Events

John Holmes, associate professor of mathematics at The Ohio State University, will visit campus to discuss his work studying nonlinear partial differential equations.

The Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) welcomes Laura Field, senior advisor with the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University.

Niklas Manz, associate professor of physics at the College of Wooster, will visit campus to discuss his work with reaction-diffusion systems.

The Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) welcomes award-winning author Ivo Daadler, who served as U.S. Ambassador to NATO; CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and a National Security Council official. He is currently a senior fellow at the Belfer Center,

The Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) welcomes Jeff Snyder, professor of educational studies, and Amna Khalid, director of Asian studies and professor of history, from Carleton College.

This lecture examines the growing political effort to control how the American past is taught and understood in educational settings from classrooms and libraries, to historic sites and museums. Drawing on the Black freedom struggle and the lived work of educators, Hasan Kwame Jeffries argues that teaching honest history is not a partisan act but a democratic necessity—and that what is at stake is nothing less than the future of American democracy.

“Theory.” In literary studies and sociology, theories not only guide how we do the practical work of interpreting texts and data, but they also offer critiques of the here and now and contain our hopes for a better future. Abstract yet fundamental, complex yet elegant, opaque yet clarifying: these contradictions make learning and arguing about theory its own confounding and pleasurable exercise.

The Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) welcomes Lily Geismer, professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.