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Madrigal-Borloz is the former UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Madrigal-Borloz is also a Senior Visiting Researcher at Harvard University and was a former Legal Director of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

A pre-keynote reception will be held in the Johnson Hall Global Forum beginning at 5:15 pm.

Photo by Alexandre Leal de Freitas

The proclivity to think and feel deeply about complex social issues is a hallmark human achievement—a foundation of global society as well as of personal growth. This achievement rests on capacities for transcendent thinking, that is, on a person’s abilities and dispositions to consider the broader ethical and systems-level implications that transcend situations and pertain to bigger ideas, values and identities. In this talk, Dr.

Moore Lab of Zoology and FEAST Garden will be hosting a bird migration watch and garden tours in celebration of Earth Month!

Join us as we take a look, and count, the migratory birds visiting the silk oak trees during spring. Discover dynamic agricultural practices of the student-led urban garden and learn about initiatives like composting and sustainable growing practices. All ages welcome.

Celebrate Earth Month at Oxy and join the Moore Lab of Zoology and Vantuna Research Group for a natural history collection open house!

Natural history collections offer a wealth of information. They serve as a place to view and discover nature, explore the histories of the specimens or a collection of species, and inspire scientific questions that are significant to conservation.

Take a self-guided, exploratory tour of the world's largest Mexican bird collection and a fish collection that was founded in the 70s. All ages welcome.

Get to know your local feathered friends, and join the Moore Lab of Zoology for a guided bird walk as we look for resident birds found on campus and migratory birds visiting for the spring season.

This presentation challenges the previous understanding of the relationship between the Mongol Yuan dynasty and the Kingdom of Annam (northern Vietnam) in the 13th and 14th centuries. It argues that the perception of continuity in diplomatic relations between the two nations, as portrayed in documents following Chinese literary conventions, overlooks the multilingual nature of the Mongol Empire.

We are running out of time. 2023 was one of the most volatile climate years in history, and the mealy outcomes of COP28 make it clear that incremental politics aren't going to save us. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic changes we need to address climate change before it's too late? In SAVING OURSELVES: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action, author Dana R. Fisher charts a realistic path forward for climate action--but only by mobilizing people power to push for the necessary changes.

Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.