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To access the slides to this lecture, please visit: http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/jim-trostle-pathogens-in-ecuador James Trostle came to Trinity after helping manage a large international health program at the Harvard Institute for International Development from 1988 to 1995, and working as a Five College Professor and Founding Director of the Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science between 1995 and 1998 in Massachusetts. From 2001-2003, he was also Professor at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He has served for 13 years on various advisory groups for the World Health Organization. His research interests are in epidemiology and global health, and he has been a co-principal investigator on NIH and NSF-funded projects in coastal Ecuador since 2002.

Joseph Simcox is a World Food Plant Ecologist and Ethnobotanist. As a Botanical Explorer he travels the globe to identify the world’s food plant resources focusing on under-utilized crops and wild species. The basis of his work is to promote the use and cultivation of plants for food and useful components. His goal is to ensure food security and nutrition for all while developing food systems that mimic nature. Simcox asserts that the identification of wild food plants and their appropriate habitats is the first step to creating sustainable ecosystems. Simcox is an international speaker presenting at diverse conferences and symposiums around the world and introducing new perspectives on food resources, food production and the environment. He collaborates with independent growers, industry, universities, governments and non-government organizations in this worldwide effort. He has visited more than 100 countries to date for his field experience.

Tom Sleigh attended the California Institute of the Arts and Evergreen State College, and earned an MA from Johns Hopkins University. Sleigh is the author of several books of poetry; his most recent collections include Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011), winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. His latest book, Station Zed, was published by Graywolf Press in 2015. He has also published a translation of Euripides’s Herakles and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). Widely anthologized, his poems and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Threepenny, The Village Voice, and other literary magazines, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2013), The Best American Poetry, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Pushcart Anthology.

Chilean novelist and poet Alejandro Zambra is the author of the novels "Ways of Going Home," "The Private Lives of Trees," and "Bonsai," which was awarded Chile's Literary Critics Award for Best Novel of 2006, and the short story collection, "My Documents." Short stories and articles by Zambra have been featured in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Vice, Zoetrope, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Rattapallax. To listen to this podcast on iTunes, visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trini%E2%80%A6ege/id1057966315

Use this link to access the slides from the lecture - http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/the-new-matching-economy-uber-airbnb-beyond-michael-munger To download on iTunes, visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trini?ege/id1057966315 Michael Curtis Munger is an economist and a former chair of the political science department at Duke University, where he continues to teach political science, public policy, and economics. Munger has worked as a staff economist for the Federal Trade Commission and taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Texas at Austin, and UNC-Chapel Hill before becoming a political science professor at Duke University in 1997. In 2000, he became the head of Duke's political science department. His research centers around elections and campaign finance. In 2008 he was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina.

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Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (Riverhead Books, 2008), How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead Books, 2010) and the e-book Up The Down Volcano (2011). She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series (Mariner Books, 2011) and has contributed to a variety of anthologies. She is featured in The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) and The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011). I Was Told There’d Be Cake was a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. Sloane's debut novel, The Clasp (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), is a comedy of manners about three estranged friends and one famous short story. Sloane has been a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities including New York University and Columbia University’s Publishing Course. In 2013, she taught in Columbia University's MFA program. Sloane's work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Bon Appetit, Playb

Phillip L. Pearl, MD, is the Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children's Hospital. He is also the William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. For the iTunes podcast version, please visit: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trini…ege/id1057966315

Kimiko Hahn received a bachelor's degree in English and East Asian Studies from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in Japanese Literature from Columbia University. She is a professor at Queens College, CUNY and has taught at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and University of Houston. The major themes of Hahn's poetry explores Asian American female desire and subjectivity. The judges' citation from the Pen/Voelcker Award noted: "With wild courage Kimiko Hahn’s poems voyage fearlessly into explorations of love, sexuality, motherhood, violence, and grief and the way gender inscribes us.” Her poems were first published in We Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems, which she co-created with Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman. Since then, she has authored multiple collections of poetry, including Toxic Flora (2010),The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006), The Artist's Daughter (2002), Mosquito and Ant (1999), Volatile (1998), The Unbearable Heart (1995), and Earshot (1992). The latter, E

