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Political, Social Sciences & Society   

  • Disinformation and the Fight for Democracy  Online
  • Speaker: Ralph Bangs
    Dates: 7/1/2025 - 7/29/2025
    Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: Online
    Fee: $0.00

    Lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories are used to deny reality and promote authoritarian interests in America today. This course identifies the anti-democratic truth-killers, examines how they create and amplify disinformation and manipulate the population, and discusses how to win the war on truth. We will rely on the book, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy (McIntyre, 2023), and other sources.

    This course will meet online July 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.

 

 

  • Healthcare Marketplace: Reality, Regulation, and Reform  In-Person
  • Speaker: W Thomas McGough
    Dates: 7/3/2025 - 7/31/2025
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: In-Person
    Fee: $0.00

    We will explore how healthcare is distributed in the United States. Who gets what? From whom? Who pays for it? Why? How did we get to this uncomfortable, inefficient, and unjust place? Can our bewilderingly complicated and widely criticized system be reformed to deliver high-quality care ethically, effectively, and economically?

    This course will meet in person July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31.

 

 

  • Jews and Antisemitism in Eastern Europe  In-Person
  • Speaker: Irina Livezeanu
    Dates: 7/3/2025 - 7/31/2025
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: In-Person
    Fee: $0.00

    Until the Holocaust, a large majority of European Jews lived in the eastern part of the continent. Ashkenazi Jews were welcomed in Poland when they were expelled from England, France, and German lands in the Middle Ages. Sephardic Jews were welcomed in the Ottoman Empire when they fled the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century. But as western Jews were gradually emancipated beginning in the 18th century, east European states like Romania and Russia resisted. Antisemitism emerged. Its most violent forms before the Holocaust were the pogroms in the Russian Empire.

    This course will meet in person July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31.

 

 

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