Isidro González, post-doctoral fellow and visiting professor of history at CMC, shares highlights of his research which explores histories and legacies of eugenic practices, methods, and data in the 20th-century U.S. So…

Every December, many Vishnu temples across the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu celebrate a twenty-day festival of recitation. The festival commemorates the Tamil devotional poetry of a group of twelve poet-saints, the…

The unexpected fall of the Assad regime at a time that many observers believed it had survived Syria’s long and bloody civil war have raised questions about old assumptions and about both Syrian politics and the distrib…

How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the United Nations appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? Drawing on his ten plus years of experience as Chair of the U…

Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, author, and changemaker Beth Murphy has built her career on the belief that empathy fuels action—and that storytelling is one of the most powerful tools to inspire both. Her document…

In a world increasingly marked by division and discord, Jesuit priest Father Gregory Boyle offers a transformative vision of community and compassion. Over the past thirty years, Fr. Boyle has transformed tens of thousa…

How do childhood adversity, social class, and elite institutions shape the trajectory of an individual’s life? Growing up in foster care, enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, and later attending Yale and earning a Ph.D. at…

David Farber, distinguished professor of history at the University of Kansas, author of Crack and editor of The War on Drugs, explores the tragic consequences of Richard Nixon's 1971 declaration of a war on drugs. Looki…

Filmmaker and author Steven Pressman will screen and discuss his documentary film based on his book which tells the previously unknown story about an American couple who traveled into Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Vien…