As part of the regional conference , hosted by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Oct. 15-17, performers from Africa are featured at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, in the college’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Performing are spoken-word poet IBé, Somali poet and playwright Omar Ahmed and the Somali rap and dance group Jamal and Friends. The performance is open to the public at no charge, but seating is limited and tickets are required. For reservations or more information, please contact 207-786-6400 or this bpelleti@bates.edu.

IBé was born in Guinea and grew up in Sierra Leone, Evanston, Ill., and St. Cloud, Minn. He is the recipient of a 2010 Midwestern Voices Award, a 2009 Urban Griots’ Cultural Award and a SASE/Jerome Verve Grant, and was nominated for the Minnesota Academy’s Best Spoken Word Award.

Author of Bridge Across Atlantic, a collection of poems about life between Africa and America, he now resides in Minneapolis. .

Ahmed was raised in Jamaame, Somalia, a city that’s now torn by war but once was not unlike Lewiston. A playwright, poet, Somali elder and peace activist, Ahmed will perform his poem “Waddadii Nabadda” (“The Path of Peace”) and recite excerpts from his new novel, The Flowers and Flames of Turda. The novel tells the story of a young Somali woman who strives to meet threats first from deep tribal animosities in Somalia, and then from the challenges of modernity as a refugee in the United States.

Ahmed explains, “We have such a rich literature that has survived from our oral traditions. Only a very minute amount of our literature was written down, and even that portion was destroyed in the war. Even our national museum was destroyed, and wild plants are growing there.”

Through his work, Ahmed attempts to bring to the minds and hearts of people across the world the destruction his people has faced.

Jamal Karama, singer and lyricist of the rap-dance group Jamal and Friends, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and has lived in Maine for nine years. Karama, who focuses his energies on love rather than controversy, performed at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ previously as part of the Saaxibo Band whose members include Maine fiddler Greg Boardman. This time he will bring a team of four African dancers to join him for the performance.

“African Refugee Health: Best Practices” is sponsored by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, St. Mary’s Health System and the Central Maine Medical Family in Lewiston, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The conference will include nearly three dozen presenters including healthcare workers, interpreters, social workers, counselors, refugee health experts and faculty from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and other colleges. .

What mental health issues affect child refugees? How can physicians in Maine treat diseases typically found in Africa? What cultural barriers come between refugees from Africa and their American healthcare providers?

These are among topics at issue Oct. 15-17 as ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College hosts African Refugee Health: Best Practices, a regional conference also sponsored by, and presenting from, St. Mary’s Health System and the Central Maine Medical Family in Lewiston, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Following a poster presentation of public health research, conference registration begins at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, on the ground floor of the college’s Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). The keynote presentations (see below) and a are open to the public at no cost, but advance tickets are required.

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Attendance fees for the conference workshops vary, but undergraduate students and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty may attend at no cost and scholarships are available for African attendees. To register for the paid presentations, to obtain tickets for free events or to learn more, visit or contact Brenda Pelletier at this bpelleti@bates.edu.

Offering keynote presentations at 6:30 p.m. Friday are Dr. Patricia Walker, medical director at HealthPartners Center for International Health in Minnesota and co-editor of the pioneering textbook Immigrant Medicine; and Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, which handles refugee health at the federal level.

Closing the conference with a keynote address at 11 a.m. Sunday is Dr. Richard Mollica, director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and author of Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World.

The public events take place in the Olin Arts Center at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 75 Russell St. Presenting research in health, public health and medicine, the poster session precedes the conference at 4 p.m. on the 15th in Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall.

Conference background

The conference’s nearly three dozen presenters include healthcare workers from across the country and beyond; faculty in diverse disciplines from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and other colleges; and interpreters, social workers, counselors and other experts in breaching cultural factors that impede refugee access to healthcare. (See bios of conference presenters.)

