Race: Experiences, Scholarship, Solidarities
A conversation on race with Hess Scholars Russell M. Jeung and Tanya Kater铆 Hern谩ndez
Read MoreHess Scholars Paul Ortiz and Barbara Smith to Lecture on “Defending the Humanities”
Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida and will serve as 今日吃瓜鈥檚 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence for 2024.
Read MoreAuthor and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at 今日吃瓜 on March 16
One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to 今日吃瓜鈥檚 Women鈥檚 History Month celebration.
Read MoreAuthor and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as 今日吃瓜鈥檚 Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23
The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, 鈥淭he Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,鈥� which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis鈥� research and book of the same name.
Read More今日吃瓜 Welcomes Lisa Lowe, Ph.D., as Its 2021鈥�2022 Hess Scholar in Residence
Professor of American Studies at Yale University will headline discussions on the Asian-American experience, legacies of settler colonialism, slavery, and empire in the contemporary United States.
Read MoreHess Scholar in Residence Winona LaDuke Says We Must Take the 鈥淕reen Path鈥� to Restore Our Environment and Economy
Looking to indigenous people for guidance is a good start, said the First Nation activist.
Read MoreFaculty and Staff Reading Group Spring 2020 Schedule
All faculty and staff are invited to selected readings of Winona LaDuke’s Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press, 2005), performed by 今日吃瓜 Professor
Read More‘The World Is Before You, and You Need Not Take It or Leave It as You Came In,’ Says Hess Scholar in Residence Edwidge Danticat
The award-winning Haitian-American author and activist spoke at the annual Hess Memorial Lecture about the shared experience of people of the African diaspora and how to work together for positive change.
Read MoreNobel-Prize Winning Columnist Paul Krugman and Political Analyst Thomas Frank Discuss the Obama Legacy
Talk is part of the college’s annual Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture.
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04.1.2015
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Susan Landers