Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
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ICFRC: Health, Wealth, and Waste: Social Entrepeneurship in Global Health and Beyond
March 02, 2017 10:00 - 57 MBEach person in the U.S., on average, creates 4.6 pounds of waste each day. What happens to that waste? It affects everything we do in several ways, ranging from human health to environmental wellness. This lecture will define the social and cultural aspects of garbage as well as develop an understanding of the link between garbage, human health and environmental health. The life cycle of our modern waste products, their detrimental impacts on human populations and ecosystems, and implications...
ICFRC: From Svalbard to Standing Rock: The Idea of the Sublime in a Time of Climate Change
February 22, 2017 10:00 - 75.7 MBTama Baldwin is a photographer and writer with degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Salisbury State University, The State University of New York and Ohio University. She has received an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, a Fulbright, as well as residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tama speaks about the landscapes experienced though her work, which includes a book about wilderness civilizations, a collection of photographs of the f...
ICFRC: Indian Cinema in America
February 15, 2017 10:00 - 79.3 MBWhy is what is often identified as the "world's largest cinema" virtually unknown in the United States? This presentation will consider some of the circumstances that have allowed popular Indian cinema (somewhat controversially labeled as "Bollywood") to be neglected or invisible in America, despite its worldwide popularity. The presentation will raise questions about the forms that globalization may take and not take in the international circulation of popular cinema. Corey Creekmur is an...
ICFRC: Gaza - To Exist is to Resist
February 09, 2017 10:00 - 72.5 MBGaza, often referred to as the Gaza Strip, is a narrow piece of land approximately 24 miles long and four to seven miles wide. This home to 1.85 million persons is bound by a border closure by Egypt to the south, Israel to the west, and an Israeli air and sea blockade. Its residents are not free to leave this very hot, arid land which lacks clean water. Founded in 1949 as a self-governing Palestinian Territory, Gaza is part of the wide Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A report release last year ...
ICFRC: The Global Impact of Drugs
February 01, 2017 10:00 - 68.1 MBFrom small communities to corporate enterprises, drugs and their impact are reshaping the healthcare and economic landscape, making the educational journey of today's pharmacists highly demanding and competitive. Peoples' perceptions about drugs and their impact on society are limited to what they see and read. During this lecture Dr. Letendre will shed light on some of the new and fascinating ways in which drugs are impacting society, positively and negatively, including astonishing new med...
ICFRC: The Evolving Global Commercial Aircraft Industry; Emerging Competitors from China and Russia
January 25, 2017 10:00 - 72.6 MBThis presentation will provide an overview of the current global commercial aircraft industry and potential future evolution. The current Mainline aircraft market is dominated by Boeing and Airbus, while Bombardier and Embraer dominate in the Regional category. The lecture will cover new entrants such as Japan's Mitsubishi Aircraft, China's Commercial Aircraft Corporation, and Russia's United Aircraft Corporation. A future scenario on the potential challenge posed by a combined effort from Ch...
ICFRC: Excluded by Definition: Representations of Immigrants in the French Civic Integration
January 18, 2017 10:00 - 69.9 MBFrance established the "Reception and Integration Contract" for non-European migrants in the context of a perceived crisis of integration and a rise in right-wing populism. While the official purpose of this civic integration program is to facilitate migrants' entry into society by teaching them about French history, laws, and values, the program may actually reinforce the symbolic boundaries, or conceptual distinctions that separate migrants from the national community. This lecture presents...
ICFRC: Post-Election Perspectives for International Relations
December 15, 2016 10:00 - 82.4 MBJames A. Leach joined the Iowa College of Law after serving most recently as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Leach is best known for his 30 years of service as a representative in Congress where he chaired the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Following his time in Congress, he was a Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and Interim Di...
ICFRC: Tracking and Surveillance in the Online Advertising Ecosystem
December 08, 2016 10:00 - 80.5 MBA large fraction of services on the Internet are supported using online ads. Websites such as Google and Facebook rely on online advertising to support free services such as search, email, social networking, video, etc. In this talk, Zubair will highlight a new tussle in the online advertising ecosystem. Online publishers track user activities, e.g., using cookies, to target customized ads. The online advertising ecosystem has come under fire recently. For example, latest research has shown t...
ICFRC: Bullets and Bombs; The Background Music for an Average Day in Damascus, Syria
December 01, 2016 10:00 - 62.2 MBAs the Syrian civil war continues, the average Syrian person is dehumanized to a number, a casualty, or a cost on a neighboring state. While the media has mainly been focused on the outflow of refugees, little is known about what daily lives look like in the capital Damascus; a place where contradictions occur at every corner. A place where shouts of hunger, lavish nightlife, bullets and bombs are all intertwined. Monzer "Moe" Shakally tells his personal story of Syria. He is a UI junior and...
ICFRC: The Sad State of Turkish Democracy: Why We Should Care
November 16, 2016 10:00 - 67.8 MBJanice G. Weiner was a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service for nearly 26 years. She then worked for two years as professional issues and policy adviser for the American Foreign Service Association. From 1993-1996, she was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey as embassy human rights officer, where she won AFSA's Rivkin Award for her work. She returned to Ankara from 2005-2008, where she worked as the U.S. Embassy's Political Counselor. She returned to Washington to work as a Legi...
ICFRC: Murder to Justice - Iowa to China: A Cross-National Collaboration
November 10, 2016 10:00 - 82.4 MBTong Shao, a Chinese student, attending Iowa State University, was murdered in September 2014. Her body was found on September 26, 2014 in Iowa City where her boyfriend, Xiangnan Li, lived. The police investigation lead to the Johnson County Attorney's Office obtaining an arrest warrant for Xiangnan Li, for the murder of Tong Shao. Mr. Li, a Chinese student at the University of Iowa, fled back to China within 2 days of when Tong Shao was last seen alive. Because the United States does n...
ICFRC: Seven Myths About Immigration
November 03, 2016 10:00 - 78.1 MBImmigration flows and their regional impacts are increasingly taking center stage in global politics. With mainstream journalism focusing more on the reaction to immigration than on its causes, the result is that immigrants are widely vilified as (potential) criminals or even 'rapists', or more specifically as people who want to take your jobs. This talk will challenge seven myths fueling the rising tide of hysteria by exploring often-ignored truths about immigration, starting with the re-str...
ICFRC: Global Health and Sustainable Development
October 25, 2016 10:00 - 80 MBAmbassador John E. Lange (Ret.) serves as the primary focal point for the UN Foundation's global health diplomacy activities. Prior to joining the Foundation in July 2013, Lange spent four years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation working with African governments to improve public health. He has served as co-chair of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's Polio Partners Group since its launch in April 2012. Ambassador Lange had a 28-year career in the Foreign Service at the U.S. Depart...
ICFRC: Sister Wives: Female Comrades in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggles
October 20, 2016 10:00 - 75.5 MBzp dala is a physical therapist, a psychologist, and a writer. Her first novel, "What About Meera," won the 2015 South African Minara Debut Prize, was shortlisted for the Etisalat Literary Prize, and made the top 15 African Novels of 2015 list. A second novel, "The Architecture of Love," is forthcoming in 2017. Her op-ed pieces have appeared in The Guardian and The New York Times. South Africa's long struggle to transcend Apartheid has been widely documented, both pre- and post-democracy (19...
ICFRC: U.S. - Kosovo Relations
October 14, 2016 10:00Valon Murtezaj was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo in March 2016. Dr. Murtezaj was appointed to this position after a long and successful, professional and academic, experience. Before being appointed to this position, Murtezaj was Principal Advisor for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Isa Mustafa Professor Murtezaj, among others, is a permanent professor in the prestigious IESEG School of Management in Paris, France...
