BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//69.73.141.125//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.2.6// VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Speaker CONTACT:Phone: Email:press_ccoh@columbia.edu DESCRIPTION:The Oral History Master of Arts\, Columbia Center for Oral Hist ory\, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy\, and the Human Rights Institute will host Ayelet Waldman\, attorney and author of R ed Hook Road and Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calami ties\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and Robin Levi\, human rights direc tor of the California-based non-profit Justice Now\, to discuss their late st book Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women\\'s Prisons i n the United States. The talk is part of the Oral History Seminar Series.\ n\n Waldman and Levi will discuss and read from their new book\, which is an extraordinary account of women’s lives both inside and out of prison in their own voices and reveals egregious human rights violations within w omen’s prisons in the United States.\n\nThere will also be a presentatio n from faculty and alumni about the Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA)\, a multi-disciplinary program that utilizes theoretical approaches across th e social sciences and humanities. Geographical Scope: Metro DTSTAMP:20120204T050512Z DTSTART:20120207T180000 GEO:40.812700;-73.955000 LOCATION:435 W 116th Street\, Columbia Law School\, 701 (Case Lounge) On T he 7th\, New York\, New York\, 10027\, United States SUMMARY:Workshop: Documenting Women\\'s Prisons In The United States UID:20120204T000512EST-00bpXfKHVV@69.73.141.125 URL:http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/ccoh.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:Building Community to End Environmental Racism : Learn\, Connec t\, FlourishSAVE THE DATE\n \nSaturday\, May 12\, 2012\n\n@\nSeattle Unive rsity\n \nTrack 1: Where We’re At: The Environment We Live In\n \nTrac k 2: Strategies for Change: The Environment that \n Supports Us\n \nT rack 3: Where We’re Going: The Environment Where \n all Flourish\n\n \ n \n\nMorning Keynote: Yalonda Sinde \n\nIn 1993 Yalonda Sinde helped spea rhead the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ)\, a grassro ots organization in Seattle that gained national recognition for eliminati ng two major sources of air pollution and mobilizing low income communitie s and communities of color to work together to achieve justice and equalit y. The organization also helped form the first people of color and indige nous people northwest environmental justice network. \n\nYalonda is curr ently the Executive Director of the Association of Environmental Health Ac ademic Programs\, an organization that works to improve the health of peop le and the planet by creating and supporting environmental health academic programs. \n\n \nLunchtime Playnote: The New Wilderness Project \n\nThe N ew Wilderness Project playnote invites participants on a journey where the y will be entertained\; where they will engage with each other\; and conne ct with diversity\, leadership and equity through the lens of creative exp ression. This unique approach uses original music and spoken word poetry c horeographed to immersive video and imagery. The poignant themes of each c reative piece are woven together by insightful commentary from the present ers and shared experience from the participants to create a dramatic and m oving presentation of the issues and opportunities around stewardship\, le adership\, the human connection to nature and each other\, and embracing d iversity in our communities. Geographical Scope: Metro DTSTAMP:20120204T050512Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120512 GEO:47.610700;-122.334000 LOCATION:Seattle\, Washington\, 98101\, United States SUMMARY:Seattle Race Conference 9th Annual UID:20120204T000512EST-vt7rVmVH4N@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.seattleraceconference.org/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR