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Fredrik Logevall Discusses JFK’s Legacy on WorldViews Podcast
Professor Fredrik Logevall joins Stephen Kennedy Smith in the WorldViews Podcast episode “Kennedy and Today: A Fireside Chat on JFK and Us with Fred Logevall and Stephen Kennedy Smith.” Moderated by Hansong Li, the conversation examines President John F...
Fred Logevall and Stephen Kennedy Smith seated in conversation, one gesturing while the other listens, with books, a globe, and the WorldViews logo.
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Events

Sugar Farmers of Manitoba
October 13, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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CGIS Knafel, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
In Person
Canada Seminar Sugar Farmers of Manitoba “Sugar Farmers of Manitoba” is the title of a book published by the Manitoba Beet Growers Association in 1968. This detailed institutional history also provides inadvertent and disturbing insight into the history...

Frederick Douglass and Jesus Christ
October 13, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
Abolitionists described themselves as followers of Jesus, but they disagreed about what kind of person he was. Douglass’s ideas about Jesus took shape in dialogue with the Transcendentalists: his Jesus was fully human, but he spoke to his contemporaries...

In this Twilight: Tar Paintings in Conversation with American Transcendentalism
October 13, 2026
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4:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
In Person
Please join us for the opening reception of Christopher Volpe's exhibition, In this Twilight: Tar Paintings in Conversation with American Transcendentalism. Titled with a line from Whitman's Leaves of Grass, In this Twilight opens a space between longing...
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