Understanding Race After Charlottesville
Cole Memorial Chapel Norton, MA, United StatesA Community Teach In led by the Departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology.
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Diversity
Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins
Join author Christa Kuljian as she discusses her book, Darwin's Hunch, and sheds new light on our common human origins and how scientists' studies and theories of human evolution were often shaped by the social and political context of their times.
Lunch and Learn Workshop Exploring Internships
Join us at our Lunch and Learn Workshop on Exploring Internships.
Dear World Workshop
Balfour-Hood - SGA Office Norton, United StatesWe are excited to bring Dear World, an internationally-renowned portrait and storytelling project to campus on October 26 at 7 p.m. Before the show, Dear World is offering three intimate one-hour storytelling facilitations for individuals and groups of people to experience their unique story sharing process. This is a world-class team building program where you’ll learn about storytelling and you’ll be facilitated to identify your Dear World story and capture your own special message-on-skin style portrait.
Free
Dear World at Wheaton
Balfour-Hood - SGA Office Norton, United StatesWheaton students, faculty and staff will have a unique opportunity to get to know one another during a two-day event presented by Dear World. The project, which has traveled around the world collecting individuals’ photos and stories, invite participants to write a few words or a phrase somewhere on their skin to be photographed, sharing […]
A Teach-In on Cultural Appropriation
Cole Memorial Chapel Norton, MA, United StatesLet's come together as a community to discuss power and privilege, blackface, cultural appropriation, intersectionality and how these play out on our campus. We hope you will join us. Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2:30 pm, Cole Chapel
The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: Race and Legal Exclusion in 21st Century United States
Discovery Center - Hindle Auditorium Norton, MA, United StatesThe Sociology Department invites you to a lecture by Dr. Mary Waters. MARY C. WATERS is the John L. Loeb Professor and interim department chair of Sociology at Harvard University. Her work has focused on the integration of immigrants and their children; the transition to adulthood for the children of immigrants; intergroup relations; the measurement and meaning of […]
Sitting Meditation with the Chaplain, Jordan Miller
Cole Memorial Chapel - Basement (The Base) Norton, MA, United StatesDr. Miller leads a Zen-style sitting meditation that lasts about 20 minutes and emphasizes the settling of your mind. Come and practice suspending all judgmental thinking and let words, ideas, images, and thoughts pass by without getting involved in them. Location: Meditation Room in The Base (downstairs in Cole Chapel)
International Cafe
Due to popular demand, the International café is returning! Feel free to stop by for hot chocolate / apple cider and play games, watch videos and speak your 2nd, 3rd or 4th languages with fellow staff, faculty and students.
Free