Upcoming HSOC Events
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Out of Bounds but at the Center of it all: Althea Gibson in Sports and American History
February 13, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102 and Online
Featuring Ashley Brown, assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. -
IAC Industry Chat: Robots, Love, and Sex: The Ethics of Building a Love Machine
February 15, 2023, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Bill Moore Student Success Center, Clary Theatre
This talk examines the ethical impacts of the use of affective computer by engineers and roboticists who program their machines to mimic and manipulate human emotions in order to evoke love or amorous reactions from their human users. -
China Research Center Memoir Series – Crossing Borders: A Memoir by John Garver
February 16, 2023, 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Location: Habersham Building, Room G-17
Professor Emeritus John W. Garver’s new book “Crossing Borders” follows the author’s academic journey to becoming an expert on China’s foreign policies and its impact on the global scale. -
A Seminar on Race and Gender: Black Feminists Fighting for Bem Viver in Salvador, Brazil
February 20, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Steven C. Hall Building, Room 102
Erica Williams presents "Black Feminists Fighting for Bem Viver in Salvador, Brazil." -
Ivan Allen State of the College Address 2023
February 28, 2023, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: John Lewis Student Center, Atlantic Theater (3rd floor)
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the 2023 State of the College Address on Tuesday, Feb. 28. -
A Seminar on Race and Gender: Black Feminism(s): A Conversation
March 6, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Price Gilbert Library, 1280 SEN Theater
Featuring Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College. -
The Gig Economy: Precarious Work and Predatory Platforms
April 3, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Online
Featuring Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College. -
A Seminar on Race and Gender: 'Stony the Road We Trod': Black Women's Efforts to Secure Graduate Education During the Age of Jim Crow"
April 5, 2023, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Price Gilbert Library, 1280 SEN Theater
Crystal Sanders presents "'Stony the Road We Trod': Black Women's Efforts to Secure Graduate Education During the Age of Jim Crow" -
Garages and Oil: Histories of African Creativity in Two Registers
April 24, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102 and Online
Featuring Josh Grace, associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina.