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Monday, March 19, 2018

Severe Weather Awareness Week March 18-24 | 23th annual Latino/a/x Issues Conference

SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK IS MARCH 18-24
‘TEACHING OHIOANS SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY AND PREPAREDNESS’

Ohio’s Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week – March 18-24 – provides the opportunity for Ohioans to prepare their homes, schools and businesses for potential several weather. Bowling Green State University’s Emergency Management office encourages everyone to learn what to do to protect themselves from spring and summer weather hazards while on and off campus, take time now to review emergency plans, get reacquainted with weather warnings and watches and update safety kits and supplies.

Ohio’s spring and summer weather hazards include tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods and even snowstorms through early spring. OCSWA provides current Ohio weather and severe weather safety and preparedness information.

Algae toxins in Sandusky Bay – The Blade
“Così fan tutte” – Sentinel-Tribune

Artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez

23TH ANNUAL LATINO/A/X ISSUES CONFERENCE
ART, DIVERSITY, EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY EXAMINED AND CELEBRATED

The 23rd annual Latino/a/x Issues Conference promises to be both a celebration and study of the arts and diversity within the Latino community, with special emphasis on the work of student researchers at the joint eStrella (Student Research on Latino/a/x and Latin American Studies) Conference. Joint conference events will run from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday (March 21) in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

The bilingual conference will look at Latino/a/x cultures, politics, accomplishments and art. BGSU students, faculty, staff and guest participants will take part in panel discussions focused on such topics as the intersections of art and activism in northwest Ohio, survival stories of immigrants and migrants, U.S. Latino/a/x’s in higher education, and Mexican and Latino/a/x photography, art and spirituality, along with a poetry workshop.

Artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez will give the keynote address during the conference luncheon, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom. Registration for the luncheon is closed, but those wishing to come for her free talk at 12:30 p.m. are welcome.

LESSONS LEARNED IN ‘THE SCHOOL FOR LOVERS’
BGSU OPERA THEATER TO PRESENT ‘COSÌ FAN TUTTE’

“Così fan tutte,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comic opera about the foibles and frailties of people young and old, comes to the Bowling Green Opera Theater stage for two performances, on Friday and Sunday (March 23 and 25). Voice students in the College of Musical Arts perform one of Mozart’s most-loved operas and what is arguably one of the greatest treasures of Western civilization.

Subtitled “The School for Lovers,” the opera has a beautiful score that has proved enduringly irresistible. However, its wicked tale of trickery and tests of fidelity has shocked audiences since it was first staged in Vienna in 1790, where audiences found it highly immoral. Today it resonates with the conversation about male attitudes toward women and sexual politics.

But “there is a certain relief in this tale of what seems to be relatively harmless mutual foolishness of men and women,” said stage director Dr. Jane Schoonmaker Rodgers, an associate professor of voice in the College of Musical Arts. “For me, any day that includes work with a mind and heart like Mozart’s is a good day.”

“La Pirogue” will be screened April 19.

INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES LOOKS AT EXILE AND MIGRATION

The International Film Series kicks off the spring schedule with two directors introducing their films, on March 22 and March 29. The 2018 series’ theme is exile and migration. All eight films begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Gish Film Theater at Hanna Hall and are shown free of charge.

On March 22, “Persona Non Grata” director Cellin Gluck will introduce his 2015 Japanese film, a moving biopic about Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, sometimes called a “Japanese Schindler,” who issued several thousand visas to Jewish refugees in Lithuania before 1941. The film made its U.S. debut at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in 2016.

On March 29, filmmaker Bachir Bensaddek will introduce his 2016 French-Canadian film “Montréal la Blanche.” The film tells the story of a former Algerian pop star who has fled to Canada to escape the Algerian Civil War in the late 1990s. While sitting in a taxicab with an Algerian cab driver on Christmas Eve in Montreal, she is forced to confront personal questions of assimilation and identity.

IN BRIEF

Visiting scholar Dr. William Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will speak on “Ethical Foundations of ‘Medicare for All,’” at 4:30 p.m. March 22, addressing the fact that the U.S. spends more per person for health care than any other wealthy nation, yet has some of the worst health outcomes.

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