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Welcome to Our Moment's first ever weekly broadcast
email! Part of Our Moment's mission is to connect students
interested in international development with one another and with all
of the exciting events on campus and in the DC area. Each
Wednesday, we will be sending you information about exciting speakers,
events, and conferences. If your organization has an
upcoming event or you know of something happening in the area, we would
like to include it our email. Just send the information to
OurMom...@gmail.com by Tuesday at NOON for it to be included in the
following Wednesday's email.
Enjoy!
Table of Contents
On Campus
The Center for Environment presents,
"Understanding Wetland Formation & Ancient Maya Wetland Management", Dr. Tim Beach, Associate Professor of Geography and Geosciences, Georgetown University.
Wednesday, November 8th, 4-6 pm
McGhee Library, ICC 301
RSVP to kl...@georgetown.edu.
This lecture considers three great questions that are central to environmental history, archaeology, ecology, sustainable development, and earth science: Subsistence, or how do humans sustain themselves from the earth? Earth formation, or how and when did the earth surface develop? Ancient Maya subsistence: or how did the ancient Maya sustain themselves with high populations for a millennium in a region that today supports a small fraction of those former populations?
Shashwati Talukdar "Acting Like a Thief"
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 6-8 pm
New North 311
Contact: schw...@georgetown.edu
Filmmaker Shashwati Talukdar, Director/Producer has an MFA in Film and Video Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia (1999). She has worked professionally with Michael Moore, HBO, BBC, Lifetime, Sundance and Cablevision, and has also directed over a dozen independent films and videos. Screenings and awards include the Margaret Mead Festival, the Whitney Biennial, Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki, Amnesty International and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Shashwati's latest documentary, /Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar/, explores how theatre has transformed the lives of nomadic "criminal tribes" in India. Classified as "born criminals" by colonial authorities in 1871, and forcibly settled in a labor camp, the people of Chharanagar fight daily against prejudice and racial profiling. We will screen the trailer and discuss the issues.
www.Shashwati.com
www.Hoochandhamlet.com
AFRICAN SOCIETY FALL HARVEST WEEK
African Society Presents: Fall Harvest Week 2006
November 6-11, 2006
Nourishing your heart, mind, eyes, and belly!
Events Include:
Georgetown Students for Fair Trade Presents: Fair Trade 101
Tuesday, November 14, 8pm - 9:30pm
ICC, Room TBA (e-mail fairtr...@gmail.com for more info)
Discussion about basics of fair trade; bring questions and eat fair trade samples
Students Stopping Trafficking of People (SSTOP)
Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 8pm
WGR 213
Come to SSTOP's next meeting. They will be giving out information about elections for the SSTOP Board.
The Center for Environment presents,
"Sea-level change in North America: A post-Katrina assessment", Dr. Ben Horton, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Thursday, November 16th 4– 6pm
McGhee Library
RSVP to kl...@georgetown.edu.
UNICEF's Fourth Annual International Development Dinner (formerly called World Children's Day Dinner)
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 7:30-9:30
ICC Galleria
RSVP: uni...@georgetown.edu or http://www14.georgetown.edu/explore/calendars/events/?Action=View&CalendarID=270&EventID=43835
Eat dinner at a table with 7-8 other students and 1-2 experts in the field in a specific topic that interests you to ask them the questions you really want to know, exchange contact information, and come up with plans of action.
Topics include:
- Extreme Hunger and Poverty
- Universal Primary Education
- Gender Equality/Empowerment of Women
- Child Mortality
- Maternal Health
- HIV/AIDS, Malaria, other diseases
- Environmental Sustainability
- Global Partnership for Development
- Child labor/Sex Trafficking
- DC Public Schools
- Child Welfare in the US
- Early Childhood Development
- International Health
- Agriculture/Food
- Refugees/Displaced Peoples/Orphans
- Public Policy
- Child Labor/Child Soldiers
- Awareness
- Reproductive Health
- Fair Trade practices/Microcredit Loans
Just One Day
Friday, November 17- Saturday, November 18, 2006
5pm on that Friday to 5pm on Saturday
RSVP: Nick Sementelli, ns...@georgetown.edu
We will have speakers, activities, videos and reflections around the themes of hunger and homelessness as well as volunteer at the Help the Homeless walkathon on the National Mall that Saturday morning. Interested students can sign up at our table in Red Square from 10-3 any day this week or next.
