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Kevin Cullen 3/8 1 pm

Lunch Speaker: Kevin Cullen

March 8, 2017

 

Adams House Conservatory 1:00 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!!

 

Doing Journalism in Trumpland

How the fake media covers fake news from a fake administration in a fake democracy, and other tales of woe.

 

Kevin Cullen is an author and columnist for The Boston Globe and has been a member of the SCR since 2002, when he was a Nieman Fellow. At the Globe, he has served as a local, national and foreign correspondent. He headed the Globe's bureaus in Dublin and, later, London, where he was chief European correspondent from 1997 to 2001...

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Lunch Speaker March 1st: Maleka Donaldson Gramling Adams House Conservatory 1:00 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!!

Lunch Speaker: Maleka Donaldson Gramling

March 1, 2017

Adams House Conservatory 1:00 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!!

Learning from mistakes: Insights from research and practice

Making mistakes is a critical aspect of learning. That said, students all too often have negative reactions to their errors, at times avoiding the intellectual risks needed to grow and develop their capabilities. This talk will discuss some of the research on mistakes and learning, and present findings from a new study on Kindergarten teachers’ responses to student mistakes.

Maleka Donaldson Gramling is a doctoral candidate in Human...

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Daniel C. Cohn 2/22/17

Lunch Speaker: Daniel C. Cohn

February 22, 2017

 

Adams House Conservatory 1:00 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!!

World Trade in an Era of Resurgent Nationalism

Dan Cohn earned a B.A. from Yale College in 1975 and a J.D. in 1978 from Cornell Law School, where he served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.  An undergraduate history major, Dan remains an avid reader of books and articles on American history as well as European, Chinese, economic, diplomatic and military history and current affairs.  Dan is a fellow of Trumbull College (Yale) and a member of the Senior Common Room at Adams House (...

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John Muresianu 2/8/17

Lunch Speaker John Muresianu

February 8, 2017

 

Lunch Speaker February 8th: John Muresianu

Adams House Conservatory 1:00 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!!

 

Education is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time and Some Ideas on What To Do About It

John Muresianu Harvard University, AB, 1974, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, French and Spanish History and Literature

PhD, 1982, History of American Civilization.

Institut d’etudes politiques, Paris, 1974-5

Universidad de Madrid, 1970

 

Assistant Professor of History, Knox...

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