Lectures and Panels

This lecture pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a civil rights leader and his enormous contribution to advancing civil rights in the United States.

A discussion with Jennifer Chudy (Assistant Professor of Political Science), Brian Schaffner (the Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies at Tufts University) and Julio Varella (LatinoUSA), led by Michael Jeffries (American Studies Department).

Architectural historian Kathryn O’Rourke ’02 will explore the archaic qualities of Taliesin West and the humanism expressed in Wright’s writings to illuminate developments in 1930s architectural modernism.

The Economics Department welcomes Mary C. Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

The concept and language of trauma have become ubiquitous in our culture and society, both before and after #MeToo. How does the idea of trauma shape the classroom experience, for students and for teachers?

A lecture by Douglas Irwin (John Sloan Dickey, Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College)

Over one million people died of starvation, cold, and shelling during the wartime Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1944. Poet and scholar Polina Barskova will explore the inner world of besieged Leningraders.

This lecture examines the humanitarian efforts of plastic surgeons to restore obliterated faces and of sculptors to fashion prosthetic masks, while also considering postwar avant-garde modernism.

Acclaimed contemporary artist Annette Lemieux will give an artist talk about her work and her practice. A multidisciplinary thinker and maker, her work spans an enormous variety of media and concepts.

Art historian Nicola Courtright considers how royal portraits and palaces promoted the rising prominence and power of French queens.

Yong Zhao will discuss why education interventions are like medical products: They can have serious, sometimes detrimental, side effects while also providing cures.

The talk will focus on how a well-intended policy designed to address sexual misconduct injustices against young women has created a system of injustices against the accused, and undermined women’s agency.