{"id":1281,"date":"2019-08-06T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/?page_id=1281"},"modified":"2019-08-06T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:54:06","slug":"james-d-ewing-world-affairs-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/james-d-ewing-world-affairs-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture<\/em>\u00a0was named in honor of James Ewing, owner and publisher of the\u00a0<em>Keene Sentinel<\/em>, an award-winning daily newspaper for the Monadnock Region from 1954 to 1993. The Endowment has been established to bring speakers to Keene State College and the Keene community to address current public or world affairs issues.<\/p>\n<p>During his years as publisher of the\u00a0<em>Sentinel<\/em>, Mr. Ewing successfully campaigned for a wide range of local and state causes, including environmental protection, freedom of information, and public services for the poor. His life-long dedication was to raise the standards of journalism at home and abroad, to advocate for strong news coverage, open-meeting laws, and fair reporting. His newspaper philosophy was &#8220;to help make the\u00a0<em>Sentinel<\/em>\u00a0a force for progress in all senses, and to make a contribution toward a richer life for every person within our reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ewing was active in civic and cultural organizations and supported many causes in Keene and beyond. He founded the New Hampshire Humanities Council in 1973 and served as director for the MacDowell Colony, Yankee Publishing Corp., Keene Regional Industrial Foundation, Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce, and the Monadnock United Way. He helped launch the International Center for Journalists, a Washington, DC based training institute for journalists from around the world. For three years, he served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Mr. Ewing\u2019s wife, Ruth, continues to pursue the couple\u2019s strong interest in the world community.<\/p>\n<p>*********************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1286 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Brodsky-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Brodsky-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Brodsky.png 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Marcelo Brodsky,<em>\u00a0Visual Artist, Human Rights Advocate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>&#8220;Memory Works&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forced into exile in Barcelona after General Jorge Rafael Videla\u2019s 1976 coup in Argentina, Marcelo Brodsky studied economics at the University of Barcelona and photography at the Centre Internacional de Fotografia. In 1986, after returning to Argentina, he founded his own picture agency, Latinstock. With work focused on visual language, memory, and human rights, Brodsky is the recipient of the 2008 B\u2019nai Brith Award for Human Rights and the 2014 Dr. Jean Mayer Award.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the talk, the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery will host Marcelo Brodsky: 1968: The Fire of Ideas and Selected Works March 20 \u2013 June 23, with an opening reception from 4-6 p.m. March 20, before the Ewing Lecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1300 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Coggins-Bridget-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Coggins-Bridget-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Coggins-Bridget-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Coggins-Bridget.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px\" \/>Dr. Bridget Coggins, <em>Associate Professor of Political Science<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Not Part of US?\u00a0 Secessionist Politics in the US and Abroad&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, March 26, 2018 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Centennial Hall, Alumni Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US periodically grapples with demands for independence, but sincere efforts, drawing large numbers of supporters, have not occurred for decades. Recently, Americans on both ends of the political spectrum have begun discussing separation more seriously; however, the movements seem tainted by foreign countries motivated by their own interests, and not principles like justice or self-determination. The US too, has been deeply involved in the politics of secession in other countries including Kosovo, Georgia &amp; South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>What do we know about the causes, dynamics and consequences of secessionism elsewhere that can help us think through the new politics of separatism in the US today? What role does, or ought, the US play in the politics of secession in the distant &amp; varied conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Cameroon, Somalia, Spain or the UK? What influence will outsiders have on independence movements in the US? Who is a part of us &amp; who should part us?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1302 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Sharif-202x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Sharif-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Sharif.png 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 85vw, 202px\" \/>Manal al-Sharif, <em>Activist and Campaigner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Live Free &amp; Drive, in the Kingdom of Saudi Men&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi activist and campaigner, got her first driver\u2019s license in Concord, NH, at the age of thirty. When she went back to Saudi, she started a movement that shocked her country and the world.<br \/>\nShe garnered international attention after posting a video on YouTube of herself, driving, in an act of civil disobedience. In retaliation, the Saudi government detained al-Sharif and charged her with \u201cdisturbing public order\u201d and \u201cinciting public opinion.