Events

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 The Act was repealed in 1999.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.