FLASH FORUM: Social Media & Marathon

Garrett Quinn (Correspondent, Watertown TAB), Adam Gaffin (Editor, Universal Hub), & Cheryl Fiandaca (Public Info Bureau Chief, Boston Police)

Moderated by Skip Perham (Board Clerk, Ford Hall Forum)

Wednesday, May 22, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University

The Chinese-American Dream

Anchee Min (author, The Cooked Seed)

Moderated by Elif Armbruster (Associate Professor of English, Suffolk U.)

Co-presented with Suffolk University’s Rosenberg Institute of East Asian Studies

Thursday, May 23, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University

Rise of the Individual

Nicco Mele (Founder, EchoDitto) and Kevin Bankston (Project Director, Ctr. for Democracy & Tech.)

Moderated by Dharmishta Rood (Fellow, Harvard U. Psychology Dept.)

Thursday, May 30, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University

Last Night at the Forum

"Yemen has an active women's movement independent of Western thought. What Yemen needs right now is investment in infrastructure." -Leila Farsakh

Last Night at the Forum

"Even in the U.S., the Constitution did not start out protecting minorities. Yet in the 1860s, the Ottoman Empire's constitution *did* explicitly protect minorities." -Elizabeth Thompson

Last Night at the Forum

"The U.S. can remove some obstacles to democracy from the more stable communities." -Elizabeth Thompson