Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” for the 21st Century
Roxbury
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University; Boston Public Library; Friends of the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library; and the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival present a screening of:
Roxbury
The documentary Roxbury is an intimate exploration of a community’s struggle to rise above discriminatory housing policies such as redlining and restrictive covenants and the resulting legacy of race-based income equality. The film highlights the voices of a vibrant community of color located in the heart of Boston and portrays its residents’ efforts to claim agency in a shared vision of a better future that reflects a larger struggle facing communities across the country.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library
149 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
This event is free and open to the public.
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Roxbury Film Screening – LibCal – Boston Public Library
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Leslie Reid, Chief of Investment Programs; Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp.; Kelly Viera, director of Investigations and Outreach, Housing Discrimination Testing Program, Suffolk University Law School; and Leonard Egerton, owner, Frugal Bookstore. The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, J.D., Senior Pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church and President/CEO of The American City Coalition, TACC will serve as the afternoon’s moderator.
The film, a collaboration among Suffolk University’s Communication, Journalism & Media Department and Law School programs is made possible by an education and outreach grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Constructed Movements
FORUM-2025-Shah_FlyerSuffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Law School welcome:
Author Ragini Shah upon the publication of Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities. The evening’s moderator is Professor Shannon Gleeson, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
120 Tremont Street, Fifth Floor Commons, Boston, MA
6:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to everyone
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Theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics—the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime—entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.
Ragini Shah is a Clinical Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic which she founded in 2007. In June 2024, Shah’s efforts were recognized with a Legal Solidarity Award from one of the clinic’s partner organizations, Justice at Work. Shah’s writing examines immigration law from the perspective of those most impacted.
Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Brooks School of Public Policy. Her books include Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace, forthcoming; Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston; Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power; Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States; and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston.
Love Letters
Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Theatre Department present:
Love Letters
Starring Laura Latreille and John Kolvenbach
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
7:00 p.m.
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Love Letters, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is a funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains: Have they made the right choices or is the love of their life only a letter away?
“A unique and imaginative theatre piece which, in the words of the author, ‘needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance.’ The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.” ~ Playwright A. R. Gurney.
Laura Shink (Latreille) is an Associate Professor with Suffolk University’s Theatre Department and an award-winning stage actress. Her most recent credits include the world premiere of The Art of Burning, a co-production with the Huntington Theatre and Hartford Stage Company, and SpeakEasy Stages’ Boston premiere of Potus. Off-Broadway she appeared in the New York premiere of John Kolvenbach’s Love Song, directed by the playwright.
John Kolvenbach is a playwright, whose latest play, Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight premiered in LA, Chicago, Paris, and The Huntington Theatre. Mr. Kolvenbach’s Love Song (Olivier nomination, Best New Comedy, directed by John Crowley) and On an Average Day (with Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, directed by Mr. Crowley) premiered at the West End. Love Song premiered at Steppenwolf in 2006 and has been produced in New York, Zurich, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Seoul and Rome. There have been over fifty productions in the U.S.
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
Monday, October 21, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Live via ZOOM
This program is free and open to the public.
In this evening of revelations and family history, author Edward F. O’Keefe will shine light on The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt, the women who “created the President.” His insightful book is based on dozens of interviews with Roosevelt descendants, thousands of archives, and new discoveries at Harvard and at the Roosevelt home on Sagamore Hill. Following an illustrated presentation showcasing new and exclusive photographs, O’Keefe and the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Debby Applegate will explore the lives and influence of, among others, TR’s Southern belle mother, Mittie, and sisters, Bamie and Conie; his first wife, Alice Lee, his Boston-born college sweetheart who launched him into politics; and his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, who curated both the White House and her husband’s legacy. Don’t miss their discussion of political and women’s history—family history at its finest and most feminine.
Edward F. O’Keefe is the CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. He previously spent two decades in broadcast and digital media at ABC News, CNN, and NowThis, during which time he received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work with Anthony Bourdain, two Webby Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award for ABC’s coverage of 9/11.
