Here are recorded programs that you may find of interest.

From Surviving to Thriving:  Ensuring that We Support the Whole International Student, featuring Dr. Rajika Bhandari, author of America Calling:  A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility.  Dr. Bhandari received an AAUW International Fellowship to support her graduate studies.

The global events of recent years – an ongoing pandemic, ruptured education systems, growing nationalism worldwide, and a renewed social justice movement – have called for a sea-change and a re-imaging of academia’s mission and work with international students, as well as the central role they play in building birdges and fostering global engagement.  Featured here are Orlina Boteva, Director of the Office of International Programs, and Dr. Karen Pelletreau, CITL Director of Faculty Educational Development. Dr. Bhandari shares here extensive experience as an international higher education expert and her personal and professional insights on attracting international students; serving and aligning their needs with campus diversity and inclusion efforts; and positioning them for success.

Here is a link to her book at Amazon.

Here is the link to the EVENT RECORDING

This salon took place at the University of Maine, Orono, on March 19, 2024.  It was supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund, by generous contributions from Fogler Library donors, and the following co-sponsors: CITL (Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning), SPIA (School of Policy and International Affairs), OIP (Office of International Programs), and the Honors College.

Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life by Lydia Moland, Professor of Psychology, Colby College

By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the
American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today
for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the Wood,” Child had become famous at
an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children’s stories. But in 1833, Child
shocked her readers by publishing the first book-length argument against slavery in the United
States—a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons
ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the
abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation.

Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment
and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia
Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child’s: What does
it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When
confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child’s
lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited
guidance for political engagement today.

To purchase the book, please see University of Chicgo Press.

Here is the link and the password: U!*85A.! (Apologies for the poor sound quality)

We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip  Program by Anne B. Gass.  On April 19, 2023, the Waterville Branch hosted Maine author and independent historian Anne B. Gass.  Gass shared remarks and historic slides about her historical novel We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip, which is based on a true story. In 1915 four women leave San Francisco for Washington DC on a desperate and dangerous mission to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution enfranchising women. The story unfolds through the eyes of unsung heroes Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, middle-aged Swedish immigrants who own the car, do all the driving, and fix what goes wrong. They lose their way in a trackless Nevada desert and get stuck in the mud in Kansas, among many other adventures. Gass also talked about her approach to writing the book, including the ways she interwove fact with fiction.

Here is the link and the password: &TV60Ti#

 

Equal Pay Day and Salary Negotiation Workshop on 207!

Here is a segment on 207 (a nightly news show on NBC) about a salary negotiation workshop organized by the Waterville Branch in 2022.