Spring 2011 SSF Events


Reading and Discussion of Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

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Antero Pietila, Author and Former Reporter for The Baltimore Sun

Sponsored by the Department of English; Department of American Studies; The Retriever Weekly


Baltimore School Desegregation and the Challenges of Understanding Race

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Howell Baum, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park

Sponsored by the Social Sciences Forum


The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

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Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Mullen Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Economics


Negotiating Contaminated Identities: Gender, Water, and Development in Altered Waterscapes

Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University; Chair and Organizer of the ‘The Right to Water’ conference

Korenman Lecture, sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies Program


Being Face-to-Face But Not Seeing Eye-to-Eye: Divergent Goals and Experiences During Interracial Interactions

J. Nicole Shelton, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

Distinguished Lecture in Psychology, sponsored by the Department of Psychology


Sing Out! Pete Seeger and American Reform

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Allan M. Winkler, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University in Ohio

Low Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History