graduate school public lectures
December 8, 2016
Past events in the Equity & Difference series
A series of talks that expose and explain transgressions and struggles—both systematic and personal—experienced by too many in our communities today.
February 22, 2016
The Graduate School Public Lectures
Visionary academics and personalities discuss an array of timely topics.
December 8, 2015
The Graduate School Public Lectures
Visionary academics and personalities discuss an array of timely topics, from tech integration in the classroom, 21st century China and public discourse on climate science.
August 20, 2015
Equity & Difference: Rights
A series of talks that expose and explain transgressions and struggles—both systematic and personal—experienced by too many in our communities today.
Signature Lectures
Visionary academics and personalities from the UW and around the nation discuss an array of topics and themes, from the art of the Renaissance to innovative technologies for international development.
May 19, 2015
At Length with Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., 18th Surgeon General
Benjamin discusses rediscovering “the joy in being healthy,” the inevitable controversies of thinking outside the box and the origins of public health missions in America.
At Length with Adam Drewnowski
Drewnowski discusses the correlation between food, money and health, the strategies of “nutritional resilience,” and the “growing body of evidence that obesity in America is largely an economic issue.”
May 15, 2015
At Length with Sonia Nazario
Nazario discusses her fraught and illuminating journey accompanying Central American minors atop Mexican freight trains and how U.S. policy will decide the fate of these children.
March 31, 2015
At Length with Christoph Bode
Bode discusses growing up in a book-loving German anglophile family, the purpose of “difficult” novels and literature and how one should “never approach a book with too much respect.”
At Length with Eric Avila
In this conversation with Steve Scher, Avila discusses the Freeway Revolts of the 1960s, the “coded, tacit” terminology of racism today and the meaning of George Clinton’s song “Chocolate Cities.”
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