Speaker: Walter Kase
Podcast:
“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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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: Robert Stein
Podcast:
Tuesday March 31, 2009 12:30pm Katy Cyber Lounge
Dr. Robert M. Stein to speak on “2008 Elections, 50 Days of the Obama Administration, and Voter IDs in Texas”
Who voted and why? What promises will and won’t Obama be able to keep? Why Voter IDs? On Tuesday, March 31, Pandora’s Box presents the Faculty Director of Rice University’s Center for Civic Engagement, political science professor Robert M. Stein.
Often appearing on local television as a political analyst, Dr. Stein has published numerous articles and books including Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 1995, with Kenneth N. Bickers. Government professor Mark Hartray will introduce the speaker.
HCC students, faculty, staff, and the public are invited. The event begins at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084. For more information on the event, please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu.
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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.
