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Yohuru Williams presents “And Justice for All: What African American History Can Teach Us about Participatory Democracy” as part of American International College’s Lectures and Forums Series, Feb. 11, 2020

Yohuru Williams, PhD, Dean and McQuinn Distinguished Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of St. Thomas, presents “And Justice for All: What African American History Can Teach Us about Participatory Democracy” as part of American International College’s Lectures and Forums Series. The series is coordinated in part by WCSA member, and Associate Professor of History at AIC, Gary Jones.

The event will be February 11, 2020 at 11am in AIC’s Campus Center Auditorium, and is free and open to the public.

Announcing AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE LECTURES AND FORUMS SERIES, 2018-2019

*All events are free and open to the public.

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE LECTURES AND FORUMS SERIES, 2018-2019

“Social Class Comes to Campus: A Workshop for First-Generation College Students” Rachel Rybaczuk, UMASS-Amherst & Executive-Director/Senior Trainer, CLASS ACTION, October 2nd, 11.00. Campus Center Auditorium

“The N-Word: History, Race, and the College Classroom,” Dr. Elizabeth Pryor, Smith College, October 16, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

The 2018 Elections: A Panel Discussion (Dr. Maryanne Barakso, Political Science, UMASS-Amherst; Dr. Tim Vercellotti , Political Science, WNEU & Director, Western New England University Polling Institute, Dr. Julie Walsh, Political Science, AIC), November 8th, 7.00 p.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

Book Reading: “Gorbachev: His Life and Times” (W.W. Norton, 2017), Dr. William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize winner, Amherst College, November 29th, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

                                                                                                                                                “Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement” Dr. Yohuru Williams, Dean and McQuinn Distinguished Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, February 12th, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

“Fighting the U.S. Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics” Carrie Baker, Professor and Director, Center of the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College, March 7th, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

Poetry Reading: “Wounds in the Heart: American Poetry and the Spanish Civil War” Peter Neil Carroll, April 4th, 11.00 a.m. West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

Documentary Film Viewing & Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993), April 16, 7.00 p.m., Campus Center Auditorium