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Lifelong Learning Lecture: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Perils of Biography thumbnail Photo

Lifelong Learning Lecture: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Perils of Biography

Guest speaker: Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University

Tasked with telling the story of Charlotte Brontë’s tragic life, writer and friend Elizabeth Gaskell investigated, uncovering secrets more incredible than any fiction. Her book was so controversial it was banned within weeks. Ever since, historians have argued about how much of it is true. Mrs. Gaskell stipulated in her will that no one could write her own life story until all parties concerned had died. This lecture describes Mrs. Gaskell’s biography and assesses the truth of her representation.

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Lifelong Learning Lecture: Race, Immigration & Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare thumbnail Photo

Lifelong Learning Lecture: Race, Immigration & Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare

Guest speaker: Tiffany D. Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University

Immigration and health policy have been at the core of recent U.S. legislative debates. Explore how the intersection of both has narrowed healthcare access for immigrants and citizens of the Commonwealth under the Massachusetts and Affordable Care Act (ACA) reforms and the dismantling of the ACA. 

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