Where is your mind? Where is it on a Saturday morning, rolling out bed, grabbing for your phone, scrolling through your email? Where is it when you’re driving through campus? Where is your mind when you’ve lost your focus? When you’ve lost your purpose? When your phone won’t stop beeping and your calendar keeps growing?
It’s time to challenge your mind—to dance.
Who: Anyone in the Bucknell community
What: A challenge to “unplug” and read without any electronic interruptions or distractions for several consecutive hours
When: Saturday, October 24 OR Sunday, October 25, 2026
Where: Anywhere! (A few reserved campus locations will be shared with those who register.)
Book Recommendations by Bucknell Centers & Institutes
How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy
(Bucknell Institute for Public Policy)
Data Feminism
(Dominguez Center for Data Science)
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
(The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender)
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
(The China Institute)
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
The Second Emancipation
(The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures)
The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World
Economic Order
(Bucknell Institute for Public Policy)
Want to borrow a book from the Griot Institute Library?
Email us at
griot@bucknell.edu
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history’s rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.“
– Toni Morrison, “The Dancing Mind”