2021 series
For the most up-to-date information, please visit the events calendar (events.unr.edu). Event information listed here may not be current.
Date | Time | Event Name | Featuring | Host Department |
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2/1 | 5:30 p.m. | Socializing with a Sociologist: Zoom Games | Vadricka Etienne, Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and Sociology and Marta Elliott, Department Chair; Professor of Sociology | Sociology |
2/3 | 12:00 p.m. | Magicians, Circuses, Gangsters, the Great Migration, and the Secret Show Business Roots of Black Muslims in America. | Jacob Dorman, Associate Professor of History and Core Humanities | History |
2/8 | 5:30 p.m. | Improving Health Care Access and Affordability in Nevada: Prospects for State and Federal Reform in 2021 | John Packham, Associate Dean for the Office of Statewide Initiatives in the School of Medicine | Sociology |
2/9 | 4:00 p.m. | Criminal Governance in the COVID-19 Era | Laura Blume, Moderator, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Nevada, Reno | Political Science |
2/11 | 5:30 p.m. | Building Legacies of Equity in Education | TBA | Core Humanities |
2/15 | 5:30 p.m. | Mindfulness Meditation | Theresa Skaar | Sociology |
2/16 | 6:00 p.m. | Siobhan Arnold | Hosted by Inge Bruggeman, Associate Professor of Art | Art |
2/22 | 5:30 p.m. | Black Lives Matter and Social Protesting in a Pandemic | Prisca Gayles, Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and Sociology | Sociology |
2/25 | 5:30 p.m. | Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture | Hosted by Stephen Pasqualina, Postdoctoral Fellow | Core Humanities |
2/25 | 6:00 p.m. | Goitse | Goitse | Performing Arts Series |
3/1 | 5:30 p.m. | Tracking the Global Pandemic | Markus Kemmelmeier, Professor; Director of the Social Psychology Program | Sociology |
3/2 | 6:00 p.m. | Tim Musso | Hosted by Eunkang Koh, Associate Professor of Art | Art |
3/3 | 12:00 p.m. | The Ongoing Ethical Debate on Looted Nazi and Holocaust-Era Books in the United States | Jamie McSpadden, Assistant Professor of History | History |
3/8 | 5:30 p.m. | Strategies for Success with Remote Learning | Clayton Peoples, Director, School of Social Research and Justice Studies | Sociology |
3/11 | 5:30 p.m. | Building Legacies of Health and Healing | TBA | Core Humanities |
3/15 | 5:30 p.m. | Karaoke | Jared Bok, Assistant Professor of Sociology | Sociology |
3/16 | 5:00 p.m. | Deirdre Murphy | Hosted by Vivian Zavataro, Director of the Lilley Museum | Art |
3/22 | 5:30 p.m. | Appearance and Inequality | Kjerstin Gruys, Assistant Professor of Sociology | Sociology |
3/25 | 5:30 p.m. | Cooking in Wartime: Venu Chitale, India, and WWII | Sejal Sutaria (Grinnell College) | Core Humanities |
3/25 | 6:00 p.m. | Sweet Honey In The Rock | Sweet Honey In The Rock | Performing Arts Series |
3/29 | 5:30 p.m. | Maintaining Health and Well-Being in Social Isolation | Marta Elliott, Department Chair; Professor | Sociology |
3/30 | 6:00 p.m. | John Halaka | Hosted by Tracy Fish, Assistant Professor of Art | Art |
4/5 | 5:30 p.m. | Applying to Graduate or Professional School | Berch Berberoglu, Foundation Professor of Sociology and Johnson Makoba, Professor of Sociology | Sociology |
4/7 | 12:00 p.m. | The Donner Party: A Tragedy in Snow and Stone | Sarah Keyes, Assistant Professor of History | History |
4/8 | 5:30 p.m. | Building Legacies of Activism and Social Justice | TBA | Core Humanities |
4/12 | 5:30 p.m. | LGBTQ+ Social Justice Issues | Nancy Kelley | Sociology |
4/13 | 6:00 p.m. | Geraldine Ondrizek | Hosted by Tyler Brownlow-Calkin, Assistant Professor of Art | |
4/19 | 5:30 p.m. | Sex and Dating during the Global Pandemic | Mariah Evans, Professor of Sociology | Sociology |
4/22 | 6:00 p.m. | Michael Mayo | Michael Mayo | Performing Arts Series |
4/26 | 5:30 p.m. | Will You Be the First in Your Family to Earn a University Degree? Tips and Experiences of First-Generation Students | Colleen Murray, Professor of Sociology and Jordan Reuter, Lecturer of Sociology | Sociology |
4/27 | 6:00 p.m. | Norihiko Seto | Hosted by Tamara Scronce, Director of the School of the Arts | Art |
4/29 | 5:30 p.m. | Three Laughs | Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota), Professor Danielle Morgan (Santa Clara University), and Professor Anca Parvulescu (Washington University) | Core Humanities |
5/3 | 5:30 p.m. | Careers for Students with BA degrees in Sociology, | Cheryl Maes, Undergraduate Sociology Advisor and Marta Elliott, Department Chair; Professor of Sociology | Sociology |
5/5 | 12:00 p.m. | Anti-Semitism and Belonging: the Jewish Experience in America | Dennis Dworkin, Department Chair; Professor of History | History |
5/13 | 5:30 p.m. | Building Legacies of Economic Empowerment | TBA | Core Humanities |
6/2 | 12:00 p.m. | Scarcity and Excess: Food Security in China | James Harkness, Country Representative, China, National Geographic | History |
7/7 | 12:00 p.m. | TBA | Connie Wolf, Museum Curator, Arts, Non-profit leader | History |
9/1 | 12:00 p.m. | Nevada Stories: Film Shorts from Shared History | Chris von Nagy, Head, Shared History Program | History |
10/6 | 12:00 p.m. | AIDS is Not Over: Historicizing the Pandemic | Emily Hobson, Associate Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and History | History |
11/3 | 12:00 p.m. | Humanitarian Aid in Conflict Environments: Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Nagorno-Karabakh | Kevin Hartigan, Regional Director for Asia, CRS (Catholic Relief Services) | History |
12/1 | 12:00 p.m. | Eurasian Globalizations: Why did Chinggis Khan Decree in the Language of Jesus? | Hugh Shapiro, Associate Professor of History | History |