Peace History Society Conference, October 20-22, 2011
The Department of History and Political Science and the College of Arts and Sciences are co-sponsoring the biannual Peace History Society Conference from October 20-22, 2011, on the Barry University campus. The theme of the conference is “The Inter-personal as Political: Individual Witness for Peace and Justice in Global Perspective.” The conference will be open to Barry students. For more information on the conference go to the Peace History Society conference website: www.peacehistorysociety.org
Under the Wings of God; On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Operation Pedro Pan
On Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., in the Gato Gallery at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc. (www.pedropan.org), hosted the presentation “Under the Wings of God; On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Operation Pedro Pan.” The event was co-sponsored by Barry University and its University Archives and Historical Collections, its Office of International and Multicultural Programs, and its Department of History and Political Science. Operation Pedro Pan was created by the Catholic Welfare Bureau of Miami, in December 1960, at the request of parents in Cuba to provide an opportunity for unaccompanied children to flee the island to avoid forced Marxist-Leninist indoctrination. A panel of former Pedro Pan children looked back on events now fifty years in the past and provided first-hand accounts of what became a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming personal tragedy and adversity as well as a moving testimony of the depths of parental love for their children. The evening presentation may be viewed at: http://stream.barry.edu/streamingvids/default.aspx?gold=27&gid=51&id=242&pn=1
Sugar in/and the Everglades
For the Spring 2010 semester, the integrative senior seminar course for history, political science, international studies, and prelaw majors was entitled “Sugar Cane in South Florida/Mining in South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Social, Political, and Environmental Impact of Single-Industry Development.” A field trip/observation exercise to a working sugar mill on the edge of the Everglades (www.youtube.com) was one of the key components of the course. As part of the course, the Department of History and Political Science invited as a guest speaker Dr. Gail Hollander, author of one of the course textbooks Raising Cane in the ‘Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). Dr. Hollander is an Associate Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Her presentation “Sugar in/and the Everglades,” delivered on April 8, 2010, in the Gato Gallery, Barry University, may be viewed at: mms://stream.barry.edu/videos/high/livestream_archive/SugarPresentation.wmv
