Registration information to come. At 90, with nearly 90 books, poet-philosopher and intellectual impresario extraordinaire Michel Deguy will be celebrated live for all he’s brought to thought for three-quarters of a century. Three roundtables will round out the three hours. In Deguy’s presence and with his comments, an international array of speakers will congregate around three prompts: Introduction by…
Karen Franklin, Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute, is donating her voluminous family papers to LBI, providing her a unique dual perspective on the donation process as both a donor and a recipient. This session will address what you can do to organize and prepare your collection for donation to ensure that the material will be accessible…
A panel of interdesplinary scholars will discuss the medical and sociopolitical aspects of the current crisis of COVID-19 in Iran. They will explore similar public health instances in the modern history of Iran. The conversation will situate COVID-19 in the sociohistorical, political, medical, and cultural contexts in which the discipline of public health has emerged and has been interpreted and…