\u201d Over 4,500 Saudis signed a petition to King Abdullah demanding her release. After sustained pressure from domestic and international groups, al-Sharif was released on the conditions that she post bail, return for questioning upon request, and refrain from driving and from speaking to the media. She remains an active critic of the Saudi authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy named al-Sharif one of the \u201cTop 100 Global Thinkers of 2011,\u201d and in 2012, she was one of Time\u2019s \u201c100 Most Influential People.\u201d She is also a Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Laureate.<br \/>\nNow, al-Sharif returns to New Hampshire to tell us what the media didn\u2019t report.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1303 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Monhanty_Poster_2-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Monhanty_Poster_2-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Monhanty_Poster_2-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Monhanty_Poster_2-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Monhanty_Poster_2-1200x1855.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>Dr. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, <em>Chair and Distinguished Professor, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Confronting Imperial Democracies: Cultivating a Passion for Gender Justice&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Centennial Hall, Alumni Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do social justice scholars, activists, and cultural workers need to know, analyze, and learn about so we can forge ethical solidarities across borders, and build the landscapes of racial and gender justice that we dream about and struggle for? Reflecting on her own journey as a feminist from the Global South, committed to building cross-border solidarities, Chandra Talpade Mohanty examines the USA, Israel, and India, comparing three geopolitical sites as areas of normalized violence. Neoliberal and militarized state and imperial practices at these sites are often sustained by development\/peace-keeping\/humanitarian projects. Talpade Mohanty suggests that social justice advocates need to confront them as imperial democracies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1304 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/EwingMburu_poster-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/EwingMburu_poster-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/EwingMburu_poster-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/EwingMburu_poster-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/EwingMburu_poster-1200x1855.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>Chris Mburu, <em>Human Rights Activist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Education as a Human Right: Global Solutions for Global Problems&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Swedish holocaust survivor Hilde Back supported a young, rural Kenyan student named Chris Mburu, she thought nothing of it. Now a graduate from Harvard University and a human rights lawyer for the United Nations, Mburu found the stranger who changed his life, has started a scholarship program, and has named it for his former benefactor. Mburu, a passionate human rights defender and human rights lawyer for the UN, now fights<br \/>\nthe battle to make education free for all children. He argues that the failure by many governments to invest in education has led to disempowerment and marginalization, which breeds deadly violence and conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1305 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Hakakian_Poster_Reprint-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Hakakian_Poster_Reprint-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Hakakian_Poster_Reprint-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Hakakian_Poster_Reprint-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Hakakian_Poster_Reprint-1200x1855.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>Roya Hakakian, Author,<em> Poet and Activist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Journey for the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hakakian is the author of two collections of poetry in Persian. She serves on the board of Refugees International and is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. She has written a memoir of growing up as a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran, Journey from the Land of No, and her most recent book is Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, about Iran\u2019s terror campaign against exiled Iranian dissidents in Western Europe. Hakakian is also a recipient of the 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in a Jewish family in Tehran, Roya Hakakian came to the United States in May 1985 on political asylum.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1306 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/strange-democracy-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/strange-democracy-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/strange-democracy-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/strange-democracy-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/strange-democracy.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>La Pocha Nostra, <em>Performance by Brujo Guillermo Gomez Pena<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Strange Democracy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post-Mexican writer and performance artist Brujo Guillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a reflects on identity, race, sexuality, pop culture, and current politics. He also denounces anti-immigration hysteria and assaults demonizing views of the US\/Mexican border. Using acid humor, hybrid literary genres and multilingualism, G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a pushes the \u201cmainstream\u201d to the margins and focuses on cultural borders.