Event Date: April 27, 2018 Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall Time: 5:30 PM Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social regeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the crafting of modernity […]
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Event Date: April 30. 2018 Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall Time: 5:00 pm Focusing on Chaco Canyon NP which Pueblo communities, including Acoma, have fought to protect, and how this movement has brought forth both collaborative efforts to protect archaeological resources and traditional landscapes. For more information: https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
Event Date: April 5, 2018 Location: Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall, Perkins School of Theology Time: 3:30 PM Join us for the fourth event in the Excavate, Energize, Equalize: Propelling American Women in Thought and Deed series, a conversation on Religion, Law, and Reproductive Justice, with Professor Rebecca Todd Peters of Elon University and Professor Elizabeth Sepper of […]
Event Date: April 14, 2018 Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall Time: 1PM Join us for our second symposium highlighting the journeys of women of color with Angela Ards, Professor, Author, and Journalist, and Shay Youngblood, Author, Professor, and Speaker. Sponsored by the DCII Research Cluster, “Telling Our Stories: Women of Color and the Power of Narratives.” […]
Event Date: March 27 Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall Time: 5:30 p.m. Reception and 6:00 p.m. Lecture The DCII series, New Feminist Discourses and Social Change, along with the SMU Medieval Studies and SMU Women’s and Gender Studies programs, asks you to join us for a lecture and book signing by Professor Serinity Young, author of […]
The DCII welcomes proposals for support from the Scott-Hawkins lecture fund. The DCII is particularly interested in proposals for speakers or events that can appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience of students and faculty. As in the past we expect that applicants will seek other sources of funding to match the amount requested from the […]
KERA Originally Posted: February 21, 2018 This flu season is making regular headlines, especially in North Texas, where more than 100 people have died. It doesn’t compare to the flu crisis the world endured a century ago, but we can still learn from it. Some experts estimate about one-third of the world’s population came down […]
The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute is now accepting applications from SMU undergraduates for 2018-2019 Mayer Fellowships. Please review application instructions posted on the DCII web page. Link for more information: https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Programs/Mayer
SMU News Originally Posted: Feb. 9, 2018 SMU Lecture: Lessons from the 1918 flu epidemic Feb. 22, at the Gene and Jerry Jones Great Hall in SMU’s Meadows Museum Scientists have learned much about the flu since the 1918 flu pandemic that killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, says SMU medical anthropologist […]
SMU News Originally Posted: Feb. 6, 2018 Author of Our Bodies Ourselves classic to speak at SMU 1970s book prompted dramatic changes in the treatment of women’s health issues DALLAS (SMU)– Women’s health advocate Judy Norsigian, author of Our Bodies Ourselves, will speak at SMU, Thursday, February 22 at a free lecture open to the […]