The Health, Humanities, and Society Program Launch

Monday, March 25

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

Please join the Health, Humanities, and Society Program to celebrate the launch of the program and new combined majors, and learn more from faculty and students!

60th Annual Robert D. Klein Lecturer: Ronald Sandler

Monday, March 25

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Cabral Center

Boston campus

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Ronald Sandler, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Institute, will explore the ethical and philosophical issues raised by the growing use of bioengineering in conservation present in his talk "Should We Engineer Species in Order to Save Them?"

Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Presentation

Monday, March 26

6:00 PM

Cabral Center

Boston campus

Join Andie Weiner ‘24, 2023-2024 Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar for her presentation, "Joop’s Story: A Veiled Resistance." This exhibit tells the story of one family’s bravery in hiding a Jewish baby and another family’s pain of separation.

Through photographs, artifacts and narration, Andie explores the rise of antisemitism in the Netherlands during World War II, the role of women during the Holocaust, and the legacy of storytelling.

4th Annual Race and Community Dialogue Series | Addressing Youth Violence throughout the City of Boston

Tuesday, March 26

3:30 -5:00 PM

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The Center on Crime, Race, and Justice and its Community Advisory Board invites panelists Lanita Cullinane, Superintendent of Bureau of Field Services, Boston Police Department; Isaac Yablo, Senior Advisor of Community Safety for the Mayor's Office, City of Boston; and Cory McCarthy, Interim Chief of Student Support for the Boston Public School District. This discussion will be co-moderated by Harry Harding, Vice President of Community Engagement for Children's Services of Roxbury and Sam Williams, Executive Director of Concord Prison Outreach and Co-Director of the CRJ Community Advisory Board.

Caravaggio's Americas: A Lecture by Dr. Edgar Garcia

Tuesday, March 26

4:00 -5:30 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

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Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hiero- glyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020); and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022); among other works and collaborations. He is associate professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

Philip N. Backstrom Survivor Lecture with Eva Paddock

Wednesday, March 27

12:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

Eva Paddock will deliver this year's Survivor Lecture for Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week. Eva was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935. In 1939 she and her sister were on the last kindertransport out of Prague to England. Eva grew up in England and eventually moved to Massachusetts with her family.

The Need for a New Paradigm to Protect Civilians in Times of Conflict and Mass Atrocity

Wednesday, March 27

2:30 - 4:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

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The Department of Political Science will be hosting a lecture by Jeremy Julian Sarkin, Distinguished Research Professor of Law at NOVA University of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal. He will discuss the need for a new paradigm to protect civilians in times of conflict and mass atrocity.

Center on Crime, Race, and Justice's 6th Annual David B. Schulman Distinguished Lecture Series

Monday, April 1

5:00 - 7:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

The Center on Crime, Race, and Justice is proud to present the Sixth Annual David B. Schulman Distinguished Lecture, featuring special guest Shaun Gabbidon, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. Professor Gabbidon will be giving a campus-wide talk from his recent book Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America. 

Stories As Medicine: Taino & African Healing & the Environment in Jamaica

Tuesday, April 2

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Egan 440

Boston campus

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This talk by Jamaican Taino chief Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman will address “stories as medicine” in his home context, linking this to climate change, the disconnection with environmental cycles and possibilities for healing. This event is sponsored by Africana Studies and by the Arts & Humanities Social Action Lab.

Rape and Reproduction in the Holocaust with Prof. Zoë Waxman

Wednesday, April 3

5:30 PM

Alumni Center Pavilion

Boston campus

Zoë Waxman, Professor of Holocaust History at the University of Oxford, will explore the testimonies of both the women who survived and those who did not survive the Holocaust, revealing that even under extreme conditions, gender continues to operate as an important arbiter of experience. This is the 31st Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture, part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week.