A Week Framed by Scholarship, Community, and Social Transformation

Hess Week opened on March 17 with a Welcome Ceremony honoring Jeung鈥檚 residency. Joined by leading scholars Carolyn Chen, Jerry Park, and David Kim, the event highlighted the importance of research that bridges academic inquiry with community engagement and social change. Speakers reflected on the role of scholarship in confronting racial inequities and building coalitions across diverse communities.

That afternoon, the panel 鈥淭he Lives, Rights, and Civil Liberties of Asian Americans in an Age of Mass Deportation鈥� brought together experts in law, faith-based organizing, and advocacy to examine how contemporary immigration policies are reshaping Asian American communities. Panelists discussed tthe human impact of deportation, the rise of cross-racial solidarities, and the urgent need for policy reform that centers dignity and family unity鈥�.

Faith, Storytelling, and Healing

Events on March 18 turned toward the intersections of belief, belonging, and personal narrative. The morning panel, 鈥淏elief and Belonging: Faith Communities and Justice,鈥� explored how religious communities have become vital spaces of resistance and refuge for immigrants navigating systems of exclusion. Speakers explored the wide variety of faith traditions that exist across Asian American communities and generations and how those traditions influence community and political participation. They also emphasized the role of inter-faith-based鈥� networks in sustaining movements for human rights.

In the afternoon, memoirist Ava Chin, author of the bestselling Mott Street and CUNY faculty, joined Jeung for 鈥淩ecuperating Collective Stories: Writing Chinese American Memoirs.鈥� Together, they reflected on memory, migration, and the power of storytelling to reclaim histories that have been marginalized or erased. Their conversation illuminated how personal narratives can bridge generations and reshape public understanding of Asian American experiences.

The day concluded with 鈥淪truggling, Surviving, Thriving鈥擜sian American Mental Health,鈥� a timely discussion featuring scholars and clinicians including Clarissa S.L. Cheah and Cindy Liu. The panel addressed the socioemotional challenges facing Asian American adolescents and college students, especially after the increase in anti-AAPI hate crimes in 2020, 鈥憉nderscoring the need for culturally responsive mental-health support and community-based care. 可乐视频 Psychology Professor Erika Niwa ended the event by asking the audience to remember that 鈥渨e belong to each othe鈥憆.鈥�

A Vision for Justice: The 2026 Hess Memorial Lecture

The week culminated on March 19 with the 2026 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture, 鈥淎sian American Movements for Racial Justice: Resistance and Solidarity,鈥� delivered by Jeung. The Tanger Auditorium was filled to capacity to hear him explore the lessons we can draw from late-19^th century Chinese American civil disobedience campaigns and legal challenges to anti-immigration laws. Jeung invited the audience to imagine new possibilities for justice grounded in solidarity, resilience, and collective action.

A Collective Story of Community and Care

Across its three days, Hess Week 2026 offered a powerful narrative: of communities confronting pressure and exclusion, of faith and culture as sources of belonging, of storytelling as resistance, of mental health as a matter of justice, and of movements that insist on dignity for all. The series reaffirmed 可乐视频鈥檚 commitment to fostering dialogue, scholarship, and community engagement around the most pressing issues of our time.

All events were free and open to the public, continuing the tradition of making Hess Week a space for shared learning, care, and solidarity.

Recordings of the Hess week are available

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Hess Week begins on March 17 at 11 a.m. with a Welcome Ceremony honoring Jeung鈥檚 arrival on campus. The event brings together leading scholars and public intellectuals, including Carolyn Chen, Jerry Park, and David Kim, to reflect on the importance of scholarship that bridges research, community engagement, and social transformation.

Later that afternoon (2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.), the panel 鈥淭he Lives, Rights, and Civil Liberties of Asian Americans in an Age of Mass Deportation鈥� examines how contemporary immigration politics and policies are reshaping Asian American communities鈥攁nd how solidarities are forming across immigrant groups. Featuring voices from law, faith-based organizing, and community advocacy, this conversation centers the urgent realities facing families and communities today.

