Spring Visiting Speakers at the Kahn

Thursday, March 3, 5 p.m., online

Anthony Hatch, Chair of the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University, where he is also affiliate faculty in the Department of African American Studies, the College of the Environment, and the Department of Sociology, will speak on "The Data Will Not Save Us: Afropressimism and Racial Antimatter in the COVID-19 Pandemic," as part of the Kahn short-term project Democratizing Health II, organized by Kathleen Pierce, Art, and Suzanne Gottschang, Anthropology. Register to attend.

Tuesday, April 12, 5 p.m., Graham Hall, Hillyer

Jesselyn Radack, a national security expert and human rights attorney renowned for her defense of whistleblowers, will visit Smith and give a presentation as part of the Kahn long-term project Coping with Democratic Precarity and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal, organized by Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies, and Andy Zimbalist, Economics. 

Monday, April 18, 5 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room

The Kahn Institute will host journalist Steven Greenhouse, a writer covering labor for the New York Times for 31 years. Greenhouse's visit is a collaboration among the Kahn Institute, the Journalism Concentration and the Year on Democracies, and is supported by a Presidential Innovation grant.

Tuesday, April 26, 5 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room

Steven Levitsky, co-author of the influential book How Democracies Die and Professor of Government at Harvard University, will visit Smith and speak in conjunction with the Kahn yearlong project Coping with Democratic Precarity and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal.