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Ella Barnes, from the office of international programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spoke at the American Center about her work on U.S.-Russia bilateral efforts in environmental protection. She gave a detailed presentation on past projects, such as building effective technology for clean energy and waste management. She gave stunning details about pollution emissions and how, for example, pesticides produced in Kazakhstan have a direct impact on communities in Alaska (due to the wind's natural northbound movement). It was an eye-opening lecture and audience members asked about further efforts to clean the environment. |
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We were thrilled to have Dr. Sean Conley speak at the American Center! He was in Moscow this week through a program with the English Language Office of the U.S. Embassy. Dr. Conley spoke about the advances of technology - showing all sorts of gadgets and projects for technology in the home - and spoke about how these innovations also affect teaching, particularly English-language teaching. The audience was engrossed from start to finish, and asked several excellent questions at the end. It was a great lecture! |
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Filmmaker Nicholas Sherman visited the American Center and talked about his latest documentary film, "Soundtracker." This fascinating film follows the life of Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist. Hempton travels the world in search of the earth's rarest sounds and records them. Nicholas Sherman was intrigued by his story and wrote, directed and produced this documentary about Hempton. Sherman has also been involved in other films, including serving as Director of Photography for the film, Journey from Zanskar. Unfortunately, due to the time of the lecture, there were only approximately 15 patrons present, however they asked him several questions and quite enjoyed the film clips that he showed. |
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American Center director, Kore Gleason, gave a lecture on the history of chocolate in the U.S. She talked about the complexity of making milk chocolate and why it took so long for America to make it (compared to Europe). She then described the two main chocolate empires in the U.S. - founded by Forrest Mars and Milton Hershey - and described the fascinating lives of these American entrepreneurs. Milton Hershey even founded an entire town (named Hershey!) in support of his chocolate-building business and also as a way to build an American Utopia. The Mars family was quite different in their approach, though equally fascinating, and Kore spoke about how these differences changed the chocolate business and business etiquette in America. She then gave out samples to the audience of various chocolates (unfortunately, all were from the Mars company, as Hershey does not sell chocolates in Russia). It was an exciting lecture! |
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The fantasy writer Davidson L. Haworth from California made his second appearance at the American Center. He performed his entertaining lecture in the tradition of American stand up on the 5th of May. Haworth is the author of books such as «The Dragon of Prali» and «The Wizard of Prali». The third book of trilogy «The Vampire of Prali» is being written now and, according to the writer, one of the characters of that book is Russian. |
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