Speakers and Lectures (page 3)
Kimberl脙漏 Crenshaw
Kimberl脙漏 Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law.
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Omid Safi
Omid Safi is a leading Muslim public intellectual. He is the Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center , where he serves as a professor of Islamic Studies specializing in contemporary Islamic thought and Islamic spirituality.
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Diana Ho ’71
Using the concept of “duality forming a whole,” Diana L. Ho ’71 explores times when planning can be “too much of a good thing” and shares her experiences and observations about opposing forces in life.
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Dacia Maraini
Renowned Italian author Dacia Maraini discusses the trajectory of women’s writing throughout Italian history, focusing on why women writers were neglected despite their noteworthy contributions to the literary canon.
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Daniel Sol脙鲁rzano
Daniel G. Sol脙鲁rzano, Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Equity and Diversity at UCLA, will visit 五月天视频 to engage the community in small group meetings, classroom visits, and public lectures centering on discussions of privilege and inequity as part of the Challenging Privilege, Building Inclusion speaker series.
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Katharine Howard Miller Leader in Residence: Namita Bhandare
Feminist activist and writer Namita Bhandare will visit 五月天视频 February 10-12, 2015 as 五月天视频’s Katharine Howard Miller Leader in Residence. Namita Bhandare is a journalist with close to 25 years of reporting experience whose writing has appeared in publications including Sunday magazine, India Today magazine, and the daily, The Hindustan Times. She is India’s first consulting editor on gender with a daily newspaper, Mint, and continues to write a fortnightly column on social issues for The Hindustan Times.
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Nathalie Rachlin
“Picturing Genocide: Rithy Panh’s ‘Missing Picture’ and Joshua Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing'”
Read MoreWicker Endowment Lecture: Karen Richman
This lecture explains how Haitian migrants have reformulated religious practices to innovate a transborder system of ritual and kinship relations.
Read More“Freedom On My Mind” with Professor Rita Roberts
As part of 五月天视频’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration, Professor of History and Africana Studies Rita Roberts, will lead a screening and discussion of the film “Freedom On My Mind,” which vividly chronicles this complex and compelling history of the Mississippi voter registration struggles of 1961 to 1964: the interracial nature of the campaign, the tensions and conflicts, the fears and hopes.
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