Past Events

Nov

13

Class/Workshop

Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis (Documentary Screening)

Location:
Black Box Theater, Zoellner Arts Center
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LAS ABOGADAS follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand…
Nov

12

Lecture

Berman Center: Making Jewish Heritage in the Present: A tribute to Dr. Chava Weissler

Location:
Williams Hall, Global Commons
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Prof. Chava Weissler, Lehigh University, Emerita, will be interviewed by Prof. Jessica Carr, the Berman Scholar of Jewish Studies at Lafayette College where they are an Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Prof. Martin Kavka, a former Berman Professor who is a…
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24

Lecture

The Planetary Turn in Historical Thinking with Dipesh Chakrabarty

Location:
Linderman Library, Room 200
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Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches History and South Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000; 2008), The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021) and One Planet, Many Worlds (2023)…
Oct

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