Dr. Miriam Isaacs, independent scholar, researcher and lecturer, on Yiddish language and culture, heritage languages, and translation; retired Affiliate Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish Language and Culture, University of Maryland College Park, will speak on the Yiddish songs she worked on from the Benjamin Stonehill Oral History Collection when she was a Fellow at the United States Holocaust Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dr. Musil specializes in contemporary global sustainability, security, and health issues, as well as Cold War history, culture, and policy.