AIDS Coalition Week of World AIDS Day:
November 27-December 1, 2006
Events Include:
OFF CAMPUS
Americans for Informed Democracy Videoconference
November 10, 2006
American University
RSVP: www.globalscholar.org/nov10
Americans for Informed Democracy is going to be hosting a live videoconference on November 10th with students and young professionals in Europe and Latin America to discuss the future of global governance institutions such as the United Nations and International Criminal Court. I have copied below an announcement about this remarkable event. I hope that you can join us for this important event taking place at American University in Washington, D.C. In addition, I would be most grateful if you could share the announcement below with any friends or listservs you think may be interested. If you or others would like to attend, please RSVP by this Thursday at 12:00 p.m. at www.globalscholar.org/nov10.
Second Annual International Youth Volunteerism Summit
February 22-25, 2007
Northwestern University
More information: http://www.iyvs.org
From February 22 through 25th, 2007, Northwestern University will play host to the second annual International Youth Volunteerism Summit. Bringing together big-thinking undergrads, NGO representatives, young social entrepreneurs and academic experts, the Summit will introduce major issues of direct international engagement while building its delegates' capacities to more successfully act as catalysts of sustainable progress. Keynote speakers and panel discussions introduce delegates to overarching issues faced by international volunteers, while practical workshops build particular skills sets like grant writing and business planning necessary to international organizational planning. Students apply the lessons directly to project proposals of their creation, and are invited to submit them for funding consideration to the Summit after the culmination of the weekend.
DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEWS
"Africa's World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old's Eyes"
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Published: October 29, 2006
New York Times
"KETE KRACHI, Ghana — Just before 5 a.m., with the sky still dark over Lake Volta, Mark Kwadwo was rousted from his spot on the damp dirt floor. It was time for work."more...
Enjoy!
Table of Contents
On Campus
- Understanding Wetland Formation & Ancient Maya Wetland Management
- Shashwati Talukdar "Acting Like a Thief"
- AFRICAN SOCIETY FALL HARVEST WEEK
- Students Stopping Trafficking of People (SSTOP)
- Sea-level change in North America: A post-Katrina assessment
- UNICEF's Fourth Annual International Development Dinner
- Just One Day
- AIDS Coalition Week of World AIDS Day
- Americans for Informed Democracy Videoconference
- Second Annual International Youth Volunteerism Summit
"Africa's World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old's Eyes"
_______________________________________________________________________
ON CAMPUS_______________________________________________________________________
The Center for Environment presents,
"Understanding Wetland Formation & Ancient Maya Wetland Management", Dr. Tim Beach, Associate Professor of Geography and Geosciences, Georgetown University.
Wednesday, November 8th, 4-6 pm
McGhee Library, ICC 301
RSVP to kl...@georgetown.edu.
This lecture considers three great questions that are central to environmental history, archaeology, ecology, sustainable development, and earth science: Subsistence, or how do humans sustain themselves from the earth? Earth formation, or how and when did the earth surface develop? Ancient Maya subsistence: or how did the ancient Maya sustain themselves with high populations for a millennium in a region that today supports a small fraction of those former populations?
