Global Brown Bag Events Archive

Presentations and information from the 2010 and 2011 Global Brown Bags.

On this page:
December 13, 2011: Inequalities in Health
November 8, 2011: The Maya
October 11, 2011: Uganda
September 13, 2011: Nepal
August 9, 2011: Focus on Disabilities: Living Blind
June 14, 2011: Hmong Culture
May 10, 2011: Present day Rwanda
March 22, 2011: God Sleeps in Rwanda
February 8, 2011: Special Focus on Haiti, One Year After the Earthquake
January 31, 2011: King: Man of Peace In A Time of War
November 16, 2010: Native American Heritage
October 19, 2010: After Stonewall
September 21, 2010: Kenya
July 20, 2010: American Disability Amendment Act of 2008
June 16, 2010: Agri-Business Development in Northern Iraq, Laos and Afghanistan
May 25, 2010: Race: The Power of an Illusion (The House We Live In)
April 20, 2010: Peace Corps Experience in Micronesia
March 16, 2010: Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
February 16, 2010: Race: the Power of an Illusion (The Story We Tell)
January 27, 2010: Census 2010: From Swedes to Somalis - Minnesota's Changing Demographics

Note: There was no August 2010 or July 2011 presentation.

December 13, 2011: Inequalities in Health

  • Video
    Unnatural Causes Attention: Non-MDH link
    At the December brown bag, we'll view the segment "In Sickness and In Wealth" from the series Unnatural Causes...is inequality making us sick? The series explores the cause of socio-economic and racial inequalities in health.

November 8, 2011: The Maya

  • Video
    The Mystery of the Maya
    This video sheds some light on The Maya, the only Mesoamerican group to have a fully developed written language. They were experienced architects who built complex pyramids, palaces and temples, some of which are still being discovered today.

October 11, 2011: Uganda

  • Presentation
    Shartsi K. Musherure
    Uganda (PDF:4.28MB/28 pages)
    The October brown bag offers a chance to discover some interesting facts about the African country of Uganda.

September 13, 2011: Nepal

August 9, 2011: Focus on Disabilities: Living Blind

June 14, 2011: Hmong Culture

May 10, 2011: Present day Rwanda

March 22, 2011: God Sleeps in Rwanda

  • Video
    God Sleeps in Rwanda
    This Academy Award nominated film documents the lives of five women as they work to rebuild their lives and a country. The 1994 Rwandan genocide left the country with a 70 percent female population and women's roles dramatically changed. The majority of the country's leadership positions are now held by women and more girls are attending school than ever before. This powerful documentary shows the strength of a country to move forward despite unbelievable horror and loss.

February 8, 2011: Special Focus on Haiti, One Year After the Earthquake

  • Presentation
    Therese Gales, Public Affairs Manager with the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Attention: Non-MDH link
    • Haiti Impact Attention: Non-MDH link
      Find out more about the work ARC is doing in Haiti, watch videos and view photo galleries.

January 31, 2011: King: Man of Peace In A Time of War

  • Video
    King: Man of Peace In A Time of War
    This biographical film documents Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to bring peace to people during the turmoil of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. Interesting archival footage and many exclusive interviews with Colin Powell, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Quincy Jones, and others, make this video a remarkable relevant salute to a man who remains an inspiration and a force for social change for more than forty years after his untimely death at the age of 39.

November 16, 2010: Native American Heritage

October 19, 2010: AFTER STONEWALL (From Riots to the Millennium)

  • Video
    AFTER STONEWALL (From the Riots to the Millennium) Attention: Non-MDH link
    Forty years ago, America's lesbians and gays - a largely closeted, fragmented and shunned community - experienced a profound turning point. On June 27, 1969, in what is considered the birth of the modern gay civil rights movement, the homosexual, bisexual and transgendered patrons of the Stonewall Bar in New York City spontaneously united and fought back against chronic police harassment, jeers and arrests. Narrated by celebrated musical artist Melissa Etheridge, the film records the personal accounts of gays and lesbians who have transformed not only their own lives, but also American society and the world community.

September 21, 2010: Kenya

  • Presentation
    Kenya (PDF:4.5MB/70 pages)
    Melanie Larsen Sinouthasy, Diversity Specialist at Minnesota Judicial Branch

July 20, 2010: American Disability Amendment Act of 2008

June 16, 2010: Agri-Business Development in Northern Iraq, Laos and Afghanistan

May 25, 2010: Race: The Power of an Illusion (The House We Live In)

  • Video
    Race: The Power of an Illusion (The House We Live In) Attention: Non-MDH link
    If race does not exist biologically, what is it? And why should it matter? This episode, The House We Live In, is the first film about race to focus not on individual attitudes and behavior but on the ways our institutions and policies advantage some groups at the expense of others. Its subject is the "unmarked" race: white people. We see how benefits quietly and often invisible accrue to white people, not necessarily because of merit or hard work, but because of the racialized nature of our laws, courts, customs, and perhaps most pertinently, housing.

April 20, 2010: Peace Corps Experience in Micronesia

March 16, 2010: Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America

  • Video
    Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
    In the Irish language, there is no word that translates as "emigrant". And so, when Irish citizens left their country for America -- a mass exodus of 7 million in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries -- they were referred to simply as "exiles". This documentary is an enormously sad, fascinating tale of Irish Catholic emigration.

February 16, 2010: Race: The Power of an Illusion (The Story We Tell)

  • Video
    Race: The Power of an Illusion (The Story We Tell) Attention: Non-MDH link
    Questions about race are explored in The Story We Tell, the second hour of the series Race: The Power of an Illusion. It is true that race has always been with us, right? Maybe not. Ancient peoples stigmatized "others" on the grounds of language, custom, class, and especially religion, but they did not sort people according to physical differences. It turns out that the concept of race is a recent invention, only a few hundred years old, and the history and evolution of the idea are deeply tied to the development of the U.S.

January 27, 2010: Census 2010: From Swedes to Somalis - Minnesota's Changing Demographics

Updated Friday, 11-May-2012 14:19:53 CDT