ADA, Okla. – The Duane C. Anderson Hedgehog and Fox Lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22, at 3 p.m. inside the Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.

This year’s lecture will be presented by Sarah Engel, chair for the department of Art, Design, Media & Communication and Susan Ingram, instructor from the department of Art, Design, Media & Communication.

The topic of the lecture comes from Engel and Ingram’s ongoing multimedia research project, Ada Rewind • Pause • Fast Forward, which documents more than a century of local change through re-photography, mapping, and community history.

This talk will highlight the wartime experiences of Ada’s Jewish community, shifts in local commerce, the evolving roles of women on the home front, and the lives of families with loved ones serving overseas. Drawing from archival materials, historical imagery, and firsthand accounts, Engel and Ingram offer a rich and accessible perspective on how global events resonated throughout Pontotoc County.

Ada Rewind • Pause • Fast Forward is a not-for-profit, living digital history initiative designed to preserve and publicly share an interactive visual record of Ada's past and present. Ingram, an Ada native, teaches media writing, social media, advertising, and public relations, while Engel teaches photography, related software, and art history. Their shared passion for local history and media arts forms the foundation of this ongoing project.

The lecture is named for former ECU Provost Duane C. Anderson and provides a campus-wide forum on exemplary faculty research and other academic experiences. Anderson established the lecture series during his time at ECU and originally named it for an essay by Isaiah Berlin that he read in graduate school. The essay’s title, “The Hedgehog and The Fox,” was pulled from a line in the work of Greek poet Archilochus. The line roughly reads, “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

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