2017–2018 Events

Spring 2018

April 26, 2017

featuring Jennifer Packer

March 30, 2017

featuring keynote speaker Barbara Ransby

March 14, 2017

Part of the “Forgotten Dreams and Misplaced Revolutions” event.

March 8, 2017

featuring Misty DeBerry 

The play will be followed by a talk back with the artist

Panel I: Migration
Jan. 24, 2018

Panel II: Civil Society/Human Rights 
March 13, 2018

Panel III: Political Economy
March 28, 2018

January 25, 2018

featuring Dr. Valerie Purdie Greenaway (Columbia University) and Dr. Jiyoung Park (University of Texas at Dallas)

January 24, 2018

featuring Dr. Heather Ann Thompson

Fall 2017

November 3, 2017

featuring Craig Wilder

September 19, 2017

featuring Carina Ray, Grace Hale, Nancy Scott, Anne Thomas

September 11, 2017

Part of the “Forgotten Dreams and Misplaced Revolutions” event.

Featured Event

C. Shawn McGuffey, Darnell Moore, Treva Lindsey, Moya Bailey and Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman speaking on stage.
At Brandeis, a symposium for black lives

March 23 - March 24

The Black Lives Matter movement was the subject of its own two-day academic symposium on the Brandeis campus March 23 and 24, 2017. The events looked at the Black Lives Matter movement and the treatment of black people at the local, regional, national and international levels.