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Speakers TBA

Dr. Angela Fang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the 91±¬ÁÏ.
Professor Adam Guastella is the Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health.

Rescheduled: Why is the contemporary public university struggling? Newfield describes what has undermined 21st c. public universities and a model to better serve the next 30 years.

This lecture is part of a three day Teaching and Learning Symposium, April 11-18. This tri-campus event showcases 91±¬ÁÏ’s vibrant teaching community and 91±¬ÁÏ instructors’ new and exciting work in the classroom. Kevin Gannon, author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, will invite us to develop a sustainable teaching practice grounded in an ethic of hope.

Christopher Newfield discusses the external pressures and internal policy failures that have undermined North American public universities in the 21st century.

In memory of Dr. HU Tai-Li, the evening features an in-person screening of The Return of Gods and Ancestors and a lecture by Professor Scott Simon about Dr. Hu’s work.

Screams have always been a component of Yoko Ono’s artistic practice, but rather than received as an act of communication, the dominant reception has been not to listen. Offering a meditation on the queer dynamics of Asian American grief, this talk lingers in and listens to Ono’s shatter and scream as she mobilizes affective expressions that are at times explosive, and at others depressive, to perform various modes of coming undone, shattering, falling apart, and breaking down.

Join the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for an evening with author Robert Cherny, labor journalist E. Tammy Kim, and ILWU activist Zack Pattin.

The lecture will focus on the current political developments in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Join us for a special lecture event with Phillip Lipscy as he walks us through Japan’s response to climate change.