Free Zoom Webinar from NYU: Elections: Ancient and Modern - October 21, 2020

ELECTIONS: ANCIENT AND MODERN Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Joy Connolly, American Council of Learned Societies Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College Zoom webinar.  Registration is free and required. Joy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2019. Previously, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University (where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16), Stanford University, and the University of Washington. She has published two books with Princeton University Press on Roman political thought and rhetoric and over seventy articles, reviews, and short essays, including for media such as Bookforum and the Times Literary Supplement. Melissa R. Michelson, Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Menlo College, is a nationally recognized expert on Latino politics, voter mobilization experiments, and LGBTQ rights. She is the award-winning author of six books, including Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (2012) and, most recently, Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights (2020). In her spare time, she knits and runs marathons.   REGISTER UPCOMING LECTURES IN THIS SERIES MONUMENTS AND MEMORY Thursday, October 29, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Hallie Franks, NYU Patricia Eunji Kim, NYU Ann Macy Roth, NYU Eric Varner, Emory University Zoom webinar.  Registration is free and required. REGISTER APPLIED ANCIENT STUDIES Reaching out to Non-traditional and Under-served Communities December 3, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Pam Crabtree, NYU Peter Meineck, NYU Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton University Desiree Sanchez, Aquila Theatre   Zoom webinar.  Registration is free and required. REGISTER The NYU Center for Ancient Studies provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the event. Please contact us at ancient.studies@nyu.edu or by phone at 212.992.7978 for assistance. Copyright © 2020 NYU Center for Ancient Studies, All rights reserved.