9th Annual CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum

Wednesday, March 22

1:00 - 4:00 PM

RP 909

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CSSH undergraduate students who have conducted research—independently or with faculty, for class or on co-op, completed or still in progress—will present their projects. Attendees are invited to stay for a portion or the entire event.

Feminists on the Politics of Crisis: The Annual WGSS Women's History Month Symposium

Thursday, March 23

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Friday, March 24

8:45 AM - 4:00 PM

Cabral Center

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The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program hosts its annual Women's History Month Symposium, a lively day of conversation among academics, activists, and writers. This year's theme brings feminist thinkers together to address the greatest crises facing us today—the climate emergency, reproductive justice in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe, and censorship in education—and to suggest feminist frameworks for solutions and strategies forward. 

Ethics Institute Speaker | Daniel Barbarrusa

Friday, March 24

12:00 - 1:30 PM

RP 426, Philosophy Dept. Common Room

Daniel Barbarrusa is a visiting PhD student from the University of Seville, Spain. For his dissertation, “The Internet, Echo Chambers and Conspiranoia: Digital Challenges Through the Lens of Social Epistemology,” he tries to unpack how the new ways to socialize on the Internet may lead us to form distinct beliefs and theories.

CSSH Equity Event Series | Lecture #1: Race and Justice in the Prison System

Monday, March 27

12:00 - 1:00 PM

RP 909

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Michael Lawrence Walker, Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, will explore the under-examined issue of sleep hygiene in jails, a problem associated with increased risks for developing mood disorders, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and other physiological problems.

CSSH Equity Event Series | Lecture #2: Race and Justice in Healthcare

Monday, March 27

4:30 - 6:00 PM

RP 909

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Christopher Willoughby, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Pitzer College, will speak on the paradox of medical science in antebellum America. Professor Willoughby's lecture takes a hard look at the racial ideas of both northern and southern medical schools, examining how racist ideas were not external to the medical profession but fundamental to medical knowledge.

DEIB in the Workplace | Hosted by CSSH DEI Co-op Committee

Tuesday, March 28

1:30 - 3:00 PM

RP 909

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Join employers, alumni, practitioners, students, and faculty in a conversation on how to cultivate meaningful Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) practices in the workplace.

English Department Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer | Kiese Laymon

Tuesday, March 28

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

ISEC 102

Kiese Laymon, Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer, will lead a reading and discussion of his work. In his observant, often hilarious prose, Laymon does battle with the personal and the political: race and family, body and shame, poverty and place. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Heavy, the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and the novel Long Division. Laymon is a bestselling author, social critic, and essayist. He is the recipient of a 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship for "bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction."

Philip N. Backstrom Jr. Witness Testimony with Elisabeth Dopazo

Wednesday, March 29

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Cabral Center, John D. O'Bryant African American Institute

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Elisabeth Dopazo was born in Saxonburg, Saxony in 1929. Her parents were both arrested by the Nazi government in the 1930s, leading to her mother's imprisonment and her father's execution. Ms. Dopazo lives in Brookline, MA and has been a speaker for Facing History and Ourselves, a global non-profit organization that uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

This event is part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week and is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served.

The Perils of Memory: Does Remembering Genocide Make Us Safer? | The 30th Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture with Philip Gourevitch

Thursday, March 30

6:30 - 8:00 PM

ISEC 102

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Drawing on his groundbreaking reporting from Rwanda, and in the light of Putin’s war on Ukraine, author and longtime New Yorker staff writer, Philip Gourevitch, considers whether the moral and political lessons we draw from the Holocaust can, in fact, safeguard us against repeating the past. Join the Jewish Studies department for a vital discussion of the uses and abuses of memory and history.