Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Some impacts have already been observed: irregular monsoon and very little rainfall in dry period; increased frequency, intensity and recurrence of cyclones; crop damage due to floods; crop failure due to drought; and salinity intrusion along the coast. The most alarming prediction is that more than 25 million people will become climate refugees and food insecure only due to sea level rise. In this event, Mahbuba Nasreen (left), professor of sociology at University of Dhaka, and Mizanur Rahman, project director of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 Formulation Project for the Ministry of Planning, will discuss climate change resilience and adaptation in Bangladesh. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/bangladesh

The Department of History, with the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission, will host a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the war. The event will include a keynote address Thursday evening by Sir Hew Strachan (left), the world's leading historian of the First World War. Strachan will discuss the killing fields of 1916, the year that witnessed horrendous fighting at Verdun and on the Somme. Friday's events feature experts addressing the military history of the war, the financing of the combatants, the human toll of the conflict, changes the war wrought to the law of war and the medical condition diagnosed at the time as "shell shock." In addition, Ohio State students in theatre and the arts will recite selections of World War I poetry and perhaps even share a period song. Read more and register at the event website

David Kang is professor of international relations and business at the University of Southern California, with appointments in both the School of International Relations and Marshall School of Business. He is also director of USC Korean Studies Institute and director of the USC Center for International Studies. Kang's latest book is East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Columbia, 2010). He is also author of China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (Columbia, 2007), Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (Cambridge, 2002), and Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, with Victor Cha (Columbia, 2003). In this event, Kang will explain why East Asia actually more peaceful than the conventional wisdom might suggest. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/kangd

Stephanie Rickard is associate professor at London School of Economics. She studies international trade. Currently, she is researching non-tariff barriers to foreign trade, including state subsidies and discriminatory public procurement practices. She is a member of the steering committee of the International Political Economy Society and the editorial board of the journal International Organization. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to discuss various events in the global economy, including the leadership contest at the World Trade Organization. In this event, Rickard will discuss why politicians redistribute more in some democracies than others in the context of particularistic economic policies, which selectively assist small groups of citizens at the expense of many. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/rickards

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You've heard of the Jurassic, Cambrian, Pleistocene, Holocene. Now a group of world-renowned scholars is debating whether to declare a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. Mankind has so changed Earth, they state, that we've created our own geological layer. In our film, key members of the group, for the first time on camera, tell the story of the Anthropocene - from the Time of Fire to today's Great Acceleration and beyond. And ask ... how will our story end? And should it make us laugh or cry? Stay after the screening for a live Q and A with director Stephen Bradshaw.   Read more

Uri Bar-Joseph (Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford, 1990) is a professor of international relations at Haifa University in Israel. A leading scholar on intelligence history and foreign policy decision making in the world, he is the author of six books, including The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel (HarperCollins 2016, now being turned into a Hollywood movie); and Intelligence Failure and Success: A Comparative Study (Oxford 2017, forthcoming). In addition, he has published more than 80 book chapters and refereed journal articles in leading academic and policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Political Psychology, Journal of Strategic Studies, Political Science Quarterly, and Armed Forces and Society. Co-sponsored by Wittenberg University Political Science, International Studies, Russian and Central Eurasian Studies, East Asian Studies, American International Association, and Faculty Endowment Fund Board.