Learn more about this spring break opportunity in collaboration with Global Hub partner, King’s College London (KCL), this program examines London as a global financial capital, a center of health research and policy, and a site where the consequences of climate change, including extreme heat events, are distributed in radically uneven ways. Beginning as part of the spring semseter course, this program will prepare students for research topics related to issues of environmental justice. Student will travel onsite during spring break to conduct field work at various sites across the city and return to synthesize those experiences as part of their larger research projects.

Learn more about this spring break opportunity in collaboration with Global Hub partner, King’s College London (KCL), this program examines London as a global financial capital, a center of health research and policy, and a site where the consequences of climate change, including extreme heat events, are distributed in radically uneven ways. Beginning as part of the spring semseter course, this program will prepare students for research topics related to issues of environmental justice. Student will travel onsite during spring break to conduct field work at various sites across the city and return to synthesize those experiences as part of their larger research projects.

A Book Talk on Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet

Growing up in Cleveland in the final years of the Cold War, writer Megan Buskey understood little about her Ukrainian family’s traumatic history. It was only well into adolescence that she learned that her mother had grown up in a gulag exile settlement in Siberia because her grandparents had been deported there from their Ukrainian village after the Second World War.

As an adult, Megan spent years researching her family’s experience for her award-winning book, Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return (ibidem, 2023). In this talk, Megan Buskey will discuss the political significance of Ukrainian family histories in light of the restrictions placed on memory during the Soviet period, share what she learned about her family’s experience, and connect their story to current politics, specifically Russia's invasion of Ukraine.