Public Events and Programs

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David Center for the American Revolution Seminar
Public Lecture

“Much stressed with…pain”: Privacy, Surveillance, and the Making of Marginalized Healing Spaces in Revolutionary New England

Featuring
Sarah Pearlman Shapiro
3:00–4:00 p.m. ET
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Public Lecture

A Constitution for the 21st Century

Featuring
Sheila Jasanoff, with Linda Greenhouse
Keynote Lecture 6:00–7:00p.m. ET; additional sessions 3:00–5:00p.m. ET
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America's Scientific Revolutionaries

Communities of Care: Building Resilience through Science, Health, and Social Justice

Featuring
Deb Niemeier, Anand Pandian, Nicole Labruto, Jeremy Greene, and special guests
6:00-7:30pm ET
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Lunch at the Library

Sex Isn′t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary

Featuring
Beans Velocci
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
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Indigenous Learning Forum

"The Stories of Our Past inform the Stories of Our Future": Documenting, Collaborating and Constructing the Southern Dawnland Cultural Heritage Knowledgescape

Featuring
Lydia Curliss
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
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Public Lecture

On Climate, Air, and Human Welfare: Considering Joseph Priestley’s Scientific Legacies – A Conversation with Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan

Featuring
Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan
6:00-7:00 PM PT
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Publishing Salon

Local Poet Extravaganza

Featuring
Poets TBA
5:30–7:00 p.m. ET
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Lunch at the Library

When the Declaration of Independence Was News

Featuring
Emily Sneff
Noon – 1:00 p.m. ET
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Indigenous Learning Forum

Exchanging Knowledges in a Tribal-University Collaborative with Manoomin-Psíŋ (Wild Rice)

Featuring
Hannah Jo King, Rob Croll, Giovanni Delgado-Ortiz, Joe Graveen, Meredith Keller
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET