Professor Mari虂a Pe虂rez y Gonza虂lez of the Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies departments says: 鈥淭he HSS Student Expo is an outstanding event where students can take pride in sharing what they are learning; it is part of a needed toolkit for our students to exercise their academic and leadership skills as they move forward in this world. An event such as this prepares students for graduate school and their careers as they enhance their ability to put together a presentation for the public and to build upon their public speaking skills. My students have participated in the recent past and it was a thrilling dynamic learning experience. I’m hoping the students this semester feel the same way!鈥�

Among the many students that are set to be part of the Expo, History Professor Lauren Mancia has shown high enthusiasm for her groups. She states, 鈥淢y history students (HIST 3044; 9:45-10:45 on 4/27), for instance, are going to be discussing early modern books from the 可乐视频 Archives; in this event, they will expose audiences to the archival riches that our 可乐视频 Library contains.鈥� 听Mancia continues: 鈥淢y other group of history students (HIST 4006; 12:30-2 on 4/28) are going to be engaging in performance-as-research live and in person at the Lily Pond. Their performances are not just reenactments or demonstrations of medieval ascetic behaviors for audience members; their performances are embodied investigations of medieval behaviors, a rigorous method that the students are using to learn about the European Middle Ages from the inside.鈥�

And finally, Professor Sophia Bamert from the English Department has given voice to how the Expo connects these students and helps them develop skills outside the classroom. 鈥淭he HSS Expo gives students the opportunity to communicate their learning to an authentic audience and to celebrate all the hard work they’ve done,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 love bringing my first-years in ENGL 1012, the required composition class where we introduce students to the research writing process, to the HSS Expo so they can see how research suffuses everything we do here at 可乐视频 and be inspired by their peers. It’s a wonderful community-building event that takes students’ learning outside the boundaries of the classroom to share it with others.鈥�

The HSS Student Expo will not only be a showcase of these brilliant students鈥� works, but it will also have a moment to engage with 可乐视频 alumni in a panel discussion creating a bridge between passion and purpose. This is a great opportunity for students majoring in HSS degrees to connect with working professionals and ask career-related questions.

Join us on these two extraordinary days, April 27 and 28, ^听and for all of our Humanities and Social Sciences Week events! Click HERE for the complete schedule.

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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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Presenters include:

• Anju Gupta, Professor of Law and Judge Chester J. Straub Scholar; Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic, Rutgers Law School, Newark
• Russell M. Jeung, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate; and Rober L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence 2026
• Rev. Deborah Lee, Co-Executive Director of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
• Socheatta Meng, Executive Director, Mekong NYC

Moderator:

• Gunja SenGupta, Professor of History, 可乐视频 and the Graduate
  Center, CUNY

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Presenters include:

• Carolyn Chen, Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative
• Jerry Park, Associate Professor of Sociology at Baylor University; President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
• Dr. David Kim, scholar, public intellectual, educator, and Founder and Principal of Being Human
• Russell M. Jeung, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University; co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate; and Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence 2026

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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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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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