Building Global Justice in the Face of Mass Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide. The global community has been shocked by recent accusations of mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, and genocide in places like Ukraine, China, and Myanmar. Considering these developments, the discussion will trace the development of international responses and tools to address these crimes at the global level. ...
Frost Place Poetry Seminar Director, poet and translator Patrick Donnelly will read from his poetry collections Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge, as well as from newer work. From the sexual abandon of the 1980s gay demimonde, to a New England mill town whose mill has closed, to a mother’s decline into mental illness, Nocturnes of the Brothel of ...
The world is a fascinating place! The 2023-24 Sidore Lecture series will explore how curiosity and creativity feed passion for life. 9/14/2023 Trevor ChandlerGetting Along Is Boring, Let’s Fight: Embrace Conflict and Live the Most Interesting Life Political toxicity and polarization continue to strain our institutions and civic cohesiveness with studies showing less trust between Republicans and Democrats than between ...
Cheryl Savageau will read from her poetry collections Dirt Road Home and Mother/Land, which explore facets of New England / Indigenous place and identity. Siobhan Senier writes, in Studies in American Indian Literature, that Savageau’s poetry “comes out of a long line of Abenaki writing traceable all the way back to the precontact birchbark maps called awikhiganak” and “challenges readers ...
Internal Alchemy & External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come together in Shanta Lee's World of Images, Words and Life Practice What is the internal alchemy needed to engage in a curious life? How can the concept of engaging with the unknown, unseen and intangible co-mingle with ideas of self creation through the mediums of ...
Iranian American poet Farnaz Fatemi will read from her award-winning 2022 collection, Sister Tongue, as well as from new work. The poems in Sister Tongue explore negative spaces—the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet’s upbringing in California and her family in Iran. In her foreword to the book, former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy ...
Dr. Richard Alley (Ph.D. 1987, Geology, Wisconsin) is Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State. He studies the great ice sheets to help predict future changes in climate and sea level, and has made four trips to Antarctica, nine to Greenland, and more to Alaska and elsewhere. He has been honored for research (including election to the US ...
Fathoming: How Curiosity Can Help Save the Oceans The state of the global oceans has been very much in the news in the last several years. In the face of environmental concern, often the reaction is to call for more science. While it is true that we need good science – and for people to understand and accept it – ...
On April 8th, 2024, the residents of New Hampshire will enjoy a rare total solar eclipse. No matter where you live in the Granite State, you will see most, if not all, of the sun covered by the moon that afternoon. This will not happen again in New Hampshire until the year 2079. What can you expect? Why do eclipses ...
Poet Kerrin McCadden, winner of the 2022 Herb Lockwood Prize for excellence in the arts in Vermont, will read from her published collections and from new work. McCadden is the author of two collections of poetry. Her most recent book, American Wake, was a finalist for the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award, Describing American Wake, writer ...
2021-2024 Souza Professor of Meteorology This presentation will include review of how meteorological information is presented both to the public and how it is currently adapted for use by decision makers in various fields. It will examine several recent extreme weather events and review whether the information given to various end users were functional. Reception to follow. This lecture is ...
The Future of Sustainable Tourism Education Tourism is 10% of the global economy and faces many challenges to its business model as climate change accelerates, and yet sustainable tourism is rarely a part of academic curricula worldwide. The UNWTO has found that 80% of all tourism education globally is focused on hospitality and hotel management and investment, while the other ...