Kahn Liberal Arts Institute
The Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute supports collaborative research among Smith faculty, staff and students, Five College faculty, and visiting scholars—all without regard to the traditional boundaries of departments, programs and academic divisions. Each year the institute supports long- and short-term projects that are proposed, planned and organized by Smith College faculty. Kahn Fellows work together on topics that are broad enough to encompass a variety of disciplinary perspectives and focused enough for a meaningful investigation.
Kahn Institute Updates
Conversations Beyond the Headlines: Palestine and Israel
Smith College faculty are invited to join the Kahn Institute and organizers Justin Cammy, Jewish Studies and of World Literatures and Suleiman Mourad, Religion and Middle East Studies for sustained conversations that take us beyond headlines and social media to consider the contexts and complexities that sparked the current war between Israel and Hamas and their effects in the classroom and on campus. Statements of interest are due Monday, March 25.
Allegory, Race and the Four Continents: A Lecture by Charmaine Nelson
The Kahn Liberal Arts Institute and the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) welcome Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson, Provost Professor of Art History and director of the Slavery North Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst, to deliver the lecture, “Allegory, Race and the Four Continents: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste (The Four Parts of the World Supporting the Celestial Sphere)" on Friday, March 29, at 5 p.m. in the Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library.
Abortion as a Human Right: A Dialogue
On Thursday, March 28, at 6 p.m. in the Carroll Room, join a panel of national leaders in the reproductive justice, racial justice, and human rights movements to learn about “Abortion as a Human Right.” Panelists include Byllye Avery, Founder, Black Women’s Health Imperative; Amy Hagstrom Miller, Founder, Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinics; Regina Davis Moss, Executive Director, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda; Rosalind Petchesky ’64, Founder, International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group; and Loretta Ross, Smith College, Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender. Light refreshments will be available after the event.
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Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-3721 Email: kahninst@smith.edu
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