UMD EVENTS:
CISSM Forum/Development Circle –
Syria: The Assad-ISIS Nexus
WHEN: Thursday, December 3
(12:00-1:15pm)
WHERE: 1203 Van Munching
Hall
DESCRIPTION: Andrea Taylor
is associate director for Syria and communications manager for the Rafik Hariri
Center for the Middle East, where she provides programmatic and research
support to the Levant program and media relations support to the Hariri Center.
Taylor served as an army engineer officer, earning her Project Management
Professional certification while managing construction and training projects
across the United States and Kuwait. In her most recent position, she
coordinated and resourced culturally-realistic training exercises for deploying
National Guard and Reserve soldiers. She studied sociology and Middle Eastern
studies at the United States Military Academy at West Point. While there, she
studied abroad at the American University in Cairo and conducted a qualitative
research project at the Texas A&M University in Qatar.
LINK: http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forumdevelopment-circle-us-policy-options-syria
Diverse Terps Abroad:
Student Panel and Discussion
WHEN: Thursday,
December 3 (4:30-6:00pm)
WHERE: Grand
Ballroom Lounge, Stamp Student Union
DESCRIPTION: Education
Abroad is hosting a panel with study abroad returnees who will share how their
unique experiences around race, first generation status, sexual orientation,
and disability influenced their time abroad. There will also be an interactive
discussion following the panel to allow attendees the chance to reflect on
their own identities in an international context.
TERP Climate: A Student Climate
Change Discussion
WHEN: Thursday, December 3
(7:00-9:00pm)
WHERE: Computer and Space
Sciences, Room 2400
DESCRIPTION: Want to share
your perspective on climate change or learn about our changing planet? Come out
for FREE FOOD and a student run discussion at CSS2400 from 7-9 pm on December
3rd.
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/TERPclimate/
WORLDWISE: Arts and Humanities Dean's Lecture Series Angelique Kidjo: In Conversation with Sheri Parks
WHEN: Friday, December 4 (5:30-7:00pm)
WHERE: Gildenhorn Recital Hall, The Clarice
DESCRIPTION: The “undisputed queen of African music,” Angélique Kidjo is a musical superstar who uses her acclaimed songs to speak to the lives of African women.
In conversation with Sheri Parks, Kidjo, whom Time Magazine called “Africa’s premier diva,” will discuss her world activism in and out of the media spotlight and her life — from Benin to Paris to Brooklyn.
LINK/RSVP: https://www.arhu.umd.edu/events/worldwise-arts-and-humanities-deans-lecture-series-ang%C3%A9lique-kidjo-conversation-sheri-parks
WORLDWISE: Arts and Humanities Dean's Lecture Series Angelique Kidjo: In Conversation with Sheri Parks
WHEN: Friday, December 4 (5:30-7:00pm)
WHERE: Gildenhorn Recital Hall, The Clarice
DESCRIPTION: The “undisputed queen of African music,” Angélique Kidjo is a musical superstar who uses her acclaimed songs to speak to the lives of African women.
In conversation with Sheri Parks, Kidjo, whom Time Magazine called “Africa’s premier diva,” will discuss her world activism in and out of the media spotlight and her life — from Benin to Paris to Brooklyn.
LINK/RSVP: https://www.arhu.umd.edu/events/worldwise-arts-and-humanities-deans-lecture-series-ang%C3%A9lique-kidjo-conversation-sheri-parks
OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS:
Seminar: The Global Water Grab
Syndrome
WHEN: Tuesday, December 1
(11:00am)
WHERE: National Socio-Environmental
Synthesis Center (SESYNC); 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401
DESCRIPTION: At SESYNC,
Jampel conducts research on the institutional drivers and governance conditions
of virtual freshwater appropriation associated with global land grabbing and
water grabbing. Prior to joining SESYNC, Jampel was a Postdoctoral Research
Associate at The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and
Policy Analysis at Indiana University. At the Ostrom Workshop, he coordinated
the social science team on the Kenyan site of an inter-university,
interdisciplinary research project on water governance and adaptation to
climate change in rural Kenya and United States. He received his dual PhD in
December 2013 in Environmental Science and Technology from the Autonomous
University of Barcelona and in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development
from Sapienza University of Rome. He holds a MS in Environment and Development
from the London School of Economics and in Energy and Environmental Management
from Sapienza University of Rome. Jampel earned his BS in environmental
economics from The University of Siena in Tuscany. Jampel has a passion for
video making and, when possible, complements his research in the field with
documentary production.
