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The Politics of Walls and Fences From the Berlin Wall to the Trump Wall

This panel discussion will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Inspiring Activism: Past, Present, and Future

Several esteemed speakers will talk about the roots of their activism, with each representing a time period. The goal is to relate how May 4th inspires activism to various other causes and time

Constructed Answer

A contemporary metals exhibition curated in response to a Commemorative Medallion made by Philadelphia College of Art students in honor of the students who perished at Kent State on May 4, 1970. Learn More About Constructed Answer

Mitch Landrieu, Former Mayor of New Orleans

Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at Kent State as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series. Landrieu’s 2017 speech, delivered …

A Reader’s Theatre production of the play, May 4 Voices: Kent State, 1970

Occurring Saturday evening, October 26, 2019, as part of the Kent State conference: “Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace”   The play is free and open to the public.   LOCATION: Ballroom of the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center &nbsp…

When Government Kills: State Violence and Youth Movements

  Occurring Friday evening, October 25, 2019, 7:30 – 9:30 pm as part of the Kent State conference: “Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace”   LOCATION: The ballroom of the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center.   FREE & OPEN TO TH…

27th Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference in Remembrance of May 4

The Kent State University Philosophy Department has held a Philosophy Graduate Student Conference every year in memory of the events of May 4, 1970, since the inauguration of our graduate program in 1992–1993. The conference is open to all areas of philosophy, and conference participants come to …

Resentment and Power: On the Social Dynamics of Blame

Our practices of moral accountability involve reactive attitudes in the general key of anger, such as resentment and indignation. In this talk, Dr. Wallace will argue that these attitudes involve forms of social power and will consider the implications of this fact for the understanding and assessme…

Fire in the Heartland Film Series

Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 19…

Mapping May 4 Web App Launch

This web app draws from the 110 oral histories in the Kent State University May 4th collection. It maps stories from those histories that describe memories of events at a particular place in Kent between May 1st and May 5th, 1970. Sara Koopman (Asst. Prof. of Peace Studies) & Jen Mapes (Assoc. …