Meeting

Thursday, November 10, 3:30-5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Simon Miles, assistant professor with the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, discusses his book Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War.

Thursday, November 19, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Thursday, October 23, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

“The Impact of COVID-19 on Federal, State and Local Budgets” will be the sixth in a series of events on “Cities and Regions in the Post-Coronavirus Era,” initiating community conversations on what lessons we can learn from this crisis to create a more resilient and sustainable world.

Friday, October 16, 1-2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The COVID-19 COMPAS [Conversations On Morality, Politics And Society] Program presents “Who’s Watching the Kids? School and Family in the Age of Zoom.”

Wednesday, October 14, 6-7:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join the Alexander Hamilton Society on Wednesday, October 14 at 6pm for a debate on the foreign policies of Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The debate will feature Thomas Wright of the Brookings Institute and Randall Schweller of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, with Mershon Senior Faculty Fellow Peter Mansoor as moderator.

Wednesday, October 14, 6:30-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Racism and police violence with no justice for people like Breonna Taylor; 200,000 COVID-19 deaths and still no stimulus check; wildfires ravaging the west coast. This system is killing us.

Working people, especially black people, are facing evictions, unemployment, climate change, a health crisis, and racist violence from the police and right-wing. We need the Climate Strike and Labor movements to step up and support Black Lives Matter and the struggle against the capitalist system as a whole.

Saturday, October 10, 12noon-2:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Don’t believe in God? You are not alone! Join the Humanist Community of Central Ohio [HCCO], a community that values people, emphasizes reason, and focuses on this world.

This will be a virtual meeting; the Zoom event will begin at 11:30am or earlier with music and a splash screen; the program will begin at 12noon.

Tuesday, October 6, 8-9:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The climate crisis is an existential (i.e. existence-threatening) crisis to humans and other living entities. While current attention has understandably been on the pandemic and related economic crises — the impact of human activities that have been implemented through corporations are directly connected to the increasingly-raging fires, hurricanes, and other effects of climate change that will only intensify unless we rapidly change direction.

Friday, October 2, 1-2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The COVID-19 COMPAS [Conversations On Morality, Politics And Society] Program presents “Who Gets Sick? Who Gets Care? Inequalities in Health and Health Care.”

There is significant variation among groups in rates of infection and incidences of mortality and morbidity resulting from COVID-19. The pandemic has also highlighted the limited access that many people have to adequate medical care, both within the United States and globally. What explains these inequalities? What can we do to remedy them?

Thursday, October 1, 6-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists is starting up a Marxist study series with the foundational text of modern socialism, Marx and Engels’ “Communist Manifesto.” Join us to discuss the basic ideas of Marxism with a particular focus on how we can use them to understand and change reality today.

This meeting will feature a short summary of the text and a discussion. We will be covering the whole book; reading is not required.