The Visiting Scholars Program enriches the campus and community in several ways. Scholars speak with expertise on a wide range of topics, very often presenting the findings of recently conducted original research.
For more information on each scholar, click on the links below.
Dawn Phillips, Right to the City Alliance
Building Social Movements and Winning the Right to the City in the Age of Trump
February 12-13, 2019
Bryant Simon, History, Temple University
Cheap Food: Why Does it Cost So Much?
February 19-21, 2019
Fred Block, Sociology, University of California, Davis
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Ed Whitfield, Fund for Democratic Communities
Dreaming & Building Freedom
March 26-27, 2019
Dylan Riley, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Science & Politics
April 2-4, 2019
Laura Briggs, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts
What does thinking about reproductive politics get us?
April 9-10, 2019
Nancy Fraser, Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research
Havens Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship: “What Can Socialism Mean Today? An Expanded View.”
April 11, 2019
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Sociology, University of Haifa
War Over Peace, Israel in the eyes of a Critical Sociologist
April 23-25, 2019