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- Principal Matters: Singapore Principal Cohort on-site PD All day
- SE PhD Prospectus Defense of Shirantha Welikala10:00 am
- GRS Dissertation Defense of Daniel Lancour10:00 am
- Drop-In Writing Assistance12:00 pm
- Introduction to the Astana International Financial Centre, Kazakhstan12:00 pm
- Is Eradicating AIDS Feasible?3:00 pm
- Tea Time4:00 pm
- GRS Dissertation Defense of John Quirk4:00 pm
- Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars4:30 pm
- Ecumenical Night Prayer5:30 pm
- Book Club5:30 pm
- Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture6:00 pm
- Critical Conversations about Early Childhood Education6:00 pm
- Community Dinner6:00 pm
- String Chamber Concert6:30 pm
Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture
This year’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture will be presented by David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. The lecture is free and open to the public.
David W. Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. His latest book is a new full biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, published in October, 2018 by Simon and Schuster. For a full biography, visit www.davidwblight.com
Register by: 12/2/2019When | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm on Monday, December 2, 2019 |
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Location | Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave. |
Phone | (617) 353-9511 |