ICFRC: German Iowa and the Global Midwest: How to Do Global History Locally
October 05, 2016 10:00German immigrants consistently accounted for the largest number of foreign-born people in Iowa from the 1850s through the 1970s. While today we focus on recent immigrants from Latin America and Southeast Asia, our state remains deeply impacted by an earlier group of newcomers. This lecture presents the efforts of H. Glenn Penny in teaching his students about Germany, and in turn the Professor learned about Iowa and it's history. Through the Iowa/Germany case study we can see that it is not on...
ICFRC: The Human Face of the Middle East Refugee Crisis
September 29, 2016 10:00Janine di Giovanni, Middle East Editor of Newsweek, contributing editor of Vanity Fair and contributor to The New York Times and The Guardian, is one of Europe's most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called 'established, accomplished brilliance' and she has been cited as 'the finest foreign correspondent of our generation'. She recently became an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University in recognition of her work on viol...
ICFRC: Celebrating the City of Literature
September 21, 2016 10:00Iowa City is the only 'City of Literature' in the United States, and the Iowa City Book Festival will celebrate books and writing by leveraging the unique mix of local resources that helped earn that designation. The oldest creative writing program in the country, and is regarded as the best. With more than forty Pulitzer Prize winners from Iowa City, and featured program partners like the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and International Writing Program, this years' book festival cele...
ICFRC: Everyday Corruption in Russia and Ukraine - Who, Why and With What Consequences?
September 14, 2016 10:00 - 69.5 MBMarina Zaloznaya and William Reisinger have conducted first-of-their-kind surveys that reveal how Russian and Ukrainian citizens interact with a variety of officials and how often corruption plays a part. They will share their findings about which patterns emerge and why they matter politically. Marina Zaloznaya is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Her Research interests include organizational and economic crime, non-democratic governance, and comparative-histori...
ICFRC: Iowa's Award-Winning India Winterim Program
September 07, 2016 10:00The Iowa India Winterim program is an intensive, three-week field-based study-abroad program that provides students with the opportunity to learn from and directly interact with social entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions within India's diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical mosaic. Each course in the program is based in one or several locations throughout India. This program is designed for UI undergraduate students, graduate students, and community m...
ICFRC: Continuity and Change in the Political and Cultural Life of a Small West African Country
September 01, 2016 10:00The Iowa City Foreign Relations Council presents an expert in the field of African art, Professor Christopher Roy. In his myriad of adventures throughout the past 45 years in Burkina Faso, he has observed a multitude of changes in the cultural life of the Burkina. Professor Roy will lead a discussion on how the Burkina culture reacted to bloodshed, change of governance and development. Christopher Roy has been teaching about art and life in Africa at the University of Iowa for 38 years. He a...
ICFRC: Chinese Political Culture and Authoritarian Regime Resiliency
August 23, 2016 10:00Traditionalism. Communism. Liberalism. All these values and more are evident in current Chinese political culture, but with the coming of China's political modernization or lack thereof the cohesion of these ideologies will forever change the future of China and her global influence. ICFRC presents a master of the Chinese political landscape, UI Professor Wenfang Tang, who will address the current trends, existing government and future predictions. Wenfang Tang is Stanley Hua Hsia Professo...
IC Foreign Relations Council Presents: Fulbright Student Awardees Discuss Their Assignments
July 20, 2016 10:00 - 13.4 MB application/octet-streamThe Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 360,000 participants-chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. Fourteen University of Iowa students were awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to conduct research, attend graduate school, ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: China's Emerging Influence in Africa
July 12, 2016 10:00 - 12.8 MB application/octet-streamThe U.S. State Department's Mandela Washington Fellowship, started in 2014 as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative created by President Obama, empowers young people from Sub-Saharan Africa through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. This year the Fellowship is providing 1,000 young ambassadors with the opportunity to hone their skills at U.S. higher education institutions. The Iowa delegation of Fellows will spend six weeks in Iowa taking entrepreneurial classes ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: U.S.-China Cyber Agreement: Is It Enough of a Good Thing?
May 11, 2016 10:00 - 17.2 MB application/octet-streamAdam Bobrow is the President, CEO and Founder of Resilience Strategies, a strategic consultancy based in Maryland. Foresight provides advice to clients on the impact of government policy decisions and strategic decisions, particularly cyber-enabled enhancements to their products and services. Adam was recognized for his cybersecurity expertise as a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Adam served the Obama Administration in a variety o...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: The Role of National Oil Companies in the South China Sea
May 03, 2016 10:00 - 15.2 MB application/octet-streamJeffrey Ding was born in Shanghai, China and raised in Iowa City since age three. Jeffrey is a UI Senior majoring in Political Science, Economics and Chinese. Jeffrey is the recipient of several prestigious academic awards including the Truman and Udall Scholarships, a Boren Scholar, and this fall he will begin two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Oftentimes, when American observers view Chinese foreign policy, the message from Beijing is interpreted as homogeneous - in line ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Preserving the Magic and Poetry of Havana: A Delicate Dance
April 26, 2016 10:00 - 18.7 MB application/octet-streamJoan Kjaer directs the Communications and Relations unit of the International Programs at the University of Iowa. She exercises strategic oversight and daily management of all facets of internal and external communications for the International Programs, international alumni relations, event management, and media engagement. Kjaer is the creator and host of the monthly television/ radio/ internet program World Canvas, which features interdisciplinary discussions of international topics. Bef...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Milestone Breakthroughs in the Fight Against AIDS in South Africa
April 19, 2016 10:00 - 18.6 MB application/octet-streamTheodore Powers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa and Research Associate with the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on the politics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in post-apartheid South Africa. The aim of this work is to better understand the relationship between pathogens and social change in the contemporary phase of global integration. The South African HIV/AIDS epidemic is the world's largest in both a...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Iowa, Heroin, and Afghanistan
April 13, 2016 10:00 - 15.3 MB application/octet-streamThis presentation will focus on the connection between U.S. counter-narcotics policy, the deteriorating rule of law situation in Afghanistan, and Iowa's surge in opioid and heroin abuse. Ron McMullen, currently the University of Iowa's Ambassador-in Residence, served as U.S. Ambassador to the State of Eritrea. Ron has over 30 years of diplomatic experience and has lived, worked, or traveled in 98 countries. In Burma he worked closely with Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-demo...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: ZIKV, CHIKV, and Dengue: The Viral Gifts of the Tiger Mosquito
April 07, 2016 10:00 - 14.4 MB application/octet-streamDr. Hans House is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa. He attended medical school at the University of Southern California, and completed a dual residency in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at UCLA. He has a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine. He has published several articles on travel-related infections and regularly speaks about travel related diseases and emerging infectious diseases. D...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Rural Water Sustainability: Good Intentions Revisited
March 29, 2016 10:00 - 21.1 MB application/octet-streamIn April 2009, Dr. Craig Just addressed the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council with his talk titled To Hell With Good Intentions?: Reflections on the Consequences of 'Saving the World'. Since then, Dr. Just has continued his work in developing countries, focused mostly on sustainable water resources development projects. But, increasingly, the issues faced by communities in developing countries parallel the challenges rural communities face in developed countries like the United States. In ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: The Role of Physicians in Combatting the Aftermath of Mass Rapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
March 22, 2016 10:00 - 16.3 MB application/octet-streamKatherine Ryken is a third year medical student in the Carver College of Medicine with plans to pursue a residency in obstetrics and gynecology, with a focus on global health and human rights. Katie was a Fulbright Scholar to Bosnia-Herzegovina for the 2014-2015 academic year, pursuing research in post-traumatic injury and working at primary care clinics serving survivors of sexual violence during the war. She is also a certified member of Physicians for Human Rights' Asylum Network, and co...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Foreign Policy and Role of the Public
