Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director of the ACLU
Injustice Anywhere: The Shared Struggle to Expand Constitutional Liberties for Everyone in America
Thursday, April 25, 2019
5:00 pm Lecture
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street
Providence
Supported in part through the Jill Rose Distinguished Presidential Lecture Fund.
Martha S. Jones
Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Thursday, October 11, 2018
5 pm
Carmichael Auditorium
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
85 Waterman Street
Book signing and light reception to follow.
Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the
Department of American Studies
Arthur C. Brooks
President, American Enterprise Institute
Bringing America Together
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
5:30 pm
Pembroke Room 305
Meeting Street
Providence, RI
John N. Friedman
Associate Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Opportunity in America: Improving Intergenerational Mobility with Big Data
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
5:00 pm
Reception to follow
Joukowsky Forum
Watson Institute
111 Thayer Street
Mark Lilla
Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
After Identity Liberalism
September 28, 2017
5:00 pm
Smith Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Faculty Panel moderated by President Christina Paxson
Charlottesville: Perspectives on the Origins and Implications of White Nationalism in the U.S.
5:00 to 6:30 pm
Salomon Center for Teaching
Deciccio Auditorium
Reception to follow
*Brown University ID Required for Admission
Nancy Khalek
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
Islam, Islamophobia, and Teaching 'Difficult Subjects' in the Age of Trumpism
Monday, April 17, 2017
4:00 pm
Joukowsky Forum Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Panel Discussion
What is the History, and Possible Futures, of Immigration, Deportation, and Refugee Policy?
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
4:00 pm
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Kenneth R. Miller
Professor of Biology, Brown University
Science Denial: from Anti-Vaxers and Climate ‘Skeptics’ to the Ark Park -- Why it Continues and Why it Matters
Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago
Free Speech and Civil Disobedience
February 6, 2017 4pm
IBES, Carmichael Auditorium
85 Waterman Street
Geoffrey Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Free Speech on Campus
Robert C. Post
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale University
Freedom of Speech in the University
November 14, 2016,
Joukowsky Forum Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Marshall Ganz
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
One Day Workshop on Personal Narrative and Community Values
October 28, 2016
Alumnae Hall
Jelani Cobb
Professor of Journalism, Columbia University School of Journalism, and staff writer for The New Yorker
A Note from the Margin: The Unsafe Spaces of Democracy
October 11, 2016, 4:00 pm
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium