Humanities Week Keynote Address: Beth Macy, journalist and best-selling author
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
The Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech presents the 2025 Humanities Week Keynote Address featuring Beth Macy, journalist and best-selling author on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech.
Beth Macy, journalist and best-selling author will present the Virginia Tech Humanities Week keynote address. In this talk, based on Beth Macy's 2025 memoir "Paper Girl", she presents a gift of courage, empathy, and insight to audiences. Learn how Beth Macy turned to face the darkness in her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she sometimes struggles to like. And how, in facing the truth—in person, with respect, she found sparks of human dignity that she has used to light a signal fire of warning, but also of hope.
This event is free and open to all.
Registration for this event is strongly encouraged, though not required. Please visit this link to register for this event: https://forms.office.com/r/4ZqEWTgK1v.
Doors open at 6:30 PM and the talk begins at 7:00 PM.
The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech is located at 330 Turner Street NW in Blacksburg, VA.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/cJbtcW5J/image.png.
For more information and to learn more about Humanities Week and to see a full schedule of programming, visit: https://liberalarts.vt.edu/humanities-week.html or https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/10/clahs-humanities-week-2025.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTHumanities or https://www.facebook.com/events/4199895893578326 or https://www.instagram.com/vtcenterforhumanities/ or for questions, email humanities@vt.edu.
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