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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 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
Live via Zoom
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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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Suffolk University’s Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Black Studies Program; the Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence Faculty and Professional Learning Community – Race Matters; Ford Hall Forum; Department of Communication, Journalism, & Media; Department of History, Languages, & Global Culture; Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice; First Year Seminar; Black Lives Matter; Creativity & Innovation
March 26, 2024
6:00-7:30 pm
Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Smith Commons, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
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Please join us for a spoken word performance by Kyla Jenee Lacey, followed by a moderated discussion about intersectionality, resistance art, and creative activism, moderated by Pascale Florestal.
Kyla Jenee Lacey is a poet, writer, black activist, and funny girl. Kyla’s poetry addresses topics like white privilege, misogynoir, patriarchy, and more. She has bylines from The Root, BET.com, the Huffington Post, and currently writes for Karen Hunter’s “The Hub News.” Kyla’s work has been referenced in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Tamron Hall, the Atlantic, NYT, Washington Post, the Boston Globe, WaPo, and many others— even Laura Ingraham from Fox News was so kind enough to refer to her work as “anti-racist propaganda.”
Pascale Florestal is a first generation Haitian American Queer Woman. She is an Elliot Norton Nominated Director, Educator, Dramaturg, Writer and Collaborator based in Boston, MA. Pascale serves as the Associate Director for The Broadway National Tour of Jagged Little Pill. She is the Director of Education for The Front Porch Arts Collective, a Black Theater Company committed to racial equity in theater in Boston. She is an Assistant Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music and Visiting Guest Artist Professor in Practice in the Theater Department at Suffolk University.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum, Communication, Journalism & Media, History, Language & Global Culture Departments, and Women’s & Gender Studies Program present:
TikTok “whisperer” Annie Wu Henry on Digital Activism, Civic Engagement, and Intersectional Representation in Politics
Thursday, April 4, 2024
73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Poetry Center, Third Floor, (enter through Sawyer Library on Second Floor)
12:30-1:45 p.m.
In-person and live via Zoom.
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Please join us for a conversation with Annie Wu Henry about digital activism, civic engagement, and intersectional representation in politics. The conversation will be moderated by Rachael Cobb, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Political Science and Legal Studies Department at Suffolk University.
Annie Wu Henry is a 28-year-old social media and digital strategy expert for progressive organizations and campaigns. She is currently the creative director for AAPI Victory Fund. Annie believes that we need on-the-ground organizing, electoral work, and online media to drive progress in society, and has taken a hand in contributing to all three. She is most well-known for her work leading John Fetterman’s digital strategy during his campaign for Senate and has been referred to as his Tik-Tok Whisperer. She has also worked with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the Working Families Party, and others.
As a strategist, creator, and political operative, Annie has contributed to some of the largest online advocacy platforms like @feminist, @impact, @shityoushouldcareabout, @intersectionalenvironmentalist, @so.informed, @genzforchange and has had a myriad of content go viral, being shared by the likes of Rachel Cargle, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ariana Grande, Yara Shahidi, the Kardashians, Olivia Rodrigo, and others.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum, Moakley Archive & Institute, History, Language & Global Culture and Communication, Journalism & Media Departments, Black Alumni Network, Office of Diversity, Access, and Inclusion, Student Office of Diversity, The Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative, and GBH Forum Network present:
The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
An evening of conversation with acclaimed historian and author Louis P. Masur, author of The Soiling of Old Glory: The Photography that Shocked America, Theodore “Ted” Landsmark, distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, and Stanley Forman, Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist. The evening’s moderator is Robert Allison, professor, History, Language & Global Culture Department, Suffolk University.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, Fifth Floor Commons
6:00 p.m. In-person and live via ZOOM
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Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting the Black attorney Ted Landsmark with the American flag. The photograph shocked Boston and made front pages across the U.S. and the world and won a Pulitzer Prize. Masur has done extensive research, including personal interviews with those involved, to reveal the unknown story of what really happened that day and afterward. This evocative “biography of a photograph” unpacks this arresting image to trace the lives of the men who intersected at that moment, to examine the power of photography and the meaning of the flag, and to reveal how a single picture helped change race relations in Boston and America. The Soiling of Old Glory, like the photograph itself, offers a dramatic window into the turbulence of the 1970s and race relations in America.
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Join us for a book talk with acclaimed Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson upon the publication of his new book.
A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism.
In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks’s Shaft, a studio-financed film with a killer soundtrack, were huge hits, making millions of dollars. Sweetback upended cultural expectations by having its Black rebel win in the end, and Shaft saved MGM from bankruptcy. Not for the last time did Hollywood discover that Black people went to movies too. The Blaxploitation era was born.
Written by film critic Odie Henderson, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited history of a genre and the movies that he grew up watching, which he loves without irony (but with plenty of self-awareness and humor). Blaxploitation was a major trend, but it was never simple. The films mixed self-empowerment with exploitation, base stereotypes with essential representation that spoke to the lives and fantasies of Black viewers. The time is right for a reappraisal, understanding these films in the context of the time, and exploring their lasting influence.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Sargent Hall
120 Tremont Street, 4th Floor Faculty Dining Room
Boston, MA
7:00 p.m., in-person and live via Zoom
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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:
50 Years After Busing: Race, Housing, and Education Equity in Boston
Join our moderator Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video at GBH News, and panelists Whitney Demetrius, director of fair housing and municipal engagement, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), Adrienne Dixson, PhD, executive director, Education and Civil Rights Initiative and professor of educational leadership studies, University of Kentucky, and Ira Jackson, research fellow at the Mossavar/Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and visiting lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, for the second in a series examining the lasting impacts of the landmark decision to desegregate Boston’s Public Schools in 1974.
The panelists will explore the relationship between access to affordable housing and educational opportunity in Boston’s public schools, nearly fifty years after the school busing crisis. They will discuss the impact of race-based discriminatory housing policies and education funding formulas while addressing the more recent problems of gentrification and housing affordability. How does Boston position itself to compete with its suburban neighbors when it comes to educational outcomes?
Join us and lend your voice to this important conversation.
THURSDAY, February 15, 2024
6:00 P.M. LIVE VIA ZOOM
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Suffolk University’s President Marisa J. Kelly, Ford Hall Forum, Law School Housing Discrimination Testing Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Communication, Journalism & Media Department, Office of Advancement, Office of Diversity, Access, and Inclusion, Black Studies Program, and Black Alumni Network present a screening of:
The new 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 inequality. 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.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Daniel Weidknecht, director of Roxbury and adjunct faculty member, Department of Communication, Journalism & Media, Leslie Reid, chief executive officer, Madison Park Development Corporation, Kelly Viera, director of Investigations and Outreach, Housing Discriminating Testing Program, and Ivy Ngugi, director of UMOJA MILELE. Soni Gupta, director of Neighborhoods and Housing at The Boston Foundation will serve as the evening’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.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
6:00 p.m. in person and live via Zoom
Modern Theatre
525 Washington Street, Boston
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Join us for a talk with nationally acclaimed historian Zebulon V. Miletsky, Ph.D., as he discusses Boston’s long-held reputation as one of the most “liberal” cities in America, dating back to the Civil War era when Boston was the hub of abolitionism. The truth is more complicated. This primer on racism in America and the North will help shed light on Boston’s longer story.
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies and History at Stony Brook University (SUNY) specializing in recent African American History, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, Urban History, Mixed Race, and Biracial Identity. In addition to his earlier work on Mixed Race, Miletsky’s major project has been the Boston School Desegregation Crisis and the parent-led civil rights movement in Boston. His acclaimed book Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle was published by the University of North Carolina Press in December 2022. Originally from Boston, Miletsky received his Ph.D. in African-American Studies with a concentration in History from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2008.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
73 Tremont Street, Fifth Floor, Room 5050, Boston, Massachusetts
Lunch will be provided
12:30 Program begins
This program is free and open to the public. In-person registration is not required.
