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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 …
Last Thursday, activist and professor Andrew Ross spoke to a packed room of students and faculty in Sills Hall. His talk, “Colonialism and Climate Justice in Palestine,” explored how water access is being used to fuel a genocide in Palestine …
Last Tuesday, Professor Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania spoke about the historical Soviet dissident movement, exploring its impact on present-day Russia and the post-Soviet world. The talk was the 2025 installment of the Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture …
On Tuesday, Philip Gregory ’76, counsel to Our Children’s Trust, an organization that works to represent youth plaintiffs in climate change litigation, spoke to a packed Beam Classroom in the Visual Arts Center. Gregory discussed the progression of the group’s …
