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A Watchman’s Web: Using Archives to Visualize 19th-Century Providence—12th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Dr. C. Morgan Grefe

Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

A young watchman at Providence’s Prison made a resolution to keep a daily diary in 1867. He recorded his work with the men and women incarcerated there; but, unlike today, the watchmen lived in the prison as well. What can we learn about Rhode Island history from his words? Dr. Grefe will explore the ways […]

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Lyons Lunch and Learn webcast – Social entrepreneurship

President Hanno and Imran Chowdhury, the inaugural Diana Davis Spencer Chair of Social Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Business and Management, will discuss current social entrepreneurship initiatives and how they fit into the mission of the college’s liberal arts curriculum and, specifically, within Wheaton’s historic focus on experiential learning as an integral part of students’ education.

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The game is rigged! Mathematics for cheaters and scoundrels

Discovery Center - Hindle Auditorium Norton, MA, United States

Professor Zeitz of the University of San Francisco will explore a variety of wagers and games that practically guarantee a win for the player who makes the best mathematical analysis—and will demonstrate why this is the case.

Tales from Mongolia: Adventure in Social Entrepreneurship and Public Health

Knapton Lecture Hall Norton, MA

Ms. Munkhbayar will discuss why and how she chose the path of entrepreneurship and social business, her personal and professional experiences connected to social entrepreneurship in Mongolia, and what she is trying to achieve in Mongolia and elsewhere after her Fulbright Scholarship period in the United States is complete.  Dr. Bromage will discuss how he got interested in Mongolia during his doctoral studies and the nutrition situation in the country, his current efforts in Mongolia and related efforts elsewhere, and where what his next career steps might be following his postdoctoral work at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

George Kuo—Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Master

Watson Fine Arts - Experimental Theatre Norton, United States

Kuo is known as one of Hawaii’s premiere Slack Key (ki ho’alu) guitar artists playing in the traditional nahenahe (sweet, soothing) style. In his illustrious career, he has accompanied and collaborated with Hawaii’s major artists such as Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawai’i, Dennis Kamakahi, Cyril and Martin Pahinui and Aaron Mahi. His recordings […]

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Event Series New Plays Festival

New Plays Festival

Watson Fine Arts - Experimental Theatre Norton, United States

Longer form plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—will be showcased at our annual festival.

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Stakeholders in the British Shipbreaking Industry

Mary Lyon Hall - Woolley Room Norton, MA, United States

Digital History at Wheaton College presents Stakeholders in the British Shipbreaking Industry: A Critical Practice of Digital History into Text Encoding and Semantic Web by Naoki Kokaze, University of Tokyo and Kiyonori Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities.

Applied Ethics in the Hardest of Places by LTC Nathaniel B. Davis

Mary Lyon Hall - Holman Room Norton, MA, United States

Despite the recent urging of high-profile figures like Pope Francis and Senator Bernie Sanders to establish a “moral economy,” we have not. Free-market advocates hold fast to justifications that amount to variations on the “invisible hand” theory of Adam Smith — that the economy is not a moral space, but one that relies on a […]