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Ford Hall Forum and GBH Forum Network invite you to a panel discussion moderated by Adrian Walker of The Boston Globe, with Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD., associate professor of Africana Studies, Stonybrook University and the author of, A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, Alisa R. Drayton, Executive Director, Yawkey Club of Roxbury, and Marilyn Flowers-Marion, chairperson, Retired Teachers Chapter of the Boston Teachers Union, who will share their lived experiences of court-ordered busing in Boston during the 1970s. The panel will also explore the long-term impacts of busing on the city of Boston, including the current state of Boston’s public schools and racial equity in a myriad of arenas. Looking to the future, the panel will consider what a more equitable Boston Public School System might look like.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
120 Tremont Street, 5th Floor Commons, Boston
6:00 P.M. IN PERSON
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Each of the last presidential elections has presented its own unique challenges, from historically unpopular candidates to voting during a global pandemic. 2024 is shaping up to be no different. Join David Paleologos, Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center and one of the United States’ most respected and trustworthy pollsters, to discuss our next unprecedented presidential election. Get the inside scoop on the swing states, critical voting blocs, and crucial issues that could make or break the 2024 elections. The afternoon’s moderator is Latoyia Edwards Emmy award-winning anchor on NBC10 Boston and NECN.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Live at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom
This event is free and open to the public.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Theatre Department, Front Porch Arts Collective, and the Actors’ Shakespeare Project present:
Reimagining Shakespeare through the Black Lens
Join us for a spirited conversation with Stevie Walker-Webb acclaimed Tony-nominated director of Ain’t No Mo’, actor, playwright, activist, and director of the play Fat Ham, Dawn M. Simmons, Associate Director of Fat Ham and Co-Producing Director of Front Porch Arts Collective, and Regine Vital, theatre artist, educator, and Actors’ Shakespeare Project Associate Producer. The evening’s moderator is Pascale Florestal, Director of Education, Front Porch Arts Collective, and Visiting Guest Artist Professor in Practice, Suffolk University.
The evening’s panel will discuss the evolution of Shakespeare’s work and how race and other intersections influence these stories and reflect on the world today. The panel will explore fresh new perspectives and distinct voices offered in two upcoming Boston theater productions, Fat Ham and The Taming of the Shrew.
Fat Ham, a Huntington Theatre production in partnership with Front Porch Art Collective and Alliance Theater, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning new play that is a smart and sharp reinvention of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, which took Broadway by storm this spring.
In The Taming of the Shrew, premiering at the Modern Theatre this fall, Artistic Director Christopher Edwards and the talented cast turn this beloved play inside out, flip it upside down and stretch it to the limits in a way that only Actors’ Shakespeare Project can – to find what truly sits at the heart of this hilarious and contentious comedy. Audience Q&A will follow this moderated conversation.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:00 p.m.
Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre
525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
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Ford Hall Forum, and the Communication, Journalism & Media, Political Science, and Legal Studies Department, and History, Language and Culture Departments at Suffolk University present:
The Politics of Hate and Israel’s Ultimate Other
Join us for the screening of Hate: Arabs and Jews in Israel, the acclaimed documentary about the complex relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and their influences on domestic and national politics. Following the screening, filmmaker Ron Cahlili will be joined in conversation with Sayed Kashua, prominent Palestinian author, screenwriter, and journalist and Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, PhD, chair and associate professor, Communication, Journalism & Media, Suffolk University.
The documentary Hate examines the apparatus of hate towards Israel’s Palestinian citizens. Director Ron Cahlili documents the way in which the different state systems, including educational, political, military, and the media, form a dominant structure that fosters and maintains fear and hatred towards Palestinian Arabs in Israel. Through striking footage and multiple interviews with experts, educators, and political activists, the film traces the forces behind the growing expressions of hate in the Israeli public sphere.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Modern Theatre
525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108
5:00-7:00 pm
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum, Law School, History, Language and Culture Department, Communication, Journalism & Media Department, Women’s & Gender Studies Program, and the Office of Diversity, Access & Inclusion present:
A talk by internationally acclaimed scholar Hila Shamir, S.J.D., Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and Fellow, Center for Labor & A Just Economy at Harvard Law School.
Human trafficking is widely regarded as one of the most urgent moral and political dilemmas in today’s global economy. In her talk, Professor Shamir will call for a shift away from the prevailing anti-trafficking strategies focused on criminal law, border control, and minimal human rights safeguards for recognized victims. Instead, she will advocate for an innovative labor-centered approach, aiming to dismantle the labor market structures conducive to grave exploitative practices. The labor-focused approach stresses the necessity of solutions tailored to the contextual variability of factors contributing to worker vulnerability. Certain existing tools show initial promise in reshaping the power dynamics among actors within sectors predisposed to severe labor market abuses. Following her talk, Shamir will be joined by Renée M. Landers, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of health and Biomedical Law concentration at Suffolk University. Audience Q and A will follow.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Poetry Center, 73 TremontStreet, Second Floor, Boston, MA 02108
12:00 pm Lunch served
12:20 pm Program, in-person and via Zoom
This program is free and open to the public.
