Speakers:
• Doug Woodring, Founder & Managing Director, Ocean Recovery Alliance
• Tiza Mafira, Co-founder & Executive Director, Indonesia Plastic Bag Diet Movement
• Marian Ledesma, Zero Waste Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia
• Quach Thi Xuan, Vietnam Consultant, Pacific Environment
Moderator: 
• Jennifer Turner, Director, China Environment Forum & Manager, Global Choke Point Initiative, Wilson Center
Future Lectures (2:00 - 3:30 p.m. EDT)
• Mekong Fisheries - October 13, 2021
• Oil Palm and Rubber Plantations - November 10, 2021
• Politics of Conservation & Heritage - December 8, 2021
This series is made possible through funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and is co-organized by Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, the East-West Center, University of Hawai'i-Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa-Center for Chinese Studies, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.

Arabic language practice and culture presentations.

Climate change is expected to be particularly severe in the Middle East. Israel and its neighbors
are already seeing statistically significant changes in the weather. This lecture constitutes a
briefing of the present situation and what changes are projected ahead. It will also consider
the geopolitical implications associated with extreme weather events, droughts and climate
refugees.
Dr. Alon Tal is a Serling Visiting Israeli Scholar teaching at James Madison College in MSU for the
seventh time during the Fall 2021 semester. Dr. Alon Tal [Sc.D., Harvard University; Ll.B., Hebrew
University] founded the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, a graduate studies center
in which students join Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmentalists to study common
environmental challenges and solutions. Dr. Tal founded and served as the co-chair of Israel's
Green Party. He also established Adam Teva V'din, The Israel Union for Environmental Defense.
He is the author or editor of eleven books, including most recently a co-edited book, Climate
Change, Environment and National Security, A New Front (2021) and The Land Is Full: Addressing
Overpopulation in Israel, New Haven, Yale University Press, (2016).

Co-sponsors: College of Arts and Letters, College of Social Science, James Madison College, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Center
for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and the Asian Studies Center

Immediately following What Happens When the Middle East Gets Even
Hotter? Israel's Response to the Global Climate Crisis with Prof. Alon Tal 11:00am-12:30pm

Dr. Alon Tal is a Serling Visiting Israeli Scholar teaching at James Madison College in MSU for the seventh time during the Fall 2021semester. Dr. Alon Tal [Sc.D., Harvard University; Ll.B., Hebrew University] founded the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, a graduate studies center in which students join Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmentalists to study common environmental
challenges and solutions. Dr. Tal founded and served as the co-chair of Israel's Green Party. He also established Adam Teva V'din, The Israel Union for Environmental Defense. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including most recently a co-edited book, Climate Change, Environment and National Security, A New Front (2021) and The Land Is Full: Addressing Overpopulation in Israel, New Haven, Yale University Press, (2016).

The Impossible Room is inspired by a photo showing a man and his wife on one side, and his parents on the other side of a worn black line at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, in Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. This venue has become a meeting point for people who can't cross borders due to multiple reasons.

The Impossible Room explores how contemporary dance might embody ideas separation, border-crossing, intersection, and enforcement, and how bodies "mark their space as citizens or non-citizens". In this age of geopolitical tension, this performance reminds us that borders are fictions created by humans as real and menacing as we choose to make them.

Dedicated to all immigrants around the world.

Funded by the Humanities and Research Program (HARP), MSU Muslim Studies Program, Asian Studies Center, and the Delia Koo Faculty Endowment.

Arabic language practice and culture presentations.

Arabic language practice and culture presentations.

Featuring Ali Olomi (Penn State) and Nura Sediqe (Princeton) and moderated by Zarena Aslami (MSU). 

Please register in advance at the Afghanistan in this Critical Moment registration page. 

 

Sponsored by MSU Muslim Studies Program

Co-sponsored by Asian Studies Center; Center for Gender in Global Context; Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; College of Arts and Letters; College of Social Science; Dept. of English; Dept. of Religious Studies; Dept. of Political Science Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities; James Madison College; Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives; Peace & Justice Studies

This panel on "Turkey and Central Eurasia" is the first in a series of inquiriessponsored by several MSU centers and programs into "The Geopolitics and Economicsof Central Eurasia and Its Neighbors." Future panels will look at China, Russia, Europeand other external actors to explore trans-regional relationships and interactions, asChina's Belt and Road Initiative plays out, Russia seeks to regain dominant influenceover former Soviet regions in its "near abroad," and Turkey seeks to unite the Turkiclanguage speaking world in what some have termed "Neo-Ottomanism."

Panelists:
Hannah Lucinda Smith, author of Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
Norm Graham & Timur Kocaoglu (Michigan State University), co-authors of
Making Russia and Turkey Great Again?: Putin and Erdogan in Search of Lost Empires and Autocratic Power
Moderator: Emine Evered, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University

Speaker: Dr. Akash Bang
, MD, DNB is Additional Professor of Pediatrics at All India Institute ofMedical Sciences, Nagpur. He has mentored several undergraduate and post graduate medicalstudents, and is very actively involved as a certified national trainer for various training modulesrelated to neonatal and pediatric resuscitation, basic and advanced care under the banner of IndianAcademy of Pediatrics (IAP), National Neonatology Forum of India (NNF), American Academy of Pediatrics and UNICEF
He has been a five-times-winner of the "NRP Champion award" for his contribution to Neonatal Resuscitation Trainings andis currently the Joint National Convener of the Neonatal Resuscitation Trainings of IAP and NNF.
He was selected amongst sixyoung researchers in 2009 for two- years Health Research Mentorship program of St John's Research Institute, Bangalore- aCenter of Excellence for NIH-NHLBI-UH's Global Health Initiative, and has also collaborated with The Eunice Kennedy ShriverNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Global Network for Women's and Children's HealthResearch investigators and coordinated the Helping Babies Breathe trial at Nagpur, India.
Moderator: Aniruddh P. Behere
is an Assistant Professor and has joint appointments in the College of Human Medicine's Departmentof Pediatrics and Human Development and Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. He currently practices at Helen DeVosChildren's hospital and specializes in working with medically complex children and is the medical director of Peds Consult Liaison andGlobal Health (Psy).