MLK Events
Keynote: A Conversation with Bernice A. King
Jan. 28, 2026, 7 p.m., Grand Ballroom, Hanover Inn
The Division of Institutional Diversity and Equity cordially invites you to attend the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, featuring a fireside chat with Bernice A. King, global thought leader, strategist, peace advocate, and CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change ("The King Center") moderated by Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor, academic, author, and activist. Following the live fireside chat, there will be Q&A from the audience.
The event is in person but will also be livestreamed.
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Jan. 13, 2026, from 4:30-6 p.m.
Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Williamson Gallery
“Different Roots, Common Dreams,” from award-winning photographer Becky Field, documents the vitality and diversity of New Hampshire’s immigrants.
Location: 306 Parkhurst Hall
The Community Reading Group's first book in 2026 is the Pulitzer Prize-winning King A Life by Jonathan Eig. This book will be available for pick up in 306, Parkhurst Hall, starting Jan. 19. Reserve your copy.
Jan. 19, 2026, from 12-2 p.m.
Location: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Auditorium E&F
Jan. 19, 2026, from 8:30-10:30 a.m.
Location: North Dining Hall '53 Commons
Jan. 21, 2026, from 5-6:30 p.m.
Location: Haldeman Hall 41
Speaker: Carolyn Roberts, historian of science and medicine at Yale University.
Jan. 22, 2026, from 5-6 p.m.
Location: Rollins Chapel
Join us for our annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Mulitfaith Celebration to honor the legacy of Rev. King.
Jan. 23, 10-11 a.m.
Location: Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts
A visionary conversation about the role of the arts in shaping and sustaining culture, both now and eternally.
Sponsored by: Hood Museum of Art, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Jan. 24, 2026, from 1-4:15 p.m.
Location: Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Baritone Andrzej Filończyk and tenor Miles Mykkanen portray two Jewish cousins hoping to influence America to fight the Nazis with an anti-fascist superhero comic.
Feb. 6, 2026, from 7-8:15 p.m.
Location: Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
This uplifting film follows violinist Kishi Bashi on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration and what it means to be a minority in America today.
