Vassar Haiti Project

Upcoming Vassar and area events:

* Tuesday, January 26

Panel discussion of “Understanding Haiti,” 6pm in the Villard Room.

From the Vassar College events announcement:

In the wake of the major earthquake and the severe aftershock in Haiti this month, Vassar professors Brian McAdoo and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert have worked with the local area Haitian and Jamaican communities to present this panel discussion, “Understanding Haiti,” about the disaster. McAdoo, a geologist who studies earthquakes and tsunamis, noted that he will focus on “Why a Magnitude 7 earthquake would kill over 200,000 people in Haiti, while, in 1989, an earthquake of the same magnitude hit a similar-sized urban population in San Francisco and killed ‘only’ 63 people.” Following the presentation by Professors Paravisini-Gebert and McAdoo, the program will include a discussion by a representative from the Haitian community, IBM employee Marc Coq, as well as Vassar students Nicole Krenitsky ’11 and Jared Augenstein ’10, who were both in Haiti during the earthquake with the student organization ProHealth.

* Wednesday, January 27

Vassar Forum for Political Thought on Haiti. Time and Location TBA

* Sunday, January 31st

Soloman Schechter School of Westchester Sale

9 am- 6pm

555 West Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, NY

* Monday, February 1st-Friday, February 26

Exhibition of Haitian Art at the Gertrude C White Gallery

YWCA of Greenwich, Connecticut

259 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut

If you know of other events, please add them in the comments.