The roster is “unique in that we’ve tapped the expertise of the population we are trying to serve by recruiting African healthcare providers and refugees” as presenters, explains Dr. Alice Haines, a conference organizer. A primary care physician in Lewiston, Haines has worked with African patients here and at a refugee camp in Daadab, Kenya, that hosts hundreds of thousands of mostly Somali refugees.

She adds, “We’re pleased to partner with CDC for this event, and hope it will provide tools to help clinicians and public health professionals better serve refugees in their communities.”

The conference also stands out because it will provide both clinical and public health perspectives on the issue of refugee healthcare. “The physicians alone, the nurses alone, the anthropologists and public-health people alone can’t do this,” says ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ psychology professor Kathryn Low, another conference organizer.

“It takes everybody to solve the problem” of providing healthcare to people who are poor, may not speak or read English and who remain unaccustomed to Western medicine and society.

Haines and Low put the event together with Walker, an internationally recognized expert on refugee and immigrant healthcare. The three “wanted to add to the understanding of the distinctive medical and mental health needs of African refugees,” says Haines, “and celebrate the knowledge and effort amassed in Maine, particularly in Lewiston and Auburn,” over years of African settlement in the state.

The mechanisms of healthcare for immigrants and refugees “have had to be invented as we go along,” she says. “I think this community has done pretty well at welcoming them.”

Public health in the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ curriculum

Low is the coordinator of the college’s new general-education concentration in public health, which ranges across the disciplines from anthropology and biology to politics and women and gender studies. Reflecting the college’s ethos of community engagement, the concentration is distinctive for an institution of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ size and, with its emphasis on local engagement, unique among the college’s peers in New England.

Public health as taught at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ “has a very strong social justice piece,” Low says. “People shouldn’t face obstacles to getting care.”

The Maine Community Foundation and the Office of Minority Health at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention are also providing support for the conference.

Hello from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½! Here is a preview of public events at the college in October 2010. Except as noted, these events are open to the public at no charge. (Where there is an admission fee, the cost for the general public appears first, followed by the cost for students and seniors.)

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For up-to-date events information throughout the month, see our page. Questions or comments? Contact events editor Doug Hubley at this calendar@bates.edu.

Friday, Oct. 1

4:15pm

Q&A with playwright-songwriter Ethan Lipton: , who performs with his band in an evening show today, offers a question-and-answer session expected to range through myriad aspects of living a creative life, from the specifics of crafting lyrics vs. spoken lines to the business of creativity.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

6pm

Volleyball vs. Amherst.
Alumni Gymnasium

7:30pm

Concert: Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra. Likened to “a peek into a curio shop from a hundred years ago” by The Village Voice, songwriter-playwright offers musically spare, conversationally scripted songs about bicycles, life, death, guilt and pets. Tickets are $10 and available at www.batestickets.com. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8pm

Global Lens film: Please note that Saturday screenings of the Global Lens series have been discontinued, but 6pm Monday shows are now offered. And the location has changed for all Global Lens screenings: The new location is the Ronj, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ student-run coffeehouse. Tonight, the international series presents (Peru, 2008, 91 min.). Sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art. Admission: $5. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

Saturday, Oct. 2

Time TBA

Women’s golf: ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Scramble.
Martindale Country Club, Auburn

1:30pm

Volleyball vs. Middlebury.
Alumni Gymnasium

Sunday, Oct. 3

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service, emphasizing gospel music led by the gospel choir. The Rev. William Bill Blaine-Wallace, multifaith chaplain, leads the service with faculty, staff and students participating. All are welcome. FMI: 207-786-8272.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

7:30pm

Concert: Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens. This acclaimed brings a soulful blend of gospel and R&B to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Gospelaires, a student ensemble, opens. Learn more. Tickets are $16/$8 and available at www.batestickets.com. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Monday, Oct. 4

6pm

Global Lens film: (see Oct. 1).
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

7pm

Lecture: In Evolution of Morality, economist Herbert proposes that human morality results from a dynamic interplay of culture and genes. Hosted by the mathematics department and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, which makes distinguished scholars available to colleges and universities with Phi Beta Kappa chapters. FMI: 207-786-6146.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)

7:30pm

Lecture: Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment by Sandra , who wrote the first published work correlating data on toxic releases with data from cancer registries. The annual Otis Lecture is made possible by the Philip J. Otis Endowment at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Free admission, but tickets required. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Tuesday, Oct. 5

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Performer TBA. FMI: Contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4pm

Men’s soccer vs. Southern Maine.
Russell Street Field

Wednesday, Oct. 6

6–9±è³¾

Figure drawing sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art. Artists, bring drawing board and supplies! Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

7:30pm

Concert: . Violinist Chiara Banchini leads this award-winning European early-music ensemble in chamber works and concerti by Albinoni, Muffat, Albicastro and J.S Bach. Tickets are $10/$4 and available at www.batestickets.com. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Thursday, Oct. 7

4:15pm

Lecture: Episodic Memory in Primates by Bennett Schwartz, a specialist in memory and a psychology professor at Florida International University. Episodic memory means our ability to recollect individual events from our personal past. Often considered the sole domain of human beings, recent research suggests that other animals are capable of remembering episodically as well. Sponsored by the psychology department.
Pettengill Hall, Room G52

Friday–Sunday Oct. 8–10

Parents and Family Weekend: See the full weekend schedule.

Friday, Oct. 8

8pm

Contradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Bustopher Jones. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Beginners’ workshop at 7:30. Admission $5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge

8pm

Global Lens film: Please note that Saturday screenings of the Global Lens series have been discontinued, but 6pm Monday shows are now offered. And the location has changed for all Global Lens screenings: The new location is the Ronj, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ student-run coffeehouse. Tonight, the international film series presents Masquerades (Algeria, 2008, 92 min.). Sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art. Admission: $5. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

Saturday, Oct. 9

9am

Men’s tennis: Wallach Invitational
Wallach Tennis Center

11am

Men’s soccer vs. Williams.
Russell Street Field

Noon

Dance performance: The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Modern Dance Company features work by students, faculty members Rachel Boggia and Debi Irons, and guest choreographer Monica Bill Barnes. Free; no reservations. The show will last just under an hour.
Schaeffer Theatre

Field hockey vs. Williams.
Campus Avenue Field

1pm

Football vs. Williams, in the first official game on the newly renovated , featuring a state-of-the-art FieldTurf playing surface and a new scoreboard and grandstand.
Garcelon Field

2pm

Spiritual gathering: A celebration of the Hindu holiday of Navratri with Kirtan chanting led by Unitarian Universalist minister Ben Fowler. Details are tentative; contact the Multifaith Chaplaincy for more information at 207-786-8272 or this aberard@bates.edu.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

Women’s soccer vs. Williams.
Russell Street Field

3:30pm

Exhibition opening: Les Femmes du Maroc: An Exhibition by Lalla Essaydi. Nick Capasso, senior curator at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, offers a gallery talk on Essaydi and the exhibition (described under ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art below). Reception follows. Sponsored by the museum, the Davis Family Foundation and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. FMI: 207-786-6158 or this museum@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art

7:30pm

Concert: The Rest Is Music, a program of new work by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Composers Society, a campus-wide community of composers and musicians. Free, but tickets required. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Sunday, Oct. 10

Time TBA

Men’s golf: ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Invitational.
Martindale Country Club, Auburn

9am

Men’s tennis: Wallach Invitational.
Wallach Tennis Center

Noon

Dance performance: Modern Dance Company (see Oct. 9).
Schaeffer Theatre

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see Oct. 3).
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

Monday, Oct. 11

4:30pm

Lecture: Helping People and Orangutans Through Video, a presentation of Phillips Fellowship-supported work by Robert Little ’12. Sponsored by the dean of the faculty’s office. FMI: 207-753-6952.
Chase Hall Lounge

6pm

Global Lens film: Masquerades (see Oct. 8).
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