Advancing Regenerative Cellular
Therapies for Americans
WHEN: Wednesday, December 2
(9:00-10:30am)
WHERE: Hart Senate Office
Building, Room 216
DESCRIPTION: Recent scientific advances in the field of regenerative cellular therapies have the potential to benefit many patient needs, including applications in cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and organ transplantation. However, significant regulatory challenges must be overcome if we are to fulfill the promise that cellular therapy holds for overcoming illness and injury.
DESCRIPTION: Recent scientific advances in the field of regenerative cellular therapies have the potential to benefit many patient needs, including applications in cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and organ transplantation. However, significant regulatory challenges must be overcome if we are to fulfill the promise that cellular therapy holds for overcoming illness and injury.
Join the Bipartisan Policy Center at the Hart Senate Office Building as
it releases recommendations on ways the United States can accelerate the
availability of safe and effective cellular therapies to Americans and improve
U.S. competitiveness. We will also hear insights from scientific experts
leading groundbreaking research in the field.
State of World Population 2015 –
Shelter from the Storm: A transformative agenda for women and girls in a
crisis-prone world
WHEN: Thursday, December 3
(10:00am-12:00pm)
WHERE: Woodrow Wilson
Center, 6th Floor
DESCRIPTION: More than 100
million people are in need of
humanitarian assistance—more than at any time since the end of the Second World
War. Among those displaced by conflict or uprooted by disaster are an estimated
26 million women and adolescent girls in their childbearing years. The State of
World Population 2015 is a call to action to meet their needs and protect their
rights.
The surfeit of crisis and upheaval around the world today demands
better economic and social development, better humanitarian action, better risk
management, better attention to prevention, preparedness and resilience, and
better connections among all of these. And running through them is a common
thread: gender and all other forms of equality, achieved in part through full
realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights, which will lead to
far less vulnerability and much greater resilience for individuals and
societies as a whole. Join us for this critical look at the investments and
actions needed to build girls’ and women’s agency and the resilience of
communities and nations in the face of global crises.
LINK/RSVP: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-world-population-2015-shelter-the-storm-transformative-agenda-for-women-and-girls-crisis
What Americans (especially evangelicals) think about Israel and the Middle East: New Poll Release and Discussion
WHEN: Friday, December 4 (10:00-11:30am)
WHERE: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
DESCRIPTION: As the United States gears up for the 2016 presidential race, Americans seem increasingly polarized on issues related to the Middle East, including whether and how to resolve perceived tensions between Israel and the United States. Republican candidates profess support for Israel at almost every opportunity, seeking to capitalize on an apparent partisan gap in support for Israel among the American public. The Israeli prime minister seemingly played into this gap in his fierce opposition to President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal earlier this year. His visit to Washington in November was largely an attempt to overcome this partisan legacy. What is driving these political cleavages, and how are they evolving as the presidential campaign heats up?
On December 4, the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings will launch a new public opinion poll by Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor at the University of Maryland and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings, focusing on American attitudes towards the Middle East. Based on a national sample, the poll also includes a substantial sample of Evangelical Christians—enabling an expansive analysis of this increasingly important segment of the American electorate.
Telhami will be joined in discussion by Washington Post Reporter Michelle Boorstein and POLITICO Editor Susan Glasser. Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow and director of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, will provide introductory remarks and moderate the panel. Following the discussion, the panelists will take audience questions.
LINK/RSVP: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2015/12/04-public-opinion-israel-middle-east-telhami
