April 15 - April 16 HSS Student Expo Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium HSS Student Expo is a forum for HSS students to present their research work, papers, posters, etc.
April 9 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Memorial Event for Professor Sara Reguer Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Please join us in honoring the life, career, and contributions of Professor Sara Reguer to Brooklyn College and the Judaic Studies Department. Professor Reguer passed away suddenly last August, and
April 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Blueprint for Solidarity: Black, Latinx, and Asian American Freedom Struggles Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The panel will explore lessons to be learned from Black, Latinx, and Asian American freedom struggles.
April 3 @ 12:50 pm - 2:05 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Union Power! Academic Freedom and the Future of Higher Education Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The panel will explore the role of academic labor unions in defending academic freedom in the current political moment.
April 3 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am Bearing Witness and Taking Action in an Age of Rising Fascism: Oral History in the Field and in the Classroom—Hess Week Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Hess Scholar Paul Ortiz delivers a lecture on the practice of oral history.
April 3 @ 9:30 am - 10:45 am Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Bearing Witness and Taking Action in an Age of Rising Fascism: Oral History in the Field and in the Classroom Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Professor Ortiz will deliver a talk drawing on his personal experiences as an oral historian.
April 2 @ 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Defending the Freedom to Teach Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel will explore current political attacks on K-12 and college teachers’ freedom to teach and imagine ways forward.
April 2 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Our History, Our Voices: Oral History to Change the World Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel takes inspiration from Paul Ortiz’s work as President of the Oral History Association and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida.
April 1 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Defending the Freedom to Learn Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel explores how book bans and curriculum gag orders deny K-12 and college students’ freedom to learn and access to education.
April 1 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – President’s Welcome Ceremony Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and the Brooklyn College community welcome 2023-24 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Paul Ortiz to campus.
