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Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare's First Folio and Second Chance
Tuesday, November 30
Co-sponsored by the English Department, CMU Libraries, the Humanities Center, the Center for Arts and Society, the School of Drama, the Department of History and the Frick Museum
Brittany Broski
Activities Board Presents: A Conversation with Brittany Broski
Tuesday, November 7
Co-sponsored by the Activities Board
Amanda Nguyen
Journey of Resilience:
Amanda Nguyen's Work in the Fight Against Asian Hate and Sexual Assault
Tuesday, April 4
Co-sponsored by the the Office for Institutional Equity and Title IX, It's On Us Grant, Graduate Student Assembly, Student Senate, Collaboratory Against Hate, and the Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion as a part of their MOSAIC Conference on Intersectionality
Zia Mohajerjasbi, Saim Saddiq and Luo Yi An
CMU International Film Festival:
Nightly Q&A discussion with the filmmaker and expert panelists
March 16 - April 2
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the CMU International Film Festival
Edward Eigen, Rania Ghosn, Margarita Jover, Sylvia Lavin, Fadi Masoud, and Neyran Turan
Architecture's Ecological Restructuring
A workshop-style symposium
Saturday, March 25
Co-sponsored by the CMU School of Architecture, the Sustainability Initiative, the 2022-23 Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series, University Advancement, the College of Fine Arts, Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program, and the Center for the Arts in Society
Dan Bouk and Tammy Hepps
Data, Democracy, and the Census
History and Genealogy in Conversation
Thursday, February 23
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Adam Winkler, J.D.
Connell Professor of Law
University of California Los Angeles School of Law
Are Corporations People?
Monday, March 21, 2022 at 5 p.m. ET
Co-sponsored with the CMU Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the CMU Pre-law Program.
Peter Highnam, Ph.D. (MCS 1986, SCS 1991)
A Conversation with Peter Highnam, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Wednedsay, February 2, 2022
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Politics and Strategy
Watch the Conversation with Dr. Highnam
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Natalia Molina
We Can't be Illegal if We're Essential: The Reckoning Wrought by Covid-19
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Chief Carmen Best
A Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion with Chief Carmen Best
Friday, February 12, 2021
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics and Strategy
Attorney Ben Crump and Michelle Williams
AB Presents: A Conversation about Anti-Racism with Attorney Ben Crump and Michelle Williams
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Co-sponsored by AB Lectures
William Frey
How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Naomi Oreskes
Why Trust Science?
February 20, 2020
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
CMU Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
Jaime Grant
Making Way: Actionable Steps for All-Gender Inclusion
February 13, 2020
Health Services
Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion
Office of Title IX Initiatives
CMQ+
Chatham University
Liz Ogbu
Do No Harm: The Role of Design(ers) in Complicated Times
February 3, 2020
School of Architecture
School of Design
Dominic "D-trix" Sandoval
An Evening with Dominic "D-trix" Sandoval: Performance and Interview
January 23, 2020
Asian Students Association
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kathryn Anthony
Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places
September 16, 2019
School of Architecture
School of Design
Anna Clark
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
September 11, 2019
Department of History
Humanities Center
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A.W. Mellon Foundation
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism as Genocide
September 7, 2019
Center for Arts and Society
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
September 6, 2019
Department of History
Sir David Spiegelhalter
Communicating Statistics in an Age of Fragmented Media and Contested Science
April 22, 2019
Department of Statistics & Data Science
Paul Brockman
Doctors Without Borders and the Myanmar Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh
April 4, 2019
Department of Modern Languages
Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
Margaret Morrison Distinguished Lecture
Medical Bondage and the Birth of American Gynecology
March 28, 2019
Department of History and CAUSE
Edda Fields Black
Orchestral Debut
Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice
February 13, 2019
Department of History
Katherine Baicker
Whither US Health Care?
November 16, 2018
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Hon. Max Baer and Hon. Maureen Lally-Green
A Forum
Gerrymandering and the Constitution
November 5, 2018
Pre-Law Program
Hugh Dubberly
HCI: Software, Services, and Products
November 2, 2018
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Alan Mallach
The Divided City
October 30, 2018
Remaking Cities Institute
Ellen Weintraub
Money, Politics and the Weaponization of the First Amendment
October 29, 2018
Pre-Law Program
Anthony DiGioia
Vision, Passion and Teamwork: Transforming Healthcare the CMU Way
October 12, 2018
Division of Student Affairs
Rea Dol, Anderson Soulouque, Paul Namphy
Growing Hope: Grassroots Activism in Haiti
October 11, 2018
ProSeed Grant
Department of Modern Languages
Cass Sunstein
Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
September 27, 2018
Program for Deliberative Democracy
Center for Ethics and Public Policy
Pre-Law Program