February 19, 2020 | Meeting 1480 | African American Read-In

Read-In African-American Literature  Coordinated by Professor Gregory H. Tignor, CAAS President Emeritas

October 16, 2019 | Meeting 1477 | Sasha Turner, Ph.D. presents “The Forgotten Ones: Enslaved Women and Children and the British Campaigns to Abolish the Slave Trade”

This presentation draws upon Dr. Turner’s recently published book, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy Childrearing and Slavery in...
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November 13, 2019 | Meeting 1478 | Refugees and the Persecuted The past and present through the lens of one family’s history - presented by Ann M. Altman Ph.D.

With the frightening re-emergence of the racist and antisemitic far right and the strengthening of anti-immigrant and anti-...

January 14, 2020 | Meeting 1479 | Jonathan Wharton, Ph.D. presents “Constitution State Roulette: From Strong to Decentralized Party Bosses Before Connecticut’s 2018 Gubernatorial Election”

Dr. Jonathan L. Wharton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University...

September 18, 2019 | Meeting 1476 | "Work Is the Curse of the Drinking Class" presented by Johnson Flucker

Johnson Flucker’s one man show based on Oscar Wilde’s Work “The Curse of the Drinking Man.” More Info

May 22, 2019 | Meeting 1475 | Janet M. Conner presents "A Horse of a Different Color: Teaching History to Both Visual and Conventional Learners"

Janet Conner will present “A Horse of a Different Color: Teaching History to Both Visual and Conventional Learners.” This...

April 24, 2019 | Meeting 1474 | "Clear Light and Shining Ruins" presented by Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan University

Within a few months after its invention in 1839, photography was being used to depict the monuments of Classical antiquity...