Events

The Global Health Film Series provides a regular forum for bringing together students, faculty, and others who are interested in emerging issues in global health. Two-hour program includes the featured film, a post-film discussion, and light refreshments.

Film synopsis:

What happens when a pediatrician who is also an award-winning producer (Law & Order - Special Victims Unit) gives a kid a camera and shows him how to use it? In this case, Alcides Soares, a 16-year-old AIDS orphan in Mozambique, chronicles about his journey to find a new family and make a new life in a country in which a half-million children share his situation.

The XIXth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

Robin Blackburn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and served as editor of New Left Review. He is author of many important books, including an influential trilogy on origins and history of Atlantic slavery: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988), The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997), and The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011).