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  Your Body is Not an Apology

  Sonya Renee Taylor

  This performance by author/poet Sonya Renee Taylor uses popular education, performance poetry and media examples to introduce participants to the concepts of body terrorism and radical self-love.

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  Trump, Race, and the Slow Death of Democracy

  Lester Spence

  Lester Spence (Johns Hopkins University) talks about the causes and the potentially stark consequences of Donald Trump’s election. While some point solely to racial politics, Spence examines the role of the neoliberal turn.

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  Community Responses to Anti-Muslim Hatred

  Joyce Davis, Samia Malik, Ikram Rabbani, and Ann M. Van Dyke

  Since 2015, attacks on Muslims have spiked in the United States, including Central Pennsylvania. This evening’s panel will discuss community responses designed to combat anti-Muslim hatred by promoting pluralism and interfaith dialogue.

  Panelists include Joyce Davis (World Affairs Council), Samia Malik (Council in American-Islamic Relations, Harrisburg), Ikram Rabbani '17 (Dickinson College), and Ann M. Van Dyke (Community Responders Network).

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  Border Angels and AMIREDIS: The Sad Face of Undocumented Immigration

  Hugo Castro and José Luis Hernandez Cruz

  Hugo Castro (Border Angels)and José Luis Hernandez Cruz (AMIREDIS) share their work with organizing disabled and undocumented immigrants within Central and North America.

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  Inequality and Stagnation by Policy Design

  Thomas Palley

  Thomas Palley, Senior Economic Policy Adviser to the AFL-CIO, focuses on competing hypotheses explaining the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing stagnation. How we explain these events is of critical significance since it influences how economic policy and society respond.

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  Reproductive Rights: Religion, Ethics, and the Law

  Kathryn Ellis, David O'Connell, and Katie Oliviero

  Panelists Kathryn Ellis (Unitarian Universalist minister), David O'Connell (Dickinson College), and Katie Oliviero (Dickinson College), explore contemporary religious, ethical and legal debates and realities concerning reproductive rights in the United States.

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  Fat Activism Down Under

  Jenny Lee

  Jenny Lee (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia) explores the fat activist movement in Australia and New Zealand including fat femme synchronized swim, fat burlesque, and the “plus size” fashion industry. Lee will discuss the challenges of doing fat activism and scholarship, the complexities of dealing with the media and organizations that discriminate, the personal cost of fat activism, and the white privilege of prominent fat activists.

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  Frederick Douglass: On Photography

  Laura Wexler

  In the 1860s, Frederick Douglass gave several public lectures about the importance of the then-new invention of photography. In “Pictures and Progress” he shared his vision of the role he hoped photography would play in fostering a more democratic society after the Civil War. Along with Sojourner Truth, Douglass thus became one of the first major American theorists of the medium. Laura Wexler (Yale University) engages with Douglass's critical thought in the context of his time, and ours.

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  Albion W. Tourgée and the Interracial Campaign Against Lynching

  Carolyn L. Karcher

  Carolyn L. Karcher, Professor Emerita at Temple University, focuses on Albion W. Tourgée’s campaign against lynching, in which he teamed up with the African American journalist-activists Ida B. Wells and Harry C. Smith to form a united front against anti-Black violence.

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  Noisy Believing: Ethical and Spiritual Responses to Sexualized Violence

  Kristen Leslie

  Transformative responses to sexualized violence reflect an early Methodist ethic that connects faith to public action. This spirituality encouraged followers to “do all the good you can… for as long as ever you can.” Holding communities accountable to such a public ethic and teaching the silenced to speak are basic building blocks to changing the nature of sexualized violence on college campuses.

  Rev. Kristen Leslie, Eden Theological Seminary

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  The Cyber Presidential Campaign of 2016

  Jack Tomarchio

  Jaco Tomarchio, Agoge Group LLC, will analyze how cyber breach and cyber security has influenced our national presidential election.

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  Roundtable on Election 2016

  Kathleen M. Marchetti, Sarah E. Niebler, David O'Connell, and Eric Vázquez

  A panel of Dickinson professors discuss the 2016 presidential election from an academic, nonpartisan perspective, covering topics such as gender and race, the importance (or not) of campaigns, immigration, voting behavior, and presidential primaries.

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  Eating While Black: A Case Study on Food Shaming and Policing

  Psyche Williams-Forson

  This talk examines how the current changing food world affects and is affected by African American people. In particular, it focuses on how the legacies of surveillance that surround black people have now extended to our food cultures.

  Psyche Williams-Forson, associate professor and chair of American Studies, University of Maryland College Park

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  Iran and Saudi Arabia Relations

  David Commins, Marybeth Ulrich, and Ed Webb

  Marred diplomatic relations and religious differences between Iran and Saudi Arabia have flared up into proxy conflicts across the Middle East. Our panelists discuss the factors and offer insight into what the future will hold for the Middle East.