Shashwati Talukdar "Acting Like a Thief"
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 6-8 pm
New North 311
Contact: schw...@georgetown.edu
Filmmaker Shashwati Talukdar, Director/Producer has an MFA in Film and Video Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia (1999). She has worked professionally with Michael Moore, HBO, BBC, Lifetime, Sundance and Cablevision, and has also directed over a dozen independent films and videos. Screenings and awards include the Margaret Mead Festival, the Whitney Biennial, Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki, Amnesty International and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Shashwati's latest documentary, /Hooch and Hamlet in Chharanagar/, explores how theatre has transformed the lives of nomadic "criminal tribes" in India. Classified as "born criminals" by colonial authorities in 1871, and forcibly settled in a labor camp, the people of Chharanagar fight daily against prejudice and racial profiling. We will screen the trailer and discuss the issues.
www.Shashwati.com
www.Hoochandhamlet.com
AFRICAN SOCIETY FALL HARVEST WEEK
African Society Presents: Fall Harvest Week 2006
November 6-11, 2006
Nourishing your heart, mind, eyes, and belly!
Events Include:
Tribute to the Arts
Monday, November 6, 2006, 9pm
Village C Alumni Lounge
A.F.R.I.C.A. Discussion Part 2
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 8pm
WGR 211
Topic: Conspiracy Files - Fact and Fiction on the African Continent
Presented in conjunction with The Georgetown Society of Global Professionals
Urban Fare
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7pm
Gaston Hall
Fall Harvest Dinner
Saturday, November 11, 2006, 8pm
McShain Lounge
Village C Alumni Lounge
A.F.R.I.C.A. Discussion Part 2
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 8pm
WGR 211
Topic: Conspiracy Files - Fact and Fiction on the African Continent
Presented in conjunction with The Georgetown Society of Global Professionals
Urban Fare
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7pm
Gaston Hall
Fall Harvest Dinner
Saturday, November 11, 2006, 8pm
McShain Lounge
Georgetown Students for Fair Trade Presents: Fair Trade 101
Tuesday, November 14, 8pm - 9:30pm
ICC, Room TBA (e-mail fairtr...@gmail.com for more info)
Discussion about basics of fair trade; bring questions and eat fair trade samples
Students Stopping Trafficking of People (SSTOP)
Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 8pm
WGR 213
Come to SSTOP's next meeting. They will be giving out information about elections for the SSTOP Board.
The Center for Environment presents,
"Sea-level change in North America: A post-Katrina assessment", Dr. Ben Horton, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Thursday, November 16th 4– 6pm
McGhee Library
RSVP to kl...@georgetown.edu.
UNICEF's Fourth Annual International Development Dinner (formerly called World Children's Day Dinner)
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 7:30-9:30
ICC Galleria
RSVP: uni...@georgetown.edu or http://www14.georgetown.edu/explore/calendars/events/?Action=View&CalendarID=270&EventID=43835
Eat dinner at a table with 7-8 other students and 1-2 experts in the field in a specific topic that interests you to ask them the questions you really want to know, exchange contact information, and come up with plans of action.
Topics include:
- Extreme Hunger and Poverty
- Universal Primary Education
- Gender Equality/Empowerment of Women
- Child Mortality
- Maternal Health
- HIV/AIDS, Malaria, other diseases
- Environmental Sustainability
- Global Partnership for Development
- Child labor/Sex Trafficking
- DC Public Schools
- Child Welfare in the US
- Early Childhood Development
- International Health
- Agriculture/Food
- Refugees/Displaced Peoples/Orphans
- Public Policy
- Child Labor/Child Soldiers
- Awareness
- Reproductive Health
- Fair Trade practices/Microcredit Loans
Just One Day
Friday, November 17- Saturday, November 18, 2006
5pm on that Friday to 5pm on Saturday
RSVP: Nick Sementelli, ns...@georgetown.edu
We will have speakers, activities, videos and reflections around the themes of hunger and homelessness as well as volunteer at the Help the Homeless walkathon on the National Mall that Saturday morning. Interested students can sign up at our table in Red Square from 10-3 any day this week or next.
