Spring 2018 Printable Schedule
Monday, January 29, 2018 *
The Glover Memorial Lecture
Einstein, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Gabriela González, Louisiana State University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Donald Trump, Race, and the Crisis of American Democracy
Christopher S. Parker, University of Washington, Seattle
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Food Access and Poverty
Alyssa Feher, Tapestry of Health
Becca Raley ’94, Partnership for Better Health
Risa Waldoks ’12, The Food Trust
Robert Weed ’80, Project Share
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Program is Part of Love Your Body Week (LYBW)
The Adipositivity Project
Substantia Jones, founder and photographer, The Adipositivity Project
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Program is Part of Love Your Body Week (LYBW)
I’m Smiling Because I’m Uncomfortable
Emma Howard, performer and writer
Adams Hall, Basement Kitchen, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 *
The Strange Career of the Jim Crow North: A Dickinson Story?
Komozi Woodard ’71, Sarah Lawrence College
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 ♦
Pink Precariat: LGBT Workers in the Shadow of Civil Rights
Margot Canaday, Princeton University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Monday, February 26, 2018
A Conversation with President Margee Ensign and Global Entrepreneur Martin Burt
Martin Burt, Fundación Paraguaya
Margee Ensign, Dickinson College
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 ♦
The 1001 Black Men Online Sketchbook and the Art of Social Justice
Ajuan Mance, Mills College
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 ♦
An Evening with Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada, award-winning writer
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 *
Seeing = Believing?
Eitan Grinspun, Columbia University
Steven Malcic, Dickinson College
Tabitha Peck, Davidson College
Graham Roberts, The New York Times
Gregory Steirer (moderator), Dickinson College
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Beyond Kinetics: Advancing Civil-Military Partnership in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism
Muhammad Umer Bashir, Pakistan Army
Shawn Diniz ’18, Dickinson College
Margee Ensign, Dickinson College
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Dickinson College
Casey Miner, U.S. Army
Yssouf Traore (moderator), Mali Army
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 6 p.m.
Monday, April 9, 2018
(Dis)Owning God: Religious Identity and Violent Extremism in the African Sahel Region
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Dickinson College
Stern Center Great Room, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 12, 2018 ♦
Latinx: The Future is Now
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, University of Texas in Austin
Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m.
Monday, April 16, 2018 ♦
Violent Borders: The State vs. the Right to Move
Reece Jones, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Masculine Identity and Sexual Gender Based Violence: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Aloys Mahwa, director of Living Peace Institute in the DRC
Althouse Hall, Room 106, Noon – 1 p.m.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Reducing the Global Burden of Dementia: The First Alzheimer’s Survivors
Dale Bredesen, UCLA and Buck Institute
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
(Rescheduled from March 22, 2018)
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program
Where is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?
Stephen Walt, Harvard University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 27, 2018
The Good Fight: America’s Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Rick Smolan ’72, New York Times best-selling author
Althouse Hall, Room 106, 4:30 p.m.
♦ Denotes programs that are part of the semester theme: Citizen/Refugee
* Denotes programs that are part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series