My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American scholar, was arrested in Tehran in 2007 on false charges and incarcerated in the Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in Ahmadinejad's Iran. She will discuss her new book, My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran. Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. More Information.

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Krzysztof Kozubski
Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies

Role of COX-2 in UVB-induced l-cateinin Signaling in Keratinocytes Kimberly Smith, IGP Student Department of Pathology (Dr. Jill Pelling's Lab) Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL More Information.

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Cancer Center
Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

Please join Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University on the evening of Thursday, November 5, 2009 at Levy Mayer Hall (in the Lincoln Hall Room) for a panel discussion about the international response to the ongoing crisis of childhood malnutrition. Reception at 6:00, followed by panel at 7:00 pm. Will Reno, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, a specialist in African politics and the politics of "collapsing states", will moderate the discussion. Dr. Marc Levin, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) aid worker who has completed several field assignments, including programs providing treatment to malnourished children in Niger in 2008. Johanne Sekkenes, is Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Director of Operational Support. As a nurse who has completed many field assignments, she was Head of Mission for MSF's programs in Niger in 2005. Following MSF's massive intervention during the nutritional emergency in Niger in 2005, when medical teams treated more than 60,000 severely malnourished children, MSF invited a variety of authors to reflect on the multifaceted crisis. The result is the recently released book Niger 2005: A Not-So Natural Disaster. The book explores the various lenses through which aid agencies, international institutions, national governments, policy makers, and mothers themselves viewed the crisis and looks at how lessons learned in Niger can be applied to future crises. Based on this and other field experience treating malnutrition, MSF has identified key policy and programmatic changes that can be made to improve the dire situation faced by millions of vulnerable children each year in the world's malnutrition hotspots of Southeast Asia and parts of Africa including the Sahel and the Horn. In particular, MSF is calling on the United States and other international donors to scale up effective programs and to make sure that food aid meets the nutritional needs of children. This event is free, wheelchair-accessible, and open to the public. Please join us for a reception prior to the discussion, from 6 - 7 pm in the Lincoln Hall Room Questions? Contact PAS at 847-491-7323 or african-studies@northwestern.edu _____________ More Information.

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Kate Dargis
Program of African Studies