AAAS Professor David Williams will give the Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Lecture at UNC's Billings School of Global Public Health. Professor William's lecture titled "Understanding and Effectively Addressing Inequities in Health" will give an overview of socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in health. It will also describe promising interventions to improve the delivery of medical care, reduce stress and the harmful health effects of...
A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers in Gynecology
Featuring the art of:
Jules Arthur
Vinne Bagwell
Michelle Browder
Jeremy Daniel
Michelle Hartney
In the creation of this exhibition, artists Jules Arthur, Vinne Bagwell, Michelle Browder, Jeremy Daniel, and Michelle Hartney dignify the experiences of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, the enslaved Black women...
Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
Abdulatif Finch, Harvard University, ‘Flooding Over and Beyond: Normative Sufism and the Supra-Onto-Epistemic Paradigm Shift of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse’s Cataclysm (Fayda)’.
Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
Friday, March 10, 2023 (11:00AM-1:00PM) Steve Howard, Ohio State University: ‘Sudan's Republican Brotherhood: On the Path of the Prophet in Troubled Times’.
Plimpton Room at the Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
What is the responsibility of intellectuals today? How can and how should the humanities respond to overlapping global crises, including a perceived crisis of their own legitimacy? In four conversations taking place over two days, the panelists will discuss the challenges that the humanities and intellectual life face today. The discussion will be opened up to attending members of the Harvard community. To register, please visit: ...
Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
Umar Tahir, Columbia Unversity, ‘Rediscovering 18th Century Knowledge Tradition: al-Kashnāwī’s (d.1742) Intellectual Networks in Bilād al-Sudān and Hijāz’.