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Dona Massel’s play, “On the Inside,” follows the story of a boy, his teacher, and the first hanging in what was then the city of Berlin. The action takes place in the Governor’s House on Queen Street.  When a young inmate is sentenced to hang, Olive, the Governor’s wife, reaches out to him and both their lives are changed.

Learn more about Dona Massel and the Lost and Found Theatre.

Hortense Spillers talk and reception

Hortense Spillers (PhD Brandeis) is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago), and editor of Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (Indiana) and Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text (Routledge).

2013 Studies in Islam Speaker Series

Islam at the Foundations of Western Society: How Medieval Islam Shaped the Modern World

Professor Steven Bednarski, St. Jerome’s University

We live in an increasingly multicultural world where we regularly encounter and work in teams consisting of people from multiple cultural backgrounds. While multicultural teams have the potential for exceptional innovation and creativity, they face many challenges due to clashing values, norms, and expectations about how teams work. In this talk, Wendi Adair, Associate Professor, Psychology, will review these challenges and summarize recent research  and propose alternative metaphors for multiculturalism.

Register online.