Professor Wang's talk tomorrow: Before the Opium Wars

Professor Wensheng Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, will present "Before the Opium War: Two British Invasions of Macao (1802 and 1808) and Their Impact on Sino-British Relations" tomorrow at 2:30pm in the History Department Library. This talk is free and open to the public - please view the flyer for details.

Van Jones presentation - STUDENT DEBT: THE NEXT CREDIT BOMB

Van Jones, the Obama administration’s first green energy czar, best-selling author, Princeton fellow, and founder of a new national organizing campaign for economic justice, Rebuild the Dream. Jones will be speaking on the dizzying accumulation of student loan debt in the United States (now $1 trillion and counting) and the unsustainable burden it places on students and the economy, while also proposing bottom-up solutions to the problem.


STUDENT DEBT: THE NEXT CREDIT BOMB

Monday, March 19

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Hālau O Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies


Light refreshments to be provided.

Music too. Maybe poetry.


Kicking off a national campaign for economic and environmental justice, Jones will also be speaking at a rally and pop-up dinner at the capitol the next evening at 6:00 pm, so please join us for that event as well. See: http://act.rebuildthedream.com/signup/revival-hawaii.