On March 18, Hess Week turns toward faith, story, and healing. In the morning (11 a.m.鈥�12:15 p.m.), 鈥淏elief and Belonging: Faith Communities and Justice鈥� explores how religious communities have become sites of resistance, refuge, and organizing in the struggle for immigrant dignity and human rights.

In the afternoon (2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.), 鈥淩ecuperating Collective Stories: Writing Chinese American Memoirs鈥� brings together memoirist Ava Chin and Professor Jeung to reflect on memory, migration, and the power of storytelling to reclaim erased histories across generations and coasts. The day concludes (3:40鈥�4:55 p.m.) with 鈥淪truggling, Surviving, Thriving鈥擜sian American Mental Health,鈥� a timely and deeply needed conversation on the socio-emotional and developmental challenges facing Asian American adolescents and college students, featuring leading scholars and clinicians including Clarissa S.L. Cheah and Cindy Liu.

Hess Week culminates on March 19 (11 a.m.鈥�12:15 p.m.) with the 2026 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture, delivered by Professor Jeung: 鈥淎sian American Movements for Racial Justice: Resistance and Solidarity.鈥� The lecture traces the long arc of Asian-American organizing鈥攆rom survival to coalition-building鈥攁nd invites the campus community to imagine new possibilities for justice in the present moment.

Across three days, Hess Week 2026 tells a collective story: of communities under pressure, of faith and culture as sources of belonging, of memory as resistance, of mental health as justice, and of movements that insist on dignity in the face of exclusion. We invite students, staff, faculty, and community members to join us for these conversations and be part of this shared work of learning, care, and solidarity.

All events are open to the public. Add the events to your calendar and join us for Hess Week 2026.

About Hess Week

Hess Week at 可乐视频 is an annual series of events hosted by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities that features a distinguished Scholar-in-Residence. The week includes public lectures, panels, and seminars, highlighted by the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture, focusing on critical social, political, or academic themes.

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The event will be held on March 3 at 12:30 p.m. in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library.

Gelernt serves as a senior attorney with the ACLU Immigrants鈥� Rights Project and has argued many of the country鈥檚 most consequential cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal courts of appeals. His work has also brought him before both the House and Senate as an expert witness, and he teaches at Columbia Law School.

His litigation has shaped national conversations on immigration policy. Among his notable cases is the challenge to the Trump Administration鈥檚 family鈥憇eparation policy, a case that drew international attention and was featured in the documentary. The Fight and a New York Times Magazine cover story. He currently serves as lead counsel in litigation concerning the administration鈥檚 use of the Alien Enemies Act, which has raised significant questions about due process and the treatment of Venezuelan migrants.

Gelernt鈥檚 contributions have earned him numerous awards and recognition as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the United States. His commentary and expertise appear frequently in major media outlets, documentaries, books, and podcasts. This event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from a central figure in the legal battles shaping U.S. immigration policy.

The Konefsky Lecture is an annual event that honors Samuel J. Konefsky, a 可乐视频 alumnus who was a professor of constitutional law at the college from the 1940s to 1970. At the event, a scholarship generously donated by the Konefsky family is presented to a 可乐视频 pre-law student.

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September 29, 6:30鈥�7:30 p.m.

Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections
Join this online conversation with author Ian Rosenberg and illustrator Mike Cavallaro, moderated by Associate Professor Beth Evans, 可乐视频 Library. In the face of a rising tide of censorship and suppression, this updated paperback edition of Free Speech Handbook, the acclaimed nonfiction graphic novel, equips readers with a practical framework for appreciating the history鈥昦nd future鈥昽f our free speech protections.

October 7, 12:30鈥�2 p.m.

Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work
Join us for a conversation with Associate Professor of Political Science Ken Estey, author of Labor Evangelicals, and Professor of Sociology Timothy Shortell. Estey鈥檚 recent book studies theologically conservative working-class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital.

October 9, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Art as Cognition: How Gist Reframes the Aesthetic Experience as Conversation
Join Associate Professor of Philosophy Dena Shottenkirk and Assistant Professor Nicholas Whittaker (Wesleyan University) as they discuss Shottenkirk鈥檚 Art as Cognition. The book argues that a satisfactory account of the aesthetic experience would be derived from the perceptual experiences of both artist and viewer.

