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Innovation in Global Health: The Equity Imperative
No full textWhat innovations are catalyzing impact in global health? How are (or aren’t) equity and partnership considered in their development and application? Gain perspective on the intersection between peace studies and global health, learn about dynamic product and process innovations revolutionizing health impact in low- and middle-income countries, and hear about the changing ways innovation is sourced, nurtured, and financed in global development.
Megan Christofield (she/her) is a Project Director & Senior Technical Advisor at Jhpiego, a global health affiliate of Johns Hopkins University with operations in nearly 40 countries around the globe. At Jhpiego, Megan leads and supports teams to introduce and scale access to contraceptives by applying evidence-based best practices, strategic advocacy, and design thinking. She is a creative thinker and recognized thought leader, published in the journal of Global Health Science & Practice, BMJ Global Health, Conflict & Health, STAT, and interviewed in WIRED. Prior to her work at Jhpiego, Megan worked at the Center for American Indian Health and was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. Megan received her undergraduate degree in Peace Studies from the College of St. Benedict & St. John’s University and her Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2017 Megan was the Decade Award winner from the College of Saint Benedict
Parent–Child Recurring Conflict: A Mediator between Parental Anger Management and Adolescent Behavior
Get PDFGuided by social learning theory, this longitudinal study examined whether parent–child recurring conflict mediated the association between parental anger management, an understudied antecedent to parent–child recurring conflict, and adolescent deviant and problem-solving behaviors in 415 rural families. Parental use of anger management in 6th grade was associated with less parent–child recurring conflict in 9th grade, which was associated with more adolescent problem-solving behavior in 11th grade. Family practitioners seeking to promote adolescent problem-solving behaviors may consider teaching families strategies for reducing parent–child recurring conflict and fostering parental anger management
A Conversation about Chile\u27s Constitution
No full textDr. Catherine Reyes-Householder is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is also an Associate Researcher at the multi-disciplinary Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). She has a PhD in Government from Cornell University.
Dr. Catherine Reyes-Householder researched the presidency and gender with a geographical focus on Latin America. Her current projects examine the causes of women presidents: How do women win the presidency? When and why do parties sometimes nominate women instead of men for president? What traits do citizens stereo-typically associate with women and men presidential candidates, and which of these traits do they value in presidents?
Another line of her research focuses on the consequences of women presidents. When and why do women presidents name more woman ministers than men presidents? Why do women presidents have lower approval ratings than men presidents? How do citizens respond to women in executive office?
Her research has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Politics (twice), Politics & Gender, Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Latin American Politics and Society, Politics, Groups and Identities, the Journal of Politics in Latin America, Revista de Ciencia Política as well as in four edited volumes. Her dissertation Presidentas, Power and Pro-Women Change won the 2017 Best Dissertation Award: APSA Women and Politics section.She is writing a book manuscript on how women win presidential elections.
Dr. Catherine Reyes-Householder conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Chile in 2015 thanks to a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Catherine also conducted research in Uruguay as a Fulbright undergraduate fellow in 2008
Metagenre and the competent audience of Plautus\u27 \u3ci\u3eCaptivi\u3c/i\u3e
No full textWriting on Poenulus and Plautus\u27 genre, Henderson has proposed that the extant Plautine plays are \u27emphatically heterogeneous\u27, such that \u27no one play typifies the oeuvre.\u27 His argument counters a charge often leveled against Roman Comedy, that the plays are all the same, or at least that they all amount to the same thing. Henderson was right that they are not and do not, but the fact remains that Plautus\u27 plays have a certain predictability. Their formulaic nature is what promises, in the face of manifold obstacles, a happy ending. It is what indicates that the fragments of Vidularia once added up to a recognition play-and what defines \u27recognition plays\u27 as a group. It is what prompts claims that Captiui is \u27unusual\u27, filled with \u27oddities\u27 and \u27mistakes\u27
Can lethal autonomous weapons be just?
Get PDFIn 2018 the United States Department of Defense (DoD) created a new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to study the adoption of AI by the military. Their strategy, outlined in a document entitled, “Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity,” proposes to accelerate the adoption of AI in the military by fostering a culture of experimentation and calculated risk taking, noting that AI will change the character of the future battlefield and, even more, the pace of battle. Is there any way to ensure that this future battlefield will be just? Can the age-old precepts of just warfare help guide our militaries as we develop and deploy autonomous weapons
MLK Keynote | Dr. Christopher Lehman - Author of Slavery\u27s Reach
No full textLehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University, a former summer visiting fellow at Harvard University, and the author of award-winning Slavery\u27s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State.
Through careful research in obscure records, censuses, newspapers, and archival collections, Lehman has brought to light the hidden history of northern complicity in building slaveholder wealth
Lost Saint John’s, Part 3: Lost – and Found? Sagatagan Shrines
Get PDFMany features of the Saint John\u27s campus have come and gone over the years. The Lost Saint John\u27s series explores them, more or less chronologically.
Part 3 is about the shrines and bridges of Lake Sagatagan, mostly on Pickerel Point (in the vicinity of the Prep School)
Violence, Backlash, and the Persistence of Women\u27s Political Exclusion in Latin America
No full textJuliana Restrepo Sanín’s research on violence against women in politics explores the relationship between efforts to improve the quality of democracy and the increasing reports of violence and harassment directed at women in electoral politics. Her current book project analyzes violence and harassment against women politicians in Latin America, the role of women activism in bringing attention to this problem, and the development and effectiveness of state measures to end it.
Dr. Restrepo Sanín is also part of a collaborative research project on Human Rights in the Americas. This project, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota and Rutgers University – Newark, explores the relationship between perceptions of and engagement with the justice system in Colombia and Chile
Carolyn Forché: Public Reading & Conversation
No full textRenowned as a “poet of witness,” Forché is the author of five books of poetry. Forché\u27s first volume, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. Her most recent poetry collection is In the Lateness of the World, which was an American Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard is True, a devastating, lyrical and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others, which was nominated for the 2019 National Book Awards.
She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria and Robert Desnos. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice,” and is followed by the 2014 anthology The Poetry of Witness.
In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture