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JANUARY TERM 2021
EVENTS and ACTIVITIES

JANUARY TERM 2021

EVENTS and ACTIVITIES
SIGN-UP GENIUS WEEKLY LINKS
Individual Sign-up Genius links are included with each event/activity that requires registration, but you can click
on these links to access the weekly list of events/activities that require preregistration.
January 5-8 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050d49acaf2da7fa7-jterm
January 11-15 https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/83c76db06a6cde9c17-jterm1
January 18-22 https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/83c76db06a6cde9c17-jterm2
January 25-29 https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/83c76db06a6cde9c17-jterm3

WE WANT TO SEE WHAT J-TERM ACTIVITIES YOU ARE ENJOYING!
Tag us in your photos on Instagram @hollinssao or email your picture to studentactivities@hollins.edu by Sunday
at 5 p.m. each week through January 31 and you may be the winner of our random drawing for a prize. Prizes
include Hollins apparel, a hydroflask water bottle, and more!

SEE THE LAST PAGE FOR A QUICK VIEW CALENDAR.

MONDAY, JANUARY 4
ASYNCHRONOUS
GET TO KNOW HOLLINS SCAVENGER HUNT
Program sponsor: Luke Vilelle (library)
Get to know Hollins—its people, traditions, history, and more—through this library-sponsored online scavenger
hunt. All students who complete the scavenger hunt (three clues will be revealed every Monday in January via
my.hollins and at https://library.hollins.edu/scavenger/) will receive a small Hollins-themed prize. The scavenger
hunt will also prepare participants for the Hollins Trivia Bowl, to be held Friday, January 29.
• Open to everyone, but only students are eligible for prizes.
• Link to join: https://library.hollins.edu/scavenger/.

ASYNCHRONOUS
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WORLD? TEST YOUR GLOBAL LITERACY!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Danielle Davis (international programs), Abby Wood ’22
Take our international programs quizzes about cultural facts and historical sites around the world! Below are the
details:
• Four different quizzes will be available each week from January 4-31.
• A prize will be given each week to the student who has the highest score (both in correct answers and in time).
• Prizes (gift credit cards) will be $50.
• Quizzes open 12:01 a.m. on the Mondays and close at 11:59 pm on the Sundays.
________
• Open to students only.
• Link for Quiz #1-Monday, January 4 through Sunday, January 10: https://kahoot.it/
challenge/09398439?challenge-id=d8e5d51d-bc5c-4fc299e0754e919aacd9_1605712511323 (Pin: 09398439)

ASYNCHRONOUS
The Hollins J-Term Wellness Series will include weekly wellness topics and supporting resources that will be
posted each Monday asynchronously followed by a live Zoom topic check-in and debrief on Fridays. Weekly fitness
challenges will be announced on Monday with the weekly wellness topic.

INTRODUCTION TO WELLNESS SERIES: NUTRITION
Program sponsor: Leslie Williams (physical education/athletics)
The weekly wellness series topic and supporting resources will be posted asynchronously on Mondays including an
informational/resource guide on the topic with interesting facts, helpful tools and tips, links to additional resources,
and more. Questions can be addressed during the live Friday discussion sessions.

Additionally, a weekly fitness challenge will be posted on Mondays with the wellness series topic. The winner of
the weekly fitness challenge will be revealed during the Friday live Zoom sessions. Winners will receive a prize, a
certificate of achievement, and will be featured on the Hollins strength and conditioning social media pages.

9 a.m.
GUIDED VIRTUAL MEDITATION
Program sponsor: Catina Martin (university chaplain, religious and spiritual life)
Start your day or end your day connecting to the soul through relaxing motivating meditation with Chaplain
Catina. Fifteen minutes in the morning or evening can make a difference in your day.
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/95609896712?pwd=RytIOHNIcXhuS0FvODJ2UFVxa2Nzdz09.

2-3 p.m.
EXPLORING THE MUSEUM: “12 MONTHS OF KYOTO” BY TOMIKICHIRO TOKURIKI
Program sponsor: Laura Jane Ramsburg (museum)
In this session, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum Assistant Director Laura Jane Ramsburg will mix up a Sakura Martini
Mocktail to complement woodblock prints representing “12 Months of Kyoto” by artist Tomikichiro Tokuriki. Laura
Jane will discuss the history of Japanese print exports and compare these mid-20th-century images of religious and
cultural sites to the way the locations look now. Q&A to follow!
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/96972135065?pwd=TXp5SzY3bGFqL1JRdHJtMHArY3JzUT09.

6:30-7:30 p.m.
MONDAY BINGO!!!
Program sponsor: Megan Canfield (student activities)
Join us Mondays at 6:30 p.m. EST for Monday Bingo Bash! A new theme each week.
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/94767791226.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
BTS? MUKBANG? ALL ABOUT SOUTH KOREA!
Program sponsors: Assistant Professor Seung-Hee Han (psychology), Ramona Kirsch (international programs)
K-pop, K-beauty, K-drama… Are you interested in South Korea? Let’s dive into Korean culture! In this informal
session, we will talk about Korean cultural values, history, language, food, and more. Please send me your areas of
interest or questions before the meeting (hans@hollins.edu).
• Open to students only.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 15 students.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050d49acaf2da7fa7-jterm.

12-1 p.m.
EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: DIGITAL DEEP DIVE
Program sponsors: Christine Harriger (Career Center), Katie Beach (Roanoke Regional Partnership)
Digital technology is important now more than ever. Take your existing experience with digital technology and
learn how to leverage it in the workplace. You will also learn how you can brand yourself as an employee, as well as
discuss the technological challenges that can sometimes exist when transitioning to the workplace. Everyone who
completes the program (four sessions) will earn a Digital Technology in the Workplace Certificate!
• January 5, 7, 12, and 15 from 12-1 p.m.
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required.
• Register through Handshake by January 1: https://hollins.joinhandshake.com/events/624599/share_preview.

3-4 p.m.
YARN AND NEEDLES, CROCHET
Program sponsors: Caroline Terry (HRL), Sarah Likins (HRL), Melissa Hine (assistant dean of students of education and
Title IX coordinator)
Crocheting classes on Tuesdays at 3 p.m., knitting classes on Thursdays at 3 p.m. Students can sign up for one or
both classes.
• Open to all students, faculty, and staff.
• All classes are full at this time. Contact Melissa Hine at hinemd@hollins.edu if you would still like to try
and join.

7-9 p.m.
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES: JOSE SARAMAGO’S BLINDNESS
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Meg du Bray (environmental studies)
Join in for a discussion of dystopian novels! Week one will focus on Jose Saramago’s Blindness, followed by Octavia
Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and conclude with Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Pick one, or join us for each;
all are welcome to read and join the discussion!
• Open to anyone.

• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20 participants.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by January 2: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
dystopian.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6
12-1 p.m.
WORLD WEDNESDAYS!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Christine Harriger (Career Center)
World Wednesdays is a series of virtual one-hour information sessions via Zoom over three Wednesdays in
January focusing on the following global engagement and career preparation areas: Articulating your International
Experience, International Internship Opportunities, and Exploring International Career Opportunities.
Today’s program: Articulating Your International Experience. Hone your global resume and create your five minute
elevator pitch regarding why your international experience is important to employers.
• Open to students only. Please note that these sessions will be recorded so they can be made available later for
students.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/94081469034?pwd=REtWaHRLTjM4T2lOdW5uNVhGUDNpUT09.

1-4 p.m.
VIRTUAL TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING ON ROLL20.NET
Program sponsors: Coleman Holth, Karen Ryan (library)
Come join the library’s Karen Ryan and Coleman Holth as they run a virtual tabletop role-playing game on
Roll20.net. Get out of reality for a while and dive into a whole new one where YOU are one of the main characters!
A Roll20.net account will be necessary for participation. Making a Roll20.net account is free. If you do not have a
Roll20.net account, please create one in advance of the first session at: https://app.roll20.net/account/create/.
• Open to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at six students.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by December 14: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
virtual.

2-3 p.m.
EXPLORING THE MUSEUM: THE ART OF JEAN HÉLION
Program sponsor: Jenine Culligan (museum)
In this session, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum Director Jenine Culligan will explore the Jean Hélion collection,
including a brief discussion of the artist’s style, his ties to Virginia and Hollins, a look at a number of sketches in
the collection—and accompanied by a thick and hearty bowl of vichyssoise (recipe included) with Q&A to follow.
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i. Please note that this session will be recorded.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/96834801553?pwd=Y1M2cjRyT3pRYk5IZ1FmZW9JWlhKZz09.

4-5 p.m.
MOVING ART MOVING US, PROFESSOR TINA SALOWEY
Program sponsors: Professor Tina Salowey (classics), Professor Kathleen Nolan (art history), Associate Professor Elise
Schweitzer (art), Assistant Professor Genevieve Hendricks (art history), Assistant Professor Kathryn Caliva (classics)
Faculty from the classics and art departments present short (eight to 10 minute) discussions of works of art that
have had an impact on them—from sculpture to seals to paintings. The talks will premiere in a Zoom presentation
on the date given, at 4 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Prerecorded talks will live afterward on a site yet to be determined.

Today’s program is on Phrasikleia.
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: not required. No cap.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97522665279.

7:30 p.m.
AMONG US TOURNAMENT I
Program sponsor: HAB
There is an imposter among us! Join HAB and win some prizes in this two-day tournament.
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/91596353180.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7
12-1 p.m.
EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: DIGITAL DEEP DIVE
Program sponsors: Christine Harriger (Career Center), Katie Beach (Roanoke Regional Partnership)
Digital technology is important now more than ever. Take your existing experience with digital technology and
learn how to leverage it in the workplace. You will also learn how you can brand yourself as an employee, as well as
discuss the technological challenges that can sometimes exist when transitioning to the workplace. Everyone who
completes the program (four sessions) will earn a Digital Technology in the Workplace Certificate!
• January 5, 7, 12, and 15 from 12-1 p.m.
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required.
• Register through Handshake by January 1: https://hollins.joinhandshake.com/events/624599/share_preview.

1-2 p.m.
THE FACULTY AUTHORS & ACHIEVERS: SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Program sponsor: Luke Vilelle (library)
Get to know your professors better! The Faculty Authors & Achievers: Spotlight Series will feature a faculty
member at 1 p.m. every Thursday in January talking about their current research or creative work, and welcoming
your questions.

Today’s speaker will be: Liz Gleim ’06, assistant professor of biology and environmental science
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/93020394211?pwd=ejVyK2tIUE5QeVBDMksyeFZ5WjZUQT09.

2-3 p.m.
EXPLORING THE MUSEUM: JAMES MCGARRELL “HOLBEIN’S INVENTIONS”
Program sponsor: Kyra Schmidt (museum)
In this session, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum Programs Coordinator Kyra Schmidt will sit down with a Radler and
James McGarrell’s “Holbein Inventions.” This session will offer an in-depth look at the painting including its
original inspiration, hidden symbolism, and anamorphic forms. It will be followed by a tutorial on how to hang a
hammock on campus, then an open Q&A forum.
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i. Please note that this session will be recorded.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/95656275848.

3-4 p.m.
YARN AND NEEDLES: KNITTING
Program sponsors: Caroline Terry (HRL), Sarah Likins (HRL), Melissa Hine (assistant dean of students of education and
Title IX coordinator)
Crocheting classes on Tuesdays at 3 p.m., knitting classes on Thursdays at 3 p.m. Students can sign up for one or
both classes.
• Open to all students, faculty, and staff.
• All classes are full at this time. Contact Melissa Hine at hinemd@hollins.edu if you would still like to try
and join.

6-7 p.m.
VIRTUAL YOGA CLASSES
Program sponsor: Megan Canfield (student activities)
Join student activities and an instructor from Uttara Yoga Studio each week for a one hour class via Zoom.
• Open to students, faculty, and staff.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://roanoke-edu.zoom.us/j/85844811246?pwd=Z1llcUF1dkRGWGRRcjJVSE53cVhuUT09.

7-9 p.m.
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES: BLINDNESS
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Meg du Bray (environmental studies)
Join in for a discussion of dystopian novels! Week one will focus on Jose Saramago’s Blindness, followed by Octavia
Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and conclude with Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Pick one, or join us for each;
all are welcome to read and join the discussion!
• Open to anyone.

• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20 participants.
 • Sign up through Sign-up Genius by January 2: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
   dystopian.

7:30 p.m.
AMONG US TOURNAMENT II
Program sponsor: HAB
There is an imposter among us! Join HAB and win some prizes in this two-day tournament.
 • Open to students.
 • Preregistration: not required.
 • Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97867663605.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
1-2 p.m.
WELLNESS TOPIC DISCUSSION
Program sponsor: Leslie Williams (physical education/athletics)
Join us for an informal discussion about the weekly wellness topic. Guest experts will be featured and available
to discuss tools and tips to help you be successful as well as Q&A time. During the Friday live session, the weekly
fitness challenge winner will be revealed. Topics will include:
  • Nutrition (week one)
  • Sleep, rest, and recovery (week two)
  • Exercise (week three)
  • Mindfulness, spirituality, and the body (week four)
  • Mental wellness: coping with stress and anxiety (week five)
    ________
  • Preregistration: not required.
  • Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97125036865.

1:30 p.m.
LINOCUT PRINT SUITE
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Andrea Martens (art)
Wow, what a year 2020! Create a linocut print that reflects on the previous year or visualizes your hopes for 2021.
Ideas could include the pandemic, isolation, change, etc.! We will print an edition and then create a suite from
everyone’s work (each participant will receive a print from every person), for an editioned suite of 15 prints.

Initial meeting—Friday, January 8, 1:30 p.m.
Follow-up meeting—Tuesday, January 19, 1:30 p.m.
  • Open to everyone.
  • Preregistration: required. Capped at 15.

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2-3 p.m.
EXPLORING THE MUSEUM: THE ART OF CARRIE MAE WEEMS
Program sponsor: Janet Carty (museum)
Museum Preparator Janet Carty will discuss “The Kitchen Table Series” by Carrie Mae Weems, one of America’s
most influential contemporary photographers. In 2005, Janet worked with Weems to install her photographs and
videos for the inaugural exhibition of Hollins’ Wilson Museum.
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i. Please note that this session will be recorded.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/91535008360?pwd=MjhzeFVjUmQ2VUJoN3czODZjRFp3QT09.

7 p.m.
DIY COLLAGE CLASS
Program sponsor: Rebecca Piazza (graduate assistant, student activities)
Join Student Activities GA Becca Piazza as she leads this virtual class on collage journaling. Learn about colors,
layering, and visual narrative in this interactive program. Prizes will be given away to our first three participants!
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97004161815.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9
ASYNCHRONOUS: Three weeks beginning January 9
ONLINE PHOTO/VIDEO CONTEST
Program sponsor: Myra Sims (athletics)
Athletics will host an online photo/video contest which is intended to be a fun way to reduce stress and show
creative imagination. The contest will take place over a three-week period, starting on January 9. Students can
enter any one, or all of the three weeks to compete for prizes. Week one theme is “Best Pet Photo,” week two theme
is “Best Tinker Day Costume,” and week three theme is “Best Tik-Tok Video.” Watch Hollins announcements and
athletics Instagram for detailed information.
• Open to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Go to @hollinssports on Instagram to compete.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10
7-8 p.m.
STRESS LESS SUNDAYS: HELPING YOURSELF THRIVE DURING DIFFICULT TIMES
Program sponsors: student affairs and Jill Weber (Center for Thriving, Inc.)
“Stress Less Sundays: Helping Yourself Thrive During Difficult Times” is a five-part series designed to help
participants feel more confident and competent (empowered) in their abilities to respond to stressors in their daily
lives. The first session will introduce two types of stress and help participants identify how they can use “good

stress” and “bad stress” more effectively. The remaining four sessions will dive into one segment of the participants’
lives to help them identify common stressors they face and strategies they can use to prevent or reduce those
stressors. Specific topics include stressors in their personal lives (second session), relationships and social lives
(third session), academic lives (fourth session), and their current or future professional lives (fifth session).
• Open to everyone, but only students are eligible for prizes.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97454296691?pwd=ZlVnRHhicTNHc3RwSElCQUJURDU0Zz09.

MONDAY, JANUARY 11
ASYNCHRONOUS
GET TO KNOW HOLLINS SCAVENGER HUNT
Program sponsor: Luke Vilelle (library)
Get to know Hollins—its people, traditions, history, and more—through this library-sponsored online scavenger
hunt. All students who complete the scavenger hunt (three clues will be revealed every Monday in January via
my.hollins and at https://library.hollins.edu/scavenger/) will receive a small Hollins-themed prize. The scavenger
hunt will also prepare participants for the Hollins Trivia Bowl, to be held Friday, January 29.
• Open to everyone, but only students are eligible for prizes.
• Link to join: https://library.hollins.edu/scavenger/.

ASYNCHRONOUS
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WORLD? TEST YOUR GLOBAL LITERACY!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Danielle Davis (international programs), Abby Wood ’22
Take our international programs quizzes about cultural facts and historical sites around the world! Below are the
details:
• Four different quizzes will be available each week from January 4-31.
• A prize will be given each week to the student who has the highest score (both in correct answers and in time).
• Prizes (gift credit cards) will be $50.
• Quizzes open 12:01 a.m. on the Mondays and close at 11:59 p.m. on the Sundays.
________
• Open to students only.
• Here is the link for Quiz #2-Monday, January 11-Sunday, January 17: https://kahoot.it/
challenge/07182414?challenge-id=d8e5d51d-bc5c-4fc2-99e0-754e919aacd9_1605712719121 (Pin: 07182414).

ASYNCHRONOUS
INTRODUCTION TO WELLNESS SERIES TOPIC: SLEEP
Program sponsor: Leslie Williams (physical education/athletics)
The weekly wellness series topic and supporting resources will be posted asynchronously on Mondays including an
informational/resource guide on the topic with interesting facts, helpful tools and tips, links to additional resources,
and more. Questions can be addressed during the live Friday discussion sessions.

11 a.m.-12 p.m.
CONDUCTING A SUCCESSFUL JOB SEARCH: NAVIGATING LinkedIn
Program sponsor: Christine Harriger (Career Center)
Worried about conducting a job search during challenging times? Join the career center director to learn how to
conduct a job search and use valuable search tools, such as LinkedIn and Handshake. Learn how to tap into the
hidden job market and properly use your network.
• Open to students and alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 40 students.
• Register through Handshake by January 8: https://hollins.joinhandshake.com/events/623427/share_preview.

2-3 p.m.
CITYMOBILE
Program sponsors: Assistant Professor Michelle De Groot (English), Associate Professor Elise Schweitzer (art)
Construct mobile paper sculptures inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. All supplies will be provided. We’ll
meet over Zoom to talk about the book, imagine fantastical shapes, and build our mobiles (Monday-Friday, about an
hour a day.) Then, share your finished work in the library’s “CityMobiles” exhibit during the spring semester!
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by December 10: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
citymobile.

3-5 p.m.
ZINES AND ZINE MAKING
Program sponsors: Coleman Holth, Rebecca Seipp (library)
Join us for an interactive workshop where you’ll learn about zines and have the option to make a collaborative zine.
(Short for “fanzine” or “magazine,” zines are short handmade publications that can be about anything!)
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/6670922164.

8 p.m.
GUIDED VIRTUAL MEDITATION
Program sponsor: Catina Martin (university chaplain, religious and spiritual life)
Start your day or end your day connecting to the soul through relaxing motivating meditation with Chaplain
Catina. Fifteen minutes in the morning or evening can make a difference in your day.
• Open to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/95609896712?pwd=RytIOHNIcXhuS0FvODJ2UFVxa2Nzdz09.

8:30 p.m.
FORGIVENESS ZEN STYLE
Program sponsor: Catina Martin (university chaplain, religious and spiritual life)
This four-week session is a Zen approach to forgiveness. It is a holistic approach where every person regardless of
religious or spiritual background can participate. The work of forgiveness is hard but liberating and powerful. Let’s
talk about it and hopefully practice it. Chaplain Martin invites participants to rename themselves using a fictional
character if they would like to participate anonymously without a personal image.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/91004209069.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12
12-1 p.m.
EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: DIGITAL DEEP DIVE
Program sponsors: Christine Harriger (Career Center), Katie Beach (Roanoke Regional Partnership)
Digital technology is important now more than ever. Take your existing experience with digital technology and
learn how to leverage it in the workplace. You will also learn how you can brand yourself as an employee, as well as
discuss the technological challenges that can sometimes exist when transitioning to the workplace. Everyone who
completes the program (four sessions) will earn a Digital Technology in the Workplace Certificate!
• January 5, 7, 12, and 15 from 12-1 p.m.
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required.
• Register through Handshake by January 1: https://hollins.joinhandshake.com/events/624599/share_preview.

