The secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. That really is a spectacular book. I consistently get asked questions if theres a short book, great for teaching at an introductory point. If youd have not seen proctors short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. Also clearly, she was very busy in 2017. [laughter] she is presently working on a study of American Humanitarian aid in the u. S. From 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Tammy proctor. [applause] dr. Proctor to test this out, is it working . Yes . Ok. Good. There you go. Dr. Proctor all right, we are good. Thank you to laura for that nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. Its great to come to kansas city. As laura said, it is my hometown. Its always wonderful to be here. I would also like to thank dr. Kuhn for setting up my talk by mentioning famine reli
Modern european and world history. A native of kansas city, missouri, proctor holds degrees in journalism and history from the university of missouri and a phd from rutgers university. Thet publications include secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. Book. S a spectacular i consistently get asked questions if theres a short brooke book great for teaching at an introductory point. If you have not seen her short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. Also clearly, she was very busy and 2017. On as presently working study of American Humanitarian aid in the u. S. From 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcoming dr. Tammy proctor. [applause] dr. Proctor to test this out, is it working . Yes . Ok. Good. We are good. For that to lora nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. Its great to come to kansas city. It is my hometown. Its a
Hours from Prime Minister theresa may . We will talk to the headteacher, a farmer and Health Campaigner who crossed the open border between north and south each to see how they feel about changes that could affect every aspect of their lives. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. We are going to hear resham khans story. Thats after 10am. She had acid thrown in herface by a stranger and suffered life changing injuries and has gone on to campaign for a change in the law on selling acid. Quite a remarkable woman. That is a photograph taken much more recently. Do watch the interview after 10am. She describes how she pities her attacker. Also today. We would like to hear from you about how long you have waited in the a e. New figures suggesting waiting times have doubled in the last few years. We will talk about that after 9 30am. Our top story today. Mahmoud abbas has called for an intifada. The us decision has been wildly criticised around the world, including
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the protection of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings, things like that. So, whenever you want to touch base with reality i like to go online to the china leadership monitor and do precisely there. Today well give you a sample of writings in form of presentations working ahead in the 19th
Im grateful to doug paul for agreeing to host and set this thing up and the Carnegie Institution and alex taylor after all his logistical support. Im grateful also to michael and to alan for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception and im sorry that james was pulled away. He is a founding contributor still writes for us and would have been the guy to talk about the reconfer racing reconfigure racing. And im grateful to joe and jessica for agreeing to do these presentations. We hope to have barry here who has been a founding contributor on the chinese economy, but barry has back loaded his class to end of the week and kind rearrange this schedule so i regret he wasnt able to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe is. Professor at International Relations and politics at boston university. He is founding contributor to the china leadership monitor, retired from our roster, i dont know, couple years ago we were arguing about when that was walking over here. And im