.

Monday, March 10
Guest Lecture on Health Care Policy and Administration
Speaker, Mike Riordan, Greenville Hospital System
1 p.m.
Room 113, Michael S. Brown Village Center
Mike Riordan, president and CEO of Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, will speak on “The Future of Healthcare” at 1 p.m. in Room 113 of the Michael S. Brown Village Center. The Guest Lecture Series on Health Care Policy and Administration is sponsored by the Wofford Department of Government.

Tuesday, March 11
Fiction Reading by Stephen Graham Jones
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Olin Teaching Theater, Franklin W. Olin Building
Award-winning novelist and short story writer Stephen Graham Jones will read and discuss his work.

Wednesday, March 12
World Film Series: “My Kingdom”
3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Olin Teaching Theater, Franklin W. Olin Building
In the closing days of the 19th century, the Prince Regent of the crumbling Qing Dynasty orders the mass execution of the entire Meng clan. Before his beheading in a crowded Beijing marketplace, the Meng clan leader vows that his family will avenge this travesty of justice. Awaiting his death, a 5-year-old Meng boy named Erkui bravely sings an aria. The power and purity of his voice touches the onlookers including opera star Master Yu Shengying and his 7-year-old pupil Guan Yilong. Deeply moved, Master Yu rescues the boy and the two orphans, Yilong and Erkui, become brothers. Years later, Master Yu wins the coveted golden “Wu Sheng Tai Dou” (“The Mightiest Warrior”) plaque from the Prince Regent, but subsequently loses it in a duel with his archrival Mater Yue Jiangtian. Director: Xiaosong Gao; China/Hong Kong, 2011: 108 mins.; Language: Mandarin (English subtitles)

Wednesday, March 12
Art History Guest Speaker: Professor Scott Brown, University of North Florida
7-8 p.m.
Leonard Auditorium, Main Building
“Sacred and Profane: The Two Souls of Medieval Art along the Pilgrimage Roads to Compostela” will be the topic of Professor Scott Brown’s talk. From the 11th century to the present day, the roads through France and Spain to the shrine of St. James at Santiago de Compostela have attracted innumerable pilgrims on journeys of faith and penitence, but also a motley crowd of brigands, bawdies, con men, mercenaries, merchants, and migrants. The art and architecture of the abbeys and cathedrals along these pilgrimage roads addressed and reflected this very mixed audience. Themes of the sacred intermingle freely with the profane in the sculptures that decorate the portals and cloisters of 12th-century churches. As this talk proposes, this imagery — the ribald and monstrous along with the pious — was essential to the defining of sacred space in medieval communities.

Wednesday, March 19
Guest Lecture on Health Care Policy and Administration
Speaker, Thornton Kirby, S.C. Hospital Association
1 p.m.
Room 113, Michael S. Brown Village Center
Thornton Kirby, president and CEO of the S.C. Hospital Association, will speak on “The Affordable Care Act and South Carolina” at 1 p.m. in Room 113 of the Michael S. Brown Village Center. The Guest Lecture Series on Health Care Policy and Administration is sponsored by the Wofford Department of Government.

Thursday, March 20
History Lecture by Kimberly Hamlin, guest speaker
4-5:30 p.m.
Olin Teaching Theater, Franklin W. Olin Building
Kimberly Hamlin, a guest of the Wofford Department of History’s Visiting Lewis P. Jones Professor, will speak on the reception of Charles Darwin’s ideas in America.

Thursday, March 20
Gender and Islam: Confronting Stereotypes and Sharing our Stories
6:15-7:15 p.m.
Anna Todd Wofford Center, Andrews Field House
Kiah Glenn, M.A., from the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University, will speak. A dessert social will begin at 6 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Muslim Student Association, Campus Ministry, the Department of Religion and Women’s History Month.

Thursday, March 20
Troubadour Concert Series
Lynn McGrath, guitarist
7-8 p.m.
Leonard Auditorium, Main Building
Classical guitarist Lynn McGrath is being heralded as a phenomenon. Blending her passion for theater, Spanish language and literature and guitar, she has shared the poetry and music of “Platero y yo” with audiences on four continents as both guitarist and theatrical narrator, an unprecedented feat. She has played at such prominent venues as the Troy Savings Hall (Troy, N.Y.), the National Hispanic Cultural Center (Albuquerque, N.M.), and the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) in addition to performing in major cities across the U.S. Abroad she has been featured in festivals in Italy, Montenegro, Mexico, Peru and Poland and has presented at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and Oberlin Conservatory with lectures at the University of Veracruz and Mannes College. She has been a soloist with the Orchestra of Northern New York and has performed with the Albuquerque-based professional choir Quintessence.

Thursday-Saturday, March 20-22
Wednesday-Saturday, March 26-29
Wofford Mainstage Presents: “Criminals in Love” by George F. Walker Time
8-10 p.m.
Tony White Theater, Campus Life Building
Junior loves his girlfriend, Gail – a lot. Also, he is terrified that his destiny is to follow in his father’s footsteps. His father, a recently incarcerated and pathetically inept criminal, successfully lures Junior and Gail, in spite of their best efforts, into a series of misdemeanors that quickly escalate. “Criminals in Love” is a strange and enormously fun cocktail of slapstick comedy, teenage romance, action film, and social commentary. Tickets are $6 for high school students and college students (with ID) and $12 for non-students. For reservations, call  864-597-4080 or go to  www.wofford.edu/boxoffice.

Gallery Exhibitions:

Throughout March
Women at Wofford: The First Decade
Main floor, Sandor Teszler Library
The exhibit will focus on materials from the library’s archive and on women and Wofford in the first decade of co-ed education at Wofford College.

Through April 4
Selections from the Broadus R. Littlejohn Jr. Collection
Sandor Teszler Library Gallery
In 2007 the Sandor Teszler Library began the acquisition of the diverse personal collection of historical manuscripts and archives, ephemera, books, objects, and textiles accrued by Broadus R. “Dick” Littlejohn Jr. In 2011 the whole of the collection was generously bequeathed to the Library, so that present and future students of Wofford College would benefit from the study and use of its contents and thus deepen not only their understanding of past events but also the human condition. The addition of the Littlejohn Collection to the library’s Special Collections adds to the legacy of the Littlejohn family at Wofford: in the early 1970s a room that holds special collections materials was named for Dick’s father, Broadus R. Littlejohn Sr., a 1917 graduate of Wofford College Fitting School. This exhibit features just a fraction of materials held in Mr. Littlejohn’s wide-ranging collection, including historical objects and facsimiles of precious manuscripts and ephemera.

Through April 4
Cats! By Southern Exposure
Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery, Campus Life Building
Southern Exposure is a group of mature artists from the upstate South Carolina area who have been exhibiting together for about 30 years.  The organization is well recognized regionally for its works in both two and three dimensions. Practically every medium is represented in their work. The organization is composed of Carol Augthun, Jessica Barnes, David Benson, Amy Goldstein-Rice, Cynthia Link, Claire Miller Hopkins, Linda Hudgins, Mark Olencki, Sara Dame Setzer, Doris Turner, Ann Wenz and David Zacharias. Most are represented in the exhibition.