Debby Applegate is a historian and biographer based in New Haven, CT. Her first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for biography and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. Her second book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Best Books of 2021.
Join us in conversation with Jehuda Reinharz, Ph.D. upon the publication of his latest book with co-author Motti Golani, Chaim Weizmann: A Biography.
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University and Brandeis University Press present its First Annual Book Festival.
Jehuda Reinharz, PhD, upon the publication of his latest book, Chaim Weizmann: A Biography
In conversation with Alexander Kaye, PhD.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:00 p.m.
In-person and live via Zoom
Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street Fifth Floor Commons, Boston, MA
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In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first president of Israel, advocated for a Jewish state by gaining the support of influential politicians and statesmen as well as Jews around the world. Beginning with his childhood and concluding with his tenure as president, Reinharz and Golani describe how a Russian Jew, who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century, was able to advance the goals of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization. Weizmann is also shown as a man of human foibles – his infatuations, political machinations and elitism – as well as a man of admirable qualities – intelligence, wit, charisma, and dedication.
Jehuda Reinharz is the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University, where he served as President for seventeen years. He is the author and co-author of more than thirty books in Jewish studies, including The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II and Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. He is the president and chief executive officer of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation.
Alexander Kaye, PhD, is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair of Israel Studies and associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His recent book is The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel.
Praise for Chaim Weizmann: A Biography
A scrupulously detailed work chronicles the incremental triumph of Zionism through its greatest champion.
This program is produced by GBH Forum Network.
Children on the Move: The History of Stark Solutions to Address Inequality in Boston Schools
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University; Brandeis University Press; the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative and GBH Forum Network present:
Children on the Move: The History of Stark Solutions to Address Inequality in Boston Schools
Screening of the GBH News documentary Never Cried: Boston’s Busing Legacy and a talkback with the filmmaker Emily Judem and
A book talk with Susan E. Eaton, author of The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line.
The evening’s moderator is Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video, GBH News.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
6:00 p.m
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Never Cried: Boston’s Busing Legacy
Two sisters confront their trauma from Boston’s busing crisis in a powerful new GBH documentary produced by GBH News’ Emily Judem and Stephanie Leydon.
In September 1974, just two days after her 14th birthday, Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. Hampton and her older sister, Linda Stark, were bused from their home in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury into the white, working-class neighborhood of South Boston. They navigated a violent and virulently racist high school experience so scarring that a half-century later, they are only now beginning to discuss it with each other.
The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line and Susan Eaton.
METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston’s city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had it to do over again? Would they place their own children on the bus to suburbia? In The Other Boston Busing Story, sixty-five METCO graduates who are now adults answer those questions and more, vividly recalling their own stories and assessing the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school.
Susan E. Eaton is the Professor of the Practice and Director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She is the author, most recently, of Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best (The New Press) and The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial. Her previous titles include The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line and, with Gary Orfield, Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education.
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History, co-author Gregory P. Downs in conversation with Vincent Brown
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed, well over a hundred people, Black and white, lay dead or were hanged. The uprising was the idea of a single man: Nat Turner. An enslaved preacher, he was as enigmatic as he was brilliant. He was also something more—a prophet, one who claimed to have received visions from the Spirit urging him to act.
Monday, October 7, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Live via Zoom
This event is free and open to the public.
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Gregory P. Downs is professor of history at University of California, Davis. He is the author of three books on the Civil War Era and a book of short stories, as well as many op-eds for leading newspapers. He is co-editor of the ‘Journal of the Civil War Era’. Downs assisted in the completion of ‘Nat Turner, Black Prophet’ which represents the research of Anthony E. Kaye (1962–2017).
Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery in the Americas. Brown is the author of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery and Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, and he is producer of Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, an audiovisual documentary broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens.
Countdown to Nov. 5: America’s Next Most Unprecedented Presidential Election
The 2024 presidential election cycle has been a rollercoaster ride. Join renowned pollster
David Paleologos, Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center and one of the nation’s most respected and trustworthy pollsters to discuss the most recent Suffolk University survey results, the crucial issues motivating voters, and the key demographics that could make or break this next most unprecedented presidential election. The afternoon’s moderator is Katie Lannan, who covers the State House for GBH News. Previously, she spent seven years on Beacon Hill reporting on the policy and politics of state government for the State House News Service.
