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2023–24 Series
Fall Semester
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
September 12, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETHeather McGhee (Author; Distinguished Lecturer of Urban Studies, School of Labor and Urban Studies, City University of New York)
Subjects: History Education Studies Racism Racial Discrimination Economic Inequality Activism Civil Rights Human Rights American History United States of America
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Digital Humanities and Digital Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom
September 14, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETKelly Hammond (OER Assistant, Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology, CUNY School of Professional Studies)
Subjects: Technology Humanities Education Studies Digital Humanities Pedagogy Teaching Digital Pedagogy Data Visualization
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Media History and Freedom of Speech
September 26, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETJennifer A. Petersen (Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California)
Subjects: Journalism and Communication Education Studies First Amendment to the United States Constitution Supreme Court of the United States Mass Media Social Media Technology Legal History
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Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper?
October 3, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETElisa New (Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Department of English, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Public Humanities, Arizona State University)
Subjects: Literature Education Studies Poetry Health Equity Paper Industry Writers
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Deliciousness and the Evolution of Flavor
October 12, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETRobert R. Dunn (Senior Vice Provost for University Interdisciplinary Programs, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: Science Medicine Food Human Ecology Evolution
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Hip-Hop and Youth Culture as Pedagogy
October 17, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETJason Rawls (School of Music/African & African American Studies, The Ohio State University)
Subjects: Education Studies Students Hip Hop Cultural Identity Teaching Pedagogy
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Emotional Intelligence: The Path to Sustainability in Education
October 19, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETAdam Saenz (Department of Psychiatry, Texas A&M University)
Subjects: Education Studies Psychology Emotions Teachers Teaching
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Indigenous Center, European Other: Teaching Indigenous Histories of the Americas
October 26, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETHannah R. Abrahamson (Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross)
Subjects: History Education Studies
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Fostering Civic Engagement in the Classroom: How to Support a Youth-led Movement for Justice
October 31, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETJon T. Greenberg (Educator and Writer from Seattle; cofounder of the WA NAACP Youth Council)
Subjects: Education Studies Civic Engagement Activism Teaching Democracy Public Education
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The Roots of the Black Working Class
November 7, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETBlair L. M. Kelley (NHC Fellow, 2022–23; Director, Center for the Study of the American South; Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Subjects: History Education Studies African American History African Americans Labor History Working Class Oral History United States of America
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Beyond “Just Follow the Science”: Concepts and Tools for Teaching Public Health Literacy in the Classroom
November 14, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETNancy Tomes (NHC Fellow, 1999–2000; 2022–23; Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University)
Subjects: History Journalism and Communication Medicine Medical Humanities Misinformation Disinformation Public Health COVID-19 Information Literacy
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Native (Self) Representation: From Social Media to Reservation Dogs
November 21, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETShannon Epplett (Instructional Assistant Professor, School of Theatre and Dance, Illinois State University)
Subjects: Education Studies Film and Media Indigenous Americans Indigenous Cultures of the Americas Mass Media Popular Culture Survivance Decolonization Reservation Dogs Firekeeper's Daughter United Kingdom
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Let’s Relieve Comedy of the Idea of Comic Relief
December 5, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETJohn Bruns (Professor, Film Studies Program and Department of English, College of Charleston)
Subjects: Literature Education Studies Literary Criticism Literary Theory Comedy Cultural Studies
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How Will Students Learn to Write Now That We Have ChatGPT?
December 14, 2023 7:00–8:30 pm ETSarah R. Levine (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University)
Subjects: Education Studies Technology Teaching Writing Instruction Writing Students Teachers Artificial Intelligence
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Spring Semester
Teaching Chaucer
January 11, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETTimothy L. Stinson (NHC Fellow, 2021–22; Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: Literature Education Studies English Literature Middle Ages Medieval Literature Teaching Poetry The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
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Focus On “What is Up to You”: The Stoics on How to Be Happier, Develop Your Character, and Live a Good Life
January 25, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETMichael Tremblay (PhD, Independent Scholar (Canada))
Subjects: Philosophy History Stoicism Teaching Character Education Marcus Aurelius Greece
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Myth-Busting Medieval Disability
January 30, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETKisha G. Tracy (Associate Professor, English Studies, Fitchburg State University)
Subjects: Literature History Disability Studies Middle Ages Teaching
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Slave Voyages: Engaging the Digital in Education
February 1, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETNafees M. Khan (Content Developer, Ralph Appelbaum Associates; Operational Committee, Slave Voyages Consortium)
Subjects: History Education Studies Digital Humanities Transatlantic Slave Trade Slavery Middle Passage Forced Displacement
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In The Shadow of Civil Rights: The African American Experience in New York City in the 1980s
February 6, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETHasan Kwame Jeffries (Associate Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University)
Subjects: History African American History Civil Rights Activism Racial Inequality Local History New York, NY
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Exploring Women and Girls of African-Descent in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction
February 15, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETKarima K. Jeffrey-Legette (NHC Fellow, 2022–23; 2023–24; Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Hampton University)
Subjects: Literature Film and Media History African American Literature Women's Studies Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Black Panther Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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F.B. Eyes on Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 20, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETW. Jason Miller (NHC Fellow, 2022–23; Professor of English, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: History Literature American History American Civil Rights Movement Harlem Renaissance Teaching Primary Sources Martin Luther King, Jr. Langston Hughes United States of America
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Why You Should Start Teaching Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife (1929)
March 5, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETMarsha Gordon (NHC Fellow, 2019–20; Professor of English; Director, Film Studies Program, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: Literature Women Authors American Literature Novels Women's History Ursula Parrott
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Dark with Excessive Bright: The Music and Advocacy of Missy Mazzoli
March 14, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETMissy Mazzoli (Composer in Residence, The Conservatory of Music, Bard College)
Subjects: Music Education Studies Opera Gender Inequality Composers Women
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What The Fact?!: Finding The Truth In All The Noise
April 9, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETSeema Yasmin (Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University)
Subjects: Journalism and Communication Education Studies Media Literacy Digital Literacy Information Literacy Misinformation Disinformation
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The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Adaptation to Environmental Catastrophe and Environmental Refugees
May 7, 2024 7:00–8:30 pm ETRichard Hornbeck (V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago)
Subjects: Economics History Environment and Nature American History Economic History Migration Climate Change Dust Bowl The Thirties United States of America
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