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SUMMARY:"The Twilight of Democracy” With Anne Applebaum
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Apr 4\, 2022\, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT \nWHERE: Michigan League Ballroom (and live-streamed) \n911 N University Ave. Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 \nWHAT: Democracy in Crisis series. \nPulitzer Prize winning historian\, journalist and commentator Anne Applebaum delivers the keynote lecture of the Spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series\, in conversation with Dean Michael S. Barr. \nAnne Applebaum is the author of multiple books including The Twilight of Democracy. \nREGISTER HERE
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SUMMARY:Trailblazer: Ben Franklin and STEM
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 6 at 5pm ET | 2pm PT\, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with children’s author Alicia Klepeis\, author of The Science And Technology of Ben Franklin. \nNot only did Ben Franklin create the first circulating library\, he was a printer\, diplomat\, scientist\, and inventor. Benjamin Franklin was a very curious person. \nIn The Science and Technology of Ben Franklin (readers ages 9 through 12)\, the author explores the life of one of Colonial America’s most fascinating citizens. During this program\, viewers will learn more about the author and her book about Ben Franklin.  Alicia Klepeis’s book offers hands-on STEM activities\, essential questions\, text-to-world connections\, and links to online resources.  The book is hands-on and interactive—so expect an interactive program!  Through hands-on STEM activities\, essential questions\, text-to-world connections\, and links to online resources\, kids zoom in for a closer look into Ben Franklin’s world. The author will answer audience questions at the end of the conversation. \nOn April 4 at 8pm ET\, Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary\, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN\, will air on PBS stations across the country.  It explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities\, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. “Write things worth reading\,” he said in Poor Richard’s Almanack\, “or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin did both. This program is offered in partnership with WETA and the PBS network.  #BenFranklinPBS \n  \nAbout the Author\nFrom circus science to global ice cream flavors\, Alicia Klepeis loves to research fun and out-of-the-ordinary topics that bring the world to young readers. Alicia began her career at the National Geographic Society. She is the author of more than 150 children’s books\, including Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Astronauts; Polar Bears & Penguins: A Pretty Cool Introduction to the Arctic and Antarctic; The Science And Technology Of Ben Franklin; and The World’s Strangest Foods. A former middle school teacher\, Alicia loves doing school visits and is currently working on several projects involving world cultures\, unusual animals\, and invasive species. She lives with her family in upstate New York. \nFor more information visit here website here: https://www.aliciaklepeis.com/index.html
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SUMMARY:World Health Day with Dr. Sandro Galea and Dr. Valerie Maholmes
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 7 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT.  In celebration of World Health Day\, PBS Books\, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a conversation with scholar and author Dr. Sandro Galea\, discussing his latest book The Contagion Next Time\, with Dr. Valerie Maholmes\, Chief of the Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. \nAs a physician\, epidemiologist\, and public health voice\, Dr. Sandro Galea will highlight the foundational forces behind the health system in the United States that led to its failures during COVID-19.  This conversation will highlight necessary elements of health for our communities—housing\, education\, food\, and safe neighborhoods.  How can we prevent the next pandemic and protect the most vulnerable?  These two doctors will share stories from their experiences and help us to understand changes that need to be made today to make our country’s future equitable and bright.  This conversation is a great way to celebrate World Health Day nearly two years after the pandemic began and contemplate the best choices for the future. \n  \nAbout the Author: Sandro Galea\, Ph.D. MPH Dr.PH\nSandro Galea\, a physician\, epidemiologist\, and author\, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. In 2015\, he became the youngest public health dean in the country\, assuming leadership of Boston University School of Public Health. \nOne of the most widely-cited scholars in the social sciences\, Galea has published more than 950 scientific journal articles\, 70 chapters\, and 19 books. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature about the social causes of health\, mental health\, and trauma. He has documented the consequences of mass trauma and conflict worldwide\, including as a result of the September 11 attacks\, Hurricane Katrina\, conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa\, and the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His research has been principally funded by the National Institutes of Health\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, and philanthropic foundations. \nHe is past chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He formerly served as chair of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Community Services Board and as member of its Health Board. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. \nGalea has received several lifetime achievement awards for his research\, including the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association and the Robert S. Laufer\, PhD\, Memorial Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a regular contributor to media\, including The Wall Street Journal\, Harvard Business Review\, The Boston Globe\, TEDMED\, and The New York Times. \nGalea was born in Malta and emigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 14. After receiving his medical degree\, Galea worked in Somalia with Doctors Without Borders before attending graduate school in the United States. \nGalea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto\, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University\, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. Prior to his appointment at Boston University\, Galea served as the Gelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at the University of Michigan and at the New York Academy of Medicine. \nLearn more at www.sandrogalea.org \n  \nAbout the Moderator: Valerie Maholmes\, Ph.D. CAS\nDr. Valerie Maholmes is the chief of the Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In this capacity\, she supports research and training in trauma\, injury\, and critical illness across the continuum of care. She serves on numerous NIH and federal interagency working groups to further the mission and goals of the branch. \nPrior to joining NICHD\, she was a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine in the Child Study Center\, where she served in numerous capacities\, including director of research and policy for the School Development Program. In this role\, she provided an array of educational\, clinical\, and technical support services to schools in low-income neighborhoods and communities around the country to promote child health and well-being. In 1999\, she was named the Irving B. Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry. \nIn 2003\, Dr. Maholmes received the Executive Branch Science Policy Fellowship\, sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. \nDr. Maholmes completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Montclair State University in New Jersey and her doctoral degree at Howard University in Washington\, D.C. She also earned a sixth-year degree from Fairfield University in Fairfield\, Connecticut. She is the author of numerous publications\, including commentaries\, scientific and review articles\, books chapters\, and monographs. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Brit Bennett\, 33rd Annual Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 8 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT\, PBS Books\, in partnership with the Marygrove Conservancy and The Tuxedo Project\, is excited to welcome novelist and essayist Brit Bennett as the guest author for the 33rd Annual Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS). \nAbout the Author\nBRIT BENNETT was born and raised in Southern California. She earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller\, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker\, the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel. \nAbout the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series\nNow in its thirty-third year\, the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) is an annual event bringing a nationally known African American authors to the Marygrove campus for a public lecture and class session or conversation. \nAbout Marygrove Conservancy\nEstablished in 2018\, the Marygrove Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that manages operations and stewards a 53-acre campus in northwest Detroit\, the site of the former Marygrove College which operated from 1905 until 2019. \nA major initiative of the conservancy is managing a landmark partnership to create a cradle-to-career (P-20) educational campus on the site. The P-20 campus is being designed to be an educational\, economic and civic anchor in the revitalization efforts of the Livernois-McNichols community. The campus will integrate academic experiences from early childhood to college and career with community-driven services\, so that students are empowered and equipped to define their own future and that of their communities. \nAbout The Tuxedo Project\nThe Tuxedo Project is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to revitalize one of Detroit’s most isolated neighborhoods by increasing access to resources centered on five anchors of community: the Arts\, education\, food sustainability\, housing security\, and economic opportunity. \nForty years ago\, 7122 Tuxedo Street’s top-floor flat  was the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson. In 2012\, he returned to find it like thousands of other blighted and abandoned homes in Detroit. With the help of his former classmates from University of Detroit Jesuit High School and through a partnership with the former Marygrove College\, Henderson sought to affect change by renovating the house at 7122 Tuxedo and transforming the space into a functioning residence and community center. \nOne house. One block. One neighborhood. This humble and ambitious idea marked The Tuxedo Project’s beginning.
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SUMMARY:'War in Ukraine' with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senator Chris Coons
DESCRIPTION: \nWHEN: Apr 14\, 2022\, 12:00-2:00 pm EDT \nWHERE: This is a virtual event. \nPBS Books presents\, in partnership with University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy\, a special pair of discussions on foreign policy priorities and global challenges with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE).  Sen. Coons will discuss the foreign and domestic policy implications of the war in Ukraine. Next\, Secretary Blinken will participate in a moderated conversation on 21st century diplomacy. Both conversations will be facilitated by Ford School Dean Michael Barr at the Ford School’s fourth annual Vandenberg Lecture. \nUniversity of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman will provide a special welcome at noon EDT\, followed by the discussion between Senator Coons and Barr for one hour. Then at 1:15 pm\, Weiser Diplomacy Center Director John Ciorciari will introduce Secretary Blinken for a conversation with Barr and Ford School students on 21st century diplomacy and global challenges. \nREGISTER HERE\n\nAbout Secretary Blinken\nAntony J. Blinken is the 71st U.S. Secretary of State. He was nominated by President Biden on November 23\, 2020; confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 26\, 2021; and sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris the following day. \nOver three decades and three presidential administrations\, Mr. Blinken has helped shape U.S. foreign policy to ensure it protects U.S. interests and delivers results for the American people. He served as deputy secretary of state for President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017\, and