The Vibrancy of Needs: Body/Form/Justice

Session 1

Monday-Wednesday

March 11-13

Northeastern Crossing

1175 Tremont Street

Boston Campus

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Join Kenneth Bailey and Judith Leemann, of The Design Studio for Social Intervention, currently Visiting Fellows in the Arts & Humanities Social Action Lab directed by Kris Manjapra, Stearns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies. They will lead a series of sessions of cross- and anti-disciplinary inquiry into theories and embodiments of justice rooted in experiences of common need blurring the line between the campus and the community.

Transformation, Climate Justice, & Higher Education

Monday, March 11

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Renaissance Park 301

Boston Campus

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Can higher education institutions be leveraged for societal transformation? If so, how do higher education institutions need to transform themselves to contribute to⏤rather than slow down⏤transformative climate justice?

Join the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for a discussion with Jennie Stephens, Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy; Stephen Porder, Brown University; Sandra Waddock, Boston College; Alice Plane, Brown University; and special guest Cecile Renouard,

President and co-founder of the Campus de la Transition.

Rethinking Korea Lecture Series: Kim Jaehui, Consulate General

Wednesday, March 13

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Renaissance Park 909

Boston Campus

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Rethinking Korea: New Perspectives on a Critical Region invites distinguished scholars of culture, transnational history, environment, and international relations to offer novel perspectives on Korea while situating its complex place within global developments. The fourth lecture in the series will feature Kim Jaehui, Consul General for the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Boston since June 2023. 

The Military Government over the Arab Citizens in Israel 1948-1966: The Occupation before the Occupation? with Arnon Degani

Thursday, March 14

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Alumni Center, Pavilion

716 Columbus Place

Boston Campus

Join the Jewish Studies Program for the seventh Israel Studies Lecture, with Arnon Degani, Fellow at the Avraham Harman Research Center for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University and at Molad Center.

Feminist Foundations, Feminist Futures: Celebrating Signs at Fifty, the annual WGSS Women's History Month Symposium

Friday, March 15

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Cabral Center

Boston Campus

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The annual Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium, hosted by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, brings together feminist thought leaders—scholars, journalists, activists, and public intellectuals—to address an urgent concern of the moment from varieties of feminist perspectives. This year, the symposium will celebrate 50 years of Signs: Journal of Women Culture and Society.

Letter to a Young Female Physician

Monday, March 18

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Hurtig Hall 310

Boston Campus

Please join the Health, Humanities, and Society Program for an event with Suzanne Koven, MD & MFA, Massachusetts General Hospital, for a discussion on her new book, Letter to a Young Female Physician. Please read at least some of the book in advance if you are planning to attend!

"Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way:" Community-based digital archiving and language persistence archive

Tuesday, March 19

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Ellen Cushman, Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability and Professor of English, and the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence team have published a corpus of 87 documents in a digital edited collection called Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way (CWKW). Drawing on a selection of stories appearing in CWKW, this talk demonstrates an abiding social compact to work together toward a greater good, particularly in times of great social uncertainty.