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Saint Helena Forum

The Saint Helena Forum is an educational nonprofit with a mission to inform, entertain and inspire by presenting artistic performances and exchanges of creative and innovative thinking on a wide variety of humanities-based subjects.

  1. FEB 26

    22: Beauty Sick

    Dr. Engeln is a professor at Northwestern University where she teaches psychopathology, the psychology of women and gender, social psychology, and the psychology of human beauty. Doctor Engeln  directs the “The Body and Media Lab” which conducts research exploring issues surrounding women's body images. She is the author of "Beauty Sick" a book about the cultural obsession with appearance and how it effects girls and women.  Renee's work has appeared in numerous academic journals, and she is regularly interviewed by the New York Times, the Chicago tribune, the Huffington Post, and other national media.​ ​ ​ Dr. Engeln will be interviewed by Saint Helena Forum Board Member Michele Mitchell. In addition to being a member of the Forum’s board of directors, Michelle is a filmmaker, journalist, and author, best known for her on-camera reporting for PBS and CNN Headline News, and her documentary films: “Haiti: Where did the Money Go? “ which tracked what happened to the money donated by US citizens to US-based charities after the Haiti earthquake  and ”The Un-condemned “, a riveting documentary about an underdog group of lawyers and activists who defied the odds to do what had never been done: prosecute rape as an international war crime.

    57 min

  2. 12/04/2024

    21: Returning Museum Treasures

    Today many U.S. museums are facing a reckoning for their aggressive collecting tactics of the past. The Indiana Jones era is over, and there is tremendous pressure on museums to return any works acquired during the days when collecting could be sometimes better described as looting and plundering. Join the Saint Helena forum for a facinating discussion of this topic between two museum professionals Jane Milosch and Peggy Loar.

    1h 10m

  3. 08/12/2024

    20: Searching for Signs of Life in the Universe

    A Conversation with Astrobiologist Dr. Nathalie Cabrol. With more than 300 million exoplanets in the habitable zone of their stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and up to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe - to think we are alone or the only advanced intelligent civilization is pretty close to nonsense. Dr. Nathalie Cabrol is a French American Astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high-altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the principal investigator of the  "High Lakes Project"  funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute. There, with her team, she documents life's adaptation to extreme environments, the effect of rapid climate change on lake ecosystems and habitats, its geobiological signatures, and relevance to planetary exploration. Cabrol was appointed in 2015 to head the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.

    1h 21m

  4. 06/04/2024

    19: Deep Sea Mining: Much To Gain...Much To Lose part 3

    Should we mine the oceans for essential minerals to power green technology?  In our final episode of a three-part series, we explore the fascinating world of international regulations that affect the sea floor.  Governing approximately half of the total area of the world's oceans, the International Sea Bed Authority is, “to exercise oversight of activities that might threaten biological diversity and harm the marine environment”.  James McFarland, Executive Vice President of Strategic Robotic Systems and former head of the Office of Resource and Environmental Monitoring at the International Sea Bed Authority, will be our third guest and help us decipher if and how the ISA is managing to fulfill its mandates.

    51 min

  5. 06/04/2024

    18: Deep Sea Mining: Much To Gain...Much To Lose part 2

    Should we mine the oceans for essential minerals to power green technology?  In our second interview of a three-part series is with Dr. Lisa Levin, a distinguished professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a marine ecologist who studies ecosystems in the deep sea and shallow water. We’ll ask her to tell us what current science is revealing on the sea floor in the CCZ, and what damage may result from Deep-Sea mining.

    34 min

  6. 06/04/2024

    17: Deep Sea Mining: Much To Gain...Much To Lose part 1

    Should we mine the oceans for essential minerals to power green technology?  In our first interview of a three-part series, we explore the pro-mining perspective of  deep-sea mining, with our guest, Gerrard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company. He argues that deep-sea mining could provide a cleaner alternative to traditional mining methods and shares some of his preliminary research conclusions on the impact of his company’s mining methods on marine ecosystems and biodiversity.

    55 min

  7. 04/10/2024

    16: Shedding Light on Dark Matter and Dark Energy

    A conversation about the composition of the universe with Dr. Jason Rhodes and Dr. Alina Kiessling Dr. Rhodes graduated from West Valley high school in Des Moines, Iowa, earned a B.S. in physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA and an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. After stints as a researcher at NASA’s, Goddard, Spaceflight Center in Maryland and at Caltech in Pasadena, he landed a position at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His projects include NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the European Space Agency’s Euclid Mission, and the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time. All of these are designed to study, “Dark Energy”, the hypothesized cause of the Universe’s accelerated expansion. ​ Dr. Kiessling is a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, investigating Dark Matter and Dark Energy through Weak Lensing Analysis of N-body Simulations. She’s a member of Euclid and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Dark Energy Science Collaboration and was a consultant on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Definition Reports. Alina earned a B.Sc. in Space Science from La Trobe University in Australia and her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh, in the UK.

    1h 11m

  8. 02/28/2024

    15: The Reckoning Project

    Bearing Witness - The Reckoning Project Fighting Impunity from War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity A Conversation with War Correspondent and Human Rights Reporter Janine Di Giovanni. Janine Di Giovanni, is the author of eight books, a war correspondent, and Executive Director of the Reckoning Project. She earned her BA at the University of Maine and her MFA at the University of Iowa. She began her reporting career in 1987, covering the first Palestinian intifada for the London Times. Describing herself as a human rights reporter with a focus on war crimes and crimes against humanity, she has reported on genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria, and was one of the few reporters who witnessed the fall of Grozny in Chechnya. She covered the war in Kosovo with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Reported for The Times and Vanity Fair in Afghanistan and Iraq. After becoming the Middle East editor for Newsweek, Janine began working in Egypt, Kurdistan, Lebanon, North Africa, and South Sudan. In 2022, Janine founded the Reckoning Project, a non-governmental organization that trains conflict journalists and researchers to gather legally admissible testimonies documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Those of you who have followed the Forum know of David Freed's previous discerning interviews, skills he honed as an investigative reporter for The Los Angeles Times. There he served as The Times' lead police reporter, was an individual finalist for the Pulitzer Prize’s Gold Medal for Public Service (the most prestigious award in American journalism) and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper’s coverage of the 1992 Rodney King riots.  David has reported from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, and later worked in the intelligence community for the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, among other federal agencies.  David is also a screenwriter and author of the Amazon- and Audible- best-selling, Cordell Logan mystery-thriller novels.

    58 min
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The Saint Helena Forum is an educational nonprofit with a mission to inform, entertain and inspire by presenting artistic performances and exchanges of creative and innovative thinking on a wide variety of humanities-based subjects.

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    2023 - 2025
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