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Women Candidates & Women Voters in 2018

“Women Candidates & Women Voters in 2018,” Anna Greenberg, Ph.D., Research Fellow at American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

​Career-focused Brown Bag

Presented by: Ximena Warnaars, Program Office, Natural Resources and Climate, at The Ford Foundation

The Abdul Hamid Era and Beyond: Massacres and Reform, Rupture and Continuity conference

Abdul Hamid II Era and Beyond Conference Program Opening Panel: From Abdul Hamid II to the Genocide: Continuity and Rupture Speakers: Ronald Suny (William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago) and Stephan Astourian (Professor of […]

Screening: Dawnland

Speaker: Mishy Lesser (Learning Director of the Upstander Project and Educational Fellow at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut) For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian.  In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the […]

The Death of Expertise

“The Death of Expertise,” Tom Nichols, professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College

Survival, Hope, and a Lifetime of Service

Screening: Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross Speakers: Michael Ross ’93 (Attorney, Prince, Lobel, Tye LLP and former Boston City Councilor) and Roger Lyons (Writer/Producer/Director) A survivor of 10 concentration camps, Steve Ross immigrated to Boston after the Holocaust.  He became a civic leader and the driving force behind the creation of the Boston Holocaust […]

Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic Minority Rights Movements

Speaker: Mneesha Gellman (Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Emerson College, Boston) Professor Gellman examines six case studies in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador to show how memory-based narratives serve as emotionally salient leverage for marginalized communities to facilitate state consideration of minority rights agendas. Shaming […]