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2022 History Lecture Series Capitalism in Action: Culture, Power, History: Commodities and Capitalism: A Tale of Tea in China and India

Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022

6 p.m.

Livestream

This talk, a part of the History Lecture Series, traces the development of tea as a beverage of choice across the modern world and its growth as an industry in Asia.

Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities: Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice in South Africa

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022

7 p.m.

Livestream

This lecture will explore how unresolved racialized histories of state-perpetrated violence create conditions of possibility and impossibility for performance artists.

2022 History Lecture Series Capitalism in Action: Culture, Power, History: International Capitalist Crises, from the Late Middle Ages to the 21st Century

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022

6 p.m.

Livestream

History Lecture Series returns in January 2022 with three presentations by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø history faculty on global capitalism. This talk examines capitalism through its crises.

REECAS 2021-2022 Lecture Series: Scheming and Subversion – Conspiracy in Post-Soviet Space

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022

4:30 p.m.

Livestream

Join the Ellison Center for “Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region” with Scott Radnitz, moderated by Jacqueline Miller.

Sport History Lecture Series

Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021

3 p.m.

Livestream

Our panelists will discuss the history that surrounds issues of gender inequity, sexism, and discrimination in the sports world.

1,000 Ways to Reshape the Future of Museums

Friday, Nov. 19, 2021

Noon

Livestream

Museums have the potential to be transformative spaces of human connection, care, listening, justice, and community power. It’s up to us to embrace our role as agents of change and be a part of the collective effort to reshape the future. Let’s come together and talk about some of the ways, big and small, that we can take action and start that change right now.

Benaroya Lecture: Israel and COVID-19 in Historical and Social Scientific Perspective

Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021

8 p.m.

Livestream

Nadav Davidovitch, an Israeli public health expert, will explore the different meanings of public health, focusing on several case studies from the Israeli perspective.

Faculty Panel November 16th: Is Democracy Dead?

Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021

5:30 p.m.

Livestream

Please join us for our Autumn Faculty Panel on the future of democracy, featuring three Political Theorists. Can we build democracy in the face of multiple threats, old and new?

Do No Harm: Reducing Health Inequities in Clinical Tools

Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021

4:30 p.m.

Livestream

Discussing race & gender bias in medical treatments and inequities in clinical tools. Exploring new ways to improve diversity and reduce health inequities in clinical practice.

Amanda Cox – Visualizing Doubt

Sold out
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

The New York Times election needle was a tool for following live election results. It may reach more people than anything else Amanda Cox, data editor of The New York Times, takes part in for the rest of her career. But that was almost four years ago. In this talk, Cox will share The New York Times’ latest work in communicating data and models to mass audiences. That work includes words, charts, and believing that uncertainty is a strength.