7:30pm

Reading: Novelist Debra Spark, author of The Ghost of Bridgetown and Good for the Jews. The Language Arts Live series is sponsored by the English department, the Learning Associates Program, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Humanities Fund, the programs in African American studies and American cultural studies, and the John Tagliabue Poetry fund. FMI: 207-786-6326 or 207-786-6256, or this rfarnsworth@bates.edu or this eosucha@bates.edu.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge

Tuesday, Oct. 12

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Music’s Quill. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4pm

Men’s soccer vs. Amherst.
Russell Street Field

Wednesday, Oct. 13

3:30pm

Women’s soccer vs. Maine-Farmington.
Russell Street Field

4:30pm

Lecture: Unite for Sight by Emily Howe ’11 and Beyond the Culture of War by Theodore Sutherland ’11 are presentations of Phillips Fellowship-supported work. Sponsored by the dean of the faculty’s office. FMI: 207-753-6952.
Chase Hall Lounge

5pm

Field hockey vs. Southern Maine
Campus Avenue Field

6pm

Lecture: Artist Wally Reinhardt discusses his work in the exhibition Metamorphoses: A Collaboration with Ovid (described under ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art below). Sponsored by the museum, the programs in classical and medieval studies and interdisciplinary studies, and the Division of Humanities. FMI: 207-786-6158 or this museum@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center, Room 104

6–9±è³¾

Figure drawing sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art (see Oct. 6).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

7:30pm

Panel discussion: Wrestling with School Reform in Maine: National Strategies, Local Realities. Panelists include Glenn Cummings of the U.S. Department of Education; Norm Fruchter of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University; and representatives from Maine school systems. Part of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships’ Civic Forum series. FMI: 207-786-6202.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives

Thursday, Oct. 14

7:30pm

Concert: Two beloved chamber works — Dvorák’s “American” Quartet and Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet — are performed by two prominent names in Maine music, the DaPonte String Quartet and pianist Chiharu Naruse of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™ applied music faculty. Admission is free, but tickets required. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Friday, Oct. 15

4pm

Poster session: Celebrating the development of an undergraduate public health concentration at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the poster presentation Health, Public Health and Medicine precedes the African Refugee Health conference (see next item).
Pettengill Hall, Perry Atrium

6:30pm

Conference: Keynote lectures by prominent experts in refugee healthcare begin the three-day conference African Refugee Health: Best Practices: A Clinical and Public Health Perspective. Speakers are: Martin Cetron, director of the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, and Patricia Walker, medical director of the Center for International Health in Minnesota. Sponsored by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½; the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Central Maine Medical Family; and St. Mary’s Health System. Space is limited and reservations required. Contact 786-6400 or this bpelleti@bates.com, or visit the website.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7:30pm

Theater: Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire. For an independent study, Michelle Schloss ’12 directs this story of an amnesiac who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must re-imprint the facts of her life. Free; no reservations. FMI: 207-786-6161.
Black Box Theater

8pm

Global Lens film: Please note that Saturday screenings of the Global Lens series have been discontinued, but 6pm Monday shows are now offered. And the location has changed for all Global Lens screenings: The new location is the Ronj, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ student-run coffeehouse. Tonight, the international film series presents Leo’s Room (Uruguay, 2009, 92 min.). Sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art. Admission: $5. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

Saturday, Oct. 16

11am

Men’s soccer vs. Wesleyan.
Russell Street Field

Noon

Field hockey vs. Wesleyan.
Campus Avenue Field

1pm

Football vs. Wesleyan.
Garcelon Field

2pm

Spiritual gathering: A celebration of the Hindu holiday of Navratri with yoga and Kirtan chanting. Details are tentative; contact the Multifaith Chaplaincy for more information at 207-786-8272 or this aberard@bates.edu.
Benjamin Mays Center