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1307 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Tea-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Tea-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Tea.png 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 85vw, 201px\" \/>Greg Mortenson, <em>Co-Founder and Executive Director of nonprofit Central Asia Institute<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThree Cups of Tea: One Man\u2019s Mission to Promote Peace\u2026One School At A Time\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 5, 2010 at 12:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greg Mortenson will present the Ewing World Affairs lecture on his 15 years of experience working in remote, rugged mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan that have made him an expert in a region that few people know about \u2013 which is now front and center on the global arena of the war on terror. Through his unique perspective of the region\u2019s culture, history, geo-politics and development aspects, Mortenson shares insightful commentary and stunning photography about his extraordinary journey of a decade long effort to promote girl\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1308 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Gretchen-Steidle-Wallace-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Gretchen-Steidle-Wallace-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Gretchen-Steidle-Wallace.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/>Gretchen Steidle Wallace, <em>Founder of Global Grassroots<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(2008-2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSurvivors of Conflict, Agents of Change: How Africa\u2019s Women Are Using Grassroots Social Entrepreneurship to Rebuild from Genocide,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Steidle Wallace, founder of Global Grassroots, a nonprofit organization that invests in social entrepreneurship to advance women\u2019s well-being in poor countries, will be the guest speaker at Keene State College\u2019s James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 30, in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center. Her talk, \u201cSurvivors of Conflict, Agents of Change: How Africa\u2019s Women Are Using Grassroots Social Entrepreneurship to Rebuild from Genocide,\u201d will explore her work as a social entrepreneur helping to empower women in genocide- and conflict-torn areas of the world. The lecture is free and open to the public. Gretchen Steidle Wallace received a BA in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia (where she attended as a Jefferson Scholar), and her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she helped found what is now Tuck\u2019s Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship. The Allwin Initiative works to give business leaders a sense of corporate responsibility, service, business ethics, and knowledge of social enterprise. She co-authored her brother\u2019s memoirs, <em>The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur, <\/em>the story of former Marine Captain Brian Steidle, and produced a documentary film with the same title. She was honored by <em>World Business<\/em> Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35. In 2004 Wallace led a team to South Africa to study the impact of HIV\/AIDS, the work of social entrepreneurs combating the disease, and the opportunity for creative business investment in the epidemic. In the townships of South Africa, she discovered how critical a role the lack of women\u2019s sexual and economic rights played in the continued spread of HIV. In late 2004, inspired by her work in South Africa and her brother\u2019s tenure in Darfur as a military observer for the African Union, she incorporated Global Grassroots. Global Grassroots (www.globalgrassroots.org) uses consciousness practices, social entrepreneurship training, and seed funding to help women victims of conflict and genocide launch their own ideas for social change. In 2005, she returned to Africa to launch Global Grassroots\u2019 initial work in the Darfur refugee camps of eastern Chad.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1309 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dan-Maxwell-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dan-Maxwell-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dan-Maxwell.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>Dan Maxwell, <em>Tufts University Professor<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(2007-2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Why Do Famines Persist? Humanitarian Action in Emergencies in the 21st Century&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Maxwell has worked for most of the past decade in East and Central Africa &#8211; one of the most famine-prone areas of the world. His current focus draws on that experience: How have we responded to famines in the past and how has our understanding of famines changed? What do we know about their causes? How will we cope with the changing risk of famine in the future and the challenges facing both humanitarian aid workers and people at risk of famine in the 21st century? For nearly 30 years, Professor Maxwell has held leadership roles in humanitarian program development and management in various roles, mostly in Africa. Much of this work was both addressing the acute affects of famine and food security crises and working to reduce the risk of such crises. For 20 years, he has also been engaged in interdisciplinary-applied social research with an emphasis on famine and food security. He is currently associate professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and research director, Food Security and Livelihoods in Complex Emergencies, at the Feinstein International Center also at Tufts. He is responsible for developing and leading a program of research in famine and food insecurity in complex emergencies and conducts broader research on humanitarian action and agency quality and effectiveness. Before that, he spent eight years with the CARE-International, East and Central Africa Regional Management Unit. He is the coauthor, along with Chris Barrett of Cornell University, of the 2005 book Food Aid after Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1310 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Daiv-Walton-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Daiv-Walton-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Daiv-Walton.