Month: March 2012

“Just Because I Am” a film on homophobia oral histories has been selected for New Filmmakers Spring Series in New York City and will be screened in June 2012. That comes on top of the best LBGT documentary award granted by the Ferndale Film Festival.… Continue Reading Pescador’s film selected for New Filmmakers Spring Series in New York!

Dr. Ethan Segal’s observations (based in part on his fieldwork) on the difficult path toward recovery in Japan after last year’s terrible earthquake and tsunami were published in The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/article/world/101572/japan-earthquake-fukushima-reconstruction-nuclear-energy-recovery

Thursday, April 19, 12:00-2:00 p.m. in 340 Morrill Hall Professor Kate Brown (University of Maryland Baltimore Country), a Guggenheim Fellow currently completing a book titled Plutopia, will be visiting MSU to speak on “Plutonium’s Role in the Making of Nuclear Families and Lethal Landscapes in… Continue Reading Professor Kate Brown- Thursday, April 19th 12:00 – 2:00

On Thursday, March 15, at 4pm in 340 Morrill Hall, author, scholar, and journalist David Goldblat gave a talk on how soccer can be taken out of politics but politics cannot be taken out of soccer. Goldblatt used the 2012 European Championships in Poland/Ukraine and… Continue Reading Soccer and Politics in a Global World