Angela Davis. Noam Chomsky. Denis Goldberg. Amy Goodman. Cornel West.
These are just a few of the prominent visitors who have come to Dartmouth to engage with students, faculty, and community members as part of an annual seminar and public lecture series organized by the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID).
Now in its second full year, GRID recently announced the theme of its spring 2015 seminar, “Just Words: Free Speech and Social Change,” which will draw a slate of more than a half-dozen feminist scholars, journalists, bloggers, and activists to campus between April 17 and May 12. Among them are Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin, author Rebecca Solnit, political analyst Zerlina Maxwell, scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, Women’s Media Center cofounder Robin Morgan, and Guardian contributor Hannah Giorgis ’13.
According to Annabel Martín, GRID’s inaugural director, “GRID was created to bring together all of the gender-related research that takes place on the Dartmouth campus under one umbrella. It’s a three-pronged approach—research, teaching, and activism.”