In 2023, adventurer and writer Freddie Wilkinson embarked on a ~15,000-mile "big-ass canoe" trip together with a group of other paddlers from  different first nations within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, including Ryan Ranco Kelly of the Penobscot Nation in Maine. Ryan and Freddie share stories from the adventure, which will also feature in a book Freddie is writing for National Geographic on the history of the canoe.

Over the last thirty years, the driving concept of Israel-Palestine peacemaking has been a two-state solution based on a hard territorial partition. Recently, however, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians have been exploring an innovative, EU-like confederal arrangement as a way to overcome the obstacles that have tripped up diplomacy in the past. Ron Skolnik will discuss these confederation-oriented initiatives, including “A Land for All: Two States One Homeland” and “The Holy Land Confederation”, comparing and contrasting them with…

The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the world’s prison population. The majority of the people in America's jails and prisons will eventually be released, and then they often to face a myriad of challenges. This presentation offers an overview of 10-episode training series, Homecoming: Life after Incarceration, developed by Jacob Mihalak and his filmmaking colleague, Josh Hayes, for the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Homecoming is a multimedia project that is…

How does the United States Refugee Admissions Program look almost 45 years after it was created with the Refugee Act of 1980? This presentation will focus on the current realities of US refugee resettlement, along with an overview of expanded pathways to protection, including humanitarian parole, for those facing persecution based on their race, religion, national origin, political beliefs or membership in a social group. Alison Millan has worked in immigrant services and refugee resettlement for nearly two decades and is currently the Deputy Director…

Presentation opens with screening of the documentary film Boycott, which follows litigation against anti-boycott legislation by accidental plaintiffs in several U.S. states. Here's an excerpt from the filmmakers' statement: For the past 18 years, we’ve been making films about everyday people going up against extraordinary odds in the struggle for justice, equity and dignity in Israel-Palestine. As we followed this thread in an era of unprecedented democratic backsliding, we noticed a troubling trend: attempts to silence voices of dissent on…