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Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay’s work has garnered international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social…
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.In this talk, Ram-Prasad…
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Patrice Rushen chairs the Popular Music Program at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. Although her early training was in…
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John Rickford is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University, where he studies the relationship between language and social structure.In this talk,…
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Majora Carter is an American urban revitalization strategist based in the South Bronx, New York. Last fall she was invited to deliver the keynote address…
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Daniel Lieberman, a paleoanthropologist and biology professor at Harvard University, spoke about his work studying human athletic behavior and performance…
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Steve Waksman, Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, gave a historical view of the movement of jazz from “lowbrow” popular music, to…
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Dennis Childs, associate professor of African American literature and an affiliate faculty member of the department of ethnic studies and critical gender…
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Franklin Odo is the John J. McCloy Visiting Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy at Amherst College. As part of the UMass…
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Republican political commentator and strategist Ana Navarro was recently invited to speak as part of Smith College’s Presidential Colloquium Series.…