ALT Monday, April 21, 2025 - 6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m. Climate Change, Natural Disaster, and Oral History Stewart Weaver, PhD, University of Rochester; Ricia Chansky, PhD, Universidad de Puerto Rico; Liz Skilton, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Join the conversation on how oral history has been used as a tool of record and resilience in the face of natural disaster and climate change. Moderated by Lepage Center Director Paul C. Rosier, PhD. Free, open to the public, ACS Approved. Register at: https://bit.ly/lepageclimate425

ALT Queer Across Time: Nonbinary and Transgender Literary, Oral, and Scientific History BEANS VELOCCI Asst. Professor, History & Sociology of Science, UPenn SMITH LAB, JOHN AND JOAN MULLEN CENTER 7:00-8:15 PM, APRIL 15TH, 2025 Presenting - Beans Velocci, Asst. Professor, History & Sociology of Science, UPenn; NAT RIVKIN PhD candidate, English, UPenn; NAT DIFRANK Gender & Sexuality educator, Trans Oral History Project, UPenn Presented by: GENDER & WOMEN'S STUDIES, NONBINARY & TRANS STUDENTS, VU PRIDE, and the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest

ALT April 9, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., sac 410 Lunch @ Lepage with Dr. Laura Madokoro Dr. Madokoro traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, wanted criminals, internationally renowned anarchists, and war resisters before turning to modern public sanctuary practices as they navigated a web of social connections, political agendas, and economic realities, testing who the city was for. Free, open to the public, ACS Approved. Albert Lepage Center and Center for Arab and Islamic Studies.

ALT THE HISTORY OF POPULISM AROUND THE WORLD 8 April 2025, Zoom 6:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M. ET Join us to hear from Carlos de la Torre, PhD, Thomas Zimmer, PhD, and Gabriela Greilinger, MSc, MES, about the history of populism in Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. Moderated by Dr. Marcus Kreuzer, professor of Political Science at Villanova. Free, open to the public, ACS Approved. Register to attend: https://bit.ly/lepagepop25

ALT St. Augustine Center, Room 410 Lunch @ Lepage: The Mental Hygiene Movement with Lucy Simons Wednesday, April 2, 2025 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Join us to hear from undergraduate Lepage Fellow Lucy Simons about early 20th century reform of mental institutions led by figures like former asylum patient Clifford Beers and psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, which led to the founding of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and a global movement.

ALT March 26, 2025 6-7:15 P.M. ET A.I., Labor, and Society Devin Kennedy, PhD, Wisconsin; Stephanie Dick, PhD, Simon Fraser; Finn Brunton, PhD, UC Davis; Aaron Mendon-Plasek, PhD, Purdue Join our conversation about the development of A.I. with expert historians of science and technology, moderated by Villanova's Dr. Whitney Martinko. Free, Open to the Public, ACS Approved. Register at https://bit.ly/ailabor326 Presented by the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

ALT Culture, Identity, and Labor in American Sports Featuring Louis Moore, PhD (Grand Valley State University); Victoria Jackson, PhD (Arizona State University); and Thomas Oates, PhD (University of Iowa) February 26, 2025 6-7:15 pm Join the conversation about how the history of American sports has intersected with civil rights, justice, and economy through athletic labor, culture, and media. Moderated by Villanova Sociology professor Dr. Rick Eckstein. register to attend: https://bit.ly/sportslabor25 Free, Open to the Public, and ACS Approved. From the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University.