Christa Sadler, field producer and author of The Colorado, will discuss her role as a production manager and author of the accompanying book for the film. She will also discuss humans’ dominant influence on our environment and climate. This discussion will be a one hour workshop/ lecture and a Q & A session about her work.

The Colorado has been hailed as one of the most profound documentaries in recent memory. This beautiful film explores the complex relationship between the Colorado River and the people who have inhabited its basin across history. Three key figures from The Colorado will introduce the film, including Christa Sadler, field producer and author of the accompanying book, Murat Eyuboglu, director, cinematographer, and co-writer, and Paola Prestini, composer. More information please visit: pi.tt/thecolorado.

Intended as a workshop to foster critical thinking skills, this program will feature presentations by two scholars who work on similar issues in entirely different parts of the world. Dr. David Kenley (Elizabethtown College, PA) will speak on “Remembering and Forgetting: War Memorials in East Asia” with a particular focus on WWII memorials. Dr. Kirk Savage (University of Pittsburgh) will talk about “Curating History: Civil War Commemoration and Social Justice.” The program will include Q&A with the speakers.

Historical epidemiology-the study of past disease control interventions and their impacts on the dynamics of disease transmission-holds the promise of creating a more robust and more nuanced foundation for global public health decision-making by developing an empirical record from which we can draw historical lessons. It can unearth past successes and failures in order to suggest alternative or hybrid approaches to the control of epidemic or endemic disease processes. What should be done to institutionalize its practice?

The "neglected tropical diseases" (NTDs) are a cluster of infectious diseases categorized by their impact on an estimated one billion people in 149 countries worldwide. These diseases are generally characterized by their high morbidity and low mortality and are strongly associated with poverty. NTD-focused campaigns have accelerated rapidly in the past two decades, with U.S. funding alone topping $887 million since 2006.

Join us for our Global Studies Student Research Symposium featuring presentations from 5 of our BPhil Students. Each student will give a 10-15 minute presentation with time for Q&A led by Dr. Michael Goodhart. All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.

A part of passages: translation & the mediation of time & space. Passages is a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, and conversations on translation and its impact.

Alyssa Martinec (senior, Political Science/BPHI/IAS/Global Studies) will defend her thesis on the global phenomenon of populations accepting environmental problems as an externality of economic development using case studies from Shanghai, China.

Kristen Gugerli, (senior, Political Science, BPHIL/IAS/Global Studies) will defend her thesis exploring the history of indigenous peoples around the world, and how this has influenced the current rates of political participation by indigenous peoples with specific attention to state of Yucatán, Mexico.

SiLang Huang (senior, Politics and Philosophy, BPHIL/IAS Global Studies) will defend her thesis on changes that have taken place under China's neoliberal reform since the 1980s with regard to migratory opportunities, gender roles and social hierarchies, documenting a Chinese migrant family from rural Hunan Province.