March 10, 2016 10:00 - 19.7 MB application/octet-streamNicholas Martini is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa in 2012. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations and political behavior. His current research explores the factors driving public opinion (e.g., ideology, beliefs, and religion) and how they shape preferences around foreign policy issues. He has published articles in the Political Research Quarterly, F...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: We Are One Kenya: Representations of the Nation, Leadership and Identity on Reality TV
March 03, 2016 10:00 - 33.5 MB application/octet-streamMelissa Tully studies digital media technologies, international communication with a focus on media in developing countries, and philanthropy and nonprofit communication. Tully has conducted research in Kenya, Ghana, and Burundi. Generally, her research focuses on the use of digital media by a variety of actors in civil society. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her presentation will focus on Uongozi, a massive multimodal civic education campaign in Kenya that culm...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Moldova's Legacies for its Children and Families
February 23, 2016 10:00 - 68.4 MB application/octet-streamVictoria Morozov is the founder of The Moldova Project, a charitable trust organization that reaches out to Moldova's most underprivileged and abused youth and offers resources and opportunity. A fierce advocate for the poor, Morozov has devoted her life to advocacy and serves as liaison to a number of United Kingdom-based groups, helping to identify sustainable initiatives for The Moldova Project and creating partnerships with local authorities and government ministries. Throughout the cou...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: The Need for International Exposure to Human Rights Abuses in Saudi Arabia
February 16, 2016 10:00 - 64.1 MB application/octet-streamAbdulaziz bin Mohammed Al-Hussan is a lawyer and reformist born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In late 2011, following the Arab Spring, Al-Hussan began to represent the cases of political detainees and speak out against government injustice via Twitter. After threat of travel ban and imprisonment, Al-Hussan moved to the United States to study law and provide a voice for those who remain voiceless in the Kingdom. Al-Hussan has been a scholar in the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana Law...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: The Global Humanitarian Movement to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
February 10, 2016 10:00 - 55.9 MB application/octet-streamDr. Maureen 'Micki' McCue has traveled, consulted, and worked extensively around the world as a physician, researcher, and peace maker. She served as physician to 500 US and Soviet Citizen Diplomats during the cold war walking from Leningrad to Moscow in the former Soviet Union. Her PhD research included working with leading medical professionals and former female combatants during the Sandanista Revolution in Nicaragua. In 2005 she met and subsequently interviewed for an award winning fil...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Cervical Cancer in Morocco
February 03, 2016 10:00 - 54.5 MB application/octet-streamCarol Moss is a Research Associate in the UI Department of Family Medicine and a recent graduate of the UI College of Public Health (MS, Epidemiology) with a Graduate Certificate in Global Health Studies. She is interested in alternative cervical cancer screening strategies in low resource settings, primarily in the countries of Guatemala, Cuba and Morocco. She received a UI Global Health Studies Travel Award in 2015 to conduct work in Morocco where she has established ties over the past t...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Interstate River Conflicts and Intrastate Violence
January 27, 2016 10:00 - 62.5 MB application/octet-streamSara McLaughlin Mitchell is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science at Michigan State University in 1997 and her B.S degree in Economics and Political Science at Iowa State University in 1991. An accomplished author, Mitchell has published many books on global conflict and resolution, and has been the recipient of several major research awards from the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, a...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: The Reunification of East and West Germany
December 09, 2015 10:00 - 69.6 MB application/octet-streamJanice G. Weiner was a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service for nearly 26 years. She then worked for two years as professional issues and policy adviser for the American Foreign Service Association. Her first Foreign Service assignment was to the then - U.S. Embassy to the GDR where, from April 1988-June 1990, she served as a political/economic officer during a momentous period in modern German history, spanning the period of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the GDR's only free elections...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: International Systems Building on Child Protection
December 01, 2015 10:00 - 66.3 MB application/octet-streamThis presentation will summarize the collaboration between the U of I Child Protection Program leadership and numerous universities in Turkey, multiple ministries including the Ministries of Health, Justice, Education, Interior, and Social Services, and non-governmental organizations. The positive outcomes in systems building for child protection in Turkey have been expanded to other countries including Portugal, Greece, Pakistan, and Colombia. All these efforts have been supported by the U o...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Tippie's International Buddy Program
