CHSS Digest

February 4, 2021

CHSS Digest February 4, 2021

Horizon Hall was conceived as a crossroads where faculty and students in many disciplines can meet and exchange ideas. This concept is embodied in the Word Wall that greets visitors in the atrium. On the ground floor of the building, adjacent to the MIX’s maker spaces, a three-story dynamic digital wall displays a kaleidoscope of quotations, juxtaposed in an ever-changing conversation of ideas. These quotes, contributed by the Mason community, appear in unexpected combinations, invite us to explore new contexts and meaning, and provide textual “windows” into global human history in a twenty-first-century academic building.

At Mason in February, we recognize Black and African Heritage Month. This time of reflection lends focus to our exchange of ideas and we welcome your contributions of texts you find meaningful. Now and into the future, please consider contributing to this ever-changing crossroads of ideas by submitting excerpts from your own lodestar texts, in all languages, to https://wordwall.gmu.edu.

We offer our thanks to the Spring 2019 Word Wall Working Group: Rei Berroa, Chair, MCL; Danny Collier, CHSS IT; Lisa Breglia, UAA; Chris Clarke, COMM; Wendi Manuel-Scott, Integrative Studies, HIST; Rashmi Sadana, SOAN; and Garry Sparks, RELI.

Warm Regards,

Ann Ardis,
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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“The Espionage Act and the Policing of American Dissent”

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Mason's Center for Humanities Research presents Faculty Fellow Sam Lebovic, faculty member in the Department of History and Art History, as he discusses "The Espionage Act and the Policing of American Dissent."

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IIR Webinar: Immigration in 2021 and Beyond

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Join the Institute for Immigration Research and the Intellectual Life of the College Committee for an understanding of how immigration policy might proceed under the Biden administration.

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The Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art

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The Center for Humanities Research presents "The Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art," featuring LaNitra Berger, faculty member in the Department of History and Art History and senior director of Mason's Office of Fellowships in the Office of Undergraduate Education.

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Publishing for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Please join us to hear publishing experts from Duke University Press, Mason Publishing, and the Department of English discuss various topics regarding publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

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Vision Series: A Vision for American Policing Reform

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Part of the Provost's Vision Series, Cynthia Lum, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, will discuss policing reform in the United States.

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Sojourner Truth Lecture: Politics and Protest

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This panel discussion will examine the power of politics and protest as collaborative pathways in the pursuit of justice. This event features Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, consultant and former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party and Aja Clark, activist and social justice educator. Discussion will be moderated by Yevette Richards Jordan, faculty member in the Women and Gender Studies Program and the Department of History and Art History. Special meet and greet sessions will be available for students, staff, and faculty.  

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Chronic Crisis: The Humanities Contextualize 2020

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The Center for Humanities Research and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media present a panel discussion among Mason scholars whose humanities (or humanities-related) scholarship engages directly with the complexity of the contemporary issues.

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