Institute for Global Understanding
Global Ocean Governance Lecture Series
OnlineAntacids for the Sea: The Potential Role of Ocean Alkalinization Enhancement in Combating Climate Change Dr. Wil Burns The Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University October 12, 2020 12-1 p.m. Online It is becoming increasingly clear that achievement of the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets will require both aggressive policies to reduce […]
The 2021 Institute for Global Understanding Biennial Symposium
The symposium assembles experts from a wide range of disciplines in the government, nonprofit, academic, community, and private sectors to examine topics at the intersection of human rights and the environment and propose solutions for the future. Keynote speakers and panelists will address regulatory responses, litigation, academic and scientific discourse, and the activist movements that have shaped the intersection between human rights and the environment.
Human Rights and the Environment: Perspectives from India
This panel features experts on a wide range of emerging challenges that India faces at the intersection of human rights and the environment including climate justice litigation, the interplay between sustainable development and the rights of indigenous communities, climate change communication and climate migration, and the relationship between climate migration and human trafficking. Moderator: Prof. […]
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Ocean Justice
VirtualThe Monmouth University Institute for Global Understanding (IGU) and Urban Coast Institute (UCI) will host the virtual panel discussion “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Ocean Justice” on March 9. The event is this year’s first installment of the Global Ocean Governance Lecture Series, which assembles international experts to discuss scientific and policy issues that hold important […]
Global Visionary Lecture with Ramu Damodaran, Former Chief of United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI)
Zoom Presentation with Limited Seating at Great HallBilingual Poetry Reading and Q&A with Salgado Maranhão and Alexis Levitin
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Saint Omer
Pollak TheatreRama, a literature professor and novelist, travels from Paris to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly and write about the case. Coly is a student and Senegalese immigrant accused of leaving her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept away by the tide in Berck. Rama, who is four-months pregnant and, like Coly, is in a mixed-race relationship and has a complex relationship with her own Senegalese immigrant mother, feels a personal connection to Coly. She plans to write a modern day retelling of the Greek Medea myth about the case. As she learns more about Coly’s life and the isolation Coly experienced from her family and society while living in France, Rama becomes increasingly anxious about her own life and pregnancy.