April 2, 2024 @ 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Hess Week Hess Week – Defending the Freedom to Teach Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel will explore current political attacks on K-12 and college teachers’ freedom to teach and imagine ways forward.
April 2, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Hess Week Hess Week – Our History, Our Voices: Oral History to Change the World Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel takes inspiration from Paul Ortiz’s work as President of the Oral History Association and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida.
April 1, 2024 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Hess Week Hess Week – Defending the Freedom to Learn Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel explores how book bans and curriculum gag orders deny K-12 and college students’ freedom to learn and access to education.
April 1, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Hess Week Hess Week – President’s Welcome Ceremony Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and the Brooklyn College community welcome 2023-24 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Paul Ortiz to campus.
November 7, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Campus Conversations: Faculty Panel on the Situation in Gaza and Israel Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This is the first event in the “Campus Conversations” initiative. A group of faculty and staff from all across the Brooklyn College campus came together in response to the impact
September 22, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm First Brooklyn Blood Cancers Symposium Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The scientific and clinical component of the symposium will include research and clinical talks.