October 16, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method
Join medieval historian Lauren Mancia and Professor of Anthropology Katie Rose Hejtmanek as they discuss Mancia鈥檚 new short book, Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method. Learn why scholars assume they cannot use reperformance in academic inquiry and why they, in fact, should.

October 20, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities
Join Gabe Dunn, bestselling author, actor, and filmmaker, and host of the podcast 鈥淏ad With Money,鈥� and Professor Celina Su, Department of Political Science, for a conversation on racial capitalism, coalition building, and her recent book, Budget Justice. Drawing on her years of engagement with democratic governance in New York City and around the globe, Su proposes in her book a new kind of democracy, in which city residents make collective decisions about public needs through processes like participatory budgeting, and in which they work across racial divides and segregated spaces as neighbors rather than as consumers or members of voting blocs.

October 23, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts
Join Associate Professor of Philosophy Professor Matthew Lindauer for a conversation on his important recent book, The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts. Can philosophical concepts do real work in improving our world? Should we, when evaluating competing understandings of concepts like 鈥渏ustice鈥� and 鈥渟olidarity,鈥� take into account whether these different understandings can help us to fight injustice and promote solidarity between people?

November 20, 3:40鈥�5 p.m.

Words With Wings and Magic Things
Join author and Associate Professor of English Matthew Burgess and illustrator Doug Salati as they discuss their collaboration in their recent book, Words With Wings and Magic Things. Beyond the doorway of the first page of this collection awaits a dragon pi帽ata, an alligator on the A train, a hungry yeti, an ice cream dream, jetpack sneakers, midnight firelight, a gray day, a plump tomato, a serious question, and so much more.

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President Anderson will be joined by Associate Professor of History Phil Napoli, Dean, School of the Humanities and Social Sciences; Douglas NeJaime, Anne Urowsky Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Karen M. Tani, Seaman Family University Professor, Law School and Department of History, University of Pennsylvania; and others. President Anderson and Murray will discuss the significance of听Murray鈥檚 work as a legal scholar, public intellectual, and advocate.

听On Thursday, April 3, at 11 a.m.,听Murray will deliver the 2025 Robert L.听Hess听Memorial Lecture, 鈥淔unhouse Footnote Four:听How the Roberts Court Is Remaking the Constitutional Order.鈥�

Inspired by Murray鈥檚 work, the rest of Hess Week will focus on the role of the courts in our democracy; the use of history by the courts; podcasting as part of our public discourse; issues of听reproductive justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights and liberties; and imagining our collective future. Among the 26 speakers who will join in conversation with the 可乐视频 community are Deborah Archer (President, ACLU), Alexis McGill Johnson (President and CEO, Planned Parenthood President), Lee Gerlent (Director, ACLU鈥檚 Immigrant Rights Project), Chase Strangio (听Co-Director of the ACLU鈥檚 LGBT & HIV Project, first trans person to argue in front of the Supreme Court), Maria Hinojosa (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist), and听Barbara Smith听(2023 Hess Scholar-in-Residence).

The public events listed below are hosted by 可乐视频鈥檚 Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities in honor of Professor Murray. All events will be held in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, 150 可乐视频 Library, unless otherwise noted.

听TUESDAY, APRIL 1

Welcome Ceremony
11 a.m.鈥搉oon

Abortion and Democracy

2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.

听WEDNESDAY APRIL 2

听History and the Courts
11 a.m.鈥�12:15 p.m.

Dobbs and the Future of Individual Rights
12:30鈥�2 p.m.

The Role of the Courts in our Democracy
3:40鈥�5 p.m.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

听Funhouse Footnote Four: How the Roberts Court Is Remaking the Constitutional Order
The 2025 Robert L.听Hess听Memorial Lecture
11 a.m.鈥�12:15 p.m.

