In a new course called The Economics of Culture and Identity, students will be conducting ethnography in order to discover their classmates’ perspectives on the world. The course will be taught in the fall by Miller Upton Teaching Fellow Arielle John, who will at that time be joining the faculty as an assistant professor of economics.

Sociologist James M. Jasper will present “Protest and the Search for Social Justice in Beloit, the U.S. and the World” as the 10th annual Duffy Colloquium keynote address. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, April 16 at 8 p.m. in Wilson Theatre of Mayer Hall.

Award-winning poet Kevin Young has been selected to address graduates at Beloit College’s 164th commencement ceremony. Approximately 300 graduates will receive their diplomas in the ceremony taking place Sunday, May 18 at 11 a.m. on the lawn in front of the college’s main administration building, Middle College.