Upcoming Events: Global Health Panel; #OurSharedArctic

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Dartmouth Now offers a weekly roundup of noteworthy events on campus. 

Thursday, Feb. 12: The Department of Religion’s 2015 Hardigg Fellow Tomoko Masuzawa presents a public lecture, “The Secular Bible: Biblical Scholarship and the University in the 19th Century,” at 4:15 p.m. in Room 002 of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. Masuzawa is a professor of history and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan. As the Hardigg Fellow, she will meet with students and take part in the religion department’s senior colloquium for majors.

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The Dartmouth College Glee Club will perform at the Top of the Hop on Feb. 14. (Photo by Zachary A. Ingbretsen ’11)

Thursday, Feb. 12: Kevin Leicht, sociology program officer for the National Science Foundation and a professor of sociology at the University of Iowa, speaks on “Getting Serious About Inequality.” His talk starts at 4:30 p.m. in Haldeman 41 at the Kreindler Conference Hall.

Thursday, Feb. 12: The Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Global Health Initiative hosts a keynote and panel on “Ebola in West Africa: Lessons from a Global Health Crisis.” The event, which features the Martin Cetron, director of the Centers for Disease Control’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, and a team of medical practitioners with direct training and treatment experience in Sierra Leone and Liberia, is at 4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium at Moore Hall.

Thursday, Feb. 12: The Black Underground Theater Association, supported by the Department of Theater’s VOICES program, presents Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West. Directed by Chrissy Ragin ’17, the play runs tonight and Friday, Feb. 13 at 7 o’clock in the Hopkins Center’s Bentley Theater.

Friday. Feb. 13: Three days, three musical performances: The World Music Percussion Ensemble takes the stage with a show at 8 p.m. in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium.

On Saturday, Feb. 14: The Hopkins Center’s Top of the Hop hosts the Dartmouth College Glee Club in a performance at 4 p.m. And on Sunday, Feb. 15, it’s a Vaughn Recital featuring “Singing Valentines,” at 4 p.m. in the Hopkins Center’s Faulkner Recital Hall. 

Monday, Feb. 16: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski ’87 presents the public lecture associated with his Montgomery Fellowship, “#OurSharedArctic: U.S. Embassy Sweden and Modern Diplomacy,” at 4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium at Moore Hall.

Tuesday, Feb. 17: Tech@Tuck offers “The $haring Economy: Peering into the New Business Model,” a panel discussion with representatives from Zipcar and the Lending Club, at 4:45 p.m. in the Franz II classroom of the Tuck School’s Raether Hall.  A vendor fair precedes the panel, from 11:30 a.m. through 1:30 p.m., in the Conway Foyer.

Wednesday, Feb. 18: Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission commissioner, considers “Global Regulation in a Post-Snowden World,” in a talk at noon in Tuck’s Borelli classroom.

 

 

Kelly Sundberg Seaman