Podcasting in the Changing Media/Political Landscape
2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, 400 Student Center

听About the Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

听The Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, established by 可乐视频, is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. The program serves as a permanent tribute to the scholarly commitment of Robert L. Hess, exemplified during his tenure as president of 可乐视频. It represents the ideal of the educated individual鈥攌nowledgeable, thoughtful, inquiring, and alive to the shared purposes and concerns lining all intellectual pursuits. More particularly, it evokes the academic virtues embodied in the curriculum at 可乐视频.

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Events for fall 2024 are as follows:

Revolutions and Generations: A Conversation With Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and David G. Troyansky

Sept. 16, 2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.
USC Professor Nathan Perl-Rosenthal鈥檚听The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It听examines two generations of revolutionaries in late-18^th– and early-19^th-century Europe and the Americas, while 可乐视频 Professor of History David G. Troyansky鈥檚听Entitlement and Complaint: Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in Post-Revolutionary France听explores careers and memories across the first half of the 19^th century. These authors ask: What did it mean to be a revolutionary?听 How did individuals make revolutions, survive revolutions, and build identities in the shadow of revolution? And how did revolutionary pasts feed into the creation of institutions associated with the modern political world?

Gender and Development in Nigeria: Concepts, Issues and Strategies鈥擜n Interdisciplinary Discussion on Gender Discourses and Policy Approaches in Nigeria

Oct. 23, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.
The event celebrates the publication of听Gender and Development in Nigeria: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies, edited by Professors Oluwafunmilayo Josephine Para-Mallam, mni. Director of Studies, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru,听Nigeria, and 可乐视频 Professor of Political Science Moj煤b脿ol煤 Ol煤f煤nk茅 Okome.听The book asks: What conceptual and theoretical frames of analysis explain gender identity, status, roles and relationships across Nigeria鈥檚 richly diverse and culturally complex ethnic nationalities? What are the implications of such diversity and complexity for gender and development thinking, planning and policy? For academic as well as policy-related reasons, gender and development issues and analyses must reflect the socio-cultural, political and economic dimensions of the Nigerian State from the perspective of those who live Nigerian realities. The speakers will be Para-Mallam, Okome, and Clement J. Dakas, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Principal Partner, CJ Dakas SAN & Co.

Until We’re Seen: Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Oct. 24,12:30鈥�2 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library

This event centers the voices of 可乐视频 student-authors who contributed to the recent book听Until We鈥檙e Seen: Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic, co-edited by Professor of English Joseph Entin and Distinguished Professor of Political ScienceJeanne Theoharis. Through firsthand accounts by college students at 可乐视频 and California State University Los Angeles,听Until We鈥檙e Seen听chronicles COVID-19鈥檚 devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color. Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were able to keep their jobs, they took subways and buses and worked. They drove delivery trucks, worked in private homes, cooked food in restaurants for people to pick up, worked as EMTs, and did construction. They couldn鈥檛 escape to second homes; if anything, more people moved in, as families were forced to consolidate to save money. The accounts in this book show that the COVID-19 pandemic did discriminate, following the race and class fissures endemic to U.S. society. Recounting 2020鈥�22 through the experiences of predominantly young, working-class immigrants and people of color living in the first two major U.S. COVID-19 epicenters,听Until We鈥檙e Seen听spotlights untold stories of the pandemic in New York, Los Angeles, and the nation.

Love Can鈥檛 Feed You: A Conversation With Author Cherry Lou Sy and English Professor Helen Phillips

Oct. 30, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Celebrate the publication of Cherry Lou Sy鈥檚 debut novel,听Love Can鈥檛听Feed You. Sy will be joined in conversation by novelist and 可乐视频 English Professor Helen Phillips. The book is a stunning coming-of-age story that finds Queenie, a young woman attempting to assimilate after immigrating to the United States, adrift between familial expectations and her burning desires. As the pressures of assimilation compound, and the fissures within her family deepen into fractures, Queenie feels caught in the middle of everything. Full of rich prose and the pulsing, sensual curiosity of young adulthood,听Love Can鈥檛 Feed You听is perfect for fans of contemporary coming-of-age novels and novels about the immigrant experience. Exploring shifting notions of home and the disintegration of the American dream, the novel asks readers: What does it mean to be of multiple cultures without a road map for how to belong?

