Constitution Day
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12pm
AOK Library GalleryJared DeMarinis
Administrator, Maryland State Board of Elections
Voting in Trying Times: A Constitution Day Conversation with Jared DeMarinis
Maryland’s State Administrator of Elections, Jared DeMarinis, will give remarks and answer questions about the challenges to election administration and integrity posed by political misinformation, ideological polarization, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Organized by the Department of Political Science and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
Mullen Lecture
Monday, September 23, 2024
4:00 pm
AOK Library GalleryHeidi Williams
Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College
Innovation and Productivity Policies: a Budgetary Perspective
Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. She is the Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington DC. Together with Paul Niehaus, she co-chairs J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative; together with Ben Jones, she co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Innovation Policy working group. Heidi is lead editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a nonresident senior fellow at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, and a visiting scholar at the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School.
Organized by the Department of Economics and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
This lecture will be recorded.
Photo provided by H. Williams.
46th Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
Monday, November 11, 2024
6:00 pm
University Center BallroomNikki Taylor
Professor of History
Howard University
Seizing Justice with their Own Hands: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance
This lecture contends that enslaved black women carried deep and personal ideas about justice, which they exercised to resist slavery and ultimately end the tyranny of their enslavers. Using a black feminist theoretical framework the talk will explain why enslaved women were motivated to this type of slave resistance.
Nikki M. Taylor is professor of history and chair of the department at Howard University. She specializes in nineteenth-century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) and Duke University (M.A., Ph.D., Certificate in Women’s Studies), Taylor is the author of four books and some articles. The books include: Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2023); Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2016); America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark (University Press of Kentucky, 2013); and “Frontiers of Freedom:” Cincinnati’s Black Community, 1802-1868 (Ohio University Press, 2005). Dr. Taylor has won several fellowships, including Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and Woodrow Wilson. She was elected to the American Antiquarian Society membership in 2022.
Organized by the Department of Africana Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship and the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Other cosponsors will be added.
This lecture will be recorded.
Photo provided by N. Taylor.
