2023 lectures by professors from
Bryn Mawr and Wellesley Colleges
and Mills College at Northeastern University
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College for a Day 2024
January 9, 2023
9:30 am – 1:30 pm
doors open at 9:00 am
In-Person Lecture Series
“Vortices of Global Civilization: Modes of Production, Governance, and Discourse”
Dr. Michael H. Allen
Professor of Political Science
Bryn Mawr College
The talk offers a metaphor by which non-specialists can understand the complexities of global civilization. This understanding might help us answer such questions as: what are the main moving parts that make up and change complex human systems, how are the key challenges of climate change, inequality, and shared governance related, and what in human thinking or institutions might allow change for the better?
“Hostesses, Circumnavigators, Watercolorists, and Exotic Dancers:
How Nineteenth-Century Women’s Culture Made John Singer Sargent“
Dr. Paul Fisher
Professor of American Studies
Wellesley College
Earlier generations of art historians noticed how complex and remarkable John Singer Sargent’s portraits of women tend to be. But are these “Sargent’s women,” or do the women in the portraits actually manifest the momentous changes in women’s roles that took place during Sargent’s lifetime? This talk explores Sargent’s rich depictions of women and the many ways in which his work owes a great debt to nineteenth-century women’s culture.
Dr. Sarah Swope
Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
Mills College at Northeastern University
Dr. Swope is a plant ecologist and conservation biologist who is interested in understanding how small populations of rare plants persist despite the enormous challenges they face, especially in an era of rapid climate change.
$60 for online registration – $70 day of event
2023 Speakers
Three Distinguished Professors
Three Dynamic Subjects
Dr. Michael H. Allen
Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College
Michael H. Allen is Associate Provost and Professor of Political Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair at Bryn Mawr College. He is a former Chair of the Political Science department and immediate former Co-Director of Bryn Mawr’s Center for International Studies. Allen has been an International Relations Consultant at the Overseas Development Institute in London, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, and a Trade Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Jamaica. He received a B.A. and a M.S. from University of the West Indies and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, as Rhodes Scholar from Jamaica.
Dr. Sarah Swope
Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, Mills College at Northeastern University
Sarah Swope is a professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology at Mills College at Northeastern University, as well as the co-Chair of the Biology and Chemistry Departments. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a plant ecologist and conservation biologist, she is interested in understanding how small populations of rare plants persist despite the enormous challenges they face, especially in an era of rapid climate change. She currently sits on the Recovery Implementation Team of the US and California Fish and Wildlife Services, the goal of which is to create more effective endangered plant management plans.
Dr. Paul Fisher
Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College
Paul Fisher is the Chair and Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. He describes himself as an interdisciplinary scholar whose research weaves cultural history with literature, art history, and gender and sexuality studies. His classes are diverse, focusing on 19th-century American literature, culture, and poetry. He broadens his classes with topics related to multiculturalism and expatriatism which center around life stories and memoirs. Recently, Professor Fisher participated in the Gardner Museum’s landmark exhibition, Boston’s Apollo, which focused on John Singer Sargent and his Black model Thomas McKeller. This exhibition catalog won a George Wittenborn award for excellence in art publishing.
Professor Fisher holds an A.B. from Harvard; a B.A. and M.A. from Trinity College (Cambridge); and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale.
https://www.wellesley.edu/americanstudies/facstaff/fisher
THREE lectures and lunch for $60
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