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 85vw, 162px\" \/>Dr. David Walton,<em> Partners in Health<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dr. Paul Farmer, <em>Partners in Health<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(2005-2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Globalization: Impact on Peoples of the World&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a reflection of his work with Partners in Health in rural communities in Haiti, Dr. David Walton wrote, &#8220;I came to realize that the poor deserve preferential treatment. Diseases settle on the poor because they have been forced to endure hunger, famine, political violence, and social inequality.&#8221; Tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria are all but unknown in the West. Yet these treatable and preventable diseases are among the major causes of mortality in poor and developing nations. Dr. Walton, a resident at Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital in Boston and a volunteer for the international charity organization Partners in Health, will speak at Keene State College&#8217;s fourth annual James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Friday, November 4, at 4 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center. The lecture is part of KSC&#8217;s Fourth Biennial World Affairs Symposium &#8220;Globalization: Impact on Peoples of the World,&#8221; which will be held November 3-5. Dr. Walton divides his time between Boston and Haiti, where he works with Partners in Health, which provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. In his address, &#8220;Medicine and Social Justice,&#8221; Dr. Walton will d<\/p>\n<p>iscuss his work for Partners in Health: diagnosing and curing infectious diseases and bringing modern medicine to those who need them most &#8211; those living in poverty<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1311 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Paul-Farmer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Paul-Farmer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Paul-Farmer.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 85vw, 172px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Paul Farmer founded Partners in Health (PIH) in 1987, initially to support local community health activities<\/p>\n<p>in Central Haiti by providing clinic and a training program for community health workers. Today, PIH provides medical services to the poor of Haiti, Rwanda, Peru, Russia, and Boston. Between his first and sec<\/p>\n<p>ond years of medical school, Dr. Walton spent several months working at the hospital in Cange, on Haiti&#8217;s Central Plateau, run by PIH&#8217;s sister organization Zanmi Lasante. He wrote, &#8220;My experience there was unlike any of my previous experiences abroad. The abject poverty and despair I witnessed is unparalleled in the western hemisphere. Haiti humbled me, brought tears to my eyes, and lit a fire in my heart.&#8221; The 60 days he stayed in Haiti, he wrote, &#8220;were the most important of my life.&#8221; During that time, Dr. Walton served as Paul Farmer&#8217;s research assistant, accompanying the doctor on house calls &#8211; via full-day, arduous treks through mountains. On each visit they encountered patients with illnesses that would be easily and, by Western standards, affordably treated with state-of-the-art medicines. But, says Dr. Walton, many Haitians, burdened over the years with corrupt governments and natural disasters, cannot afford food, let alone pay for medicine. Farmer&#8217;s solution: to ignore expensive, name brand drugs and scour the world for cheaper, but just as effective, generics. With these medicines, Zanmi Lasante and PIH provide over 1,000 patients daily with free, quality medical care. Equally important, they work together to provide local residents with specialized health training as pharmacists, birth attendants, and community health workers, and to arrange more advanced training for physicians and nurses. By finding innovative solutions to medical problems that afflict mainly the poor, PIH is also attempting to change the Western view of health care, says Walton. In 2001 Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital, in collaboration with PIH, created the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities (DSMHI), an institution dedicated to addressing disparities in health through training, education, research, and service. Dr. Walton was one of the first candidates to be selected for the DSMHI&#8217;s Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital. He has been working with Partners in Health since 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1312 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Welsch-and-Endicott-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Kirk Endicott, <em>Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Robert Welsh, <em>Visiting Professor in Anthropology at Dartmouth<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(2004-2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTribal Peoples: The Dilemma of Change\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As countries become more aggressive in economic development, threats to the survival of the indigenous peoples of the world increase, according to Kirk Endicott, professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, and his colleague Robert Welsch, a visiting professor in anthropology at Dartmouth. Endicott and Welsch, co-editors of the anthropology reader <em>Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology<\/em>, will speak at Keene State College\u2019s third annual James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Wednesday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center. In their address, Tribal People: The Dilemma of Change, Endicott and Welsch will discuss the rights of indigenous people whose lives are disrupted by economic development and nation building. They will present case studies from around the world, looking in particular at issues of assimilation and the retention of cultural identity. The James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture Endowment is named in memory of James Ewing, who was the owner and publisher of <em>The Keene Sentinel<\/em> from 1954 to 1993. The Endowment