Events

Ilene Rosenfeld Department Stores opened as early as 1825. In New York City they started downtown, then moved up to the "Ladies' Mile" and above 34th Street and onto Fifth Avenue. Sears Roebuck began as a catalog mailed across the country, especially to rural areas. Between 1908 and 1940 Sears catalogs included Kit Houses in […]

Bonnie Strickland From 1962 till 1973, I was a faculty member at Emory University in Atlanta. I became involved in the Civil Rights movement, which was the preeminent social movement at that time. This presentation is some coverage of my experiences in civil rights activities in Atlanta during the sixties.    

Naomi Yanis In our society economic measurements, especially GDP, dominate the debate. What IS GDP, and why do economists increasingly believe it is important to do more to measure the economic well-being of the families who make up the economy than what GDP measures. What might we replace GDP with?  

Nancy Eddy Using lidar, radiocarbon dating, accelerator mass spectrometry, DNA testing, computer-aided reconstruction along with traditional excavation on several different sites in Peru has provided new information on the Nazca lines, Machu Picchu, Moche sites and others.  

Richard Nicoll The wooden houses in Japan are the unique style of original Japanese housing. The wooden construction involves a high skill of joinery.

Seren Derin This piece is a significant period in my personal story. It is about my life during 1973 to 1980, when me, my husband and daughter lived in Ankara, Turkey.  

Brian Sabel Paris is known for Notre Dame, the Louvre, and the Eiffel Tower. Algerian immigrants, who often work in the city, live outside the city concentrated in densely populated social housing projects. This presentation focuses on the history of French immigration policies and the use of social housing to control the lives of French Algerians.

Rutherford Platt Human-related climate change is now the foremost threat to humanity and biological systems since the invention of nuclear weapons. As droughts, extreme heat, floods, wildfires, disease, and habitat loss proliferate, the human and non-human populations of ravaged areas seek to survive by migrating to supposedly more habitable locales. Like shipwreck survivors desperately clinging […]

Tryna Hope My “Writing to Remember” piece discusses my feelings about death following the death of a close friend, 92 years old, who stopped nutrition and hydration in order to die. It includes how my friend and her partner (86) got from the decision through the death, and the importance of community.  

Darcy Johnson This presentation focuses on the routes of the Underground Railroad and some of the people who served as “conductors” for the railroad. Additionally, a part of the presentation reflects on songs the people used to assist with directions for enslaved people seeking freedom using video clips.    

David LaPlante The Glass Steagell Act, passed during the Great Depression in response to bank failures, separated commercial banks from investment banks. The Act was repealed in 1999. The presentation describes the crises that gave rise to the Act and its demise, as financial companies and their political influence grew in the 1980s and 1990s.