Cognition and Language: How Are Our Memory, Attention, and Inhibition Functions Related to Our Language Skills?

Nov. 14, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

The panel discussion centers around Klara Marton鈥檚 recent book,听Cognitive Control Along the Language Continuum. The discussion will center on some of the most relevant and controversial questions in cognitive science about the relationship between cognition and language. In addition to current findings, experts will discuss educational and clinical implications with an emphasis on individual differences. The panel features Klara Marton, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders at 可乐视频, and director of the Cognition and Language Laboratory at the CUNY Graduate Center; and Baila Epstein, associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders, and director of the Child Language and Cognition Laboratory at 可乐视频. They will be joined by Caroline Larson, assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and director of the Larson Language and Cognition Lab at the University of Missouri; and Luca Campanelli, assistant professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders, and director of the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the University of Alabama, and affiliated scientist at Yale University.

Affective Masculinities: From Colonial Fathers to Bachelor Banisters in India and England (19^th and 20^th Centuries)

Nov. 19, 2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library

Celebrate History Professor Swapna M. Banerjee鈥檚 latest book,听Fathers in the Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India. Banerjee will be joined by Emory University History Professor Gyanendra Pandey and NYU History Professor Ren Pepitone. The book contends that during a period of social and political change in late 19th- and early 20th-century colonial India, fathers extended their roles beyond breadwinning to take an active part in rearing their children. Exploring specific moments when educated men鈥攁s biological fathers, literary activists, and educators鈥攁ssumed guardianship and became crucial agents of change, Banerjee interrogates the connections between fatherhood and masculinity. The last chapter of the book draws on the lives of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to provide a broader salience to its argument. Reclaiming two missing links in Indian history, the book argues that biological and imaginary 鈥渇athers鈥� assumed the moral guardianship of an incipient nation and rested their hopes and dreams on the future generation.

Fiction, Technology, and Climate Change: Helen Phillips Discusses Her Novel听Hum听With Sociologist Ken Gould听

Nov. 19, 3:40鈥�5 p.m.
411 可乐视频 Library

Professor of English Helen Phillips discusses her new novel,听Hum听(Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster, 2024), with Ken Gould, Professor of Sociology and Urban Sustainability. Early in the research process for听Hum, Phillips interviewed Gould about climate change and capitalism. In this conversation, they will reflect on that interview and discuss how creative works can intersect with sociological inquiry related to science and technology, with a particular focus on climate change and artificial intelligence. More information on the book is available here.

Liberty Road: Professors Greg Smithsimon and Prudence Cumberbatch Discuss the Black Middle Class

Nov. 20, 2:15鈥�3:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library

To celebrate the publication of his recent book,听Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism, Sociology Professor Gregory Smithsimon is joined in conversation by Africana Studies Associate Professor Prudence Cumberbatch. In听Liberty Road, Smithsimon focuses on a Black middle-class suburb of Baltimore to tell the story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban Whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research, he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs. Smithsimon re-orients our perspective on race relations in American life to consider the lived experiences and lessons of those who broke the color barrier in unexpected places.

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Abortion Beyond the Law

Wednesday, March 6, 1鈥�2 p.m. (Hybrid event)

可乐视频 Women鈥檚 Center, 227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

Celebrate the recent publication of听Abortion Beyond the Law听by Professor of Sociology Naomi Braine听and learn about the transnational feminist movement for self-managed medication abortion. The book came out of six years of research, including interviews with 70 activists across four continents, to explore the strategies feminists have developed to enable people facing unwanted pregnancies to safely have an abortion regardless of the law. Braine will discuss her research and the book, and panelists Sybil Nkeiruka Nmezi, founder of Generation Initiative for Women and Youth Network in Nigeria, and Caitlin Gerdts, Vice President for Research at Ibis Reproductive Health, will bring the conversation forward to discuss their work today.

The Future of New York City: Who Decides?

Monday, March 18, 6 p.m.