Women’s soccer vs. Wesleyan.
Russell Street Field

7pm

Performance: Performers from Africa appear in conjunction with the weekend African Refugee Health conference. Featured are spoken word poetry by IBe, readings by Somali poet/playwright Omar Ahmed and Somali rap by Jamal and Friends. Space is limited and reservations required. Contact 786-6400 or this bpelleti@bates.com, or visit the website.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7:30pm

Performance: Fuddy Meers (see Oct. 15).
Black Box Theater

Sunday, Oct. 17

11am

Lecture: Dr. Richard Mollica, director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, offers a keynote address on a topic TBA to conclude the conference African Refugee Health: Best Practices (see Oct. 15). Space is limited and reservations required. Contact 786-6400 or this bpelleti@bates.com, or visit the website.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

2pm

Performance: Fuddy Meers (see Oct. 15).
Black Box Theater

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see Oct. 3).
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

6pm

Spiritual gathering: A celebration of the Hindu holiday of Navratri with traditional prayers, dance and food. Details are tentative; contact the Multifaith Chaplaincy for more information at 207-786-8272 or this aberard@bates.edu.
Benjamin Mays Center

7:30pm

Concert: After an amazing performance at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 2008, Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen returns with his highly personal Aurora project, reflecting Israel as a crossroads of many cultures. Tickets are $12/6 and available at . FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Monday, Oct. 18

Time TBA

Poetry reading: Meena Alexander, author of six highly regarded volumes of poetry and diverse other works, is tentatively scheduled to read from her writings. Please visit the page for further information, or call 207-786-8294.
Benjamin Mays Center

6pm

Global Lens film: Leo’s Room (see Oct. 15).
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

7:30pm

Lecture: Taiwan’s Health Reforms: Lessons for the U.S. and Maine by William Hsiao, a professor of economics at the Harvard School of Public Health and architect of Taiwan’s universal health care system. Part of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships’ Civic Forum series. FMI: 207-786-6202.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives

Tuesday, Oct. 19

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Performer TBA. FMI: Contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

3:30pm

Women’s soccer vs. St. Joseph’s.
Russell Street Field

5pm

Field hockey vs. New England College.
Campus Avenue Field

Wednesday, Oct. 20

6–9±è³¾

Figure drawing sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art (see Oct. 6).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

Wednesday–Friday, Oct. 20–22

Fall Recess: No classes, but administrative offices remain open.

Sunday, Oct. 24

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see Oct. 3).
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

Monday, Oct. 25

4pm

Lecture: Kiado Cruz, community organizer for a food-sovereignty network in Mexico, speaks on sustainable agriculture, community organizing and effects of U.S. trade policies and increasing privatization. Organized by the Latin American studies concentration faculty with support from a Mellon Innovation Grant, the environmental studies program and the anthropology department. FMI: 207-786-8295.
Pettengill Hall, Room G21

Tuesday, Oct. 26

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Jazz by two members of the faculty, guitarist John Smedley of the physics department and pianist Tom Snow, director of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Jazz Band. FMI: 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, Oct. 27

6–9±è³¾

Figure drawing sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art (see Oct. 6).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

Thursday, Oct. 28

7:30pm

Reading: One of Maine’s best-known poets and poetry advocates, Wesley McNair has written eight collections of poetry including this year’s Lovers of the Lost. For more about the Language Arts Live series, see Oct. 11.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge

Friday, Oct. 29

3pm

Field hockey vs. Colby.
Campus Avenue Field

4pm

Men’s soccer vs. Colby.
Russell Street Field

8pm

Global Lens film: Please note that Saturday screenings of the Global Lens series have been discontinued, but 6pm Monday shows are now offered. And the location has changed for all Global Lens screenings: The new location is the Ronj, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ student-run coffeehouse. Tonight, the international film series presents My Tehran for Sale (Iran, 2009, 97 min.). Sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art. Admission: $5. FMI: Contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.
The Ronj, 32 Frye St.

