Monday, 11 Oct 2021
Monday Monologues series (virtual)
"Fashion Forward: Centering Justice in Fashion History" an online exhibit that confronts traditional museum practices. By reinterpreting a selection of objects in the ISU Textiles and Clothing Museum with a social justice lens, including cultural appropriation, racial inequities, shifting masculinities, women and feminism, socio-economic carriers and environmental justice, stories arise that were previously left out of the mainstream narrative.
Seminar: Maya R. Eden (Brandeis University)
"The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate" How should policy discount future returns? The standard approach to this normative question is to ask how much society should care about future generations relative to people alive today.
Lecture: Residential Design for Health and Longevity
Cynthia Leibrock, an award-winning author, interior designer and consultant on accessibility and aging, is the principal and founder of Easy Access to Health, which offers consulting services in patient-centered design, planning for independent living, product analysis and judiciary witness services. Her lecture is hosted by the Department of Interior Design with support from the Institute for Design Research and Outreach.