Due: March 17th, 2025

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• “Polvo de Gallina Negra and the Politics of Pregnant Performance in Mexico” - Erin L. McCutcheon - Department of Art & Art History
• “Planetary Drift: Flotsam as Empathic Medium in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being” - Billy Bowden - Department of English
• “Women in the Italian Resistance: Stories of Partnership between Italian Partisans and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services” - Catherine Sama - Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
• “Hashi” - Adrián Montero Moya and Moé Takamatsu - Department of Music
• “Framing the Bettelheims: Finding a new approach to an extremely colorful but fairly unknown family of the American 19th century” - Jenny Elkus - Department of History
• “To Save Humankind Kill Off the Hero’s Journey” - Holly Dunsworth - Department of Sociology & Anthropology

2022-2023 Brown bag talks

September 13, 3pm
Hoffman Room, Swan Hall

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At a time of widespread concern about challenges to democracy, the Center for the Humanities is pleased to present “Sustaining Democracy: A Humanities Lecture Series.” This yearlong speaker series (which will run parallel to the Fall 2024 Honors Colloquium on “Democracy in Peril” and extend into Spring 2025) will demonstrate the critical role that the […]

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• A Conversation with Clint Smith: How the Word is Passed - Clint Smith
  
• Think Indigenous: Richard Oakes and the Red Power Movement - Kent Blansett
  
• Walking through Time: the 5,000-Year History of the URI Campus - Kristine Bovy, Catherine DeCesare, Roderick Mather, and Lorén Spears
  
• Before 1776–Time to Break the Silence - Jack (John Kwo Wei) Tchen
• The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between - James Young
• Recognizing the Legacy of Slavery in Rhode Island - Victoria Johnson, James DeWolf Perry, and Charles Roberts
• On Juneteenth: The Essential Story of “Freedom Day” and Its Importance to American History - Annette Gordon-Reed
  

• Suffrage Memorabilia and the Merchandising of the Movement - Kenneth Florey
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• How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All - Martha Jones
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• Suffrage and Sashes: American Pageantry and the Feminist Movement - Hilary Levey Friedman
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• Transnational Suffrage Activism in Postrevolutionary Mexico - Kathleen McIntyre
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• Current Trends in Voting Rights - Nellie Gorbea
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• Felon Disenfranchisement and the History of Women’s Voting Rights - Pippa Holloway
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• Historical Perspectives on Woman Suffrage: Rhode Island and Beyond - Elizabeth Stevens, Elisa Miller, and Emily Lynch
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• The Queer History of the Suffrage Movement - Wendy Rouse
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• Getting Out the Vote - Justine Caldwell, Kate Coyne McCoy, and Stella Rouse
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