Liberal Arts alumna Lori Feathers ('90, Russian) will speak from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in 124 Sparks Building at University Park. Feathers spent 24 years as an international oil and gas attorney before transitioning to the book world. Today, she is a book buyer and founding partner for Interabang Books in Dallas, Texas, and host of the "Across the Pond" podcast. She also is the founding chair of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada; and co-founder of the Inside Literary Prize, which is awarded by incarcerated readers. She remains deeply engaged with Penn State and was named a 2026 Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association.
Feathers' talk will explore her trajectory over two very different career paths and examine how a background in languages and literature informed those paths. She will also discuss the different projects she is currently working on.

Lori Feathers

College: Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts

College of Liberal Arts

Penn State's Gender Equity Center and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will host a screening of the 2022 documentary "The Janes" on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the HUB's Flex Theater. A panel discussion will follow.

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Film Screening: "The Janes"

Meet the authors of the new "Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle" on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center. The event, co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Jewish Studies Program, and Penn State University Press, will feature an exhibit of photos from the book by Hassan Sarbakhshian in the Pasquerilla lobby and a lecture by Iranian Jewish musician Galeet Dardashti in the Eisenhower Chapel.

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Jews of Iran: Book Launch and Photo Exhibit

Sharon Wright Austin, professor of political science at the University of Florida, will lay out the key issues related to recent attacks on Black studies at all levels of the educational system and discuss ways to respond to the assault during a lecture at Penn State's University Park campus. The talk will be held at 5 p.m. Feb. 28 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The forum is presented by the Penn State Department of African American Studies, with additional support from the Humanities Institute and Department of Political Science.

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Upcoming Lecture: The Backlash Against Black Studies

Penn State’s Department of Communication Arts and Sciences will host the Summer Symposium on Harry Shearer’s “Le Show” Aug. 1-3 at University Park. The select, interdisciplinary symposium will feature presentations and discussions centered around the soon-to-be-completed archive dedicated to Shearer's long-running radio program, "Le Show."

Summer symposium dedicated to Harry Shearer’s 'Le Show' to be held Aug. 1-3

Anyone who is interested is invited to attend and participate in Marathon Read 2025, the annual literature reading featuring members of the Penn State and greater State College area community, on Sept. 3.

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Marathon Read 2025

The Center for Language Science will host a special session on Sept. 5 of its annual speaker series focused on helping faculty and graduate students amplify the impact of their research to broader audiences.

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'Communicating Research Impact to Broader Audiences'

Accomplished fiction writer Kanza Javed will offer a reading and Q&amp;A at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 9 in 102 Burrowes Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

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Penn State Creative Writing Program to host reading by Kanza Javed

Join Feb. 28 for an afternoon of lectures and activities by the Penn State Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies exploring death and the afterlife in the ancient world.

Community Workshop: 'Death and the Afterlife'

Penn State and State College's first-ever Arab-American Heritage Month Celebration will take place on Thursday, April 9 and Saturday, April 11 at the Woskob Family Gallery (146 S. Allen Street) in State College.

Woskob Family Gallery, 146 South Allen Street, State College, PA

Arab-American Heritage Month Celebration

Liberal Arts alumna Lori Feathers will speak from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in 124 Sparks Building at University Park. Feathers' talk will explore her trajectory over two very different career paths and examine how a background in languages and literature informed those paths. She also will discuss the different projects she is currently working on.

Liberal Arts

From International Law to the Book World: Alumni Career Conversation with Lori Feathers

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM / September 22, 2026