With sparkling social commentary, Peterson Toscano, a bible scholar, an LGBTQ activist, and a skilled actor, will share excerpts from his original one-person comedies. These comedies include: Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo ...

Peterson Toscano, Theatrical Performance ActivistPeople are searching for new ways of looking at climate change. Peterson Toscano provides a lively, insightful, and hilarious presentation that helps his audienc...

Charles Brown, Leonard and Sophie Davis Genocide Prevention Fellow, U.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumFollowing World War II, the Nuremburg trials convicted 22 principal Nazi leaders, sentencing 12 to death and sev...

Akbar Ahmed, American UniversityAhmed will explore Samuel Huntington’s thesis of a clash of civilizations and challenge it in light of his own research examining relations between the West and the World of Isla...

Catherine Clinton, University of Texas at San AntonioLincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865 proved a momentous evening for the people of Washington, for the people of the American nation – and its impact wou...

Dickinson Faculty Panelists:Michael Beevers, environmental studiesMarie Helweg-Larsen, psychologyJohn Henson (moderator), biologyThe ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa is a World Health Organization classified public

Brett Walker, professor at Montana State University, explores the role asbestos has played in the construction and, more importantly, the destruction of Japan’s environment, with a focus on the natural and the unnatural disasters of the 3/11 disaster an

Judge John E. Jones III ’77, U.S. Judge for the Middle District of PennsylvaniaA conversation with Judge Jones, U.S. District judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and a Dickinson trustee, about the nature of judging and the role tha

John Baugh, professor, Washington UniversityThis presentation draws upon evidence from linguistics, anthropology, and psychology to explore the ways in which human language and corresponding thought processes have been influenced by cultural c

This panel will bring the voices of experience to a conversation about capital punishment. You’ll hear from a man who was exonerated after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to die; the mother of a young woman who was murdered in Philadelphia; and