March 2020 Book: Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters by Douglas Haynes Speaker: Douglas Haynes Resources: Discussion Questions
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Discussion of Revolution is My Name
October 2020 Book: Revolution Is My Name: An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir by Mona Prince, Samia Mehrez Speaker: Professor Nevine El Nossery Resources: Presentation Slides
The Haitian Revolution: Impact on the World
September 2020 Film: PBS Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009) Speaker: Dr. Brenda Gayle Plummer, Merze Tate Professor of History at UW-Madison Department of History
Russia’s Strategies in Foreign Elections: What Does the Kremlin Want?
October 2020 Film: Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War (2018) Speaker: Dr. Anton Shirikov, Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Kansas
Talking About South Asian Culture and History through Earth
November 2020 Film: Earth (1998) Speaker: Professor Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College Resources: India Partition lesson plans and documents Videos, discussion questions, suggested readings, and additional educational resources
From Local to Global: Promoting Community Immunity in the Time of COVID
This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! December 2020 Film: Frontline: The Vaccine War (2017) and COVID’s Hidden Toll (2020) Speaker: Dr. James Conway
The Lethal Soviet Legacy in Kazakhstan
This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! June 2020 Film: The Lethal Soviet Legacy in Kazakhstan (2019) Speaker: Dr. Andy Bruno, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor, Department of History at IU Bloomington
New Immigrant and Refugee Visions
This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! May 2020 Film: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions
This Changes Everything
This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! April 2020 Film: This Changes Everything