Friday, October 18, 2024
Live at 12:00 pm via Zoom
Award-winning author and investigative journalist Diane Dimond, on her latest book, Were Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong,
The state-run guardianship system, called conservatorship in some states, is largely unregulated, ill-understood, and increasingly populated by financially motivated predators. Just how guardianship works and its real-life effects remained a mystery to most until the very public case of pop star Britney Spears. It suddenly became clear that those conscripted into the system lose all their civil rights in the process.
Established in the late 1800s, the guardianship system was designed to assist the most vulnerable citizens: the elderly and the physically or intellectually disabled. While guardianship has been beneficial to many “wards of the court,” this little-understood process can be a judicial rollercoaster from which there is seldom an escape, and which often leads to financial devastation for the ward. Each year, fifty billion dollars belonging to wards are placed under the control of court appointees, tempting bad actors. As Dimond discovered, the number of exploitive and abusive guardianship cases nationwide demands our urgent attention. Explosive and compelling, We’re Here to Help tells the human stories behind the headlines and shows how to avoid the risks of voluntary or involuntary guardianship.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street
Fifth Floor Commons
In-person and live via Zoom
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This event is free and open to the public.
The Truth in the Age of Disinformation, Misinformation, and AI
Some of the most polarizing and provocative issues in any generation depend upon the First Amendment protections of free speech and the press. Edward I. Masterman, JD ‘50, LLD ‘90, along with his wife Sydell, established the Masterman Speaker Series on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate to provide a forum for robust and honest debate concerning freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and their attendant responsibilities. The Masterman family believes that informing the uninformed and engaging curious people in ongoing conversations about our nation’s fundamental principles will serve to strengthen our democracy.
Each year, the Masterman Speaker Series brings together representatives from government, the legal profession, and the press for the purposes of informing, educating, and engaging those who care deeply about these First Amendment issues.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Suffolk University Law School, Sargent Hall
120 Tremont Street, Faculty Dining Room
Join our panel of experts:
Jonathan M. Albano, Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. A renowned litigator with over 40 years of experience:
Dan Lothian, Editor-in-Chief, GBH News and The World. An acclaimed broadcaster who began his career in radio at the age of 16 and has extensive domestic and international reporting experience:
Dr. Rachael V. Cobb, Moderator, Associate Professor of Political Science, Suffolk University. A prominent scholar who specializes in American politics, focusing on voting rights and political participation:
Election Connection: The Issues We Vote on LGBTQ+
In this live podcast, we focus on ballot measures that affect the LGBTQ+ community and how they are likely to shape the outcome of the presidential election. Hosts Rachael Cobb and Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber in conversation with Polly Crozier, Director of Family Advocacy at GLBTQ Legal Advocates &
Defenders (GLAD), and Kayci Resende-Abbott, a Suffolk University Philosophy major with a double minor in Women and Gender Studies & Black Studies, the Black Student Union President, and a Fellow with the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement. They will discuss the electoral power of LGBTQ+ Americans, the demand for equal rights, and how their influence plays a role in presidential politics.
Rachael Cobb, associate professor in the Political Science & Legal Studies Department, and Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, associate professor and chair of Communications, Journalism & Media, joined forces to launch “Election Connection,” a platform they hope will help listeners engage with the political process.
Election Connection examines a new topic each week to help listeners better understand the electoral system. Examining issues like primary elections and voting by mail, the two hosts provide background information and historical context in simple, understandable terms.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
12:30 p.m.
73 Tremont Street, 1st Floor Amenities Room
This event is free and open to the public.