November 18, 2015 10:00 - 42.7 MB application/octet-streamIn 2014, the Tippie College of Business was home to 498 international students, with a further 691 declared as pre-business majors. Together, these students constitute around 22% of the business and pre-business population at the University of Iowa. The rise in international student enrollment at the College of Business has been dramatic, with just 55 international students enrolled in 2007. The significant international student presence in the College creates extraordinary opportunities ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Strengthening Public Health in Bangladesh
November 11, 2015 10:00 - 55.5 MB application/octet-streamRebecca Arnold is a global health professional specializing in health communication and behavior change. She works for Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs and has been based in Dhaka, Bangladesh since 2012. Currently, she is the Director of BKMI, a USAID-funded project that provides capacity strengthening and technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Bangladesh. Rebecca previously led a global health consulting business, worked in Tanzania for...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Applying Political Science of Afghanistan Operations
November 04, 2015 10:00 - 66.6 MB application/octet-streamIn this presentation, Lieutenant Colonel James Fielder, USAF discusses how he applied two political science models to respectively improve Afghan Air Force communications and to forecast the 2014 Afghan Presidential election outcome, the latter which drove force protection decisions for fellow Airmen stationed in Kabul. In addition to a personal account of using scientific in a combat environment, his presentation also touches on debates surrounding positive and normative science. Lieutenan...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Islamic Fighters - Secular Histories and Divisions
October 28, 2015 10:00 - 411 KB application/pdfThe organization known today simply as the 'Islamic State' has historical and ideological roots that go beyond the territories it now controls. These deep roots give ISIL confidence that it will succeed but give others reason that it will fail. Mixing a puritan religious and political discourse, ISIL managed to dominate all other armed opposition groups in conflict zones (Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya) and has inspired individuals in many other countries (Pakistan, France, Kuwait, ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: The Challenge of Our Century - Climate Change
October 20, 2015 10:00 - 62.5 MB application/octet-streamClimate change is one of the most complex challenges of our time and there is no answer yet in sight for solving the global commons dilemma before it is too late, now with the critique that the formal international negotiation process reached a grid lock, a new approach is sought at the next Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015. This approach allows states to submit their intended Nationally Determined Contributions rather than ...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Creating and Nourishing Community Through Poetry and Food
October 14, 2015 10:00 - 48.8 MB application/octet-streamFood literacy is a growing concern for industrialized nations such as Canada and the U.S. Today's children are the first generation whose life expectancy is less than that of their parents. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, sugary drinks such as soda 'are the top calorie source in teens' diets,' followed by pizza. In Vancouver, a new citywide project is inviting writers of all stripes-new immigrants, students, and seniors-to focus their artistic attentions on their favorite...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Rainwater Harvesting in South India
October 08, 2015 10:00 - 19.2 MB application/octet-streamRainwater harvesting, a 'soft path' approach towards water management, is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for combating food insecurity and water scarcity. This presentation uses South India as a case study to explore the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of rainwater harvesting systems for smallholder agriculture. Eric Tate's research team has evaluated the viability of centuries-old rainwater harvesting tanks under current climate and population pressures, culminati...
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: Out of the Big Muddy, Back to Moral High Ground?
September 29, 2015 10:00 - 63.7 MB application/octet-streamRay McGovern was an Army officer in the early 60s, then a CIA analyst from the administration of John Kennedy to that of George H.W. Bush. Ray prepared the President's Daily Brief for Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and also chaired National Intelligence Estimates. In March 2006, in protest against CIA torture, Ray returned the Intelligence Commendation Medallion awarded to him at retirement. In January 2003, he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and began commenting publicl...