Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you notice any events excluded from our calendar or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

Check out Bwog’s event’s calendar, which will attempt to compile every campus event across departments and student groups into one easily accessible Google Calendar! We’re still working out some technical difficulties on our end, but if you have any suggestions, issues, or want to make sure your event is included, drop us a line in the comments or by emailing events@bwog.com.

Student Event Spotlight

If your club or organization is interested in having your event featured in our weekly roundup, please submit them to events@bwog.com or DM us on Instagram @bwog.

Recommended

  • Book Talk. There is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill – Monday, December 6 at 12 pm, online 
    • In There Is Nothing for You Here, a celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.
  • Gerardo Con Diaz – Pornography, Copyright, and the Online World – Wednesday, December 8 at 6 pm, online
    • This talk recovers their history by examining a wealth of court records, interviews, trade literature, and archives for online user groups and email lists.
  • Writing Friendly Criticism in a Partisan Age – Wednesday, December 8 at 7 pm, online
    • Yale historian Paul Sabin will discuss the art and process behind persuasive critical writing for a wide public audience. Keying off his guest essay in the New York Times, Sabin will reflect on how he drew lessons from history relevant to current debates over infrastructure and the environment, and on the steps necessary to translate a book into a 1,000-word essay. 
  • The Way Forward? Art Museums and the Age of Crises– Friday, December 10 at 11 am, online
    • As art museums slowly emerge from the pandemic-related closures, what has changed and what needs to be changed? How can museums become the places for racial reckoning as well as racial healing?

Museums! Museums! Museums! via Bwog Archives.