Monday, March 30, 2015

Meet the Author of The Woman Who Read Too Much: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

When: Thursday, April 2, 7:00-9:00pm
Where: Bioscience Research Building, Room 1101
RSVPhttp://www.bahaichair.umd.edu/events/nakhjavani
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33709
Description: Plots. Political intrigue. Treachery. The high-handed actions of omnipotent rulers. Death by decree. That’s the world that Bahiyyih Nakhjavani plunges readers into with The Woman Who Read Too Much: Persia in the mid-nineteenth century, a society that clings to the old ways even as the world around it is rapidly transforming. When a female poet, a historical figure who was also a theologian and revolutionary, dares to reject the veil and begin agitating for female literacy, her campaign shakes the very foundations of Persian society.

College of Education's Student Research Symposium

When: Thursday, April 2, 1:00-4:00pm
Where: 0220 Benjamin
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33791
Description: Join us at the College of Education's Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 2 from 1 -4 pm. Students interested in education are encouraged to attend the event and submit an education-related poster proposal online at http://ter.ps/8ey by March 26, 2015.

Developing Your Personal Brand Workshop

When: Thursday, April 2, 5:00-6:00pm
Where: 3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing
RSVPhttp://ucc.umd.edu/events_RSVP.cfm?event_id=5431
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33811
Description: How do employers see you? Come learn from our Peer Career Educators how to develop your personal brand through creating your 30 second elevator pitch, online presence, and professional dress. You will learn all the tools to impress employers and network successfully!

Myth Making and Memorialization: World War I Memorial Sculpture in the United States

When:Wednesday, April 1, 4:00-6:00
Where: 2110 Taliaferro Hall 
RSVP: Email millercenter@umd.edu
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33818
Description: The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to an afternoon lecture with Professor Jennifer Wingate (St. Francis) on Myth Making and Memorialization: World War I Memorial Sculpture in the United States Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 at 4 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110 Light refreshments will be served.

Defining Imperial Spaces: How South America became a Contested Territory

When: Monday, March 30, 4:00pm
Where: 2110 Taliaferro
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33802
Description: The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to an afternoon lecture with Professor Tamar Herzog (Harvard) on Defining Imperial Spaces: How South America became a Contested Territory

All About Photoshop

When: Monday March 30, 4:00-5:00pm
Where: 3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing
Description: Bring your computer. Beginner and advanced lab sessions on Photoshop. 

CISSM Forum/Development Circle - Cyber Disruption: Private Problem and Public Policy Concern

WhenThursday, April 2 12-1:15 p.m.
Where: 1203 VMH
Link: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forumdevelopment-circle-cyber-disruption-private-problem-and-public-policy-concer
DescriptionPresented by Charles Harry, Vice President for Cyber and Analytic Solutions at Blackpoint Technologies, LLC

Careers in Sustainability Forum

When: Wednesday, April 1, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where: University Career Center, 3100 Hornbake Library
RSVP: http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_RSVP.cfm?event_id=5425
Linkhttp://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/careers-sustainability-forum
Description: Interested in a career in sustainability, but you don’t know how to get started? Torn between law school, being an activist, or starting your own business? These questions, and others, are ones many passionate people constantly ask themselves, all trying to figure out the right path to take where our talents can be utilized to make the biggest impact on sustaining our communities and the planet. As sustainability becomes an even more important topic in businesses, nonprofits, and the government, it’s important to know how to strategically build up your experiences and skills to land your dream job.

Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security

WhenTuesday, March 31, 12-1:15 p.m. 
Where: 1203 VMH
Linkhttp://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/research-seminar-3
DescriptionPresented by Janine Wedel, Professor of Policy and International Affairs at George Mason University School of Government

Monday, March 23, 2015

The Israeli Elections: Their Meaning and Consequences

When: Tuesday, March 24, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Where: Room 6137, McKeldin Library 
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33750
Description: This week's Israeli elections had some unexpected results. What do they mean for Israel's future? Experts will discuss the impact of the results on domestic and international issues. Participants: Yoram Peri, Kay Chair in Israel Studies and Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies Shlomo Brom, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, and Visiting Fellow, National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress Moderator - Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, Director, Arab-Israeli Programs, US Institute of Peace

Iranian Women Writers: A Moderating and Modernizing Force

When: Wednesday, March 25, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Where: Atrium, Stamp
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33233
RSVPhttp://bahai.umd.edu/events/milani2015
Description: Join Farzaneh Milani as she presents on Iranian Women Writers: A Moderating and Modernizing Force. Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. Nelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and former Director of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. She is a past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies in America and a Carnegie Fellow. Milani has published several books including ‘Words, not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement’, over one hundred articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwords in Persian and English.

