Humanities & Sciences

A Converstion on Human Rights and Activism: Roberto Lovato

Join us for a conversation with Roberto Lovato on what it means to investigate one's story, and to do so as an activist. Moderated by Jonathan Ablard (history), learn about Roberto’s work organizing and leading campaigns, from the Drop the I-Word Campaign (2010), which successfully removed the term “illegal immigrant” for the Associated Press Style Book, to his more recent involvement in #DignidadLiterararia with Myriam Gurba and David Bowles—a campaign for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves.

Join us for the return of the CP Snow Lecture Series: Introducing John Gurche, Paleo Artist

Campus Center
John Gurche will deliver a lecture titled "On the Evolution of the Human Form." In the spirit of C.P. Snow, his lecture will serve to draw on connections between the humanities and sciences. Attend and engage in a conversation about origins, evolution biology, and what it means to excavate the past and tell the story of the human form.

"FROM VIXENS TO VICTIMS: PROSTITUTION AND CHARITY IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND" BY IC ALUM DR. KAREN SONNELITTER ('03)

Ithaca College Campus
This presentation addresses changing attitudes towards prostitution related to the founding of the Dublin Magdalene Asylum in 1767. In the first half of the eighteenth century most rhetoric surrounding prostitution focused on portraying prostitutes as dangerous, immoral, and diseased. The middle of the century began to see a shift in this rhetoric related to the founding the Magdalene Asylum, a charity intended to rehabilitate penitent prostitutes. This paper will examine how and why that shift took place and discuss the origins and operation of the first Magdalene Asylum in Dublin. Dr.

CSCRE Discussion Series talk titled “Mexican-American Curanderismo: Care and the Counterstance in the Borderlands” with Israel Dominguez

Ithaca College
At its heart, curanderismo of the US-Mexico borderlands is a healing tradition concerned with restoring and maintaining spiritual and physical balance. Utilizing the work of Gloria Anzaldúa—specifically her concepts of nepantla and “the counterstance”—as a theoretical lens, we can examine curanderismo in the contemporary and examine how it offers a decolonizing politics of care.

Film Screening of the Brazilian documenary "Pasajeras"

Textor 102
The Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival presents the Brazilian documentary "Pasajeras" by Fran Rebelatto. This film chronicles the story about women migrants at the border between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. This event will be free and open to the public.

"Is There Really a Constitutional Right to Abortion?"

Williams Hall
Professor Craig Duncan (Coordinator of the Ithaca College Legal Studies Program and Professor of Philosophy) will explore the foundations for a constitutional right to an abortion, as argued for in Roe v. Wade (1973). The talk will also explore the Supreme Court’s rejection of those foundations in this year's decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The talk is sponsored by the Ithaca College Legal Studies Program in conjunction with the 2022 Constitution Day (September 17, 2022).