Saturday, Oct. 30

TBA

Men’s and women’s tennis: Alumni Match.
Wallach Tennis Center

1pm

Football vs. Colby.
Garcelon Field

Sunday, Oct. 31

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see Oct. 3).
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

Exhibition

Oct. 8–17

In celebration of the Hindu holiday of Navratri, images and statues of Hindu goddesses are displayed. FMI: 207-786-8272 or this aberard@bates.edu.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chapel

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art

Museum hours: 10am-5pm Tuesday-Saturday. FMI: 207-786-6158 or this museum@bates.edu.

Oct. 8–Dec. 18
Les Femmes du Maroc: An Exhibition by Lalla Essaydi: The images in Essaydi’s most recent body of work present Moroccan women in staged narratives. These women inhabit a place that is literally and entirely circumscribed by text, written by the artist herself directly on their bodies, apparel and surroundings. The photographs, based on 19th-century Orientalist paintings, critique contemporary social structures, but simultaneously confront historical attitudes that have helped construct representations of Arab women. Made possible by the Lois and Richard England Family Foundation and the Davis Family Foundation.

Metamorphoses: A Collaboration with Ovid by Wally Reinhardt: Reinhardt since the 1980s has focused his work solely on interpreting Ovid’s Metamorphoses. His gouaches vividly bring to life many of the favorite characters of classical mythology. Reinhardt’s exhibition is offered in co-sponsorship with the programs in classical and medieval studies and in interdisciplinary studies, and by the Division of Humanities.

Here are speaker biographies for African Refugee Health: Best Practices.  The conference’s nearly three dozen presenters include healthcare workers from across the country and beyond; faculty in diverse disciplines from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and other colleges; and interpreters, social workers, counselors and other experts in breaching cultural factors that impede refugee access to healthcare (*indicates keynote speaker).

Aden Hersi Ahmed: Trained by Medicines Sans Frontiers; has eight years of experience as head auxiliary nurse in Hagadera Hospital, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya, where he lived as a refugee. Currently works as an interpreter for C.A.L.L., Lewiston, Maine.

Omar Ahmed, M.A.: A refugee from Somalia, where he worked for the Ministry of Education, he has co-authored papers on Somali immigrant and refugee mental health and substance abuse in the Journal of International Psychology Bulletin. Holder of a master’s in leadership and organizational studies, he is a Somali elder and poet-playwright who mediates conflict in the Somali diaspora.

Fozia A. Abrar, M.D., M.P.H.: Practices occupational medicine at HealthPartners Clinics in Minnesota. Also board-certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in public health and general preventive medicine, she lectures on Somali health beliefs.

Fadumo O. Ali, B.S.: Certified community health worker for WellShare International, Minnesota which has developed numerous health education materials that are culturally appropriate for Somali patients. She has extensive experience with counseling on child-spacing methods and has been a family advocate for 10 years.

John Bernardo, M.D.: Medical director, Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.

Catherine Besteman, Ph.D.: Anthropologist and Colby professor, she completed field work in the late 1980s in Somalia and has published several works on the Somali Bantu refugees who have settled in the U.S. Editor of The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War and author of Transforming Cape Town (California Series in Public Anthropology).

Nina Bacaner, M.D., M.P.H., D.T.M&H: Faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she is on the Global Health Pathway Mentor List because of her interest in the chronic health concerns of immigrants.  She has 25 years of experience in immigrant medicine and has published articles on travel, tropical and immigrant medicine.

*Martin Cetron, M.D.B.: Director for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications and received numerous awards for his work since joining CDC in 1992, including the 2009 Public Health Hero Award. His primary research interests are international health and global migration with a focus on emerging infections, tropical diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases in mobile populations. He holds faculty appointments at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health.  As a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government’s National Preparedness Leadership Institute, he has led several domestic and international outbreak investigations and has played a leadership role in CDC responses to intentional and naturally acquired emerging infectious disease outbreaks, including the 2001 anthrax bio-terrorism incident, the 2003 global SARS epidemic the 2003 U.S. monkeypox outbreak and recent 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Jennifer Cochran, M.P.H.: Director, Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Susan Cote, R.D.H., M.S.: Dental hygienist who is program manager for From the First Tooth, Portland, Maine. She was previously program coordinator for cross-cultural oral health at the Program for Refugee Oral Health at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights at Boston Medical Center. She has published articles on refugee oral health and on survivors of torture, and contributed the chapter “Dental Diseases and Disorders” in the medical text Immigrant Medicine. She lectures at national and international conferences on refugee oral health.

