Session Description: One year into the pandemic. Something unexpected that has completely changed our lives: our sense of time and space, our mobility, our habits. It's a catastrophy, as the ancient Greeks said, and the etimology teaches us. It's an upside-down world. Neverthless all the Beauty is still here. The Nature has taken back its […]

Session Description: Many people in the Amazon basin of South America continue long-term, indigenous legacies of ecological culture and interactions with the species and ecosystems where they live. Meanwhile, business interests, migration patterns, climate change, the current pandemic and a variety of external pressures and social dynamics threaten to permanently destabilize previously sustainable ways of […]

Session Description: Are you interested in studying relationships between people and music, in your local community and around the world? Then you might be interested in ethnomusicology, a long name for an accessible topic. Ethnomusicologists study how making and listening to music connects to emotion and entertainment; friendship, family, and community; dance, drama, and ritual; […]

We will be discussing short stories from Greek, Haitian and Japanese authors that feature ghosts, some friendly, others frightening and the spirit of a deceased aunt who would like her living niece to join her in becoming the latter. All registered participants will receive links to reading materials and virtual meeting information. Register here: https://forms.gle/qbZ3ievqK31L6FgNA […]

Presentation Description: This presentation introduces population health perspectives, with emphasis on the biological and social determinants of health at the community level, such as transportation, food, economic status, age and lifestyle habits. Examples in a Chinese community and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices will be discussed. Presenter Bio: Yan Xu is a member of the Biology convening […]