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History, Heroes, and Bipartisanship

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History

History, Heroes, and Bipartisanship: What the Congressional Naming Commission Can Teach About our Past, Present, and Future

“What a timely and inspiring history. The word ‘hero’ is bandied about so often that it begins to lack real meaning. How fortunate that Seidule and Williams have helped restore full value to the real actions that define heroism, sacrifice, virtue, and honor.” —Ken Burns, award-winning documentarian and filmmaker

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

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Headshot of the guest speaker, Professor Beverly Gage.

Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture: “This Land is Your Land"

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History

Professor Beverly Gage, the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale University, a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, will be delivering the 2026 Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture.  Her lecture is titled, “This Land is Your Land: Grappling with the American Past on the 250th anniversary of the Nation’s Founding.”

Sponsored by the Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture Fund and the History Department.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

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Slavery, Abolition, and the Antebellum Origins of Modern Business Ethics

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, American Studies, and Black Studies

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Slavery, Abolition, and the Antebellum Origins of Modern Business Ethics” with Seth Rockman, the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brown University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Academic Freedom in Higher Education - Prof. Asli Ü. Bâli, Yale Law School

Sponsored by:
History, Axinn Center for the Humanities, Education Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies, and Anthropology

Asli Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is an expert in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law focused on the Middle East. Dr. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before her academic career, she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb. Shen then went on to UCLA where she was a founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Dr.

Axinn Center 229

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"Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza," A conversation with Prof. Peter Beinart

Sponsored by:
President of the College, Provost's Office, History, Philosophy, Religion, Writing and Rhetoric Program, Axinn Center for the Humanities, Department of English, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, International & Global Studies, and Jewish Studies

Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times, a political commentator on MSNBC, and Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents. Over the years he served as Editor of The New Republic and wrote for publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Die Zeit, and the Financial Times. He is the author of four books including The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (Harper, 2010) and The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012).

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

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A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation with Henk Handloetgen, Co-Writer and Co-Director of the hit TV Series Babylon Berlin

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Film & Media Culture, German, History, and European Studies
German film director Henk Handloetgen, co-writer and and co-director of the hit TV-series “Babylon Berlin”, faculty, and student panelists will discuss the series’ lasting success, its aesthetic and historical contexts in Weimar German culture and modern film technology, and its relevance for the 21st century. Free and open to the public.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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