Season Two (2025–2026)

Loretta J. Ross | The Radical Power of Calling In Those You'd Rather Cancel

September 24, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Activist, public Intellectual, professor, and podcaster, Ross is an associate professor of the study of women and gender at Smith College. She speaks, trains, and consults on the issues of reproductive justice, appropriate whiteness, human rights, violence against women, and what she calls “calling in the calling-out culture.”

Yair Rosenberg | The Turn Against the Jews: The Societal Shifts Behind American Antisemitism

October 22, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion.

Marla Brettschneider

October 27, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Marla Brettschneider is a political philosopher with a joint appointment in political science and women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire, where she also coordinates the queer studies program. Her most recent book is the anthology Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century.

Ken Stern | Hate, Memory, Binary Thinking, and the Future of Democracy

November 4, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Ken Stern is an author, attorney, and the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Previously, he was the director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee.

Khalil Abdur-Rashid | Understanding Islam, Muslims in America, and Islamophobia

November 13, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Imam Dr. Khalil Abdur-Rashid is the first full-time university Muslim chaplain at Harvard University, instructor of Muslim Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and public policy lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

dream hampton | Film, Culture and Climate

November 14, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

dream hampton is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer. hampton was executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly, a 2019 documentary series that won a Peabody Award from the National Association of Broadcasters.

Howard French | Right in the Thick of It: Africa's Uncredited Role at the Heart of Our History

November 19, 2025
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Howard French is an American journalist, author and photographer. A former French correspondant for The New York Times, his latest book is The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.