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Eric Wright: Adverse Childhood Events, Trafficking, and the Health of Runaway and Homeless Youth

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor

The Social Sciences Forum presents the Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality, featuring Eric Wright, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Public Health Chair, Department of Sociology at Georgia State University, who will speak on Adverse Childhood Events, Trafficking, and the Health of Runaway and Homeless Youth.

Michelle R. Scott: T.O.B.A. Time: Black Show Business and the Theater Owners Booking Association in 1920s America

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor

The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Low Lecture, featuring Michelle R. Scott, professor of history and affiliate faculty in GW+SS, LLC, and Africana Studies at UMBC, who will speak on T.O.B.A. Time: Black Show Business and the Theater Owners Booking Association in 1920s America. This talk centers on Michelle Scott’s new monograph, T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America. T.O.B.A. Time is intriguing account of black entertainment and black business during the 1920 and 30s, and details origins of artists and entrepreneurs like S.H. Dudley, Bessie Smith, Butterbeans & Susie, and Cab Calloway, and the theater circuit that made them famous in segregated America.

Alison Wylie: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology: Why Human Context Matters

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Social Sciences Forum presents the Human Context of Science and Technology Program Lecture, featuring Alison Wylie, Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier I), Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences, Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, who will speak on Collaborative Practice in Archaeology: Why Human Context Matters.

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