Special thanks to Michael Ersevim '91 for the recording of this podcast. To download the iTunes podcast, visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trinitycollege/id1057966315 For photos of the event by Al Ferreira, visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycollege/sets/72157662105433521 The service known as the Christmas Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is a tradition followed by Anglican and other Christian churches worldwide. Trinity began conducting this service in 1958, following the Anglican ceremony established at Kings College in Cambridge, England in 1918. In this service, the community hears and receives the story of “God with us” through nine passages of scripture along with carols and anthems of Christmas. The Chapel Singers, the Trinity Choir, as well as student instrumentalists, lead the musical portions of the service. Readers are chosen from among the wider College community. One Friend of the Chapel remarked that the 2010 Service of Lessons and Carols was the best he had experienc

To access the slides to this lecture: http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/dr-richard-church-did-god-create-science Bill Church is Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Chemistry at Trinity. For a full bio, visit: http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1000590

Quince Duncan is regarded as Costa Rica's first Afro-Caribbean writer in the Spanish language. His novels and short stories have been awarded Costa Rica's National Literature Prize (Premio Nacional de Literatura) and Premio Editorial Costa Rica. He has also published a novel in English, "A Message from Rosa."

To access the slides from this lecture - http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/yuan-ren-soft-welfare-vs-hard-welfare-of-migrant-shanghai Dr. Yuan Ren is Professor of Demography and Urban Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University. Dr. Ren spoke at Trinity College as part of the Center for Urban and Global Studies Global Vantage Point Series. His talk, "Soft Welfare vs. Hard Welfare: Factors in Migrants' Subjective Well-Being in Urban China and Social Policy Implications" examines the understudied and less understood dimension of rural migrant satisfaction and perception in China's cities.

Acess the accomanying slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/isis-urban-dimensions Ibraheem Mustafa is a Resident Scholar at Trinity College. He began his career in literary studies as an undergraduate at Almamoon College in Iraq where he wrote a thesis on political geography and its effect on the construction of cities. As a graduate student at Baghdad University, he wrote a Masters’ thesis on globalization and cities focusing on how globalization affects Arabic and Islamic cities. In his doctoral studies, he focused on spatial development by local management using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). At Baghdad University, Professor Ibraheem has taught courses on the application of GIS to urban and environment planning. He has participated in more than ten international conferences and fifty national conferences. He has written research GIS applications in urban and environmental planning. He also has over 15 publications related to urban planning and GIS.

Jim Shepard '78, a Connecticut native, teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. His work has been published in McSweeney's, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Triquarterly, and Playboy. His short story collection , "Like You'd Understand, Anyway" won the Story Prize in 2007, and was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. The novel Project X won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award. Along with writing novels and short stories, Shepard has also drafted two screenplays.

As a composer, Dan Román has developed a compositional style integrating elements of the folkloric music from the Caribbean, in particular that of his native Puerto Rico, with the mechanics of minimalism and the aesthetics of postmodern art. His music has been performed in Puerto Rico, South America, Spain, France, Austria, Italy, and throughout the United States, including performances in New York City. Dan Román has received commissions to write new pieces for the Alturas Duo, the New World Trio, The Irrelevants, the Connecticut Children’s Choir, the Hartford Commissions project, and others. In recent years Dan Román has had the opportunity to teach courses in the music of the 20th century, post-colonial Latin America, and a brand new course in music technology which explores areas of electronic, MIDI, and computer music from both a practical and a theoretical approach. His address, entitled "Music of the 21st Century - A New Common Practice," is the follow up to his TedX talk last spring: https://www.you

Edward Peter Stringham is the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation and Deputy Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment. Stringham is president of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, former president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of more than sixty journal articles, book chapters, and policy studies. His work has been discussed on more than 100 broadcast stations, including CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox, Headline News, NPR, and MTV. His book, Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life, is published by Oxford University Press.

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities and college, including Trinity College. Margaret was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968, share important years of the Cuban revolution (1969-1980), the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project (1980-1984), and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974). Her four children—Gregory, Sarah, Ximena and A

David Baker reads a selection of his poetry at the Allan K. Smith Reading Series at Trinity College. A full schedule of readings can be found at www.trincoll.edu. David Baker is the author of 11 books of poetry, including Scavenger Loop and Never-Ending Birds, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His five books of prose include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems and Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry. Among his awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, and the Society of Midland Authors. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and is poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College welcomed Dr. Ratoola Kundu to kick off this year's Global Vantage Point series. Dr. Kundu's talk, "Sex, Lies and Red Tape: The Story of Redevelopment in Kamathipura, Mumbai," traces the history and contested transformation of Kamathipura, Asia's largest red light district in the heart of Mumbai, India's financial centre. To follow slides presented in the talk, visit: http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/ratoola-on-mumbai-cugs-9-2015