Luisa Neubauer, acclaimed German climate activist at Ford Hall Forum, Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6:00 p.m., Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston and live via ZOOM
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY AND BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS
FIRST ANNUAL BOOK FESTIVAL
Luisa Neubauer, Sabine von Mering, and Jule Manitz in conversation with Beth Daley
Thursday, September 19, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Modern Theatre
525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
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Join us as we welcome Luisa Neubauer, the acclaimed German climate activist and co-founder of the school strike for climate movement in Germany, commonly referred to as Fridays for Future. She will discuss her recent co-authored book, Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of our Future with Sabine von Mering, director of the Center for German and European Studies and professor of German and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University and co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism, and a climate activist with 350Mass, and Jule Manitz, a climate justice activist with Extinction Rebellion Boston, where she plays a pivotal role in organizing and supporting impactful protests, including civil disobedience actions. The evening’s moderator is Beth Daley, executive editor and general manager of The Conversation and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for climate reporting at The Boston Globe.
In this book, Luisa Neubauer, the best-known German climate activist, and her co-author Alexander Repenning create the history of our future. If we don’t change course now, we’ll eliminate ourselves. Politicians, entrepreneurs, citizens, everyone must take action. But how? One thing is undisputed: There is no planet B. We must inform and organize ourselves to save the future. In Beginning to End the Climate Crisis, Neubauer presents solutions that are ready to be implemented and must finally be put into practice. But she also demonstrates the attitude with which we must deal with this exceptional situation: undaunted but level-headed. And unyielding towards those who determine our future. Because the last chance for a positive end to the climate crisis is NOW.
Holding onto Humanity
Monday, September 23, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Modern Theatre
525 Washington Street, Boston 02111
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Join us for an evening of conversation with bereaved Israeli mother Robi Damelin and bereaved Palestinian mother Laila Alsheikh who both lost their sons to the conflict. They will tell their personal stories of loss and explain their choice to engage in dialogue and reconciliation. The evening’s moderator is Charles M. Sennott, founder and editor of The GoundTruth Project and an award-winning correspondent, author, and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national, and local journalism. Previously, Sennott worked for many years as a reporter at the Boston Globe, where he became Bureau Chief for the Middle East and Europe and a leader of the paper’s international coverage. The Parents Circle – Families Forum is a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization made up of more than 750 bereaved families. Their common bond is that they have lost a close family member to the conflict. But instead of choosing revenge, they have chosen a path of reconciliation. Through their educational activities, these bereaved members have joined together to take tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis on journeys of reconciliation. Learn more about the work of The Parents Circle – Families Forum. American Friends of the Parents Circle – Families Forum shares the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the American public in order to foster a peace and reconciliation process.
Join us in The Watch Club for a live interview with Sam Eilertson, director of the acclaimed documentary ISRAELISM, Wednesday, June 12, at 7:00 p.m. on YouTube
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. Each month the festival hosts an online discussion with the filmmakers behind some of the best new documentaries. They’ve hosted the directors of Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning films, and acclaimed features that have premiered on HBO, Netflix, Hulu, PBS, and elsewhere. The complete archive of interviews can be found on the festival’s YouTube channel, here.
This month, program director James Sullivan will interview Sam Eilertson, the Boston-based co-director of the timely new film ISRAELISM. It tells the story of two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally. When they visit Palestine and see firsthand what life is like there, their reconsidered beliefs come to mirror a generational shift in modern Jewish identity. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
After months of special screenings, ISRAELISM will begin streaming on various platforms, including Amazon Prime and Apple TV, on June 7.
Watch ISRAELISM on Amazon Prime or Apple TV, then join us in THE WATCH CLUB (click the image) for a live Q&A with co-director Sam Eilertson on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
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What is THE WATCH CLUB?
Keep the conversation going throughout the year in THE WATCH CLUB. It’s like a book club, but for documentaries. Each month we’ll recommend a new documentary to stream, then invite you to join us on YouTube or Facebook for a live online Q&A with the filmmaker.
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.
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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Facing Coups in America—Then and Now
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.
Upward Mobility in Boston: 50 Years After Busing
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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28 Weeks: Counting Down to November 2024
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.
Gender Equality and Reproductive Rights After Dobbs
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
Live via Zoom
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This event is free and open to the public.
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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