Warren Dalal, L.C.S.W.: Public health analyst for the CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. After seven years of working on the HIV epidemic in Kenya he has returned to DGMQ, where he serves on the domestic team as well as providing programmatic support to the Refugee Health team in Kenya.

Asmo Dol, B.S.: An ethnic Somali from Ethiopia, she is a medical interpreter who has just completed her degree in biology of human health and illnesses. She also has six years of experience working for a refugee resettlement service organization doing employment counseling and cultural-skills training. Has worked on female genital mutilation issues for Save the Children, USA.

Mohamed Duale, M.Sci.: Consultant to the Minnesota Institute of Public Health, for which he does drug counseling for the East African community in the Twin Cities and is a researcher and speaker on effects of khat on human health.  He is also senior community health worker for Hennepin County Child and Teen Checkups Program, Minnesota.

Heidi Ellis, Ph.D.: Clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, and director of the Children’s Hospital Center for Refugee Trauma and Resilience. Her expertise lies in developing interventions for traumatized youth.

Paul Geltman, M.D., M.P.H.: Medical director of Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, and pediatrician with Cambridge Health Alliance.

Alice Haines, M.D.: Family physician, and community preceptor at Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, she has done primary care and international health clinic for federally qualified health center clinics in Maine that serve a large population of East African refugees. She does asylum exams for HealthRight International and has worked for the German Technical Organization in the Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya.

Susan Jacoby, C.N.M., D.N.P.: Nurse-midwife at Central Maine Obstetrics-Gynecology, Lewiston, Maine, where she has assisted African immigrants and refugees with their deliveries for the last five years. Her recent dissertation for Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions was Certified Nurse Midwives’ Obstetrical Management of Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.

Jean Kahn, R.N., C.N.M.: Nurse-midwife at Women’s Health Pavilion, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Lewiston, Maine. Has extensive experience with well-woman and maternity care for East African immigrants and refugees.

Mursal Khaliif, R.N., M.A.: Senior director of Multilingual Service and Patient Transport at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass. Originally from Somalia, he has worked and lived in Minnesota, where he served as the director of Community Health and Language Services for the University of Minnesota Medical Center. He is a cultural-competency fellow with the American Hospital Association and regularly presents at national conferences on cultural and linguistically appropriate services in the delivery of care to all patients.

Christina Khaokham, M.S.N., M.P.H.: Epidemic intelligence service officer for the CDC, assigned to the County of San Diego Epidemiology and Immunizations Services Branch and CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine’s U.S.–Mexico Unit to work on health issues, including Somali migration via that border.

Georgi V. Kroupin, M.A.: Director of mental health and lead psychologist at HealthPartners Center for International Health, St. Paul, Minn., he came to the U.S. to pursue a doctorate in family social science and family therapy. He has lectured extensively on the mental health needs of refugees.

Susan Lee, R.N.: As health coordinator for Maine Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Maine Center for Disease Control, Maine Department of Human Services, she oversees case management of children identified with elevated blood lead levels for the state of Maine and has been active in ensuring that elevated leads in the Somali community are appropriately addressed. She also has been a public health nurse, visiting families with young children in homes in central Maine.

Heather Lindkvist, M.A.: Anthropology instructor at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College and member of its Public Health General Education Concentration.  Has published on female genital mutilation, and on elevated lead levels in Lewiston’s Somali population.