before that\, as President Obama’s principal deputy national security advisor. In that role\, Mr. Blinken chaired the interagency deputies committee\, the main forum for hammering out the administration’s foreign policy. \nDuring the first term of the Obama Administration\, Mr. Blinken was national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden. This was the continuation of a long professional relationship that stretched back to 2002\, when Mr. Blinken began his six-year stint as Democratic staff director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then-Senator Biden was the chair of that committee from 2001 to 2003 and 2007 to 2009. \nDuring the Clinton Administration\, Mr. Blinken served as a member of the National Security Council staff\, including two years as the senior director for European affairs\, the president’s principal advisor on the countries of Europe\, the European Union\, and NATO. He also spent four years as President Clinton’s chief foreign policy speechwriter\, and he led the NSC’s strategic planning team. \nMr. Blinken’s public service began at the State Department. From 1993 to 1994\, he was a special assistant in what was then called the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. Now he is proud to lead the department where he got his start in government nearly 30 years ago. \nOutside of government\, Mr. Blinken has worked in the private sector\, civil society\, and journalism. He was a founder of WestExec Advisors\, an international strategic consulting firm focused on geopolitics and national security. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2001 and 2002. Before joining government\, Mr. Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris. He was also a reporter for The New Republic magazine and is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America\, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis (Praeger\, 1987). \nMr. Blinken attended grade school and high school in Paris\, where he received a French Baccalaureat degree with high honors. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School. He and his wife Evan Ryan have two children. \nAbout Senator Coons\nChris Coons has served as a U.S. Senator from Delaware since 2010. He sits on the Foreign Relations\, Appropriations\, Judiciary\, Small Business and Entrepreneurship\, and Ethics Committees. He is currently the chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds U.S. foreign assistance. \nChris has used his position on the Foreign Relations Committee to advocate for key foreign policy and national security priorities. Chris has successfully marshaled into law bills to modernize international development finance\, address the root causes of global instability and extremism\, and other legislation to advance American interests and values. Chris has spoken out clearly and directly in support of our global alliances and partnerships. \nChris previously worked as an attorney for a Delaware-based manufacturing company\, using his legal expertise to direct regulatory and international efforts. Chris graduated from Amherst College with a BA in chemistry and political science\, and earned his law degree from Yale Law School and a master’s in ethics from Yale Divinity School. \nAbout the Vandenberg Lecture Series\nThe Meijer Family established the Vandenberg Fund to honor U.S. Senator Arthur Vandenberg\, who served the State of Michigan in the U.S. Senate from 1928-1951. Senator Vandenberg forged bipartisan support for our country’s most significant and enduring foreign policies of the twentieth century\, including the Truman Doctrine\, the Marshall Plan\, NATO and the creation of the United Nations. \n \n 
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CATEGORIES:Ford Policy Talks
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SUMMARY:Devastation in Ukraine and the Consequences of Engagement
DESCRIPTION: \nWHEN: Apr 18\, 2022\, 12:00 pm EDT \nWHERE: This is a virtual event. \nPBS Books\, in partnership with University of Michigan’s Wallace House\, presents a special conversation with award-winning journalist Elena Milashina\, video journalist and filmmaker Simon Ostrovsky\, and professor of history and political science at U-M Ronald Suny\, regarding the conflict in Ukraine. \nWhile the Russian invasion of Ukraine swiftly united NATO and western nations in condemning Putin\, enacting sanctions and supplying defense weapons\, there are growing cries for the U.S. and its NATO allies to do more militarily. Join Knight-Wallace journalists who have reported extensively from the region and a U-M policy expert as they examine Putin’s suppression of a free press\, the call for direct military support\, and the geopolitical\, economic and humanitarian consequences of the growing conflict. \nElena Milashina an award-winning senior investigative reporter for Novaya Gazeta\, the acclaimed independent Russian news organization that ceased publication in response to threats of closure and imprisonment from the Putin regime. Simon Ostrovsky is a video journalist and filmmaker who reports for PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. Ronald Suny is a professor of history and political science at U-M and a senior researcher at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg\, Russia. \nWallace House Director\, Lynette Clemetson\, will lead this discussion. \nThe Eisendrath Symposium on International Reporting honors Charles R. Eisendrath\, former director of Wallace House\, and his lifelong commitment to international journalism. \nREGISTER HERE\n\nAbout Elena Milashina\nElena Milashina is a 2009-2010 Knight-Wallace Fellow and an investigative journalist “Novaya Gazeta\,” Russia’s last remaining independent newspaper before it ceased publication in response to threats from the Putin regime. She investigates and brings to attention accounts of enforced disappearances\, arbitrary detentions\, extrajudicial executions\, torture\, and persecution of relatives of alleged insurgents\, women’s rights in Chechnya and beyond. Milashina exposed a major crackdown on gay men in Chechnya in spring 2017\, investigated the catastrophe of the Kursk submarine\, and hostage crises in Moscow and Beslan. She has documented atrocities committed by both sides during the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict and pressed for an end to impunity. She has repeatedly received death threats from the