"Words Matter: They Frame Our World" Seven-Day Symposium on the Germantown Campus Starts Today

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Words Matter: They Frame Our World is a seven-day symposium designed to educate participants about content material, skills, and an appreciation of the impact of what is said, how we hear it, and the absence of words (silence). This series of events is the result of many faculty members and students asking how to best address, in an academic way, the changing political and social environment the U.S. is facing. A full schedule with times and places is available below, on the Global Nexus website and the Integrative Learning and Events Calendar. Refreshments will be provided each day. April 21 All day across campus. We acknowledge the absence of words and those individuals or communities whose voices have been silenced by recognizing students who are participating The National Day of Silence. Also, Germantown's Earth Day celebration will have a display about science and global climate change. April 24 12 noon to 1 p.m. I've Been Framed: How the Poor in the U.S. are(Mis)Understood by Professor Rachel Sullivan in HS 167. 1 to 3:30 p.m. Consent Workshop (Poetry Slam & Workshop: combined event) with Professor Loraine Hutchins in HT 216. April 25 11 a.m. to 12 noon Gaslighting: The Mind Game that Erases your Reality by Professor Joanne Bagshaw in BE 167. 2 to 3:15 p.m. ACTING UP: What Makes Activism Work? by Professor Sam Bergmann and Jennifer Haydel in HS 169. 7 p.m. Athenaeum Symposia presents Kathy Bullock, Singing the Spirit: African and African-American Musical Connections in Globe Hall. April 26 1-2:30 p.m. The State of 21st Century Journalism: Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press A panel in Globe Hall on journalism coordinated by Professors Beverly Spencer and Mitch Tropin. April 27 2-3 p.m. We the People: What Did the Framers of the U.S. Constitution Mean? by Professor Joe Thompson in HS 169. April 28 12 noon The Portraiture of the Word, poetry and song by Professor Don ...

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