Cross-Cultural Collaborations: Opportunities for Addressing Social Issues in the North Atlantic

Glickman Family Library 314 Forest Ave, Portland, ME, United States

Social work professors Dr. Charlothe Petersen Mørkhøj of Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland
Dr. Dorothea Ivey of University of Southern Maine
Lars, BSW Social Work student, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland, and Sandra Perez, MSW student, University of Southern Maine.

Moderator: Dr. Paula Gerstenblatt, Professor of Social Work at University of Southern Maine and member of the Maine-Greenland Collaborations research team.

Mixing West African Traditional Sounds and American R&B

State Theatre 609 Congress St, Portland, ME, United States

Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is one of the greatest artists in international music today, a creative force with fourteen albums and innumerable accolades to her name. Kidjo cross-pollinates the West African traditional sounds of her childhood in Benin with elements of American R&B, funk and jazz, as well as influences from Europe and Latin America.

Evening Extra: Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age

University of Southern Maine, 102 Wishcamper 34 Bedford St, Portland, ME, United States

Over the past decade, there have been growing concerns that the renewed great power competition and the increasing salience of nuclear weapons in world politics could eventually lead to the erosion of the international norm against the use of nuclear weapons - the “nuclear taboo.” Join students and faculty with the Department of Political Science... Read more »

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