Interested in a career in commercial real estate? Join alumnus Brendan Mason as he shares stories and wisdom from his journey in commercial real estate.

Inspired by a real estate career talk during his senior year, Brendan Mason ’06, pursued a career in real estate development that led to his (finally) founding AltaBird Investments in 2021. Brendan will share his journey and thoughts on how to navigate and get a head start to a career in this exciting, challenging, sometimes very lucrative, and always evolving field of commercial real estate.

Professor Schwitzgebel’s research explores connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind, especially the nature of belief, the inaccuracy of our judgments about our stream of conscious experience, and the tenuous relationship between philosophical ethics and actual moral behavior. He is the author of Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic, with Russell T. Hurlburt, MIT Press (2007); Perplexities of Consciousness, MIT Press (2011); and A Theory of Jerks, and Other Philosophical Misadventures, MIT Press (2019).

The discourse on reparations and landback are often talked about side by side but rarely intersect. This talk explores the contradictions and possibilities embedded on Black freedom and Indigenous sovereignty, why it matters, and dreams about the potential of collective resistance.

Join Dr. Melvin Rouse, Associate Professor of Psychology, for a talk entitled: The Social Self, the Biological Self: How Biological Phenotype and Social Behavior Can Inform One Another.

Join Sustainability Services for a film screening of the Patagonia movie DamNation followed by a discussion by expert panelists about the movie as well as the issue of dams in Washington State. Snacks will be provided!

Associate Professor of Philosophy Sara Protasi will be discussing her book The Philosophy of Envy (Cambridge University Press, 2021; paperback 2022).

About the Book

Cognitive warfare manipulates environmental stimuli to control people's mental states and behaviors. Through widespread smart devices and social media platforms, digital authoritarianism has disseminated disinformation to intensify existing social conflicts in democracies. Not only did Russia meddle with the UK's Brexit vote and elections in the Baltic states, but China has also interfered in Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand and has highlighted racial conflict in the US.

Dr. Hillyer is a social and cultural historian of the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries, with specialties in the American South, African American history, the history of public memory, the built environment, and mass incarceration. She studies the history of the built environment, which means looking at physical space—from factories to theme parks—as a way of understanding historical processes.

Please join us for a brown bag lunch to discuss the protest movements and the severe government crackdown in Iran following the killing of Mahsa Amini.