Tuesday November 17th at 12:30pm Katy CyberLounge

Award winning filmmaker, Marcela Gaviria has produced 15 documentaries for PBS Frontline, including five films on post war Iraq and two on the current war in Afghanistan. The latest, Obama’s War, aired October 13.   On Tuesday, November 17, she will speak at Pandora’s Box and discuss and show segments of her films.

A native of Colombia, she graduated from Brown University and field-produced documentaries from Latin America for PBS and the BBC before joining RAINmedia in New York.  Other films in clude The Madoff Affiar, Medicating Kids, The Storm (About Katrina and New Orleans for which she won an Emmy in 2005), and the four-hour series Drug Wars.  Librarian Cindy Belmar will introduce the speaker.

For more information:

• Frontline website on Obama’s War, aired October 13, 2009
• RAIN Media

Registration for this free continuing education class is available right before the class starts at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084.  For more information please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu

Note: This talk has been archived and will soon be on reserve in the library. Check back here for details.

Tuesday October 13th at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge

Dr. Roger Newman, of Columbia University, speaking on “Civil Liberties, Surveillance, and Terrorism.”

Registration for this free continuing education class is available right before the class starts at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084.  For more information please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu

The Houston Job Market: Scary or for the Savvy?

Wednesday, Sept. 30th 12:30 p.m. Katy Campus CyberLounge

We read about the layoffs yet are told that Houston’s job market is better than most other city’s.  What prospects do our students have?  What jobs are out there?  Pandora’s Box presents Lilly Chu of the Houston Better Business Bureau to discuss “Life after School” on Wednesday, September 30.  The director of programming for the HBBB will appraise students of the job landscape and give them a practical look at the prospects and possibilities facing them after graduation. Criminal Justice professor Rudy Hardy will introduce the speaker.

HCC students, faculty, staff, and the public are invited.  The free event, a Continuing Ed course with on site registration, begins at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084.  For more information please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu.

“Survivors like myself won’t be around here five or ten years from now.“

Hear the riveting story of Walter Kase, who was held in five concentration camps before being liberated at age fifteen and weighing 64 pounds. He will discuss his boyhood experiences before, during, and after living in the camps, his family, his immigration to America, and the mystery behind his emotional reaction to chocolate.

Tuesday September 22, 2009 at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge

More information:

• Holocaust Museum Houston
• Holocaust, Encyclopedia Britannica

What precautions will and won’t prevent infection during the H1N1 (swine) flu pandemic? Get the answers to these and other related questions on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15 and 16 when Pandora’s Box Continuing Education class presents two separate programs on disaster readiness.

Tuesday, September 15th

Speaker’s presentation slides:

• Readiness-HCC-Northwest

John Holleman of the Homeland Preparedness Project discusses hurricane and disaster readiness, community emergency response teams (CERT), and the medical reserve corps. Introduction by Phil Godshalk, Continuing Education.

More information on preparedness:

• Homeland Preparedness Project
• Ready.gov
• Community Emergency Response Teams
• Medical Reserve Corps

Wednesday, September 16th

Raylene Cotter, an infectious disease representative from Memorial Herman Hospitals, will update students and the public on H1N1 flu, the H1N1 vaccine, and what can be done locally in the face of the pandemic. Introduction by Branson Brade, Mathematics professor.

More information:

• Free information from Ebsco Host, one of the HCC library datasbases on H1N1 flu

HCC students, faculty, staff, and the public are welcome to attend these free continuing education classes. The classes begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084. For more information on the class, please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu.

Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, historian and former army colonel.

Andrew Bacevich will speak on his book “The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.” Bacevich, a conservative historian, claims a triple crisis faces America: the economy, in remarkable disarray; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency; U.S. involvement in endless wars, a catastrophe for the body politic.

Is peaceful coexistence between people of different religions and cultures possible? On Tuesday, February 24, Pandora’s Box presents Dr. Jill Carroll, Executive Director of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University, who will discuss “The Challenges of Religious Diversity in America.”  As a scholar in religious studies, Dr. Carroll has spent over two decades studying the world¹s religions and major religious movements ­ their histories, principal founders, central beliefs, basic rituals, current issues, and their impact in public life and in contemporary politics. Geology Professor Carolyn Miller will introduce the program.

For more information:

www.jillcarroll.com

Houston Belief Blog Talking Tolerance

Micheline Slattery, former child and domestic slave from Haiti, tells her story and others’: “21st Century Slavery: Living Proof.”

Tuesday, February 10, the spring edition of Pandora’s Box, in conjunction with Voices without Borders, starts with speaker Micheline Slattery, a Haitian orphan who was enslaved at 5 and sold for $2500 at 14. In 21st Century Slavery: Living Proof, she tells of her ordeals in Haiti and of being trafficked to Connecticut. “It’s not something I will ever feel free and comfortable talking about, but I do it because I think it will make a difference,” says Slattery

Slattery will give two presentations: 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Campus Cyber Lounge and 2:30 p.m. in the Town & Country Eagle Room. Question and answer sessions follow each address.

HCC students, faculty, staff and the public are invited to the events: Katy Campus is located at 1550 Foxlake Drive and Town & Country Campus is at 1010 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N. For more information please email michael.ronan@hccs.edu or call 713.718.5750.

For more information on this topic:

• ABC News story on How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours – One Reporter’s Journey Reveals An Epidemic of child Slavery in Haiti.  Click here for the story.

• YouTube video: “Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery”, October 13, 2008.  Click here for link

• Campaign to end human trafficking
  http://www.notforsalecampaign.org

• American Anti-slavery Group      http://www.iabolish.org/index.html

Local organizations:

• Children at Risk   http://www.childrenatrisk.org
• Houston Rescue & Restore CoalitionVictims of Human Trafficking  http://www.houstonrr.org/
  

Click here for fact sheets with more information and support resources available in English, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and Chinese

FEB. 25: HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY DAY

Children at Risk, Houston Rescue and Restore, and human trafficking coalitions across the state will gather in Austin on Feb. 25th to thank the public officials who are leading the fight against human trafficking and inform other legislators of this important issue.

• http://www.childrenatrisk.org/childrenatrisk.cfm?a=cms,c,684

In her multi-media presentation, “The Buzz and the Biz of Sustaining Our Planet,” Abbott will walk through what needs to be done, what is being done, and how much time we have to do it. If you are concerned about the planet, do not miss this one. Michael Ronan, English, will introduce the speaker.

Event details:

When: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:30pm

Where: Katy Campus CyberLounge

More information:

• Clean and Green Committee resource guide with comprehensive related website links

Time & Place:

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:30pm in the Katy Campus CyberLounge

Links:

• Matt Finkel’s web site