Upcoming Lectures & Talks
2 upcoming lectures and talks from Watertown Free Public Library, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Wed Oct 21 · 7pm
Historian Robin Bernstein gives a fast-paced slide show on Watertown’s lesbian history, telling stories of love affairs, rivalries, mischief, betrayals, breakups and friendships. Its central figure is Harriet Hosmer, a sculptor, tomboy and lover of women who grew up in Watertown and whose name is on a town elementary school. Bernstein, a professor of American history at Harvard, is the author of Racial Innocence and Freeman’s Challenge.
Wed Nov 4 · 6:30pm
Panelists with professional and lived experience of disability discuss the hurdles disabled people face in getting health care: Skylar Maguire, a medical assistant and activist; Carol Menton, a lifelong public servant and advocate in disability services; disability advocate Dan O’Donnell; and Eric Rubenstein of the Boston University School of Public Health. World in Watertown and the Watertown Commission on Disability co-present, with ASL interpretation and CART captioning.