12-1 p.m.
POSTCARD EXCHANGE
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Mary Zompetti (art)
Participate in a postcard art exchange! Using light-sensitive photographic materials, you will create a set of 25
original postcards. Then, you will mail your postcards, along with your well-wishes, to the other students in the
group and to the art faculty. In the end, you will receive 20 pieces of original art in the mail! We will show the cards
mailed to faculty in a special exhibition in the library during the spring term.
• Open to students.

• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by December 7: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
postcard.

12-1 p.m.
TRAVEL TUESDAYS!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Danielle Davis (international programs)
Travel Tuesdays are a series of virtual one-hour sessions via Zoom on three consecutive Tuesdays focusing on
various study abroad topics.

Today’s topic: Study Abroad in the Time of COVID. Hear about options and timelines.
• Open to students only. Please note that these sessions will be recorded so they can be available to students who
are not able to attend on the scheduled dates.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/94360559208?pwd=UHBBSmNqMXYrRzg5SkRNTDRleGRXQT09.

2-3 p.m.
CITYMOBILE
Program sponsors: Assistant Professor Michelle De Groot (English), Associate Professor Elise Schweitzer (art)
Construct mobile paper sculptures inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. All supplies will be provided. We’ll
meet over Zoom to talk about the book, imagine fantastical shapes, and build our mobiles (Monday through Friday,
about an hour a day.) Then, share your finished work in the library’s “CityMobiles” exhibit during the spring
semester!
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20.

3-4 p.m.
YARN AND NEEDLES: CROCHET
Program sponsors: Caroline Terry (HRL), Sarah Likins (HRL), Melissa Hine (assistant dean of students of education and
Title IX coordinator)
Crocheting classes on Tuesdays at 3 p.m., knitting classes on Thursdays at 3 p.m. Students can sign up for one or
both classes.
• Open to all students, faculty, and staff.
• All classes are full at this time. Contact Melissa Hine at hinemd@hollins.edu if you would still like to try
and join.

10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
BOOK DISCUSSION: BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Program sponsor: Visiting Assistant Professor Rebecca Rosen (English)
Book discussion: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the
Teachings of Plants. There will be a limited number of copies of the book available: write to me (rosenrm@hollins.
edu) to be mailed a copy.

10 a.m. Discussion with students only.
Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/96520175203?pwd=NGRtVWdLNmRHUTV4RHhUTjNjTU1PZz09.

1 p.m. Discussion open to students, faculty, staff and alumnae/i.
Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/94661854272?pwd=MFBWQjFITml2STRuOGI2akQrNXZ3dz09.

• Preregistration: required.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050d49acaf2da7fa7-book.

7-8 p.m.
TRANS AT HOLLINS
Program sponsor: Maggie Nanney (visiting lecturer in gender and women’s studies)
In this workshop, Maggie Nanney will facilitate a discussion with attendees to begin collectively imagining trans
justice within our community. This talk is informed by over five years of research on, for, and with trans students at
historically women’s colleges as well as Maggie’s experiences as a nonbinary alum of one such college themselves.
Topics covered will include the state of the field regarding trans inclusion at historically women’s campuses,
transfeminism, community-building and intersectionality amongst trans students, and actionable steps toward on
how to best support trans and nonbinary students at Hollins.
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: required.
• Sign-up through Sign-up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050d49acaf2da7fa7-trans.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/95762974012?pwd=T0k4a3Y4emVaTi9aQTBkYWVya3dzdz09.

7-9 p.m.
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES: PARABLE OF THE SOWER
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Meg du Bray (environmental studies)
Join in for a discussion of dystopian novels! Week one will focus on Jose Saramago’s Blindness, followed by Octavia
Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and conclude with Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Pick one, or join us for each;
all are welcome to read and join the discussion!
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20 participants.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by January 2: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
dystopian1.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13
12-1 p.m.
WORLD WEDNESDAYS!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Christine Harriger (Career Center)
World Wednesdays is a series of virtual one-hour information sessions via Zoom over three Wednesdays in
January focusing on the following global engagement and career preparation areas: Articulating your International
Experience, International Internship Opportunities, and Exploring International Career Opportunities.

Today’s program: International Internship Opportunities
• Open to students only. Please note that these sessions will be recorded so they can be made available later for
students.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/96227488876?pwd=V04wbVNUT1ZPK1RKVVRWdVk3NnB1QT09.

2-3 p.m.
CITYMOBILE
Program sponsors: Assistant Professor Michelle De Groot (English), Associate Professor Elise Schweitzer (art)
Construct mobile paper sculptures inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. All supplies will be provided. We’ll
meet over Zoom to talk about the book, imagine fantastical shapes, and build our mobiles Monday-Friday, about an
hour a day.) Then, share your finished work in the library’s “CityMobiles” exhibit during the spring semester!
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20.

4-5 p.m.
MOVING ART MOVING US, PROFESSOR KATHLEEN NOLAN
Program sponsors: Professor Tina Salowey (classics), Professor Kathleen Nolan (art history), Associate Professor Elise
Schweitzer (art), Assistant Professor Genevieve Hendricks (art history), Assistant Professor Kathryn Caliva (classics)
Faculty from the classics and art departments present short (eight to 10 minute) discussions of works of art that
have had an impact on them—from sculpture to seals to paintings. The talks will premiere in a Zoom presentation
on the date given, at 4 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Prerecorded talks will live afterward on a site yet to be determined.

Today’s program is titled: “The Silver Seal Matrix of Isabelle of Hainaut, Queen of France, in the British Museum”
• Open to everyone, including alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/93330233307?pwd=Y1puZlN2bkVNWW44ZjlwVTFqWlJHZz09.

7:30 p.m.
HOLLINS CREATIVE WRITING ALUM VIRTUAL READING FEATURING JEN FAWKES AND KAREN
SALYER MCELMURRAY
Program sponsor: English and creative writing department

BIO: JEN FAWKES M.F.A. ’10
Fawkes’ debut story collection, Mannequin and Wife, is just out (in September 2020) from LSU Press. A second story
collection, Tales the Devil Told Me, won the 2020 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction and is forthcoming in May 2021.
She has published fiction in One Story, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Best Small Fictions
2020, and elsewhere. A four-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Fawkes’ stories have garnered awards from
The Pinch, Washington Square Review, Harpur Palate, Salamander, and others. Fawkes holds an M.F.A. in creative
writing from Hollins and a Ph.D. in English literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati. She is
currently an assistant professor of English and creative writing at West Liberty University in West Virginia.

BIO: KAREN SALYER McELMURRAY M.A. ’89
McElmurray’s memoir, Surrendered Child, won the AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and was listed as
a “notable book” by the National Book Critics Circle. She is also the author of Motel of the Stars, an Editor’s Pick
from Oxford American and a Lit Life Book of the Year; Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, a novel that won the
Lillie Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing; Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, co-edited with Adrian Blevins M.A. ’90;
and, most recently, the novel Wanting Radiance. Her essays have won the Annie Dillard Prize, the New Southerner
Prize, and the Orison Magazine Anthology Award, and have several times been Notable in Best American Essays.
McElmurray has an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in creative writing from
Hollins, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

Funding provided by the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speakers Fund.

• To those outside of Hollins University who wish to receive an event Zoom link: send an email by 3 p.m. the day
of the event to creative.writing@hollins.edu and provide the event(s) you are interested in attending, as well as
your name, phone number, and, if different, the name on your Zoom account.
• Hollins University students, faculty, and staff: see my.hollins for link.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14
1-2 p.m.
THE FACULTY AUTHORS & ACHIEVERS: SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Program sponsor: Luke Vilelle (library)
Get to know your professors better! The Faculty Authors & Achievers: Spotlight Series will feature a faculty
member at 1 p.m. every Thursday in January talking about their current research or creative work, and welcoming
your questions.

Today’s speaker will be: Jennifer Turner, assistant professor of sociology
• Open to students, staff, faculty, and alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/93020394211?pwd=ejVyK2tIUE5QeVBDMksyeFZ5WjZUQT09.

2-3 p.m.
CITYMOBILE
Program sponsors: Assistant Professor Michelle De Groot (English), Associate Professor Elise Schweitzer (Art)
Construct mobile paper sculptures inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. All supplies will be provided. We’ll
meet over Zoom to talk about the book, imagine fantastical shapes, and build our mobiles (M-F, about an hour a
day.) Then, share your finished work in the library’s “CityMobiles” exhibit during the spring semester!
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15
12-1 p.m.
EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: DIGITAL DEEP DIVE
Program sponsors: Christine Harriger (Career Center) and Katie Beach (Roanoke Regional Partnership)
• Digital technology is important now more than ever. Take your existing experience with digital technology
and learn how to leverage it in the workplace. You will also learn how you can brand yourself as an employee,
as well as discuss the technological challenges that can sometimes exist when transitioning to the workplace.
Everyone who completes the program (four sessions) will earn a Digital Technology in the Workplace
Certificate!
• January 5, 7, 12, and 15 from 12-1 p.m.
• Open to students.
• Preregistration: required.
• Register through Handshake by January 1: https://hollins.joinhandshake.com/events/624599/share_preview.

1-2 p.m.
WELLNESS TOPIC DISCUSSION
Program sponsor: Leslie Williams (physical education/athletics)
Join us for an informal discussion about the weekly wellness topic. Guest experts will be featured and available
to discuss tools and tips to help you be successful as well as Q&A time. During the Friday live session, the weekly
fitness challenge winner will be revealed.

Topics will include:
• Nutrition (week one)
• Sleep, rest, and recovery (week two)
• Exercise (week three)
• Mindfulness, spirituality, and the body (week four)
• Mental wellness: coping with stress and anxiety (week five)
________
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97125036865.

2-3 p.m.
BIRD WATCHING WORKSHOP
Program sponsor: Mary Jean Sullivan (scholarships and financial assistance and Virginia master naturalist)
Winter is an excellent time of year to engage in the hobby of backyard bird watching. Not only is birding an
excellent stress reliever, it’s an opportunity for people to appreciate and interact with the environment around them
in a new way. This workshop will help students, no matter where their home base is located, to locate the common
birds in their area, find birding hotspots nearby, tools to aid in identification, and give helpful tips.
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: required.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by January 15: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
bird.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/98746800906?pwd=RkhEVDhaazN3TUUxU3gxbWI1U0wwdz09.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16
ASYNCHRONOUS: Three weeks beginning January 9
ONLINE PHOTO/VIDEO CONTEST
Program sponsor: Myra Sims (athletics)
Athletics will host an online photo/video contest which is intended to be a fun way to reduce stress and show
creative imagination. The contest will take place over a three-week period, starting on January 9. Students can
enter any one, or all of the three weeks to compete for prizes. Week one theme is “Best Pet Photo,” week two theme
is “Best Tinker Day Costume,” and week three theme is “Best Tik-Tok Video.” Watch Hollins announcements and
athletics Instagram for detailed information.
• Open to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Go to @hollinssports on Instagram to compete.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 17
7-8 p.m.
STRESS LESS SUNDAYS: HELPING YOURSELF THRIVE DURING DIFFICULT TIMES
Program sponsors: student affairs and Jill Weber (Center for Thriving, Inc.)
“Stress Less Sundays: Helping Yourself Thrive During Difficult Times” is a five-part series designed to help
participants feel more confident and competent (empowered) in their abilities to respond to stressors in their daily
lives. The first session will introduce two types of stress and help participants identify how they can use “good
stress” and “bad stress” more effectively. The remaining four sessions will dive into one segment of the participants’
lives to help them identify common stressors they face and strategies they can use to prevent or reduce those
stressors. Specific topics include stressors in their personal lives (second session), relationships and social lives
(third session), academic lives (fourth session), and their current or future professional lives (fifth session).
• Open to everyone, but only students are eligible for prizes.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97454296691?pwd=ZlVnRHhicTNHc3RwSElCQUJURDU0Zz09.

MONDAY, JANUARY 18
ASYNCHRONOUS
A special prerecorded program honoring the life and work of MLK Jr. will be available throughout the day to view
at your convenience, including President Hinton’s presentation on “Why Goodwill is not Enough.”

Participants in today’s program include:
• Mary Dana Hinton, president
• Members of the class of 2024
• Catina Martin, university chaplain and director of spiritual and religious life
• Caitlyn Lewis, graduate assistant, cultural and community engagement
• Jeri Suarez, associate dean, cultural and community engagement

ASYNCHRONOUS
GET TO KNOW HOLLINS SCAVENGER HUNT
Program sponsor: Luke Vilelle (library)
Get to know Hollins—its people, traditions, history, and more—through this library-sponsored online scavenger
hunt. All students who complete the scavenger hunt (three clues will be revealed every Monday in January via
my.hollins and at https://library.hollins.edu/scavenger/) will receive a small Hollins-themed prize. The scavenger
hunt will also prepare participants for the Hollins Trivia Bowl, to be held Friday, January 29.
• Open to everyone, but only students are eligible for prizes.
• Link to join: https://library.hollins.edu/scavenger/.

ASYNCHRONOUS
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WORLD? TEST YOUR GLOBAL LITERACY!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Danielle Davis (international programs), Abby Wood ’22
Take our international programs quizzes about cultural facts and historical sites around the world! Below are the
details:
• Four different quizzes will be available each week from January 4-31.
• A prize will be given each week to the student who has the highest score (both in correct answers and in time).
• Prizes (gift credit cards) will be $50.
• Quizzes open 12:01 a.m. on the Mondays and close at 11:59 p.m. on the Sundays.
________
• Open to students only.
• Here is the link for this week: Quiz Three - Monday, January 18-Sunday, January 24: https://kahoot.it/
challenge/0508592?challenge-id=d8e5d51d-bc5c-4fc2-99e0-754e919aacd9_1605712766081 (Pin: 0508592).

ASYNCHRONOUS
INTRODUCTION TO WELLNESS SERIES TOPIC: EXERCISE
Program sponsor: Leslie Williams (physical education/athletics)
The weekly wellness series topic and supporting resources will be posted asynchronously on Mondays including an
informational/resource guide on the topic with interesting facts, helpful tools and tips, links to additional resources,
and more. Questions can be addressed during the live Friday discussion sessions.

1-2:15 p.m.
IN PRAISE OF SMALLNESS
Program sponsor: Associate Professor Jessie van Eerden (creative writing)
A two-session generative creative writing workshop (75 minutes each session over two consecutive days). Together
we’ll read short forms, such as haiku, micro-essay, prose poems, flash fiction, and study how compressed forms
are full of gifts for our creative focus; we’ll work on writing prompts drawn from these close readings and share
our work. Participants will receive a PDF of readings and exercises the day of the event. No advance preparation is
required.

Dates/Times: Monday, January 18, and Tuesday, January 19, from 1-2:15 p.m.
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 12.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by January 11: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
inpraise.