AIDS Coalition Week of World AIDS Day:
November 27-December 1, 2006
Events Include:
Speech by Dr. Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
Monday, November 27, 2006, 6 pm
McShain Lounge
Dr. Dybul is the recently appointed Global AIDS ambassador and the head of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). He will be discussing the successes and failures of U.S. AIDS policy, including stories from the ground in the fight against AIDS and a debate on the effectiveness of abstinence-promotion.
Speech by Mary Beth Levin, World Bank YouthAIDS Team
Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 6pm
Location TBD
Come to see the other side of the abstinence-only debate. Levin will be leading a frank discussion of safe sex, contraception and U.S. AIDS policy, as well as her work at the World Bank and with YouthAIDS.
The 2nd Annual UnityLIVE - A Benefit for Whitman-Walker Clinic
Friday, December 1, 2006, 8 pm
Gaston Hall
Our biggest and best event of the year! UnityLIVE is Georgetown's hottest new benefit show and boasts the most diverse lineup of exceptional student talent. UNITE in the fight against AIDS! Performances to include:
*Groove Theory
*Gospel Choir
*GU Step Team
*GU Dance Company
*South Asia Society (act from RANGILA)
*Superfood
*Black Movements Dance Theater
*Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
*Ritmo y Sabor
*& more!!!
Monday, November 27, 2006, 6 pm
McShain Lounge
Dr. Dybul is the recently appointed Global AIDS ambassador and the head of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). He will be discussing the successes and failures of U.S. AIDS policy, including stories from the ground in the fight against AIDS and a debate on the effectiveness of abstinence-promotion.
Speech by Mary Beth Levin, World Bank YouthAIDS Team
Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 6pm
Location TBD
Come to see the other side of the abstinence-only debate. Levin will be leading a frank discussion of safe sex, contraception and U.S. AIDS policy, as well as her work at the World Bank and with YouthAIDS.
The 2nd Annual UnityLIVE - A Benefit for Whitman-Walker Clinic
Friday, December 1, 2006, 8 pm
Gaston Hall
Our biggest and best event of the year! UnityLIVE is Georgetown's hottest new benefit show and boasts the most diverse lineup of exceptional student talent. UNITE in the fight against AIDS! Performances to include:
*Groove Theory
*Gospel Choir
*GU Step Team
*GU Dance Company
*South Asia Society (act from RANGILA)
*Superfood
*Black Movements Dance Theater
*Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
*Ritmo y Sabor
*& more!!!
OFF CAMPUS
Americans for Informed Democracy Videoconference
November 10, 2006
American University
RSVP: www.globalscholar.org/nov10
Americans for Informed Democracy is going to be hosting a live videoconference on November 10th with students and young professionals in Europe and Latin America to discuss the future of global governance institutions such as the United Nations and International Criminal Court. I have copied below an announcement about this remarkable event. I hope that you can join us for this important event taking place at American University in Washington, D.C. In addition, I would be most grateful if you could share the announcement below with any friends or listservs you think may be interested. If you or others would like to attend, please RSVP by this Thursday at 12:00 p.m. at www.globalscholar.org/nov10.
Second Annual International Youth Volunteerism Summit
February 22-25, 2007
Northwestern University
More information: http://www.iyvs.org
From February 22 through 25th, 2007, Northwestern University will play host to the second annual International Youth Volunteerism Summit. Bringing together big-thinking undergrads, NGO representatives, young social entrepreneurs and academic experts, the Summit will introduce major issues of direct international engagement while building its delegates' capacities to more successfully act as catalysts of sustainable progress. Keynote speakers and panel discussions introduce delegates to overarching issues faced by international volunteers, while practical workshops build particular skills sets like grant writing and business planning necessary to international organizational planning. Students apply the lessons directly to project proposals of their creation, and are invited to submit them for funding consideration to the Summit after the culmination of the weekend.
DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEWS
"Africa's World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old's Eyes"
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Published: October 29, 2006
New York Times
"KETE KRACHI, Ghana — Just before 5 a.m., with the sky still dark over Lake Volta, Mark Kwadwo was rousted from his spot on the damp dirt floor. It was time for work."more...
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