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One-Night Lectures Enrichment Program Lecture Series Various
Between the Lines: Photojournalism in the Crossfire
They’re taunted, attacked and sometimes even killed just for doing their job. What’s it like to be a photojournalist in the trenches today? How do they function when social media scatters like a virus, when citizens (sometimes unwittingly) spread propaganda and when the cry is “fake news?” Get answers as photojournalist Jan Sonnenmair shares the changing role and dangers of photojournalists covering civil unrest— from her side of the lens. Plus, view her new documentary with a Q&A afterwards.
One Zoom session
Mon., Sept. 19, 2022, 7-9 pm MT ENRICH 0644 / $15
Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Serious Look at the Paranormal
Humans have a long history of believing in ghosts, demons and the like. Playwrights from Aeschylus to Shakespeare have given us many ghostly tales. And today, paranormal TV programming is a multimillion-dollar industry. Simultaneously, parapsychology is stigmatized, dismissed as pseudoscience and snubbed in the halls of academia, according to religious studies scholar and amateur paranormal investigator Dr. Catlyn Keenan. Join Keenan for an eerie evening of history, cultural analysis and exploration of all those things that go bump in the night!
One Zoom session
Thur., Oct. 13, 2022, 7–9 pm MT ENRICH 0643 / $15 Abortion Politics: The Evolving Fight
When former President Donald Trump’s three appointees tipped the Supreme Court to a conservative super-majority, it reset the stage for a battle over Roe v. Wade and dramatically elevated the importance of the Court’s most recent abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Join Department Chair and Professor of Politics Joshua Wilson as he examines the ongoing fight, past abortion politics, the political right and how the Court’s most recent ruling affects the future of abortion access politics in the United States.
One Zoom session
Mon. Oct. 24, 2022, 7–9 pm MT ENRICH 0640 / $15
Understanding the Opioid Crisis
Opioids have been part of human history for millennia, but the increased availability of powerful synthetic formulations and alarming rise in overdoserelated deaths have sparked an urgent need to look more closely at our relationship with this substance. Join psychiatric nurse practitioner Bob Cragg as he examines opioids’ role in culture and medicine, how natural opiates compare to synthetics, the pharmacodynamics of opioid substances, opioid use disorder, treatment options for opioid use disorders and how the current crisis came to be.
One Zoom session
Wed., Nov. 2, 2022, 7–9 pm MT ENRICH 0642 / $15
Critical Race Theory: The Facts and the Fictions
It’s in the news, but what exactly is critical race theory (CRT)? And perhaps more importantly, why should you know about it? Join justice lawyer and law professor Alexi Freeman for a clear and easily digestible lecture on CRT, what it is, what it isn’t, its origins, its key components, how it intersects with other critical studies and finally, how it may be applied both in law and our personal lives.
