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Fall 2013
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September 19, 2013 BRAUN ROOM, ANDOVER HALL, HDS** HOW WE GOT TO BE WHO WE ARE: EXPLORING BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION 10.00 am** Setting the issue: Elizabeth Dodson Gray* 10.30 am** Lecture by Daniel Dennett , prof philosophy & co-director Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, author of Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking September 26, 2013 REALITIES AND MYTHS: HOW WE AMERICANS SEE OURSELVES Setting the issue: ???* Lecture by Timothy McCarthy, director Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and adjunct lecturer Kennedy School of Government, Harvard October 3, 2013 FACING WOMEN'S INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION: UNDERMINED AND UNAWARE "The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities." poet Adrienne Rich (5/16/29 - 3/27/12) Setting the issue: Carol Goldman* Lecture by Judith Jordan, psychotherapist, co-director Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College October 10, 2013 FACING MEN'S INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION AND THE CULT OF MASCULINITY Setting the issue: Jared Shinabery* Lecture by Terry Real, psychotherapist, founder of the Relational Life Institute, author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression October 17, 2013 WHAT KEEPS US RACIST? Setting the issue: ???* Lecture by Jennifer Hochschild, prof of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University |
October 24, 2013 HOW TECHNOLOGY IS SHAPING US Setting the issue: Lindsa Vallee* Lecture by Rosalind Williams, Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, author of The Triumph of Human Empire (forthcoming) October 31, 2013 HOW THE MEDIA DESENSITIZES US TO VIOLENCE Setting the issue: Chris Farrow-Noble* Lecture by Nancy Carlsson-Paige, professor emerita Lesley University, co-founder of the University’s Center for Peaceable Schools, author Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World November 7, 2013 PORNOGRAPHY: UBIQUITOUS...INVASIVE...AGGRESSIVE Setting the issue: Paula Chandoha* Lecture by Gail Dines, professor Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wheelock College, activist, author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality November 14, 2013 TRANSFORMING A RAPE CULTURE Setting the issue: Maria Behnke* Lecture by Wendy Murphy, founder & director Victim Advocacy & Research Group, adjunct professor at New England School of Law, author And Justice for Some November 21, 2013 WOMEN CLAIMING LEADERSHIP: HOW IT CAN CHANGE OUR CULTURE Setting the issue: ???* Lecture by Nancy Gertner, professor of practice at Harvard Law School, former US federal judge, author of In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate * Advisory Committee member **Note the special time & place to allow for the Anniversary Event |
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