Common Reading

WSU alumnus Ted Tremper talks about his experiences working with Trevor Noah, the role of social/political comedy, and his own pathway from WSU to the Daily Show and beyond.

An online reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Natalie Diaz is the Common Reading Invited Lecture event for 2021-22.

On November 12, 2019, Luis Cortes Romero was part of the legal team that argued before the US Supreme Court regarding President Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.

Lipi Turner Rahman will speak about global diasporas.

Matthew Jeffries, the director of WSU’s Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center (GIESORC), will talk about how gender identity and discrimination factor into issues of immigration and asylum.

Trish Glazebrook (Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) will talk about the intersections of gender, climate change, and forced migration.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson and the U.S. Congress passed the Removal Act, a bill that forced Native Americans to leave the United States and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, effectively turning them into asylum seekers in their own land.

If you read the news, you might be left thinking that humans are a xenophobic and parochial species. If we actually look at the data, however, we see a very different picture: our species can be both very tolerant and very aggressive toward members of other communities.

Join us for the WiSTEM Smart Tech Panel Discussion on Tuesday, March 19, at 4:30 p.m.

As technology develops, how will Artificial Intelligence impact our lives?

WSU professors and authors, Debbie Lee and Ray Sun, will talk about the genre of memoir and how they serve to give a personal voice to important global issues.

Barbara Rasco will discuss her work on WSU international development projects in Pakistan and Afghanistan, focusing on the impact of these projects on women and the issues they face.

During this livestream, the activist, journalist, and film director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will discuss her work documenting a wide variety of issues in South Asia.

Delivering the 10th annual Common Reading Invited Lecture will be Khalida Brohi, activist for women’s rights, social entrepreneur, global speaker, and founder of the Sughar Empowerment Society in Pakistan to help educate and empower women.

The criminal justice system should focus less on retribution and more on reparations for those born into a culture of violence, says activist and Law Professor Cynthia Chandler.