When You Move, I Move: Video Screening

As part of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative , Florida Atlantic University is hosting a video screening of “When You Move, I Move,” an arts-informed research project. The video explores Serena Hoermann’s spoken word workshop facilitated last month in Miami. During this workshop, writers and community members came together to respond to displacement pressures in ethnic enclaves in Miami, Florida. The project asks, in ethnic enclaves, how do

“Monumental History” Book Club on “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory”

The Department of History at Florida Atlantic University, in partnership with the Boca Raton Public Library, is hosting a community book club focused on historicizing Confederate Monuments. Even in the 21st century, Confederate memorials have the power to stir the passions of both opponents who believe they symbolize a racist past, and defenders who believe they represent southern heritage. It is more important than ever to accurately understand the history

“Monumental History” book club on Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

The Department of History at Florida Atlantic University, in partnership with the Boca Raton Public Library, is hosting a community book club focused on historicizing Confederate Monuments. Even in the twenty-first century, Confederate memorials have the power to stir the passions of both opponents who believe they symbolize a racist past, and defenders who believe they represent southern heritage. It is more important than ever to accurately understand the history

Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #7 – Ideological Polarization

Nova Southeastern’s NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture 7 is the final lecture of this 8-parts series and will focus on Ideological Polarization. The lecture will explore two periods of high political and ideological polarization in American history: the Antebellum period prior to the Civil War and the politics of the 21st century. The emphasis will be on what happens

Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #6 – The Power of Protest

Nova Southeastern’s NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture six of this eight-part series will explore “The Power of Protest.” Using the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s as its model, this lecture will focus on the power of protest to bring about change — and its limits in doing the same — with a special emphasis on voting

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