Celebrate Anthropology Professor Naomi Schiller鈥檚 recent co-authored book at an event that will explore what role people can play in shaping the future of their neighborhood and the broader city. Speakers will explore how community organizers attempt to navigate New York City鈥檚 complex official decision-making processes to fight for housing and build healthy and sustainable communities. We鈥檒l address how community organizers have responded to Mayor Eric Adams鈥� vision for a 鈥淐ity of Yes鈥� and what possibilities Community Land Trusts offer for people to steward land on behalf of local communities. Panelists will build on the lessons advanced in their collectively produced handbook,听.

听Affective Masculinities: From Colonial Fathers to Bachelor Banisters in India and England (19th and 20^th Centuries)

Thursday, April 18, 4:15鈥�5:55 p.m.

Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library

Celebrate History Professor Swapna M. Banerjee鈥檚 latest book,听Fathers in the Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India听(Oxford University Press, 2022). Banerjee will be joined by NYU History Professor Ren Pepitone. The book contends that during a period of social and political change in late 19th and early 20th-century colonial India, , fathers extended their roles beyond breadwinning to take an active part in rearing their children. Exploring specific moments when educated men鈥攁s biological fathers, literary activists, and educators鈥攁ssumed guardianship and became crucial agents of change, Banerjee interrogates the connections between fatherhood and masculinity. The last chapter of the book draws on the lives of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to provide a broader salience to its argument. Reclaiming two missing links in Indian history, the book argues that biological and imaginary “fathers” assumed the moral guardianship of an incipient nation and rested their hopes and dreams on the future generation.

听Advocacy and Archaeology: Present Thoughts

Wednesday, May 8, 6 p.m.

Celebrate Assistant Professor of Anthropology Kelly Britt鈥檚 recently published co-edited volume,听Advocacy and Archaeology: Urban Intersections. The book is based on the theme of activism in urban settings,听drawing on the endeavors of those working in these settings and their advocacy efforts听on a variety of social justice and historic preservation projects. This event will bring the conversations highlighted in this volume into the present moment as archaeologists face ongoing and increasing challenges.

Further information on the books in the series is available here.

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University of Florida professor of history Paul Ortiz is serving as the 2023鈥�24 Hess Scholar-in-Residence and will lead the annual Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture for 2024, 鈥淎 Social Movement History of the United States,鈥� on Thursday, April 4, in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, 可乐视频 Library, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

You can find the entire Hess Week schedule , and all the public events will be livestreamed : Free versions of Ortiz’s writings and other relevant readings are available online to the 可乐视频 community .

“I am incredibly excited about talking with 可乐视频 students, faculty, and staff about the big issues raised during Hess Week, especially the crisis of democracy and intellectual freedom and the role of solidarity and higher education in sustaining a free society,” Ortiz said.

University of Florida professor of history Paul Ortiz autographs his book for 可乐视频 students at a college event in November 2023 as part of the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program.

Ortiz is the author of several books, including听An African American and Latinx History of the United States听(2018) and听Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida From Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920听(2005); co-editor of听People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn鈥檚 Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century听(2021) and听Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South听(2014).

An African American and Latinx History of the United States听was identified by听Bustle听as one of the 鈥淭en Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You.鈥澨�Fortune听listed it as one of the 鈥�10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States.鈥�

About the Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, established by 可乐视频, is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. The program serves as a permanent tribute to the scholarly commitment of Robert L. Hess, exemplified during his tenure as president of 可乐视频. It represents the ideal of the educated individual鈥攌nowledgeable, thoughtful, inquiring, alive to the shared purposes and concerns lining all intellectual pursuits. More particularly, it evokes the academic virtues embodied in the curriculum at 可乐视频.

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The Philosophy Department from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences has several faculty members who specialize in philosophical issues involving immigration, multiculturalism, and international justice, including Professor Daniel Campos, Professor Serene Khader, and Assistant Professor . These faculty and their colleagues are committed to the values of diversity and inclusion that the college community so strongly embodies.

