Humanities Forum

Humanities Forum Carole McCann, Chair and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies “Figuring the Population Bomb: Malthusian Masculinities and Demographic Transitions” Wednesday, December 7, 4 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery   Drawing from her new book, Carole McCann will trace the genealogy of the twentieth-century demographic “facts” that created a mathematical panic about a looming …

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Humanities Forum Alice Dreger, historian of science and medicine Joan S. Korenman Lecture Wednesday, February 24, 5:30 p.m.  Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery  For 25 years, people born with intersex (that is, body types that aren’t standard male or standard female) and their allies have been fighting for basic patient rights, including the right to …

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Humanities Forum Wednesday, March 11 | 4:00 p.m. Joan S. Korenman Lecture Maria Gabriela “Gaby” Pacheco, immigrant rights activist Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery  Activist Maria Gabriela Pacheco is a prominent figure in the national immigrant rights movement and is currently the program director of TheDream.US, a national organization that provides higher education fellowship opportunities …

“The Paths We Make as We Go:” the Narrative of an Undocumented Immigrant Woman in the U.S. Read More »