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Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum, Women’s & Gender Studies Program, the Communication, Journalism, & Media Department, Office of Diversity, Access & Inclusion, Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion, History, Language & Global Cultural Program, Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, Our Bodies Ourselves Today, and GBH Forum Network present:
Gender Politics and Trans Rights and Inclusion: A Conversation with Trailblazing Trans Activist – Schuyler Bailar
As seen on The Ellen Show and 60 Minutes
Schuyler Bailar (he/him) was the first openly transgender D1 NCAA athlete. Since graduating from Harvard University in 2019, Schuyler has become an internationally celebrated inspirational speaker, author, and advocate for trans inclusion, radical body acceptance, and mental health awareness. He is also recognized as a top social media LGBTQ+ educator and advocate. In his talk, Schuyler will share his personal journey and discuss some of the recent legislation affecting trans rights. He will also speak about the importance of trans inclusion and strategies for taking action.
Schuyler will participate in a conversation moderated by Bobbi Van Gilder, PhD, assistant professor, Communication, Journalism, & Media Department, Suffolk University, followed by audience Q and A. The audience will have an opportunity to meet and greet Schuyler at the conclusion of the program.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
The program starts at 12:20 pm
Lunch will be served at 12:10 pm
120 Tremont Street, Fifth Floor Commons
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Ford Hall Forum and the Departments of Political Science & Legal Studies and Communication, Journalism & Media present:
Middle-East to the Mid-West: A Palestinian Writer’s Journey
Join us for a presentation and discussion with acclaimed Palestinian author and screenwriter Sayed Kashua. Professor Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch from the Political Science & Legal Studies department will host the prominent Palestinian author, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist Sayed Kashua. Through humor and satire, Kashua shares the challenges and struggles of living in a foreign land and the difficulties of writing
about home from a distance.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
In-Person and Live via Zoom
Sargent Hall, Fifth Floor Commons
120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108
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Join Revolutionary Spaces, Ford Hall Forum, and GBH Forum Network on March 14 as we unearth a treasure from our expansive collection, the iconic Liberty Tree Flag, and explore the great American tradition of protest. Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which ignited from the Meeting of the Body of the People at Old South Meeting House, we will examine how this artifact relates to protest and the fight for freedom in its time, connecting it to our broader understanding of American history.
Revolutionary Spaces Associate Director of Collections Lori Erickson will showcase the Liberty Tree Flag and discuss the artifact, which was used to mark the Liberty Tree as a site of memory that symbolized the power of protest. Almost every subsequent protest in Revolutionary Boston genuflected in some way to the Liberty Tree. Later, the flag was brought out at anti-slavery meetings and feminist meetings as a reminder of the power of protest to make a change.
This virtual panel discussion with Revolutionary Spaces President and CEO Dr. Nathaniel Sheidley and esteemed professor and award-winning author Robert David “KC” Johnson. Examine how this artifact relates to the great American tradition of protest, from colonial to the present day. The program will conclude with an audience Q&A.
This essential virtual program will provide context for future programs at Revolutionary Spaces and other institutions throughout the anniversary year of the Boston Tea Party, as we grapple with the notion of protest in our midst.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Lowell Institute.
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The evening’s panelists are Catherine Barber, MPA, senior researcher, Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Research Center, Greg Jackson, executive director, Community Justice Action Fund, xxx, and xxx.
Gun violence has become as ubiquitous as it is polarizing in the United States. An almost daily drumbeat of mass shooting events have made some people numb, others fear that it could happen to them, and produced a generation for whom active shooter drills in schools are routine. However, as horrific as these events are, they represent only a fraction of the annual mortality rate. Suicide represents the largest share of gun-related deaths per year, followed by homicide, accidents, and domestic violence. Despite this, it seems that the only thing we can agree about is that the overall toll is too high. What, if anything, can be done?
Join us as we move beyond the political battle over 2nd Amendment rights vs. public safety and take a deep dive into policy: what works, what doesn’t, and what is feasible to do in this highly charged environment.
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Ford Hall Forum and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Suffolk University present:
Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights: Legal, Medical, and Social Challenges
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
12:20 pm
Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, Second Floor
73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108
Lunch will be served
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
The afternoon’s panelists are Kristie Monast, executive director, HealthQ, Sheila Ramirez, JD, director, Health Policy and Government Relations at Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, and Renee Landers, professor of law, and faculty director, Health and Biomedical Law Concentration and the Master of Science in Law: Life Sciences program, Suffolk University School of Law. Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, PhD, associate professor, Communication, Journalism & Media will serve as the afternoon’s moderator.
The panel of experts will explore questions regarding the legal, medical, and social challenges women face after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade. Speakers will focus on multiple challenges faced by communities of color, undocumented immigrants, and women with limited access to healthcare.
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