In that spirit, the department has created a series of events featuring prominent philosophers who are deeply engaged with facts on the ground that inform their views on immigration. Issues like democratic states, including the United States, regularly failing to secure the rights of migrant adults speak to a kind of internal reckoning that has sparked their debates.

Lindauer helped create the series and hopes it serves as a platform to share broad ideas about the concepts surrounding immigration.

鈥淲e are pleased to offer this series in conjunction with the Immigrant Student Success Office and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,鈥� Lindauer said. 鈥淭hese lectures are aimed at honoring both the scholarly importance and the practical significance of immigration justice issues, with the hope of pushing these conversations further along and opening up new questions in these areas.鈥�

Philosophy of Immigration Series

Moral Obligations in a World Afraid of Refugees鈥擯hilosophy of Immigration Series, Part I
February 26, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Professor and author Serena Parekh will be in conversation with Professor Matthew Lindauer on the ethics of immigration, especially as it pertains to refugees. The discussion, grounded in philosophy, is aimed to engage students and the public.

听When We Decide: Plural Agency, Voluntariness, and Migrant Choice鈥擯hilosophy of Immigration Series, Part II
March 13, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Arianna Peruzzi, who is writing a dissertation on migration justice, territorial rights, and rights of non-displacement at the University of Michigan, will speak on voluntariness in migration. The decision to migrate is often made by households, not individuals. In these cases, the act of migration is often best understood as an exercise of plural agency. She offers criteria for voluntariness in migration that are apt to cases of plural agency. A conversation with Professor Matthew Lindauer and the audience will follow.

The Diminished Citizenship of U.S.-Citizen Children of Undocumented Migrants鈥擯hilosophy of Immigration Series, Part III
April 10, 6鈥�7:15 p.m.

Birthright citizenship is a policy that entitles anyone born in the United States to automatic U.S. citizenship, regardless of the immigration status of their parents. In the debate about the merits and drawbacks of birthright citizenship, wide-ranging claims about the impacts of the policy have been made, but one assumption that both critics and defenders share is that the U.S.-born children of undocumented migrants benefit significantly from U.S. citizenship. Associate Professor of Philosophy Lori Gallegos, Texas State University, presents a caveat to this conclusion by showing that although the beneficiaries of birthright citizenship are formally included in political membership and have all the rights and protections that are afforded to them by law, they don鈥檛, in practice, obtain the full bundle of goods that accompanies citizenship for those who are born to U.S.-citizen parents.

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Author and Activist Barbara Smith Served as 可乐视频鈥檚 2022鈥�23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence

Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida (UF) and will serve as 可乐视频鈥檚 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence for 2024. He was president of the faculty union at UF and has been critical of political attacks on the humanities and higher education.

Ortiz serves as the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at UF. He is the author of several books, including An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018) and Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2005). He is co-editor of People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn鈥檚 Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century (2021) and Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2014). Ortiz also has published essays in The American Historical Review, Latino Studies, Cultural Dynamics, The Oral History Review, Kalfou, Florida Historical Quarterly, and many other journals.

In 2013, Ortiz received the C茅sar E. Ch谩vez Action and Commitment Award, from the Florida Education Association, AFL-CIO. He is past president of the United Faculty of Florida-UF (FEA-AFL-CIO), the union that represents tenured and nontenure track faculty at UF.

As part of this event, the 可乐视频 community is invited to enjoy to a selection of writings by Smith and Ortiz.

This event is sponsored by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities; the Maria E. S谩nchez Center for Latino Studies; the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI); and the Robert L. Hess Memorial Fund, in cooperation with the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Office of the Dean of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts; the departments of Africana Studies; Classics; Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders; English; History; Judaic Studies; Modern Languages and Literatures; Philosophy; Political Science; Puerto Rican and Latino Studies; and Sociology; the programs in Caribbean Studies, Urban Sustainability, Studies in Religion, and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies; the Center for the Study of Brooklyn; the Immigrant Student Success Office; the 可乐视频 Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress; the Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom; and the Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Read, Freedom to Learn Lecture Series at 可乐视频.

About the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture

In cooperation with the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. It is named for and honors the eighth president of 可乐视频.

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