Schedule and Speakers

Wednesday, January 16

The Last Mountain

The impact of mountain-top removal mining on the people and environment of Appalachia

Speaker:

Lou Martin, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Political Science, and International Studies, Chatham University

Click here for a copy of Professor Martin's comments. 

Thursday, January 24

Genocide: Worse Than War

A "panorama of modern atrocities," focusing on the Holocaust, the Soviet gulags, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and Hiroshima

Speaker:

Elochukwu Uzukwu , Th. D.
Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Duquesne University

Tuesday, January 29

Saving Face  and  Killing Us Softly 4

The horror of acid attacks on women in Pakistan--and a sober look at how America's obsession with youth and beauty contributes to the physical and mental abuse of women in our own society

Speaker:

Elisabeth T. Vasko
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, Duquesne University

Monday, February 4

The Invisible War

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of women soldiers within the US military

Speakers:

Holly A. Mayer, Ph. D.
Chair, Associate Professor, Department of History, Duquesne University

Moni McIntyre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy, Duquesne University

Wednesday, February 13

Nuclear Aftershocks

An investigation of the 2011 accident at Fukushima, and its impact on the future of the US and worldwide nuclear industry

Speaker:

Evelyn O. Talbott, Dr. P.H., M.P.H.
Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health

Thursday, February 21

Poetry of Resilience

Six international poets who survived Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan genocide, and the Iranian Revolution.

Special Speaker:

Samuel Hazo, McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus, will read selections of his poetry