Sunday Programs
Join us every Sunday for engaging presentations on science, reason, ethics, and humanist values. Attend in person at Friendly House or join us via Zoom.
Upcoming Programs
Nursing in the Nation State: the Interwar Balkans
Intertwining gender and class, Evguenia Davidova's research suggests that the emergence of the visiting or public nurse in interwar Bulgaria and Yugoslavia becane a crucial healthcare protagonist, linking the clinic and home in fighting social diseases and in reducing child mortality. Often mediated by international organizations, the visiting nurses represent another link between national and international public health policies. Davidova is an award-winning History Professor at PSU, publishing in many journals and author of Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s), and editor of Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans. (Not recorded)
View DetailsDemocracy and Rule of Law: "Unnatural Acts" Among Consenting Adults
Democracy and the rule of law as we know them, although highly desirable, are highly artificial arrangements of habits and complex institutions designed to avoid social arrangements that are often tyrannical or corrupt. They are not automatically maintained and can come undone if systematically neglected or assaulted, and it may be a long and complicated task to reestablish them, with no guarantees. The Trump era may be doing damage that will be extremely difficult to fix. Jeff Seward has been a University Professor at Pacific University and UT San Antonio, as well as prize-winning documentary producer and reporter.
View DetailsHidden Heroines: The Women Who Shaped Us (Without the Spotlight)
Hidden Heroines: The Women Who Shaped Us illuminates the lives of lesser-known women whose influence has quietly shaped culture, community, and movements for justice. Through a curated series of narrative spotlights, the talk explores figures such as Jovita Idár, Zitkála-Šá, Grace Lee Boggs, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, women whose contributions were foundational, yet often overlooked. Blending storytelling with cultural reflection, April Pereira (ile/they/she), Founding Director of StorySpark Collective, examines how historical narratives are shaped, why certain voices are marginalized, and what we lose when stories of care, creativity, and community leadership go unrecognized.
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