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Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents:
An evening with Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, acclaimed physician and sociologist upon the publication of his groundbreaking new book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. The evening’s moderator is Gary Firemen, Ph.D., associate provost and professor, Psychology Department, Suffolk University.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
7:00 p.m. Live via Zoom
This program is free and open to the public.
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Long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But as he came to understand it, public health is a hard sell in a nation that fundamentally disagrees about what it means to be safe, healthy, or free. In his book What We’ve Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.
This brilliant, piercing analysis points to mass shootings as a symptom of our most unresolved national conflicts, and ultimately sets us on the path of alliance forging, racial reckoning, and political power brokering we must take to put things right.
Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several acclaimed books that challenge the ways we think about illness and health— author of several acclaimed books that challenge the ways we think about illness and health—including Dying of Whiteness, The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, and Against Health.
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Program sponsors: Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum, Political Science & Legal Studies Department, History, Language & Global Culture Department, Theatre Department, and GBH Forum Network.
Facing Coups in America—Then and Now
Join us in conversation with two of the most influential scholars of their generation, sociologist and author, Arlie Russell Hochschild and Adam Hochschild, historian, author, and journalist. The afternoon’s moderator is award-winning PBS NewsHour journalist Paul Solman.
Friday, April 12, 2024, 4:00 p.m.
Modern Theatre, 535 Washington Street, Boston, MA
This event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required.
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This Forum is in conjunction with the Suffolk University Theatre Department’s production of It Can’t Happen Here.
A statement…a warning…a provocation…the ultimate denial of reality.
In his talk, Adam Hochschild explains How It Can’t Happen Here Was Born. In the 1930s, the world was increasingly alarmed by the rise of fascism. In 1935, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel, It Can’t Happen Here, about a fascist coup in the United States, and in 1936, the novel was turned into a play, which opened simultaneously in 21 theatres across the country.
Arlie Hochschild ponders whether the events of the 1930s Germany could occur in a different form in the US in the 2020s. For the upcoming election, many arrows point to Donald Trump, a man who has long claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, criticizes the “deep state,” refuses to promise to obey the Constitution, and promises instead to deliver retribution. Focusing on globalization’s shake-up of status systems in red states, low trust in public institutions, and the play of pride and shame, she describes what circumstances have led us to this moment and asks how we might emerge with a democracy intact.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum; Moakley Archive & Institute; Office of Diversity, Access, and Inclusion; GBH Forum Network; and The Boston Desegregation & Busing Initiative present:
Upward Mobility in Boston: 50 Years After Busing
Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Moakley Archive & Institute, The Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative, and GBH Forum Network, continue a series of programs examining the lasting impacts of the l974 landmark decision to desegregate Boston’s Public Schools. On May 6, the panel will discuss upward mobility in Boston, exploring the city’s historic institutional roadblocks that have hindered progress for people of color fifty years after busing. The panel will explore solutions to address these persistent issues such as enhancing educational opportunities, closing the wealth gap, increasing home ownership, and broadening access to job opportunities.
May 6, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Live via Zoom
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This program is free and open to the public.
The evening’s panelists are Ron Bell, longtime community activist and founder of Dunk the Vote, and alumnus of Boston Latin School; Karilyn Crockett, Ph.D., assistant professor, Urban History, Public Policy & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Tatiana M. F. Cruz, Ph.D., assistant professor and interdisciplinary program director of Africana Studies, Department of Critical Race, Gender and Cultural Studies, Simmons University. The program’s moderator is Kris Hooks, editor-in-chief of The Boston Globe’s newsroom team, Money, Power, Inequality: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, which focuses on addressing the racial wealth gap in Greater Boston.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Political Science & Legal Studies Department Present:
28 Weeks: Counting Down to November 2024
As the US heads towards November 2024 and a presidential election is likely to be held between two historically unpopular candidates (again), it will be issues that drive many voters to the polls. Join nationally renowned pollster David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, for a discussion centered on the Center’s most recent national polling with USA TODAY, covering crucial issues such as reproductive rights, border security, foreign policy, and the Trump trials. The evening’s moderator is Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video, GBH News.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
7:00 p.m. Live via Zoom
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David Paleologos Bio
David Paleologos is the Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center (SUPRC), where he has worked since 2002 conducting polling at the local, state, and national levels. SUPRC results have been reported by hundreds of major news organizations for their high degree of accuracy. As of winter 2024, Paleologos and SUPRC are partnered with The Boston Globe (regional polling) and USA TODAY (national polling). Other survey partners include The Los Angeles Times; The Cincinnati Enquirer; The York Daily Record; The Reno Gazette Journal; The Arizona Republic; The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; The Detroit Free Press; The Louisville Courier Journal; and NBC10 Boston-Telemundo-NECN.
Paleologos is the author of a proprietary bellwether model that has an 89% record of accuracy in predicting outcomes through the November 2022 midterm elections. In the 2022 Midterms, SUPRC went 7 for 7 in polling US Senate races in the final three weeks of the election season, correctly predicting outcomes in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. Through 2022, SUPRC was ranked first in the nation by both fivethirtyeight.com (in the November 2022 midterms) and RealClearPolitics.com (all elections from 2014-2022.
Stephanie Leydon Bio
Stephanie Leydon is the executive producer of digital video at GBH News She produced the Newsroom’s COVID and Classroom series which offered an intimate look at the lives of three high school seniors navigating their last year of high school and a pandemic.
Stephanie joined GBH News in 2014 as a reporter and was promoted to senior editor in 2018. Her work has aired on NPR, PRI’s The World and PBS Newshour. Before joining GBH News, Stephanie worked as a television reporter and anchor at WLVI-TV in Boston, WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire and WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum; Communication, Journalism & Media Department; History, Language & Culture Department; Office of Title IX; Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Our Bodies Ourselves Today; the Center for Women’s Health & Human Rights; and GBH Forum Network present:
Gender Equality and Reproductive Rights After Dobbs
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
3:30 pm–4:45 pm
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade sparked dramatic shifts in the abortion and reproductive rights landscape in the United States. These changes have cut to the core of the nature of democracy in America. This panel examines the far-reaching consequences of restrictions on reproductive and LGBTQ rights nearly two years after the Dobbs decision. Gender equality activists and advocates discuss how reproductive justice is intertwined with the wider attack on bodily autonomy and what we can do to protect these rights in this election year and beyond.
The afternoon’s panelists are Dallas Ducar, RN, CEO, Transhealth; Polly Crozier, Esq., Director of Family Advocacy, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), and Kristie, Monast, MS Ed, Executive Director, HealthQ. The afternoon’s moderator is Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, PhD, associate professor and chair, Communication, Journalism, & Media Department, Suffolk University.
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