Thomas Buergenthal spent the first 11 years of his life under the cloud of Nazi Germany, growing up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce, Poland, and later in concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. At age 17, Buergenthal immigrated to the United States, on a path to becoming one of the world’s leading international human …
Neighborhood disadvantage is an independent predictor of health and development. However, the breadth of causal inferences that can be drawn regarding neighborhood effects is limited due to the conceptual and methodological challenges of large-scale interventions. Moreover, it has been hypothesized that neighborhoods influence health, in part, through how social and physical environments impact emotion, health …
Donna E. Shalala is the president of the Clinton Foundation. Previously, she served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1987 to 1993, and as president of the University of Miami and Professor of Political Science. She also served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Shalala returns to campus to remind listeners …
Jean M. Geran and Araceli Alonso, co directors of the UW-STREETS initiative, lead the session to introduce UW–Madison’s new anti-trafficking initiative that seeks to support local and global work to end trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation. Through education and action research, STREETS is grounded in the perspectives and preferences of survivors, becoming a powerful …
Dr. Tererai Trent is an internationally recognized voice for quality education and women’s empowerment. Oprah called Trent her favorite guest and invested $1.5 million to help build a school in Trent’s home village in Zimbabwe. Trent’s talk is one of three free public lectures and three open plenary sessions during the 2016 Summit on Women, …
The African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites you to BIG STORIES + CLOSE (UP) RESEARCH: Health and Science in the African World on April 15-16, 2016. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars, this conference aims to explore the relationship between deeply grounded research and the larger narratives we tell about health and science …
Dr. Maria Cotera, Dr. Andrea “Tess” Arenas and filmmaker Linda Garcia Merchant will discuss their efforts to recover the histories of Chicana and Latina activists through an innovative mix of digital media, oral history and archival collection that centers cross generational feminist praxis. The plenary session, which is open free to the public is part …
To Change the Future of Women is a call to women and men, world leaders, influencers and individuals to commit to the Power of 1 action of change for the future of women. Whether One woman or One man helps another woman, when we align our collaborative efforts for scale, together we create the greatest …
Most of what we know about human trafficking comes from the media. We develop our own opinions of how trafficking takes place, who the victims are and what the bad guys look like from heart wrenching headlines and blockbuster movies. But how much can we trust the media to tell true stories? And how do …
We have always engineered solutions to make our lives easier. Some have stood the test of time, while others have been cast aside. Our speaker argues that today’s sustainability problems stem from the current scale and scope of engineered solutions and the virtual absence of restraints that may limit our aspirations. While some recent developments …