was established to bring speakers to Keene State College and the Keene community to address current public or world affairs issues.Endicott has a long-standing interest in indigenous peoples. At graduate school at the University of Oxford, he studied the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. Later, he focused his fieldwork on a then-unstudied group of Malaysian hunter-gatherers, the Batek, concentrating on documenting their economy, social organization, and religion. Endicott has devoted much of his time to raising awareness of the plight of the Orang Asli as they are displaced from their homelands by Malaysian government development programs. Endicott has taught anthropology at California State University at Northridge, the University of Malaya, Cornell University, the Australian National University, and Dartmouth College, where he has been a professor of anthropology since 1993. Welsch, adjunct curator of anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, has conducted more than five years of field research in Papua New Guinea and two years of field research in Indonesia since 1977. He trained as a medical anthropologist, studying how people in New Guinea have made use of modern medicine. Among his many research projects in New Guinea and Indonesia, Welsch has studied medical anthropology in Java and cultural variation in Sulawesi, where he spent a year interviewing people in several dozen villages. Welsch is the author or editor of seven books and many articles, has been affiliated with the Field Museum since 1984, and has worked at Dartmouth since 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1314 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Postel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"189\" \/>Sandra Postel, <em>Director of the Global Water Policy Project<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(2003-2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sandra Postel is the director of the Global Water Policy Project in Amherst, Massachusetts and a visiting senior lecturer in environmental students at Mount Holyoke College.\u00a0 From 1988 until 1994, she was vice president for research at Worldwatch Institute, with which she remains affiliated as senior fellow.\u00a0 The leading US authority on international freshwater conservation issues, Postel was named one of the \u201cScientific American 50\u201d by <em>Scientific American <\/em>magazine in 2002.\u00a0 Postel\u2019s work is dedicated to the preservation and sustainable use of Earth\u2019s freshwater ecosystems.\u00a0 She is the author of <em>Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?<\/em> and <em>Last Oasis<\/em> which appears in nine languages and was the basis for a segment of the 1997 PBS documentary <em>Cadillac Desert.<\/em> Her newest book, coauthored with Brian Richter, is <em>Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature <\/em>(Island Press, 2003). Postel has published extensively in popular and scholarly publications, including <em>Science, Natural History, Scientific American, Foreign Policy, BioScience, Ecological Applications, Technology Review, Environmental Science and the and Technology, <\/em>and <em>Water International.<\/em>\u00a0 Her op-ed features have appeared in more than 30 newspapers in the United States and abroad, including the <em>New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post; <\/em>her article \u201cTroubled Waters\u201d appears in the 2001 <em>Best American Science and Nature Writing.<\/em> She has addressed the European Parliament on environmental issues and has served as a commentator on CNN\u2019s <em>Futurewatch. <\/em>Postel is an advisor to the Division on Earth and Life Studies of the U.S. National Research Council and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Water Resources Association and the editorial boards of <em>Ecosystems, Water Policy<\/em> and <em>Green Futures.<\/em> She received a bachelor\u2019s degree in geology and political science at Wittenburg University and a master\u2019s degree in environmental management at Duke University.\u00a0 She has been award a Pew Scholars Award in Conservation and the Environment and a lifetime chair with the International Water Academy in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1315 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/files\/2019\/08\/Dr.-Charles-Jacobs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"140\" \/>Dr. Charles Jacobs, <em>Co-Founder and President of the American Anti-Slavery Group\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(2002-2003) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Ewing Lecture Addresses Slavery in Africa. The first annual James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture at Keene State College will address the institution of slavery in present-day AfricaThe lecture, scheduled for Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center, will be presented by Dr. Charles Jacobs, co-founder and president of the American Anti-Slavery Group in Boston, and by Francis Bok, a 22-year-old native of Sudan who escaped slavery. Both men were present at the White House in October when President Bush signed into law the Sudan Peace Act, which condemns the Sudanese government for the use of slavery as a weapon of genocide and threatens sanctions against Sudan if it does not negotiate for peace in good faith. The Ewing Lecture was established last year by the estate of James D. Ewing, the longtime publisher of The Keene Sentinel, who died last January. The lecture, along with the James D. Ewing High School Newspaper Workshop \u2013 to be conducted under the auspices of the N.H. Press Association \u2013 will be supported by gifts from Ruth D. Ewing, James Ewing&#8217;s widow and a partner in many of his journalism-related undertakings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture\u00a0was named in honor of James Ewing, owner and publisher of the\u00a0Keene Sentinel, an award-winning daily newspaper for the Monadnock Region from 1954 to 1993. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/aa\/james-d-ewing-world-affairs-lecture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James D. 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