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Mai'a Cross
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy;
Stephen Flynn
Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute
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David Lazer
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences
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Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Director of Africana Studies; Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Alicia Sasser Modestino
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center
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RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS | |
Madhavi Venkatesan, Associate Teaching Professor of Economics, published two articles in the Contemporary Justice Review's special issue on bell hooks. The article "Designing engagement: a student-based perspective of the economics of crime" was co-written with CSSH students Noah Alper, Alexis Baker, Stephen Bernard, Paolo Lichtenthal, Katherine Murphy, Jacklyn Peterson, Rayana Radueva, and Anthea Simon. The article "Addressing race in economics: Teaching to Transgress" was co-written with CSSH students Wenchunyan Liang, Emre Muftu, Ira Sharma, and Darlene Rumenser. | |
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PPE Film Screening and Discussion: GIRL TALK
Thursday, March 16
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Egan 440
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The Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program will host a screening of GIRL TALK, a documentary directed by the late Boston-area filmmaker Lucia Small. GIRL TALK tells the story of five girls on a diverse, top-ranked MA high school debate team as they strive to become the best debaters in the U.S. on their own terms.
Following the film there will be a Q&A session with Stephanie Sunata, Impact Producer of GIRL TALK, and Gaby Lewis, Tufts undergraduate and one of the film's subjects. The Q&A will be moderated by Katy Shorey, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, and Meg Heckman, Faculty Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Assistant Professor of Journalism.
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Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Short Films on Abortion
Thursday, March 16
5:00 - 7:00 PM
ISEC 102
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Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program for an evening of three short feminist films on abortion access and reproductive justice, spanning three generations.
This event is part of the Women Take the Reel Film Festival (hosted by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality and its member institutions). The films include:
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Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970 by Jane Pincus, Catha Maslow, Mary Summers, and Karen Weinstein
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With A Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom by Lori Hiris
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Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, and Mike Attie
The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion with Margot Abels, Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Services and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Gloria Sutton, Faculty Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History.
Refreshments will be served.
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9th Annual CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum
Wednesday, March 22
12:30 PM - 5:00 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. | |
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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. | |
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Ethics Institute Speaker | Daniel Barbarrusa
Friday, March 24
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
RP 426, Philosophy Dept. Common Room
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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. | |
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English Department Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer | Kiese Laymon
Tuesday, March 28
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
ISEC 102
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Kiese Laymon, Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer, will lead a reading and discussion of his work. In his observant, often hilarious work, 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 best selling 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." | | | | |