Chechen authorities. She is the recipient of Human Rights Watch’s Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism ad the International Women of Courage Award. \nAbout Simon Ostrovsky\nSimon Ostrovsky is a 2021-2022 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow. As a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour and an investigative journalist\, he is best known for his coverage of the Crimea crisis and the war in eastern Ukraine for which he was nominated for two Emmys. He won a DuPont Award from Columbia University in 2015 for his “Selfie Soldiers” documentary\, which tracked Russian soldiers in Ukraine through their social media posts\, and an Emmy Award in 2014 as a producer of VICE on HBO. Ostrovsky has covered extensively the countries of the former Soviet Union\, where he witnessed five revolutions and four wars. He has served as South Caucasus Bureau Chief for Agence France Presse and as an investigative reporter at CNN. His work also has appeared on the BBC and CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” \nAbout Ronald Suny\nRonald Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.  The grandson of the composer and ethnomusicologist Grikor Mirzaian Suni and a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University\, he taught at Oberlin College (1968-1981)\, as visiting professor of history at the University of California\, Irvine (1987)\, and Stanford University (1995-1996).  He also served as Senior Researcher at the National Research University\, Higher School of Economics\, Saint Petersburg (2014-2016).  He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995)\, where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. \nAbout the Moderator\, Lynette Clemetson\nLynette Clemetson is the Charles R. Eisendrath Director of Wallace House\, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by: \nKnight Foundation \nMichigan Radio \nGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy \nWeiser Center for Europe and Eurasia \nCenter for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies \nDetroit Public Television
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Franklin and Citizen Science
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, SciStarter\, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs\, and WETA present a free virtual program on April 20 at 7pm ET Citizen Science Month\, STEM storytelling\, and Ken Burns’s ‘BENJAMIN FRANKLIN\,’ which will begin to air April 4 at 8/7c on PBS stations nationwide. \nCitizen science enables everyday people to be involved in scientific research by participating in data collection. Many consider Benjamin Franklin to be America’s first citizen scientist. Franklin believed all people should engage with science\, and that knowledge can be used to advance society for the benefit of all. \nThen\, tap your inner citizen scientists all year long right here by selecting a project below to share your observations and contribute to citizen science the way Benjamin Franklin did!  Continue your citizen science journey on https://www.SciStarter.org/BenFranklin
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SUMMARY:Pandemic Stories of Children All Over the World
DESCRIPTION:April 28 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT  \nPBS Books\, in partnership with GPB\, is thrilled to present an unforgettable\, emotional evening of reading\, as the biggest children’s book authors read real pandemic stories submitted by real kids! When author Kelly Yang (Front Desk\, New From Here) invited children to write their pandemic stories\, she was floored by the tender\, hopeful\, and resonant stories she got. To date\, she’s published over 500 powerful stories on her website! Now Kelly Yang and her author friends Stuart Gibbs\, Meg Medina\, Jacqueline Woodson\, Jasmine Warga\, Jeff Kinney\, Jewell Parker Rhodes\, and Margarita Engle are proud to read a wonderful selection of pandemic stories from children all over the world! Let us commemorate the incredible courage and resilience from kids worldwide by celebrating their voices! \nTo read more stories written by children about their pandemic story visit Kelly Yang’s webpage here. https://www.kellyyang.com/pandemicstory/ \nAbout Kelly Yang and her inspirational book Front Desk\, New From Here\nFront Desk\, New From Here is a Kelly Yang’s latest middle grade children’s book based upon her own pandemic experience.  As she travelled around the country sharing about her book\, she identified the need for children to write their own pandemic story as well. \nKelly Yang is the New York Times bestselling author of the FRONT DESK series\, including Front Desk\, Three Keys\, and Room to Dream\, and young adult novels Parachutes and Private Label. Front Desk is Kelly’s award-winning middle grade debut novel about a 10 year old Chinese American immigrant girl who manages the front desk of a motel while her parents clean the rooms. FRONT DESK was awarded the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature\, the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal\, was the 2019 Global Read Aloud\, and was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year\, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year\, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year\, a NPR Best Book of the Year\, and a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. \nKelly immigrated to America when she was 6 years old and grew up in Southern California\, where she and her parents worked in three different motels. She eventually left the motels and went to college at the age of 13 and law school at the age of 17. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley\, where she majored in Political Science\, and Harvard Law School. After law school\, she gave up law to pursue her passion of writing and teaching children writing. She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project (kellyyang.edu.hk)\, a leading writing and debating program for kids in Asia. As a writing teacher for 13 years\, Kelly helped thousands of children find their voice and become better writers and more powerful speakers. Before turning to fiction\, she was also a columnist for the South China Morning Post for many years. Her writing has been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Atlantic. She has three children and lives in Los Angeles.
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