May 17, 2004: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "A Hemispheric Approach to the History of
the Americas."
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is professor of history
and geography at Queen Mary University of London
and a member of the Faculty of Modern History of
Oxford University. He is a best-selling historian
of an extraordinarily broad range of topics. His
books include Before Columbus: Exploration and
Colonisation from the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic, 1229-1492; Reformation;
Religion; Truth: A History; The
Americas: A Hemispheric History; and most
recently Humankind: A Brief History. |
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May
14, 2004: Roundtable Discussion: "U.S. Media Coverage of the
Middle East: Perspectives of American Journalists"
with a panel of American journalists.
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Participating on the panel were Ronald Royhab,
Executive Editor, The Blade (of Toledo, Ohio);
Stephen Talbot, Series Editor, Frontline/World
(PBS); and Kathy Lally, Deputy Foreign Editor, The
Baltimore Sun. The three were members of a
larger group of journalists on a fact-finding visit
to Lebanon and Syria organized by the International
Reporting Project at The Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins
University. |
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May
4, 2004: Patrick McGreevy, "‘Stars in the
Water’: Art, Nature and Nation on the Erie Canal."
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Patrick McGreevy is Professor and Chair of the
Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth
Science at Clarion University in Pennsylvania. He
served as a Fulbright Chair of American Studies in
Hungary in 1999-2000. His research focuses on the
meanings Americans find in landscape and
comparative studies of Canadian and American
identities. Dr. McGreevy’s publications include
Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of
Niagara Falls (1994). |
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April 29, 2004: Justin Connor, "Judicial
Review of Administrative Decision-Making in
American Law: The Case of Telecommunications
Regulation."
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Mr. Connor is US Fulbright Scholar in Law for 2004
at Sagesse University in Beirut. He has
served since 1999 as Senior Attorney at the Federal
Communications Commission, the U.S. agency which
regulates the telecommunications sector. Mr. Connor
holds a law degree from Northeastern University and
a Bachelors degree from Earlham College. He has
been active with the American Bar Association, the
District of Columbia Bar Association, and the
Friends Meeting of Washington. |
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April
26, 2004: Alia Malek, "The Racialization
of Arab-Americans in the Contemporary United
States: Context and Consequences."
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Alia Malek worked for several years as an attorney
in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice. She has long been active in human
rights, Arab reform, Palestinian, and feminist
issues. She earned a Juris Doctorate at the
Georgetown University Law Center. |
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April
20, 2004: Allen Hibbard, "Inverse Migrations:
Paul Bowles, Edward Said, the U.S. and the Arab
World."
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Allen Hibbard is Professor and Director of Graduate
Studies in the English Department of Middle
Tennessee State University. He earned a Ph.D. in
English from the University of Washington and has
taught at the American University in Cairo and at
Damascus University. He is the author of two books
on the American writer Paul Bowles, who lived most
of his life in Morocco. |
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April 14, 2004: Richard Rorty, "Is There a
Conflict between Religion and Science?"
(co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy)
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Richard Rorty is one of the leading philosophers
in the United States and has been almost
single-handedly responsible for reviving the
American philosophical movement of Pragmatism.
He is Professor of Comparative Literature and of
Philosophy at Stanford University and the author
of a large number of books and essays on
philosophical issues, including Philosophy and
the Mirror of Nature (1979) and Achieving
Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century
America (1998).
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March 16, 2004: Richard Bulliet,
"Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: The
Formation of American Middle East Policies in the
Post-World War II Period."
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University and one of today’s leading historians of
the Middle East and Islam. His books include The
Camel and the Wheel, Conversion to Islam in
the Medieval Period, Islam: the View from
the Edge, and The Case for Islamo-Christian
Civilization (forthcoming). He has also edited
or co-edited a number of volumes, including
Under Siege: Islam and Democracy and The
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. |
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December 16, 2003: Martha Nussbaum, "Compassion and
Terror" (co-sponsored with the Department of
Philosophy) |
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Dr.
Martha Nussbaum is one of the world's most
distinguished and influential scholars. She has
been described by Time magazine as "one of a
handful of thinkers coming up with ideas that will
change the world" and profiled in a recent issue of
New Statesman entitled "12 Great Thinkers of Our
Time." Dr. Nussbaum is Professor of Law and
Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is
appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School,
and Divinity School and serves as an Associate in
the Classics Department and Political Science
Department, as an Affiliate in the Committee on
Southern Asian Studies, and as a Board Member of
the Human Rights Program. |
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December 15, 2003: Stanley Katz, "The Human Rights
Dilemma of the United States: Why the U.S. Finds It
So Hard to Participate in the International System." |
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Stanley Katz is director of the Center for Arts and
Cultural Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs. He is
president emeritus of the American Council of
Learned Societies (ACLS). The author and editor of
numerous books and articles, including
Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in
Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel/Palestine
(2002), Dr. Katz is a noted authority on American
legal and constitutional history, and on
nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations. |
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December 11, 2003: Dr. Lizabeth Cohen, "A
Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass
Consumption in Post-World War II America." |
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Dr. Lizabeth Cohen
is one of the leading historians of
twentieth-century U.S. politics and society. She is
Professor of American Studies at Harvard University
and Director of Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for
Studies in American History. Her books include
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago,
1919-1939 and A Consumers’ Republic: The
Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. |
