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IRC Summer Book Club
Explore the world's past, present and future with IRC's Summer Book Club. IRC will be reading three books this summer: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, The Bookseller of Kabul, and The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century. This Book Club is free but open to current IRC members only. Space will be limited to 30 attendees per book, so register early to ensure your spot! IRC recommends Rainy Day Books for your book purchases.
July 23
The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Kauffman Foundation -- Brush Creek Room
Book discussion moderated by Dr. Linna Place, research associate professor of history at UMKC and Interim Director of International Academic Programming.
August 20
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Kauffman Foundation -- Brush Creek Room
Book discussion moderated by Mike Wood, retired professor at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at UMKC.
Learn more about these books.
To register, please send an email to Sarah Bader at irc@irckc.org that includes your name, phone number, preferred email address, and book club sessions you would like to attend. You may also telephone 816-221-4204 with the same information. Space is limited, but there will be a waiting list in case of cancellations. Please note that you must be a current member of IRC to participate. If you are unsure of your member status, please feel free to inquire via email.
Human Trafficking: Hidden in Plain Sight
September 1
7:00 p.m.
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
4501 Walnut, KCMO
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawed slavery in America, yet it exists today, with modern day bondage consisting of isolation, threats and coercion. There are 15,000 victims in the United States alone who generate three billion dollars of profit for their captors. Yet most Americans are unaware of the extent or even the existence of the form of modern day slavery called Human Trafficking. It has been an unseen, unheard and unreported crime. The victims are all around us, unknown to most; they are, paradoxically, hidden in plain sight.
Jeff Lanza, retired FBI agent who investigated human trafficking in Kansas City, and Timea Eva Nagy, sex slave survivor, speaker and social advocate from Toronto, Canada, will speak on the same stage to raise public awareness of this crime epidemic. Lanza was an FBI Agent for over 20 years. During his tenure at the FBI, he investigated corruption, corporate fraud, money laundering, computer crime and organized crime. He served as head of internal security of the Kansas City FBI and a regional spokesman. Timea was a sex slave in Toronto, Canada beginning in 1998 after she arrived from Budapest, Hungary in the hopes of fulfilling a summer position. She was kidnapped, controlled, and kept under horrible conditions and forced to work in the sex trade in Toronto and surrounding areas. Her new book, Walk With Me, a Memoir of a Sex Slave Worker, is a full accounting of her story and her road to wholeness and is set to be released fall of 2009.
$10 members/$15 non-members
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