Shlomi Eldar - The Hamas Movement at a Crossroad: The Struggle between the Miliary and Political Wings

When: Thursday, March 26, 4:00-5:30pm
Where: START Headquarters, 8400 Baltimore Avenue Suite 250 
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33659
Description: On Thursday, March 26 at 4 p.m., journalist, author and filmmaker Shlomi Eldar will speak at START headquarters at the University of Maryland. Eldar's speech will cover the strengthening of the Gaza blockade by Egypt after Operation Protective Edge and the survival tactics and political priorities of Hamas. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Jamie Fader-Inside and Out: Reentry and "Reform" of Incarcerated Urban Youth

When: Thursday, March 26, 12:00-1:30pm
Where: Maryland Room in Stamp
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33707
Description: Based on over three years of ethnographic research with Black and Latino males on the cusp of adulthood and incarcerated at a rural reform school designed to address “criminal thinking errors” among juvenile drug offenders; Jamie Fader explores the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives? Dr. Fader’s primary research interests are in urban social inequality and crime; juvenile justice; corrections; desistance and prisoner reentry; life course sociology and criminology, especially the transition to adulthood; and qualitative research methods. She teaches in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

How to Pursue International Careers

When: Thursday, March 26, 10:30am-12:00pm
Where: 2407 Marie Mount Hall
RSVP: email ljusie1@umd.edu by Wednesday March 25, at noon 
Description: Free brunch and Q&A with UMD alumna Rebecca Zorn, now Project Officer with the International Organization for Migration. Her previous work includes such organizations as USAID, UNICEF, and the United Nations Development Program. She wants to reach out to UMD students to encourage them to pursue international opportunities-before she heads off to Laos for her new position! At UMD Becky majored in International Relations through the Individual Studies Program (IVSP). This event is co-hosted by both IVSP and Global Semester in Washington, D.C.

Youth, Gender, and Social Change in the Middle East

When: Saturday, March 28, 9:00 am– 3:30 pm
Where: Georgetown University, CCAS Boardoom (Intercultural Center 241/141)
Link: http://ccas.georgetown.edu/youth-gender
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1C23GYLmBQVW0rjdSXFjpml3vkRDe2OjKVZyP2qp8Thg/viewform?c=0&w=1
DescriptionCome to the workshop "Youth, Gender, and Social Change in the Middle East," co-sponsored by CCAS, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, in the public lecture and education outreach series Islam and Anthropology. The speakers are active researchers in the region who talk with people from all walks of life. Their presentations will give you insights into trends on and under the surface, and give you and your students perspectives that move beyond the drumbeat of standard news reporting and analysis.

CISSM Forum/Development Circle - Can India Balance Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability?

When: Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Where: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forumdevelopment-circle-can-india-balance-economic-development-and-environmental

Policy Forum - Choosing the Least Bad Option for Marijuana Legalization

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Where: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/policy-forum-14
Description: Marijuana legalization in the US has been promoted under the slogan "regulate like alcohol", harldy an inspiring message, given the manifest failings of alcohol regulation. This study examines the full range of legalization options or marijuana, which is much larget than prohibition or commercial distribution

Monday, March 9, 2015

Women's Religious Leadership: Panel Discussion

When: Thursday, March 12, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Where: Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33617
RSVP: jenolson@umd.edu
Description: The role of women within religion has often been a controversial one. Hear women from our campus community representing a range of faiths reflect on their experiences as female leaders within their religious traditions followed by Q&A and discussion. Panelists will include members of United Campus Ministries, the Hindu Chaplaincy and Maryland Hillel. Bring your own lunch.

Beyond the Classroom presents the award-winning documentary “THE SQUARE”

When: Monday, March 9, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Where: 1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33666
Description: “We go to the square to discover that we love life outside it, and to discover that our love for life is resistance.” What does it mean to risk your life for your ideals? How far will five revolutionaries go to fight for the future of their country? The Square is an immersive experience, transporting the viewer deeply into the intense emotional drama and personal stories behind the news. It is the inspirational story of young people claiming their rights, struggling through multiple forces, in the fight to create a society of conscience.

