The annual Mullen lecture features Heidi Williams, professor of economics at Dartmouth College, who will speak on Innovation and Productivity Policies: a Budgetary Perspective.
The Center for Ethics and Values presents a panel discussion, Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy, featuring Kimi Yoshino, editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Banner, Melissa Block, former host and correspondent for National Public Radio, and Joe Saunders, associate professor of philosophy at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
The 46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, organized by the Department of Africana Studies, presents Nikki M. Taylor, professor of history at Howard University, who will speak on Seizing Justice with their Own Hands: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance. In this lecture, Taylor 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. This event is part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum and Humanities Forum.
