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May 11, 2023
Kinder Alumni Council Member Sam Franks Chosen as 2023 FAPSE Fellow
It’s with great pleasure that we get to announce that Sam Franks, an inaugural member of the Society of Fellows, Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program, and Kinder Institute Alumni Council, and a graduate of University of Michigan Law School, was one of 14 graduate students and early-career professional practitioners chosen to take part in the […]
May 10, 2023
RECAP: “Challenging the New Deal’s ‘Contemptible Neglect’,” 4/14 Colloquium w/ Univ. of Mississippi Prof. Jarod Roll
Representing the full diversity of the Depression-era working class, UCAPAWA—United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers—faced an uphill battle from the very start. On balance, their constituents were unappealing candidates for unionization: poorly and irregularly paid and rarely in one place for long, making dues collection difficult. Compounding this was that many lived under racialized […]
April 11, 2023
RECAP: “The Third Empire: Abolition in Alaska & the Pacific Northwest,” April 7 Colloquium w/ Penn State Prof. Christina Snyder
While Penn State McCabe Greer Professor of History Christina Snyder’s April 14 talk at the Kinder Institute would eventually get to the Pacific Northwest, it began along the banks of the Red River in what is now Oklahoma, where Wallace and Minerva Burton were enslaved by a Chickasaw woman who leased them to the Choctaw […]
March 23, 2023
RECAP: “Displays of Force: Black Rebellion & the Spectacular Violence of Police,” March 17 Colloquium w/ Smith College Prof. Erin Pineda
“The whole world is watching,” chanted by anti-Vietnam War protestors outside the Democratic National Convention in 1968 as they were beaten and arrested by Chicago police, was then—and remains today—an utterance rich with political possibility. What, exactly, this possibility is, Smith College Phyllis C. Rappaport ’68 New Century Term Professor of Government Erin Pineda showed […]
March 22, 2023
RECAP: “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: The Roar of a Wave that Could Drown the Whole World,” March 8 Law School Lecture with BU Law Prof. James E. Fleming
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warning I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world —“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” Bob Dylan It was a legal version of Bob Dylan’s prophetic message that Boston University Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law James E. Fleming […]
February 27, 2023
RECAP: “Divided We Stand?” February 24 KIRC Invited Lecture w/ American University Prof. and Author Jane Hall
“The U.S. is the only democracy that organizes its national election campaigns around the news media.” —Thomas Patterson, Out of Order As author and American University Associate Professor of Communication Jane Hall noted in opening her February 24 Kinder Institute Residential College Invited Lecture, we could think about Patterson’s statement as the byproduct of anything […]