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.
Register here:
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
In-person registration is not required.
Register here to attend via ZOOM.
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.
This event is free and open to everyone though registration is required.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/34432/production/1226323
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.
Screening of Emmy award winning documentary film For Ahkeem by award-winning filmmaker Jeremy S. Levine.
Screening of Emmy award-winning documentary film For Ahkeem by award-winning filmmaker Jeremy S. Levine.
Levine’s latest feature film For Ahkeem is a love story set against the backdrop of the Ferguson uprising and the school-to-prison pipeline. For Ahkeem played as an official selection of over 60 film festivals—including the Berlinale, Tribeca, and Hot Docs —where it won 10 awards, including 8 “Best Documentary Awards.” During its limited theatrical run, For Ahkeem was named in the Top 10 Lists by both Entertainment Weekly and People and was included on the “Unforgettables” List by the Cinema Eye Honors, a list that IndieWire wrote, “helped to define documentary cinema in 2017.”
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Modern Theatre, 535 Washington Street, Boston, MA
This event is free and open to the public.
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