Democracy and Justice Studies UW-Green Bay News Posts

Student Hannah Beauchamp Pope is featured at a HerStory exhibit at the Neville Museum

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Feb 17, 2022

Student Hannah Beauchamp-Pope (Psychology, Democracy and Justice Studies) is featured at a HerStory exhibit at the Neville Public Museum. HerStory explores the changing roles and experiences of women in work, politics and their community through photographs, stories, and artifacts. Seventeen contemporary women were interviewed, their stories recorded, and personal artifacts loaned for this exhibition while fifteen…

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Voyageur Magazine Winter/Spring 2022 Issue

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Sue Bodilly

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Feb 11, 2022

Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review is pleased to announce the publication of its Winter/Spring 2022 issue, which features eight articles including a piece on Syble Hopp and the movement for special education in Northeast Wisconsin. Now in its thirty-eighth year of publication, Voyageur is a collaboration between the Brown County Historical Society and the University…

Announcements

‘All Rise: A UWGB Civil Liberties Lecture Series’ with Lauren Felder and Vladyslav Bilyy, Feb. 16

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Sue Bodilly

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Feb 11, 2022

Please join us Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 from 6 to 7 p.m. for the semester’s first meeting of “All Rise: A UWGB Civil Liberties Lecture Series.” Two recent UWGB alumni, Lauren Felder & Vladyslav Bilyy, lead the discussion. This is a virtual meeting that is open to the public. Please share with colleagues. Join at…

Announcements

Second Annual Mini-EU Forum – Part I, ‘Denmark and the EU: 50 Years of Membership’

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Sue Bodilly

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Feb 8, 2022

Organized by the Model EU Club of UWGB and led by professor Claus Andersen (UW-Madison, Department of Nordic and Slavic Languages), this in-person event will outline the complicated relationship between Denmark and the EU. The event is from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall 221. It is free to attend. Claus Elholm…

Media Coverage

How Chicago schools became an outlier in the latest COVID disruption – Chalkbeat Chicago

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 19, 2022

In the span of a few days, Chicago canceled classes just before midnight on a Tuesday evening, the teachers union chief called the mayor “relentlessly stupid,” and the mayor on national television bashed the union for “abandoning” students. Working parents scrambled for babysitters and dropped off children at “safe haven” sites for emergency child care.The…

Faculty/Staff

Faculty note: Prof. Emeritus Harvey Kaye explains radical speech by Pres. Roosevelt

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 11, 2022

Seventy-eight years ago this week, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the most radical speech any president has ever given. He proposed a total reorganization of American society—and found that it was incredibly popular. Harvey Kaye (Democracy and Justice Studies), historian of the American left, explains in this video.

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Faculty note: Profs. Reilly and Levintova publication

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 5, 2022

Professors Katia Levintova and Kim Reilly announce the publication of their article “Student Parents and HIPs: Missing Out on High Impact Practices” that was just appeared in The Journal of Continuing Higher Education (70:1, January 2022) with the campus community.

Faculty/Staff

Why Leftists Should Embrace Our Proud History, from Thomas Paine to the New Deal ❧ Current Affairs

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 3, 2022

(UW-Green Bay Emeritus Prof.) Historian Harvey J. Kaye has long argued that leftists are too negative about American history, and that our focus on its horrors and miseries risks downplaying the other side of the story: the great radicals in every generation who have fought, and often died, to make the country better, and whose…

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Prof. Levintova invites readers of Syllabus Journal to see latest issue

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 3, 2022

Professors Caroline Boswell (University of Louisville) and Katia Levintova (DJS) would like to invite campus community and regular readers of the Syllabus Journal to check out the latest, Fall 2021 (10:2) issue which contains pedagogical tools and discussions relevant to the field of deaf studies, communication, family science, mathematics, genre-based writing, first year student success, and…

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Prof. Paulson-Smith contributes new data on anti-LGBT political violence

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Sue Bodilly

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Dec 22, 2021

UW-Green Bay Assistant Professor Kaden Paulson-Smith (Democracy & Justice Studies) collected new data on political violence targeting LGBT+ communities in ten African countries for the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). This data is now publicly available on the ACLED website, which is the highest quality and most widely used real-time data source…

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