Events

Annual McBride Lecture

This annual lecture was established in 1977 by the United Steelworkers of America "to better understand the principles of unionism and our economy." It honors the fourth International president of the union, Lloyd McBride, who was president from 1977 to 1983. Please join the USWA and the Higgins Labor Research Center in welcoming this year's speaker Nelson Lichtenstein.

Film Series for 2007-2008

This year's series included:

“Morristown” (2007) September 2007
Filmmaker: Ann Lewis. In Spanish and English with subtitles.Speaker: Tim Matovina, Associate Professor of Theology; Director of the Cushwa Center; Fellow, Latino Studies

“Off to War” (2005) November 2007

Filmmakers: Brent and Craig Renaud

Speaker: David Cortright, Visiting Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

“Uprising of ‘34” (1995) February 2008
Filmmakers: Judith Helfand, Susanne Rostock, George Stoney
Speaker: Dan Graff, Labor Historian and Director of Undergraduate Studies in History

“These Hands” (1992, 45 min.) April 2008

Director: Flora M'mbugu-Schelling. In Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles

The camera acts as a compassionate witness to a day in the life of Mozambican women working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam. Most of the women are refugees who spend their days painfully and painstakingly manually mining gravel from the scarred landscape to be used for concrete and urban building projects. The film has an almost meditative quality as these women, lowest in the ranks of the global economy, share endless work, collaborative childcare, and singing and dancing at the end of a day's work.