Faculty Works-in-Progress | Reckonings Fellowship 2021–22

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenters are Kara Swanson,

Professor of Law, Affiliate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary Education; Libby Adler, Professor of Law and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Jordon Bosse, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; and Allison Chapin, PhD Candidate, History.

This year's Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week begins with speaker Jeffrey Veidlinger from the University of Michigan. Professor Veidlinger is the author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, and the award-winning books, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine; The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage; and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire. 

Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) Speaker, Alex Gourevitch

Join the Department of Philosophy and Religion for our first Spring 2022 PPE Series speaker, Alex Gourevitch, an associate professor of political science at Brown University. His research interests include the history of political and economic thought; theories of freedom; work and leisure; Marxism; rights theory; republicanism; and democratic theory.

Open Classroom, Spring 2022 | Power to the People: Community Voices in Urban Decision-Making

This session of Open Classroom is "Centering Unheard Voices: Community-Driven Collaboration for Health and Safety with Farmworkers in the U.S." The panel features Becca Berkey, Director of Community-Engaged Teaching and Research and Guest Lecturer in the Human Services Program; Maria Carmona, Immokalee Area Coordinator and Organizer, Farmworker Association of Florida; Jeannie Economos, Coordinator for the Pesticide Safety and Environmental Health Program, Farmworker Association of Florida; Joan D. Flocks, Director of the Social Policy Division in the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida; Joseph Grzywacz, Norejane Hendrickson Professor at Florida State University; and Benita Lozano, Paralegal, Migrant Unit of Florida Rural Legal Services and member of the Farmworker Association of Florida Board of Directors.

In the Ethics Institute Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, visiting scholars share their research with faculty and students alike. Intended to help build a stronger community of scholars, this series de-mystifies the research process by sharing works-in-progress. This session is "Down and Dirty in the Field of Play: Startup Societies, Cryptostatecraft, and Critical Complicity" and features speaker Daniela Gandorfer, author of the forthcoming book Matterphorics: On the Laws of Theory.

Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Passing

Screen the film Passing on Friday and join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program for a discussion of the film and novel with Professor Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Allyson Hobbs, Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Stanford University on Monday.

The film, directed by Rebecca Hall, is based on the novel by Nella Larsen and tells the story of two Black women in Harlem in the 1920s. It deals with themes of race, gender, and belonging.

This event is part of the 2022 Women Take the Reel Film Festival, organized by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality.

In the Ethics Institute Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, visiting scholars share their research with faculty and students alike. Intended to help build a stronger community of scholars, this series de-mystifies the research process by sharing works-in-progress. This event's speaker is Espen Stabell, a visiting scholar from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He engages in research in ethics and practical/applied philosophy.