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.
March 21 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Writing About Nazis…for Children?! A Discussion of “Max in the House of Spies,” With Author Adam Gidwitz, Professor Steven Remy, and Provost April Bedford Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A discussion with author Adam Gidwitz, Professor of History Steven Remy, and Provost April Bedford.
March 8 @ 10:00 am - 4:45 pm Resisting the Policing of Women’s Bodies: Affirming Individual and Collective Rights in 21st-Century America. A 2024 International Women’s Day Conference Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A 2024 International Women’s Day conference.
March 5 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm From Ann Lowe to Olivier Rousteing: Black Designers Building Fashion Businesses Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A lecture on Black designers building fashion businesses.
February 29 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Policy, and Equity: A Revolution or Regression? Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A joint BCCC-CURE, Health and Nutrition Sciences Department, Sociology Department, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department, and Women’s Center scientific seminar.
