Senior Grad Fair
2026-02-18 12:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-19 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Transylvania Bookstore — W. T. Young Campus Center

Kenan Lecture with Nikky Finney
2026-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Transylvania University
Nikky Finney is the author of “On Wings Made of Gauze”; “Rice”; “The World Is Round”; and “Head Off & Split”, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, “Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry,” was released in 2020. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center.

35th Anniversary Reading of the Affrilachian Poets
2026-02-20 18:00 (America/New_York) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Funded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund.
Followed by a book signing.

Metamorphosis
2026-02-24 - 2026-03-01 | Lucille C. Little Theater

Spring break
2026-03-09 - 2026-03-13 | Transylvania University

Grand Kyiv Ballet — Snow White
2026-03-15 | Mitchell Fine Arts Center

A Conversation with Hala Alyan
2026-03-24 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Hala Alyan is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor at New York University, and writer. Her work grapples heroically with themes of family, displacement, belonging, and what ‘home’ means. Of her work, author Fatimah Asghar writes, “I feel honored to be alive in a time where I can read Hala Alyan.”

Delcamp Visiting Writer - Madeline ffitch
2026-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Last day of Winter term
2026-04-17 | Transylvania University

Last day of classes
2026-04-19 | Transylvania University

May term begins
2026-04-22 | Transylvania University

Alumni Weekend 2026 — Connections That Count
2026-04-23 - 2026-04-26 | Transylvania University

Last day of May term
2026-05-19 | Transylvania University

Senior Send Off
2026-05-19 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Alumni Plaza

Senior Awards 2026
2026-05-22 03:45 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Last Lecture 2026
2026-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Commencement
2026-05-23 09:00 (America/New_York) | Transylvania University

Summer term begins
2026-06-01 | Transylvania University

Juneteenth holiday
2026-06-19 | Transylvania University

Last day of Summer term
2026-07-03 | Transylvania University