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  The Populist Challenge: Germany and the United States before the Elections

  Lothar Probst

  In the run-up to this year’s elections, both the U.S. and Germany are confronted with the phenomenon of a populism that employs anti-establishment and anti-Muslim prejudices in order to maximize votes. This lecture will focus on the similarities and key differences between contemporary populism in Germany and the United States. Lothar Probst is a German political scientist who recently retired from a professorship at the University of Bremen.

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  BREXIT: Implications and Aftermath – Panel Discussion

  Kristine Mitchell, Mark Duckenfield, and Oya Dursun-Ozkanca

  This panel of three experts discussed Britain’s decision to exit the European Union, the forces that led up to it, the process by which the exit will happen, and its international implications. Panelists include: Mark Duckenfield, U.S. Army War College; Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, Elizabethtown College; and Kristine Mitchell (moderator), Dickinson College.

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  Mother’s Day: Song of a Sad Mother

  Carmen-Francesca Banciu

  German-Romanian author Carmen-Francesca Banciu reads from and speaks about her novel, Mother’s Day: Song of a Sad Mother. Part “bildungsroman,” part autobiographical memoir, Mother’s Day explores mother-daughter relations under the communist dictatorship in Romania and sparks dynamic questions about Eastern Europe, work, the woman artist, and women’s relationships with one another.

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  The World that Food Made

  Raj Patel

  We hear a great deal about the food system, about how it’s broken or – indeed – that it’s working exactly as it ought. But it’s not exactly clear what that system is. Once you learn to think systemically, it becomes clear that the most important things the food system has made are things you can’t eat. Raj Patel (University of Texas, Austin and Rhodes University, South Africa) discusses that food system.

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  Celebrating a Dead Letter or a Living Document?

  Barry W. Lynn

  In this Constitution Day address, Barry W. Lynn '70, the executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State discusses "originalism." “Originalism” in Constitutional interpretation is often characterized as the only legitimate way to understand the Constitution. If that were true, the “Constitution” would be a dead letter by now, unable to protect the rights of Americans in rapidly changing times.

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  The Myth of the Violent Athlete

  Mitch Abrams

  Few things get more attention in the media than when an athlete transgresses. Psychologist Mitch Abrams will discuss the realities of violence in sports, the dynamics that may contribute to angry outbursts and athlete entitlement, and what to do to prevent and treat these dangerous behaviors.

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  The Rule of the Clan

  Carol Horning, Mark Weiner, Andrew T. Wolff, and Erik Love

  This panel discussion will focus on the special challenges of democratic political development faced by nations whose social organization is rooted in the traditional extended family. In these social-economic conditions that are based on the clan, what are the realistic prospects and most promising paths for liberalizing reform? Panelists include Carol Horning (U.S. Army War College), Mark Weiner (Rutgers School of Law), Andrew Wolff (Dickinson College), and moderator Erik Love (Dickinson College).

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  Disability Rights in Global Perspective

  Karen Nakamura

  Grassroots disability movements such as mad pride and crip pride have pushed themselves to the forefront of conversations across the world about diversity and inclusion, but there have also been considerable setbacks in recent years. Nakamura discusses disability rights social movements and how they have fundamentally changed the social contract and fabric in various countries.

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  From the Vatican to Madrid, Paris and Warsaw: “Gender Ideology” in Motion

  David Paternotte

  After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance. These oppose the so-called ‘gender ideology,’ and unveil a crucial role of the Roman Catholic Church. In this talk David Paternotte, Lecturer or Sociology at he Université libre de Bruxelles, gives an overview of anti-gender movements in Europe.

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  More than a Game: Soccer and Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century

  Shawn Stein, Amy Bass, Joshua Nadel, and Stephanie Yang

  This panel brings together experts in the culture and politics of soccer to discuss the state of the sport in the US and around the world. Panelists include Amy Bass, professor of history, The College of New Rochelle; Joshua Nadel, associate professor of history, North Carolina Central University and author of Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America; Stephanie Yang, co-manager of Stars and Stripes FC on SB Nation; and moderator Shawn Stein, associate professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Dickinson College. Panelists addressed questions including: In what ways is the game plagued by racism, sexism, homophobia, economic injustice, or other inequalities? How might soccer be a tool for social, political, and cultural change?

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  iPhone vs. the FBI: Government Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era

  Amy Gaudion, John P. MacCormick, and Anthony Williams

  Should Apple help the FBI unlock the iPhone used by the shooter in the recent San Bernardino attack? TPanelists address this question and the significant security, legal, and technological issues it raises, particularly those connected to privacy.

  Panelists included Amy Gaudion, Penn State Dickinson School of Law; John MacCormick (panelist and moderator), Dickinson College; and Tony Williams, Dickinson College