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On Tuesday afternoon, author and director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate Ken Stern delivered a talk titled “Hate, Memory, Binary Thinking and the Future of Democracy” in Kresge Auditorium. The talk was the fourth in the …
Last Wednesday in Kresge Auditorium, professor of law at Harvard Law School Lawrence Lessig discussed ongoing litigation at the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit regarding campaign finance regulations. This litigation pertains to a 2024 Maine ballot initiative limiting …
On Thursday night, Stefan Andreasson, reader in comparative politics at Queen’s University Belfast, delivered a lecture unpacking the dominance of Exxon Mobil in the American and global oil industries. Andreasson examined Exxon Mobil’s commitment to growing its oil and gas …
On Wednesday night, Dr. Teona Williams ’12 spoke to a crowded room of students, professors and community members in Mills Hall. Her talk, titled, “When Hunger was the Disaster: The Politics of Hunger and Food Justice in the Mississippi Delta,” …
Editor’s Note, Saturday, November 1, at 4:21 p.m.: A previous version of this article misinterpreted a quote as saying that an attendee felt the talk was ineffective in linking together the three forms of bigotry discussed. He instead meant that …
Though we recognize names such as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston in conversations about Black intellectual life, the name Arturo Alfonso Schomburg remains relatively obscure.
Schomburg is the namesake of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black …
On Wednesday afternoon, Yair Rosenberg, a staff writer for “The Atlantic,” delivered a talk in Kresge Auditorium titled “The Turn Against The Jews: The Societal Shifts Behind American Antisemitism.” The talk was the second in the Viewpoint Exchange speaker series.…
On Monday, author, academic and scientist Alan Lightman H’05 shared his vision for how science—and scientists—should engage with the world beyond their academic work. Over the hour and a half lecture, which was based on his co-written book “The Shape …
On Thursday evening, University of Illinois Chicago Professor Gholdy Muhammad presented a talk titled “Cultivating Genius and Joy in Education through Culturally and Historically Responsive Pedagogies” in Kresge Auditorium as the 2025 iteration of the Brodie Family Lecture series. Her …
Last Wednesday, Professor of Social Sciences Samuel Putnam delivered his inaugural lecture as the A. Myrick Freeman Chair in Social Sciences, titled “The Outer Edges of Nature and Nurture.” Speaking in Mills Hall, Putnam discussed his research on cross-cultural differences …
