Student Tribune
Jared Diamond Explores How Nations Recover from Crisis: Tickets available for Scholars' Day Keynote
Immediately following the debut of his new book Upheaval: Turning Points
for Nations in Crisis, geographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond
will deliver MCC's Scholars' Day keynote address based on his findings on how
successful nations and people successfully recover from crisis.
Presented by ESL Charitable
Foundation, Diamond's keynote address will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
May 8 in the Samuel J. Stabins Physical Education Complex gymnasium (Bldg. 10).
Tickets are available online at www.monroecctickets.com, the Flynn
Campus Center Service Desk, and the Downtown Campus Bookstore. Admission is $10
for general public; $5 with MCC ID. Parking will be available in Lot G.
Diamond's latest work Up
heaval (Penguin Books Limited) compares political crises in nations
like Germany, Japan, Chile, Finland, and the United States to the personal
crises people experience in their lives. Based on his book, Diamond's
presentation will explore how and why some countries were able to thrive after
great turbulence, while others struggled. He will also share insights as to
whether the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural
advantages, on a path towards political conflict and decline.
The keynote address is made possible through support from presenting
sponsor, the ESL Charitable Foundation, and local philanthropists through the
MCC Foundation. Diamond
will answer questions and sign books following the presentation. Books will be
available onsite for purchase.
About Jared Diamond
Considered one of the world's top
100 public intellectuals (Foreign Policy), Jared Diamond is a
professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has
received some of the world's most prestigious awards, including a MacArthur
Genius Award, the Dickson Prize in Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental
Achievement, and the National Medal of Science, America's highest civilian
award in science. His book "Upheaval" is the final installment in a
trilogy that began with Guns, Germs, and Steel--a series the
New York Times calls "one of the most significant projects embarked
upon by any intellectual of our generation."
Oriel, Jodi
Office of Student Life and Leadership Development
05/01/2019