Calendar
Lectures (March 1 through March 5)
Friday, March 1
- 9:00 AM Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond
- The Impact of Good Intentions: Telling the Story of Foreign Aid in the 21st Century
- 12:00 PM Are We Negotiating the Wrong Climate Treaty?
- Medical Grand Rounds: Stokes Memorial Lecture in Preventative Care
- Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
- 1:00 PM Literary Translation Lecture Series
- 1:45 PM “Clonal Evolution in CLL: Therapeutic Implications”
- 2:00 PM Particle and Fields Seminar
- 3:00 PM MSE Colloquium: Julia Chan, Louisiana State University
- CISE Seminar: Ani Hsieh, Drexel University
Sunday, March 3
Monday, March 4
- 12:00 PM FDD Seminar: "How everyone can be a Leader. How to identify and nurture your inner leader"
- The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
- Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
- 1:00 PM BUCH Fellows' Seminar
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Taylor Barton
- 6:00 PM Empathy, Freedom, Saying No: An Indian Perspective on Palestine
Tuesday, March 5
- 12:30 PM The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with João Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the US, and Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the US
- 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Dan Feldman
- Muslimness and the Spatial State of Emergency: Lessons Learned on Grounded Politics Among Muslims in a Copenhagen Neighborhood
- 5:00 PM One Drop Rule: Colorism and Black Consciousness
- Jack Falla Speaker Series: Ben Sturner
- 5:30 PM Does God Speak Tamil or Sanskrit? On the Infancy of a Tamil Goddess
- 6:00 PM Teaching the Body: A Lecture by Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas Dept., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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