On Thursday, October 1 at 11:30am-12:30pm, Professor Tomás Jiménez will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture in Lisa Bonchek Adams Auditorium "Are We Still a Nation of Immigrants?" For the last 70 years, the United States’ self-understanding has included the idea that it is a nation of immigrants. How did that idea come about? And is it still relevant today?

On Thursday, October 15 at 11:30am-12:30pm, Professor Miriam Ticktin will deliver the Common Hour talk "Thinking with and Beyond Innocence", which explores the political work done by the concept of innocence, tracking how, in the Euro-American context, discourses and images of innocence get assembled and weaponized across the fields of immigration, reproductive justice, racial politics and environmentalism, and used to decide why and how we should care, for whom, and whose lives matter.