Monday, 18 Apr 2016
Documentary & Discussion: White People
"White People" is a first-of-its-kind documentary exploring whiteness and the intersection of race and immigration in an increasingly diverse America. It was produced, directed and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas as part of MTV's Emmy Award-winning Look Different Campaign. (41 min)
Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Deb Cassidy
Deborah Cassidy is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Ross Parke
The final lecture of the Future of Healthy Families series features Hilton Endowed Chair Ross Parke. He will be joined by the series speakers via live web feeds. A reception and HDFS graduate student poster session immediately follows the lecture, 4-5:30 p.m.
Lecture: Food Regimes, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
Eric Holt-Gimenez is the executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First. The organization was founded in 1975 by Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappe and promotes access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. Holt-Gimenez worked for more than two decades with small-scale farmers in Mexico and Central America and prior to joining Food First served as the Latin...
Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
James Gelvin is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire."
Thursday, 21 Apr 2016
Lecture: The Press, the Presidency and the Campaign
Steve Thomma is Senior White House Correspondent and political editor for McClatchy.
The Future of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space
Ronald Lecture Series in Environmental Conservation. Bridget Scanlon heads the Sustainable Water Resources Program and is Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Friday, 22 Apr 2016
Lecture: An Earth Day Reading
"All the Land to Hold Us" Part of the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series.