Craig Reinarman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will give the Sidore Lecture "The Fate of Drug Policy Reform in a Time of Trump."
Sponsored by the UNH Center for the Humanities and the Departments of Sociology and Communication.
The organizers for this year’s series are Karen VanGundy (Department of Sociology), Michelle Gibbons (Department of Communication), Mardi Kidwell (Department of Communication), Donna Perkins (Justice Studies Program), and Edward Reynolds (Department of Communication). The series will bring together collaborators from across the College of Liberal Arts, as well as faculty from outside the college (Carsey School of Public Policy, Nursing) to ask: What can the Liberal Arts bring to the table in addressing the opioid crisis? How can our modes of inquiry, humanistic sensibilities, and ways of understanding and conceptualizing a problem address this particular issue in practical and insightful ways? The organizers’ goal is to use the Sidore series to prompt and guide campus-wide conversations about the opioid crisis that blend the interdisciplinary expertise of UNH faculty with that of national and local scholars, professionals, and stakeholders. In so doing, they seek to reframe New Hampshire’s opioid crisis from one of scandal and corruption to one of serious intellectual and compassionate deliberation.
The Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1965 in memory of Saul O Sidore of Manchester, New Hampshire. The purpose of the series is to offer the University community and the state of New Hampshire programs that raise critical and sometimes controversial issues facing our society. The University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities sponsors the programs.