Pandora’s Box Welcomes Disaster (Speakers!)
What steps should be taken in the face of a hurricane or other natural disaster?
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
Podcast:
Speaker’s presentation slides:
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:
Wednesday, September 16th
Podcast:
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:
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.
Speaker: Andrew Bacevich
Podcast:
Tuesday, March 24, 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge
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.
Speaker: Dr. Jill Carroll on religious tolerance in America
Podcast:
Tuesday, February 24, 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge
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:
Houston Belief Blog Talking Tolerance
Speaker: Micheline Slattery
Podcast:
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/
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.