BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10968-00d5c22e90cb6f619c13855531096eb9@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260608T040810Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T160000 SUMMARY:Hi Annual Lecture and Alumni Award DESCRIPTION:Hi Annual Lecture and Alumni Award\n\nAll welcome. Reception following these events.\n\n \;\n\n“State of Disaster: The Environme ntal and Policy Disasters That Drive Migration From Central America” Mar ía Cristina García\, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies\, Co rnell University\n\nWhat policies should the United States adopt in resp onse to the growing number of climate refugees? Historian María Cristina García examines U.S. responses to environmental disasters in Central Am erica to see what lessons might be learned for shaping humanitarian and immigration policies in an era of accelerating climate change. Central A merica has been vulnerable to sudden-onset disasters like hurricanes and slower-developing conditions like drought\, but the region has also suf fered from policy failures that pile disaster upon disaster\, forcing pe ople to migrate within their countries and across international borders\ , where they have few legal protections. García’s presentation offers a view into some of the challenges of the present and future.\n\n \;\n \nAlumni Award:\n\nPaul Hendrickson\, Senior Lecturer Department of Engl ish\, University of Pennsylvania\n\nPaul Hendrickson is a three-time fin alist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of it once —for his 2003 Sons of Mississippi. His The Living and the Dead: Robert M cNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the Nationa l Book Award. His 2011 Hemingway's Boat was both a New York Times and Lo ndon best-seller. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ly ndhurst Foundation\, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the creative writing program at the Universit y of Pennsylvania\, and for two decades before that he was a staff write r at The Washington Post.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu /event/hi-annual-lecture-and-alumni-award/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Hi Annual Lecture and Alumni Award

All welcome. Reception following these events.< /p>

 

“State of Disaster: The Environmental and Pol icy Disasters That Drive Migration From Central America” María Cristina García, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies, Cornell University

What policies should the United States adopt in respon se to the growing number of climate refugees? Historian María Cristina G arcía examines U.S. responses to environmental disasters in Central Amer ica to see what lessons might be learned for shaping humanitarian and im migration policies in an era of accelerating climate change. Central Ame rica has been vulnerable to sudden-onset disasters like hurricanes and s lower-developing conditions like drought, but the region has also suffer ed from policy failures that pile disaster upon disaster, forcing people to migrate within their countries and across international borders, whe re they have few legal protections. García’s presentation offers a view into some of the challenges of the present and future.

 

< p>Alumni Award:

Paul Hendrickson, Senior Lecturer Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

< p>Paul Hendrickson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critic s Circle Award and a winner of it once—for his 2003 Sons of Mississi ppi. His The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Live s of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. Hi s 2011 Hemingway's Boat was both a New York Times and London be st-seller. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Gug genheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst F oundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998 he has been o n the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Penns ylvania, and for two decades before that he was a staff writer at Th e Washington Post.

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