11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series Welcome Ceremony, Hess Week 2025 April 1 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series Welcome Ceremony, Hess Week 2025 The Brooklyn College community welcomes 2024–25 Hess Scholar Melissa Murray.
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series Abortion and Democracy April 1 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series Abortion and Democracy Conversation on abortion and democracy after the Dobbs decision, led by Hess Scholar-in-Residence Melissa Murray.
11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series History and the Courts April 2 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series History and the Courts A conversation on what it means for the Court to "do" history, led by Hess Scholar Melissa Murray.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Dobbs and the Future of Individual Rights April 2 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Dobbs and the Future of Individual Rights A discussion on the future of individual rights, led by Hess Scholar Melissa Murray.
3:40 pm - 5:00 pm Event Series The Role of the Courts in Our Democracy April 2 @ 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm Event Series The Role of the Courts in Our Democracy A discussion on the role of the Court with Hess Scholar Melissa Murray and other legal experts.
11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series The 2025 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Funhouse Footnote Four—How the Roberts Court Is Remaking the Constitutional Order April 3 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series The 2025 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Funhouse Footnote Four—How the Roberts Court Is Remaking the Constitutional Order Melissa Murray discusses her upcoming book, Woke Warriors: The Roberts Court’s Racial Reckoning.
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series Podcasting in the Changing Media/Political Landscape April 3 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series Podcasting in the Changing Media/Political Landscape A conversation with the hosts of Strict Scrutiny, In the Thick, and Making Gay History podcasts.
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Event Series The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Fitness Phenomenon April 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Event Series The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Fitness Phenomenon A discussion of Professor of Anthropology Katie Rose Hejtmanek‘s "The Cult of CrossFit."
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South—A Conversation With Author Jeanne Theoharis and Researchers David Rondeau, Tyra Smart, and Gabrielle White April 22 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South—A Conversation With Author Jeanne Theoharis and Researchers David Rondeau, Tyra Smart, and Gabrielle White A celebration of Jeanne Theoharis' new book, King of the North.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Translating Blackness: A Conversation With Lorgia García-Peña and Jasmine Mitchell April 24 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Translating Blackness: A Conversation With Lorgia García-Peña and Jasmine Mitchell A conversation on Lorgia García-Peña's book "Translating Blackness."
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Event Series Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way—A Conversation Between Author Yoon Joo Lee and Professor David J. Connor April 30 @ 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Event Series Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way—A Conversation Between Author Yoon Joo Lee and Professor David J. Connor A celebration of Associate Professor Yoon Joo Lee's book "Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way."
April 3 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series The 2025 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Funhouse Footnote Four—How the Roberts Court Is Remaking the Constitutional Order
April 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Event Series The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Fitness Phenomenon
April 22 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South—A Conversation With Author Jeanne Theoharis and Researchers David Rondeau, Tyra Smart, and Gabrielle White
April 24 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Translating Blackness: A Conversation With Lorgia García-Peña and Jasmine Mitchell
April 30 @ 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Event Series Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way—A Conversation Between Author Yoon Joo Lee and Professor David J. Connor
