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International Holocaust Remembrance Day | Hank Brodt

Teaching & Learning Technologies February 20, 2019

Born in 1925 and now a resident of High Point, N.C., Brodt was a prisoner in five Nazi concentration camps and a forced labor camp, including Plashov, Matthausen and Ebensee, during his teenage years. His tale of struggle and his survival against the odds illuminates one of the darkest periods of human history, the Holocaust. […]

Nicaragua Forum

Cultural & Special Programs January 2, 2019

Presentations and panel discussion on the latest social uprising, the suppression of human rights, and the refugee crisis in Nicaragua. Presenters: 0:00 Ronald Garcia-Fogarty of tilde Language Justice Cooperative describes Nicaragua’s history of violence and corruption. 18:02 Migration specialist Nitza Segui Albino outlines a world history of forced migration within and outside Nicaragua. 35:14 Elon […]

Stand Your Ground | Kelly Brown Douglas

Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, & Society April 25, 2016

Kelly Brown Douglas is a professor of religion at Goucher College with areas of expertise in Women’s Theology and Sexuality & Black Church studies. In her “Stand Your Ground” lecture, she addresses the evolution of the Black Lives Matter campaign and the construction of the black body historically, and in today’s society. (231)

William Hogarth and the Middle Class Vantage Point | Michael Carignan

Teaching & Learning Technologies September 21, 2015

William Hogarth remains a fixture in both academic and popular discussions of art and life in Georgian England. The six-plate series we display, Marriage à la Mode, is the center-piece of a discussion of a new sort of story-telling technique that Hogarth developed, its connection to the rise of the novel, and Associate Professor of […]