3-4:30 p.m.
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF IMPLICIT BIAS
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Caroline Mann (psychology)
Learn about the innovative psychologists who invented the term “implicit bias” (way back in the 90s!) and discover
what decades of science can tell us about the battle between such prejudice and our better values, including the
most effective ways to combat it.
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 15.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-thesecret.

6:30-7:30 p.m.
MONDAY BINGO!!!
Program sponsor: Megan Canfield (student activities)
Join us Mondays at 6:30 p.m. EST for Monday Bingo Bash! A new theme each week.

• Open to students.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/94767791226.

7:30 p.m.
“PICTURING LANGSTON HUGHES”
Program sponsors: children’s literature, Michelle Martin (faculty member in the children’s literature program, beginning
summer 2021)
This event is part of the Children’s Literature Online Lecture Series with Q&A and social time to follow.
Langston Hughes, best known for his poetry and writings for adults, played an important role in the Harlem
Renaissance. With Arna Bontemps, his lifelong friend and his erstwhile collaborator for more than 40 years, Hughes
produced a substantial body of work for young people—so much so that scholars consider them the “fathers” of
African American children’s literature. Hughes’ legacy lives on today in numerous picture books that focus on the
artist and his works. Taken together, these picture books present a multi-faceted perspective of the complex artist
Hughes was, while honestly portraying the realism of racism and hardship for a child audience. Martin will share
her research on how picture book texts, illustrations, historical details, and Hughes’ own words work together in
pursuit of racial counter-aggressions—the means by which Hughes persistently resisted the discriminatory systems
that pervaded his artistic world.
• To register and receive a Zoom link to these events, please email KidLit@hollins.edu.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19
12-1 p.m.
TRAVEL TUESDAYS!
Program sponsors: Ramona Kirsch (international programs), Danielle Davis (international programs)
Travel Tuesdays are a series of virtual one-hour sessions via Zoom on three consecutive Tuesdays focusing on
various study abroad topics.

Today’s topic—Funding Your Study Abroad I: Boren Scholarships and Fellowships (for undergraduate and graduate
study abroad)
• Open to students only. Please note that these sessions will be recorded so they can be available to students who
are not able to attend on the scheduled dates.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1616221256?pwd=ZFpCcUM0SlpsNE0xY3FVcEg5eEtDZz09.

1:30 p.m.
LINOCUT PRINT SUITE
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Andrea Martens (art)
Wow, what a year 2020! Create a linocut print that reflects on the previous year or visualizes your hopes for 2021.
Ideas could include the pandemic, isolation, change, etc.! We will print an edition and then create a suite from
everyone’s work (each participant will receive a print from every person), for an editioned suite of 15 prints.

Initial meeting: Friday, January 8 at 1:30 p.m.
Follow-up meeting: Tuesday, January 19 at 1:30 p.m.
• Open to everyone.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 15.

7-9 p.m.
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES: STATION ELEVEN
Program sponsor: Assistant Professor Meg du Bray (environmental studies)
Join in for a discussion of dystopian novels! Week one will focus on Jose Saramago’s Blindness, followed by Octavia
Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and conclude with Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Pick one, or join us for each;
all are welcome to read and join the discussion!

• Open to anyone.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at 20 participants.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by January 2: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
dystopian2.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20
1-4 p.m.
VIRTUAL TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING ON ROLL20.NET
Program sponsors: Coleman Holth, Karen Ryan (library)
Come join the library’s Karen Ryan and Coleman Holth as they run a virtual tabletop role-playing game on
Roll20.net. Get out of reality for a while and dive into a whole new one where YOU are one of the main characters!
A Roll20.net account will be necessary for participation. Making a Roll20.net account is free. If you do not have a
Roll20.net account, please create one in advance of the first session at: https://app.roll20.net/account/create/.
• Open to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Preregistration: required. Capped at six students.
• Sign up through Sign-up Genius by December 14: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D49ACAF2DA7FA7-
virtual.

4-5 p.m.
MOVING ART MOVING US, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELISE SCHWEITZER
Program sponsors: Professor Tina Salowey (classics), Professor Kathleen Nolan (art history), Associate Professor Elise
Schweitzer (art), Assistant Professor Genevieve Hendricks (art history), Assistant Professor Kathryn Caliva (classics)
Faculty from the classics and art departments present short (eight to 10 minute) discussions of works of art that
have had an impact on them—from sculpture to seals to paintings. The talks will premiere in a Zoom presentation
on the date given, at 4 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Prerecorded talks will live afterward on a site yet to be determined.

Today’s program is on Titian’s Ariadne and Bacchus.
• Open to everyone, including alumnae/i.
• Preregistration: not required.
• Link to join: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/97522665279.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
RENAMING LISTENING SESSIONS WITH THE WORKING GROUP ON SLAVERY AND ITS
CONTEMPORARY LEGACIES
Program sponsors: Jeri Suarez (CCE), Visiting Assistant Professor Rebecca Rosen (English), Maryke Barber (library)
The Working Group will facilitate listening sessions to help the campus community thoughtfully consider naming
and renaming spaces on the Hollins campus. Our focus will be on gathering attendees’ thoughts and feelings in a
respectful discussion about reconciling our present and our history.

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