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  • By Erin Barry On January 15, 2021 In Events, Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Pell Center Tags Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Izabella I. Mangual-Solivan, Jorge Elorza, Kim Wallace, Maureen Nagle, Megan Ranney, Reading Across Rhode Island, Rhode Island Center for the Book, Richard Verma, Spring Event Series, Timothy Neary, Val Tutson
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    2021 Spring Event Series Announced

    The Pell Center is pleased to announce its 2021 spring event series.  Tickets to these events are free and will be available approximately two weeks prior to the event date.   All events will take place virtually on the Pell Center’s Facebook page.  Please RSVP for each event on the Pell Center’s Eventbrite page and email [email protected] with questions.  To be notified when tickets become available, subscribe to our mailing list at the bottom … Read More

  • By Erin Barry On January 11, 2021 In Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Story in the Public Square Tags American History, Animal Rights, ASPCA, Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
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    Examining Animal Rights in Industrial America with Ernest Freeberg

    Air Dates: January 11-17, 2021 The end of the 19th Century in America, is often associated with the rise of profound social movements like the temperance movement; the women’s suffrage movement, and—more darkly—even the eugenics movement.  Ernest Freeberg tells the story of the birth of the animal rights movement. Freeberg is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee and is the award-winning author of “A Traitor to … Read More

  • By Jim Ludes On January 6, 2021 In Featured, Featured Slide, Opinion Tags Donald Trump, Election 2020, Insurrection, U.S. Capitol
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    The Lame Duck Insurrection

    I moved to Washington, DC, when I was 22 years old to go to graduate school at Georgetown University.  I used to visit Capitol Hill regularly to use the Library of Congress.  Every chance I had, I would walk across the street and walk the grounds of the Capitol.  In those days—before Capitol Police officers were murdered in the line of duty in 1998 and before 9/11—you could enter through … Read More

  • By Erin Barry On January 4, 2021 In Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Story in the Public Square Tags Hidden Valley Road, Journalism, Robert Kolker
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    Grappling with Mental Illness in 20th-Century America with Robert Kolker

    Air Dates: January 4-10, 2020 Every family has its secrets. Robert Kolker tells the story of an all-American family in the middle of the 20th century forced to grapple with that era’s stigma and tragic consequences of serious mental illness. Kolker is the New York Times bestselling author of “Lost Girls,” named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books and one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top Ten Books of … Read More

  • By Erin Barry On December 29, 2020 In Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Pell Center Tags Developing Special Educators, Education, Faculty Fellow, Martha McCann Rose
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    Rose publishes “Developing Special Educators” with Graham, Renaud

    The Pell Center is pleased to congratulate Dr. Martha McCann Rose on her recently published book, “Developing Effective Special Educators: Building Bridges Across the Profession,” with authors Dr. Alice Tesch Graham and Dr. Gia Anselmo Renaud. Dr. Rose and Dr. Graham are professors in the Education Department at Salve Regina University and Dr. Renaud is a professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at Bridgewater State University.  … Read More

  • By Erin Barry On December 28, 2020 In Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Story in the Public Square Tags Alexis Wichowski, Information technology, Net States, Technology
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    Navigating Our Future with Big Tech with Alexis Wichowski

    Air Dates: December 28-January 3, 2020 Our nationality has long been a part of how we identify ourselves.  But Alexis Wichowski surveys the rise of “net states,” big tech companies that are, increasingly, taking on roles traditionally played by nation-states. Wichowski is a public servant, teacher, and writer.  She serves as Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Innovation and Acting Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Broadband for the City of New … Read More

  • By Jim Ludes On December 23, 2020 In Featured, Featured Slide, Opinion Tags Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disinformation, Russia
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    The (Coming) Wave of Vaccine Disinformation

    Since the 1980s, 75 million people have been infected with the human immuno-deficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS.  32 million people have died.  In 2009, about 1.4 billion people were infected by H1N1, the swine flu.  It killed 575,000 people, globally.  Ebola, in the 2014 outbreak, killed 11,310 people of the 28,616 it infected.  In every one of those cases, disinformation from Russia stoked anxieties, obscured the truth, and … Read More

  • By Erin Barry On December 22, 2020 In Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Pell Center Tags Faculty Fellow, Forging the Trident, John Hattendorf, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Naval War College, U.S. Navy, William Leeman
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    Leeman, Hattendorf Publish “Forging the Trident”

    The Pell Center is pleased to congratulate Dr. William Leeman on his recently published book, “Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy,” co-edited with Dr. John Hattendorf of the United States Naval War College. “Forging the Trident” is a collection of essays on various aspects of Roosevelt’s lifelong relationship with the U.S. Navy written by leading American naval historians including editors Hattendorf and Leeman. Leeman is an … Read More

  • By Erin Barry On December 21, 2020 In Featured, Featured Issue, Featured Slide, Pell Center, Story in the Public Square Tags Change, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Disinformation, Jen Schwartz, science, Scientific American, Technology
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    Adapting to a Changing World with Jen Schwartz

    Change may be an essential part of human existence, but Jen Schwartz explores the dislocations in human society caused by the speed with which the world is changing around us. Schwartz is a senior features editor at Scientific American who produces stories on the intersection of technology and the human condition. She specializes in writing about how society is adapting—or not—to a rapidly changing world, with a focus on climate … Read More

  • By Patrick Gagnon On December 18, 2020 In Events, Global Challenges, Issues, Pell Center Tags China, China Rising, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, U.S.-China Relations
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    Recap: “China Rising: The Future of U.S. China Relations”

    China and the United States are the two strongest and largest economies in the world. Many have negative opinions about China and its rise to prominence on the world stage. Pell Center Executive Director Dr. Jim Ludes hosted distinguished panelists Dorinda Elliott of the China Institute, Ambassador Nicholas Platt, president of the Asia Society, Dr. Gary Jefferson of Brandeis University, and Dr. Lewis Rutherford, venture capital investor in Asian markets, … Read More

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