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Skidmore hosts a lot of public lectures, to say nothing of performances, workshops, and other events. And the lectures cover a lot of ground, from classics to current affairs. Here’s just a sampling of recent offerings:

• “More Than a Few Good Men: American Manhood and Violence Against Women,” by Jackson Katz, violence prevention training, MVP Strategies

• “Eat Like a Man: America’s Deadly Romance with Beef,” by Zankel Professor Pushkala Prasad, management and business, Skidmore College

• “Trashing the Planet? The Role of the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO in the Destruction of the Earth,” by David Batker, applied ecological economics, Asia-Pacific Environmental Exchange

• “How Much of Our Science is Arabic?” by George Saliba, Arabic and Islamic science, Columbia University

• “Arab and Minority-Majority Relations in the Middle East,” by Zeidan Atashi, formerly of Israel’s Knesset and UN delegation

• “Witches, Watchers, and Wives: An Afternoon with Wagner’s Women,” by international mezzo-soprano Carla Rae Cook and Met pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson

• “Of Hungry Ghosts and Other Matters of Consumption in the Korean Spirit World,” by Laurel Kendall, Asian Ethnographic Collection, American Museum of Natural History

• “Globalization, Tourism, and the Invention of Nature in China and Taiwan,” by Robert P. Weller, anthropology, Boston University

• “Rethinking African Modernism,” by Salah Hassan, Africana studies and art history, Cornell University