Speaker Series

Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good, Gender and Women and Sexuality Studies, and the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion collaborated to bring Moira Donegan, a leading feminist writer of the millennial generation, to campus for a two-day visit in Fall 2024.

The Parlee Center regularly hosts outstanding citizen-scientists and experts on the intersection of science and society.

Upcoming Speakers

Recent Speakers

The Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good is proud to have hosted the following speakers in recent years.

Oct 2024

Picture a Scientist Documentary Screening

Oct. 9, 2024 | 7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Presented by the Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good. Picture a Scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists.

Sep 2024

Jane: Abortion, Law, and the Ethics of Authority

Sept. 10, 2024 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

The Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good, Gender and Women and Sexuality Studies, and the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion have collaborated to bring Moira Donegan, a leading feminist writer of the millennial generation, to campus for a two-day visit, this Sept. 10-11

Apr 2024

Parlee Center Lecture: Reducing Maternal Mortality through Love, Acceptance, and Representation

April 1, 2024 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Okunsola Amadou

Founder and CEO, Jamaa Birth Village

Nov 2023

Parlee Center Lecture: How to Survive the End of the World

Nov. 13, 2023 | 7:30 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

The Ursinus College Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good presents Riley Black, prolific writer and author. In this talk, Riley will discuss what transpired during the million years between impact and life’s recovery as well as how she turned this tale into her award-winning book The Last Days of the Dinosaurs.

Sep 2023

Parlee Center Lecture: Meredithe Mcnamara 

Sept. 28, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

The Ursinus College Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good presents Meredithe McNamara, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and affiliate faculty at the Yale Institute for Global Health. During this talk, she will discuss the threat posed by scientific misinformation to the well-being of trans and gender-expansive youth.

Sep 2023

Parlee Center Screening: Picture a Scientist

Sept. 11, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

The Ursinus College Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good presents a screening of Picture a Scientist, a documentary on women in science that chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists.

Mar 2023

The First Ornithologist of the New World: Afro-Latino Santiago de Cárdenas and his Scientific-Literary Dialogue

March 14, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Pfahler 100, Musser Auditorium

Join the Modern Languages Department for a talk by Martina Thorne (Georgetown University).

Mar 2023

Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth About The World’s Most Popular Weed

March 13, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Kevin P. Hill is an addiction psychiatrist, director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His clinical research is focused primarily on medications and behavioral interventions that might improve available treatments for those wanting to stop smoking marijuana.

Feb 2023

Parlee Center Lecture: What Matters in Healthcare?

Feb. 27, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Valerie A. Adelson is the associate director of government relations for the American Thoracic Society. In this talk, she will discuss the need for cultural and linguistic competence in health care and race-based disparities in health care.

Feb 2023

Parlee Center Lecture: Karen E. Scheu

Feb. 13, 2023 | Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Bears’ Den, Wismer Center

Karen E. Scheu, an assistant professor of family and community health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing—and a member of the Ursinus College Board of Trustees— specializes in immigrant health and underserved communities.

Jan 2023

Restoring the American Dream and the American Economy through Healthcare Price Transparency

Jan. 24, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Join us for this signature lecture with Cynthia Fisher ’83, H’06. Ms. Fisher is a life science entrepreneur, philanthropist, and corporate board director. She is currently Founder and Chairman of PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focused on systemwide healthcare price transparency.

Nov 2022

Happening (Audrey Diwan, 2021)

Nov. 7, 2022 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Anne, an undergraduate, needs an abortion. But in 1960’s France, it’s illegal

Oct 2022

What do we do now? Dissecting the impact of overturning Roe v Wade

Oct. 24, 2022 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Carlene Allana Denis, MD, FACOG
Senior Physician, Valley Forge OBGYN
President, Medical Staff Committee, Phoenixville Hospital

Sep 2022

Lonely in a Crowded (Locker) Room: Science from Isolation and Inclusion

Sept. 27, 2022 | 7 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

Casper Voyles, PhD
GATHER Fellow, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health

Sep 2022

Picture a Scientist

Sept. 5, 2022 | 7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Olin Auditorium

A Documentary on Women in Science
Despite the minimal news coverage, sexual harassment and gender inequality against women are no less prevalent in science than they are in pop culture and corporate America.

Sep 2021

Covid-19 Vaccines And Variants: Where We Are Now And The Prospects Ahead

Sept. 8, 2021 | 7 p.m.
TBD

Robert W. Doms, pathologist-in-chief at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses the latest information on COVID-19. Members of the community can watch virtually via Zoom. Register in advance.

Mar 2021

Workshop on the Variety of Careers in Biology

March 23, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Zoom Event

A panel of distinguished graduates will discuss their paths to success, followed by Q & A.

Mar 2021

The Science of Business: USciences’ MBA & The Future of Pharma

March 11, 2021 | Noon
Virtual

Learn about USciences MBA program, with which Ursinus has an affiliation agreement. Registration Deadline: 3/10

Mar 2021

Parlee Center Speaker: COVID-19: Vaccines and Variants

March 2, 2021 | 4:30 p.m.
Virtual

Students, faculty and staff: learn more about the COVID-19 vaccines from Robert W. Doms, the pathologist-in-chief, T. Hewson Bache Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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