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Drifting: Film Screening and Q&A with director Jun Li promotional image

Drifting: Film Screening and Q&A with director Jun Li

Thursday, October 15, 2026 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

Just out of jail, Fai finds a spot on a street corner where other homeless people welcome him. But he doesn't get much time to settle in. The police soon chase them away, and their possessions disappear into a garbage truck. Young social worker Ms. Ho thinks it's time to fight this in court. In the meantime, Fai and his friends have other concerns.

Film is free to everyone.

Jun Li is a Hong Kong writer and film director. He has made three feature films and written two full-length plays. His films...

CSD Professional Seminar Series

Friday, October 16, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Health Sciences Academic Building (HSAB)

Title: Nothing About Us Without Us: Creating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures with People Who Stutter

Speaker: Naomi Rodgers, PhD, CCC-SLP

In honor of International Stuttering Awareness Day, this seminar takes up a core principle of the disability rights movement: research about a community should be shaped by that community. Patient-reported outcome measures shape how we define success in clinic and research, yet many measures fail to capture what matters most to the people they are meant to...

Arrows in Motion: Animation and Public Health in Socialist China promotional image

Arrows in Motion: Animation and Public Health in Socialist China

Friday, October 16, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Through the lens of Chinese health films, Li explores how animation does more than communicate knowledge, helping to shape how people perceive relationships between bodies, environments, and collective life.
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