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Informed Opinions workshops

The news media set agendas, shape policies, and impact spending. The voices they amplify wield outsized influence. And yet research finds that less than a third of the voices being heard in Canada’s most influential news sources are women’s voices. Informed Opinions is a charitable organization that aims to raise the profile of women and […]

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Media Inventories of the German Nineteenth Century

Nov 19, 2021 | Launched in 2018, Media Inventories is a research group working on intersections between various cultural techniques of collection, preservation, and distribution in 19th century German studies. This year’s meeting will be prefaced by a public roundtable featuring Sean Franzel and Petra McGillen in dialogue with Ilinca Iurascu.

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The Gambler Wife: Discussion with Andrew Kaufman

Nov 17, 2021 | The North American Dostoevsky Society and Brandeis University host a talk by Dr Andrew D Kaufman (U of Virginia) on his book about Anna Dostoyevskaya, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. With support from the Public Humanities Hub.