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Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars & Artists Program

The Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars & Artists Program has brought experts and leaders, across a variety of disciplines and fields, to engage in public forums and interact with students, faculty, staff, and other members of the community for over 25 years.

For information, please contact Zach Mendez.

2025-2026 Schedule

  • The Department of Music (in collaboration with the ) brings several world-renowned performing artists to campus throughout the 2025-2026 academic year.
    • Clara Rottsolk, Concert Artist & Singer
    • Enrico Elisi, Italian Artist & Pianist

Fall 2025

  • The Department of Critical Media & Cultural Studies brings in-person and virtual options for the HL黑料门不打烊 and the local community to experience from September 16th-21st, 2025.
  • The Department of History welcomes Dr. William (Bill) North (Carleton College) to campus to give a public lecture in conjunction with the Phi Alpha Theta historical honor society initiation and to guest-teach classes in medieval history. These events expose our students to new and different types of historical thinking and scholarship. The lecture explores the idea of 鈥榠nstitutional orthodoxy鈥� in medieval religious institutions, including churches, monasteries, and the papacy. We usually talk about medieval institutions as being unitary actors and following the positions of their leaders. To some extent, this听is accurate. At the same time, this can oversimplify what were, in fact, much听more complex and dynamic relationships inside institutions between structures, words and ideas, resources, people, and circumstances. Through discussion of examples from the late 11th and 12th centuries, this talk will explore the varieties of institutional complexity that historians may face and offer some suggestions about how we can better capture the lives of institutions and those who inhabit them. The lecture takes place Monday, Oct. 20th, @5:30-6:30PM in Faculty Club.
  • The Wellness Center is proud to present Talk with Koiya: College Edition.听Talk with Koiya: College Edition听is a twofold, dynamic event designed to engage college communities in honest, stigma-free conversations about HIV, sexual health, and wellness.听This event will feature both听a live, in-person experience听and听a recorded segment听that will be shared on social media platforms to expand reach beyond the campus audience and engage wider communities.听The program objectives are to educate students and faculty on HIV prevention, testing, and care through open dialogue, promote health equity and reduce stigma through culturally relevant, peer-informed discussion and expand public health messaging through podcast and social media outreach. Join us Monday, October 27th @4pm-6pm in KWR Galloway Room.
  • The Department of Theatre and Dance welcomes artists to support Let the People Sing, an original work crafted by HL黑料门不打烊 student playwrights centering Eatonville鈥檚 own Zora Neale Hurston and a performance at HL黑料门不打烊 1933. Based in Los Angeles, director brings extensive experience devising and presenting new works rooted in ethnographic research, helming projects at renowned theatres across a forty-year dynamic career. Set designer scenic artistry career has intersected with academic, regional, off-Broadway, and international theatre venues, and some of the most impactful producers and brands of the 20th and 21st century. Orlando-based choreographer is in demand across our region, bringing his unique brand of movement-based storytelling to Orlando Family Stage, The Renaissance Theatre, SeaWorld, Disney, the Orlando Magic, and the Dr. Phillips Center. Let the People Sing will be presented at the Annie Russell Theatre from November 13 to 16.
  • The HL黑料门不打烊 Museum of Art welcomes for a public lecture presented in conjunction with Portrait of a Movement: A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group. Delivered in person and livestreamed, the talk will introduce new scholarship on works in the RMA collection by Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, positioning Bell as a central figure in the development of modernism. A Q&A with attendees will follow. This event is free and open to the public. Based in the UK, Dr. Hitchmough is emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Sussex and served for over a decade as curator at Charleston, the modernist home and studio of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. She later led Historic Buildings & Research at Historic Royal Palaces and is author of (2020) and (2025). The lecture takes place Tuesday, November 18, 6 p.m. at the HL黑料门不打烊 Museum of Art.

Spring 2026

  • The Department of Environmental Studies will host a film screening of the new documentary 鈥樷�� followed by a panel discussion with the film director, Sasha Wortzel; of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Friends of the Everglades Executive Director ; and Pulitzer Prize winning author . The event will mark the film鈥檚 Orlando premier and will take place in Bush Auditorium on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @6pm. As a follow up to the film, we will host another discussion on Everglades art and advocacy on Tuesday, February 10th, 2026听@6pm with artists and at Mary Jean Plaza. These events will be part of a four-part series that explores the human-nature connections in Florida ecosystems.
  • The Department of Political Science will host Dr. James Marshall Shepherd, Atmospheric Scientist, Professor, Scholar, TV personality, Forbes Contributor, and Host of The Weather Geeks Podcast. Dr. Shepherd will explore public science literacy, social media and engagement in a post-Covid world. Using the lens of climate, he will explore what shapes perception, biases and sciences literacy. He brings decades of experience to the topic as a NASA scientist, University of Georgia Professor, Forbes Contributor and the host of the Weather Channel's Weather Geeks. Please join us on Tuesday, February, 24th @7pm in the Crummer/Truist Auditorium.
  • The Department of Anthropology will host Dr. Agust铆n Fuentes, a prominent biological anthropologist and professor at Princeton University. He brings together anthropology, biology, and psychology to challenge widespread myths about evolution, race, gender, sex, aggression, and human behavior. Dr. Fuentes will highlight his recent book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary, and he will cover the evolution and biology of sex, and challenge popular but harmful views on sex and gender. Please join us on听Thursday, February 26th at 5pm in the Bush Auditorium.
  • The Student Center for Community & Connections presents Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip),听one of the nation鈥檚 leading photographers in the Pacific Northwest. Matika鈥檚 Project 562 reclaims the narrative of Indigenous folks and imagines a modern world that doesn鈥檛 erase its Indigenous intelligence, but one that is illuminated by their stories, lands, and living cultures. Monday, March 2nd, 2026 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, KWR Galloway Room Lunch will be provided!
  • The HL黑料门不打烊 Museum of Art welcomes interdisciplinary artist Sa煤l Hern谩ndez-Vargas, for a public artist talk presented in conjunction with the exhibition Souvenir. Recently, he has听exhibited听and performed听in the Houston听Climate Justice Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)听, and the Lawndale Art Center (Houston). He was an artist in residence at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands (Arizona State University), and the Dust Program (Marfa). His work has been discussed in The Tyranny of Common Sense by Irmgard听Emmelhainz听(Sunny Press, 2021). In 2020, he developed Afilada听Radio and co-curated No hay lengua听humana que鈥攁 series of radio interventions for independent radio projects in Mexico. His first book, Te听prepar茅听humo, was published in 2019 (UNAM, Mexico). He co-founded the publishing project Sur+. Hern谩ndez-Vargas holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San听Diego听and an Interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Houston. Currently he is a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston.听Hern谩ndez-Vargas will speak on his artwork听in听the exhibition Souvenir听and in the broader context of his practice as a contemporary artist, addressing themes of displacement, heritage, and place across multiple media.听The artist talk will be presented on
  • Hosted by the Olin Library and the HL黑料门不打烊 Wellness Integration Team, please join Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar, for a series of campus events on Wednesday, March 4th, exploring how fostering belonging and connection directly supports student success and wellbeing. These sessions offer practical insights for educators, staff, and student leaders who shape inclusive, thriving campus communities.
  • The Department of Theatre and Dance welcomes artists to support Anastasia: The Musical, an engaging new work of historical fiction set to an enchanting score. Music director Jason Bailey is in demand across Central Florida and beyond: the University of Central Florida, the Renaissance Theatre, the Dr. Phillips Center, Orlando Family Stage, Oregon Children鈥檚 Theatre, Missoula Children鈥檚 Theatre, and American Family Theatre. Bailey has arranged and orchestrated new musicals, including From Here and Flying Lessons, both of which had recent stints off-Broadway. Choreographer Adonus Mabry has performed and and choreographed with Tokyo Disney, Viking Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Disney World, Universal Studios, Creative City Project, Modern Theatrics, Renaissance Theatre, and the Crawford Jazz Project. Anastasia: The Musical will be presented at the Annie Russell Theatre from April 16 to 19.

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Have a scholar and/or artist in mind for the next academic year? Submit your application by April 8th @5pm for the TPJ Committee's consideration.

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Thomas P. Johnson's 鈥�34 鈥�82H 鈥�99 generous endowment and thoughtful vision developed into the Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars & Artists Program.