Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
Stalin declared their participation in the United Nations organization. Rushing germany from the east and the west, they met at the river and joined hands in the celebration of victory. They fought the good fight together, final victory was in sight. Mans hopes of lasting peace were high. But the great architect of victory was not to see the final fight. Franklin roosevelt was dead. He left the United Nations organization, the framework for lasting peace on earth. World war ii to end, and in tokyo bay, general mcarthur spoke for all people. And that god will preserve it always. Meanwhile in san francisco, delegates of 50 nations have met to form the United Nations organization. President truman came from washington for the signing of the historic charter. Minister molikov of the soviet union lent his voice to the hopeful expression of mans resolution to live in peace. The nations were united. They launched the rule of International Law and human rights, a rule of law they believed no n
A new record coronavirus cases more than 7000 in a day and the Prime Minister is due to address the nation and an indian Jewelry Company pulls an ad that caused outrage because it shows interfaith marriage. So we begin with that undercover aljazeera investigation which now has led to cyprus suspending its controversial citizenship for Investment Program the attorney general has also announced a probe into possible criminal offenses following the revelations it goes back to august when aljazeera is Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers that revealed serious flaws in the citizen by Investment Program exposing high ranking officials who were willing to help convicted criminals obtain e. U. Citizenship more now from our Investigative Reporter David Harrison who is in nicosia. Weve had 3 announcements one the abolition of the Investment Program under which people could buy passports if they paid a certain amount of money in which our investigation revealed evidence of that was big b
Yes im going at stand up because im not also the news conservative u. S. Supreme Court Nominee barack faces some tough questions from democrats on the 2nd day of her confirmation hearing. Strict new measures will go into place in the netherlands after a Record Number of new coronavirus cases report. And look at the conflicts over the region of not going to tell about is affecting the people there. So we begin with that aljazeera expose which has led cyprus to suspend its citizenship for Investment Program aljazeera as Investigative Unit exposed senior politicians who engaged in a plan to help a criminal by a cypriot passport our best to get a reporter David Harrison has this report now from nicosia. An emergency meeting of the cypriot cabinet. Was held at the president ial palace following the release of the aljazeera investigation. You can we can get surely going to go live to some broker soon youre going to use you tube our own bush remember the program which we already speak about y
A day the Prime Minister is due to speak to the nation. And an indian Jewelry Company polls an ad that caused outrage because it showed interfaith marriage. So the aljazeera undercover investigation which has led to cyprus suspending its controversial citizenship for Investment Program the attorney general has also announced a probe into possible criminal offenses following the revelations goes back to august when al jazeera Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers which revealed some serious flaws in the citizen by Investment Program it exposed high ranking officials expressing a willingness to help convicted criminals get citizenship lets get more from our Investigative Reporter David Harrison whos in nicosia. Weve had 3 announcements one the abolition of the Investment Program under which people could buy passports if they paid a certain amount of money in which our investigation revealed evidence of that was being abused the 2nd one was the president of the pall of dmitris sal