Abdirahman Mahamud, M.D.: Now with the Division of Viral Disease at the CDC, he was most recently the medical officer at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya as part of the Refugee Health Team for the CDC.  His work included surveillance activities as well as outbreak investigation and management for camps in Kenya.

*Richard Mollica, M.D.: Harvard Medical School professor and director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, he writes on issues pertaining to global mental health, social healing, personal healing, human rights and the obstacles and pathways to peace. His book Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World won the Creative Scholarship Award of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture in 2010. His many honors include the Human Rights Award and the Kun-Po-Soo Award (2010) of the American Psychiatric Association.

Mary Naughton, M.D., M.P.H.: Medical officer, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC. Wrote the technical instructions for tuberculosis screening of persons changing status in the U.S. (green card applicants) and contributed to the “Yellow Book,” the CDC Health Information for International Travel 2010. As lead physician for panel physician training, she trains physicians who perform medical screening of immigrants and refugees and performs on-site evaluations of their work.

Douglas Pryce, M.D.: Participated in the advisory committee that oversaw the development of the Minnesota Refugee Health Provider Guide. For five years he has taught in the CDC-sponsored Global Health Course at the University of Minnesota, and lectures on Vitamin D, cancer screening in immigrants, participatory research, travel advice for pilgrims to the Hajj and chronic hepatitis B. As a physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, he has had 15 years’ experience caring for Somali patients in a Somali clinic. As a civil surgeon, he certifies medical exams needed for the immigration paperwork for refugees and asylees. His research into Somali health has included Vitamin D, cardiovascular disease risk factors and tobacco cessation.

Julie M. Schirmer, L.C.S.W., M.S.W.: Director, Behavioral Medicine and Assistant Family Medicine Clerkship Director, Family Practice Residency Program, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine. Editor of and contributor to Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care: A Global Perspective.

Reshid Shankole, M.D.: Has 10 years of experience working for the Ministry of Health in his native Ethiopia, including a working relationship with the Refugee Health Unit, which coordinates refugee care with international nongovernmental organizations.

William Stauffer, M.D., M.S.P.H., C.Trop.Med.: Associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics, infectious diseases, University of Minnesota (UMN).  Medical consultant, CDC, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Immigrant and Refugee Health.  Facilitating development of the domestic refugee medical screening guidelines.  Course director, eight-week UMN/CDC Global Health Course that focuses on care of globally mobile populations, including immigrants and refugees. He is lead author of “Pre-departure and Post-arrival Management of P. falciparum Malaria in Refugees Relocating from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States.”

Eyasu Teshale, M.D.: Medical officer, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC. Research has ranged from hepatitis E epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa to hepatitis patterns in drug abusers in the U.S. He is author of the article “Hepatitis A Among International Adoptees and Their Contacts.”

*Patricia Walker, M.D., D.T.M.&H.: Medical director at Center for International Health, HealthPartners, St. Paul, Minn., and associate medical director of the Global Health Pathway at the University of Minnesota. She is co-editor of the recent medical textbook Immigrant Medicine. She and her clinic are featured in “My Heart It Is Delicious”: Setting the Course for Cross-Cultural Health Care, a book about the inception and workings of the Center for International Health, Minnesota’s international medicine clinic, which has served refugees for more than 30 years.

Michelle Weinberg, M.D., M.P.H.: Medical officer, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging Infectious Disease, CDC. She is a pediatric infectious disease specialist who has worked on refugee health issues with CDC for more than 10 years.

Sergut Wolde-Yohannes, M.Ed., M.P.H.: Member of senior staff at the Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Has extensive experience working with refugees and lecturing and presenting on female genital mutilation. Has also presented to the American Public Health Association on Refugee Resettlement and Public Health Challenges: The Experience of Somali Bantu Refugee Resettlement.

Ana Zea, D.D.S.: Innovator for Oral Health Program at Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, which offers screening, education and referrals for follow-up care, enhancing access to culturally sensitive dental care for refugees and asylum seekers.