Remembering Japan’s 2011 Triple Disaster: A free public screening of the documentary film Tohoku Tomo

When: Wednesday, March 11, 5:30PM-7:30PM
Where: Tydings Hall, Room 1101
Description: Iintroduction and Q&A by Professor Michele Mason, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

#PolicyMatters: Race, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy

WhenThursday, March 12, 7-9 p.m.
Where1212 VMH
Linkhttp://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/policymatters-race-criminal-justice-and-public-policy
Description: Come join us to address the racial issues that plague our society and the complex policies that enable them to continue.  Hear from a diverse panel that brings different perspectives, experiences, and tools you can use to make and demand change. Please bring your questions!

CISSM Forum/Development Circle - Governing to Deliver: Reinventing the Center of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean

WhenThursday, March 12, 12-1:15 p.m
Where1203 VMH
Linkhttp://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/development-circle-governing-deliver-reinventing-center-government-latin-america-and
DescriptionPresented by Carlos Santiso, Division Chief for the Institutional Capacity of the State Division of the Inter-American Development Bank; and Mariano Lafuente, Senior Specialist in Public Management at the Inter-American Development Bank

Policy Forum - Single Parenthood in the U.S.: A Critical, But Little Noticed Factor in Inequality and Mobility

WhenTuesday, March 10, 12-1:15 p.m
Where1203 VMH
Linkhttp://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/policy-forum-11
Description: Professor Robert Lerman is the Urban Institute's first institute fellow in labor and social policy.

The Experience of a Proud & Unafraid Undocumented Woman

When: Thursday, March 12th, 6:30pm
Where: Hoff Theater, Stamp Student Union
Description: The experience of a proud and unafraid undocumented woman: a discussion of her experiences. 

Monday, March 2, 2015

Beyond the Classroom Presents: Just Kids! Formerly Incarcerated Youth Organizing to Keep Kids Out of the Adult Criminal Justice System

When: Tuesday, March 3, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Where: 1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33618
Description: Just Kids Maryland is committed to reducing the number of youth who are charged and tried as adults, advocating for policies that transfer fewer youth to the adult criminal justice system, and increasing the number of safe and community-based programs and practices that serve youth who are accused of serious offenses. And they do this by empowering youth who have been impacted by the criminal justice system to speak for themselves. Join us on Tuesday, March 3rd, as we watch a short documentary about the incredible work of the Just Kids Partnership and speak directly with formerly incarcerated youth organizers

Sadat Forum: The Iran Nuclear Issue—Current State of Play

When: Tuesday, March 3, 3:30pm
Where: Colony Ballroom, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uFy3P3zztOKbBljaOD2d2_fCI6G2UOSrPjh9vIy-A-E/viewform
Linkhttp://bsos.umd.edu/event/sadat-forum-nuclear-issue
Description: At the event, Dr. Telhami and his co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Steven Kull, will release results from their groundbreaking new poll on American Public Policy toward Iran. This poll is co-sponsored by the Sadat Chair and the Program for Public Consultation. Panelists will discuss the results of the poll and related implications on the policy world, as well as numerous timely topics centered on Iran.

Beyond the Classroom presents "Pink Ribbons, Inc."

When: Monday, March 2, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Where: 1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1
Linkhttp://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33611
Description: The ubiquitous pink ribbons of breast cancer philanthropy - and the hand-in-hand marketing of brands and products associated with that philanthropy — permeates our culture, providing assurance that we are engaged in a successful battle against this insidious disease. But the campaign obscures the reality and facts of breast cancer – more and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and face the same treatment options they did 40 years ago. Yet women are also the most influential market group, buying 80 percent of consumer products and making most major household purchasing decisions. So then who really benefits from the pink ribbon campaigns — the cause or the company? And what if the very companies and products that profit from their association have actually contributed to the problem? In showing the real story of breast cancer and the lives of those who fight it, Pink Ribbons, Inc. reveals the co-opting of what marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause."

Making a Good Impression: Etiquette Eating Before, During, and After

When: Thursday, March 5, 3:30pm-7:30pm
Where: Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center 

CISSM Forum/Development Circle - Global Internet Governance

When: Thursday, March 5, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Where: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Linkhttp://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forum-global-internet-governance
Description: Tim Maurer focuses on cyberspace and international affairs at New America. His current projects center on cyberwarfare and the global cyber-security norms process, transatlantic cooperation on security and freedom in the digital age, Internet Freedom especially in the context of U.S. sanctions and export controls, and research on swing states in the international Internet governance debate.

Schelling Lecture: Phishing for Phools

When: Tuesday, March 3, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Where: School of Public Policy Atrium, Van Munching Hall
Link: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/shelling-lecture-phishing-phools
Description: Dr. George Akerlof, Professor at Georgetown University and Nobel Laureate in Economics, will give a lecture on the topic of “Phishing for Phools” as the second annual Schelling Lecture.