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Profs and Pints DC presents: “Reproductive Justice after Roe,” with Sara Matthiesen, professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University and author of Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade. Those warning that the Supreme Court plans to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision […]
The family-friendly event will be open to the public and feature advocates, lawmakers, and maternal health experts. Families, advocates, and health care providers will call on Congress, business leaders, and states to eliminate health disparities and injustices for pregnant and birthing people, and pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021.
Profs and Pints DC present: “How Zelensky Found His Voice,” a linguistic portrait an unlikely Ukrainian president and world hero, with Ksenia Turkova, linguist, Voice of America journalist, former news anchor in Russia and Ukraine, and guest lecturer at American universities. As Ukraine continues to defend itself against Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s 44-year-old president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, […]
Profs and Pints DC presents: “A Return to the Gilded Age,” with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University. Crippling economic crises. Fears related to immigration and disease. Income inequality. Corporate monopolies. Technological disruption. Big money unduly influencing politics. A few wealthy […]
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Six Wives of Henry VIII,” with Amy Leonard, associate professor of history at Georgetown University and scholar of women during the early modern period. “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.” This six-word rhyme is often all anyone knows or remembers about the six wives of Henry the Eighth. It’s […]
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Britain Beneath the Frosting,” a look at The Great British Baking Show, Brexit, and other ingredients of a troubled nation, with Sam Wetherell, lecturer on British and World History at the University of York and author of Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain. Through TV shows, tourist attractions, […]
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Fertility Industry through a Microscope,” a look at how new means of human reproduction have given birth to big questions, with Sonia Suter, professor of law, scholar of emerging reproductive technologies, and founding director of the Health Law Initiative at The George Washington University Law School. Scientists have come […]
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the passage of Title IX, join the National Archives Foundation, the Women’s Sports Foundation and NCAA Division 1 Athletic Directors in conversation about the history of Title IX, how this landmark legislation impacted the landscape of women’s athletics, how it changed the trajectory of their personal involvement in sports […]
