Axinn Center 229

“Dispossession in the Heartland: A Critical Analysis of Consolidated Agricultural Power and the Path Toward Fair-Market Farmland Access” a senior thesis presentation by Windsor Smith ‘24.5, Environmental Justice major. Windsor’s thesis engages Marxist agrarian research to critique the actors, processes, and consequences of small and mid-size farm dispossession in the U.S., as well as potential solutions for improving future land access within a capitalist system. 

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.

Come to this session to hear from Abbey Tinsley ‘23 about what starting your career in consulting can look like, including what consultants at Bain actually do, why it’s a great fit for a variety of majors, and how to stand out as a top candidate throughout the recruiting and application process. 

Over three decades, Robert Nickelsberg shot photos of insurgents and counter-insurgents in El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan for Time magazine.  For this event, he will present B&W images of the Salvadoran civil war and go into what they tell us about the choices facing Salvadorans.  U.S. support for a rightwing dictatorship not only motivated many to flee to the U.S., Nickelsberg will argue, but also laid the groundwork for present-day chaos at the southern border.

Jed Atkins, Director and Dean; Professor of Civic Life and Leadership, School of Civic Life and Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This lecture explores the relationship between civic education and the liberal arts by turning to the first writer to have used the term “liberal arts”: the Roman philosopher, rhetorician, and stateman Cicero. A study of Cicero’s work reveals challenges and opportunities for offering a liberal arts education with a substantial civic dimension.