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fessor woody holton from the university of south carolina. third we hear from professor eri c slauter from the university of chicago. finally, we hear from professor david armitage at harvard university known fo the declaration of independence: a global history. everyone will speak about 10 to 12 minutes and then we have questions from the audience. i think you re all set. prof. brewer: thank you to organizers of this conference, which is terrific. when the delegates to the continental congress assembled in june of 1776, they faced a dilemma. fighting between colonists and british troops have been going on more than a year. political disputes over whether colonists needed to dissent to their own government and taxes remained at a standoff. some delegates sought peace and redfin scissors peace and reckons lesion with their king. only seven supported independence. new york, new jersey delaware, and south carolina were not yet ready to fight. congress chose a committ ....
i m charles dunlap, the director for the center for science policy and society programs. the lecture this afternoon on the opioid epidemic is the second in 2017 foundation series on science in the society. the first lecture this year on the brain and video games was held in march and the third in september will be on meditation so please keep an eye out for the announcement date. the foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports brain research programs, publications and educational programs like this one. for the last five years, we ve partnered with the foundation to present an annual lecture series on society and by my count this as the lecture in a series. we are grateful for the dana foundation support of the series and for the leadership in the series and our scientific responsibility human rights and law program. thank you. welcome. it seems to me hardly a day goes by there isn t a story i see either in a newspaper or o the n the evening news about th ....
new york university dc center hosted this event it is an hour and ten minutes. thank you for hosting this important discussion today and thank you to senator heitkamp and mrs. mccain for taking time out to provide insights on how to address the problem. i have worked on trafficking issues for 20 years now without but as alawyer and academic andt time i ve witnessed tremendous changes in the fields where as much efforts almost and tiger lever on the trafficking of women and girls into this sector. we finally reached now come to understand trafficking as a phenomenon that affects men, women and children in a wide range of sectors that affect our daily lives. we recognize trafficking can take place on farms that produce foods and factories along the supply chain and produced trafficking can occur in homes in the domestic workers who care for our children, our elderly and/or disabled and even in the public schools, in the deceptive and abusive recruitment from abroad. the ....
second in 2017 foundation series on science in the society. the first lecture this year on the brain and video games was held in march and the third in september will be on meditation so please keep an eye out for the announcement date. the foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports brain research programs, publications and educational programs like this one. for the last five years, we ve partnered with the foundation to present an annual lecture series on society and by my count this as the lecture in a series. we are grateful for the dana foundation support of the series and for the leadership in the series and our scientific responsibility human rights and law program. thank you. welcome. it seems to me hardly a day goes by there isn t a story i see either in a newspaper or o the n the evening news about the opioid crisis. and as i was thinking about that today, sure enough on the front page of the washington post is a story abouhas a story about h ....
good afternoon and welcome. i m charles dunlap, the director for the center for science policy and society programs. the lecture this afternoon on the opioid epidemic is the second in 2017 foundation series on science in the society. the first lecture this year on the brain and video games was held in march and the third in september will be on meditation so please keep an eye out for the announcement date. the foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports brain research programs, publications and educational programs like this one. for the last five years, we ve partnered with the foundation to present an annual lecture series on society and by my count this as the lecture in a series. we are grateful for the dana foundation support of the series and for the leadership in the series and our scientific responsibility human rights and law program. thank you. welcome. it seems to me hardly a day goes by there isn t a story i see either in a newspaper or o the ....