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May 15, 2007: Dr.
Ira Chernus, "The US, Israel, and the Myth of
National Insecurity"
Dr. Ira
Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr.
Chernus’s research focuses on the discourse of
peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in
the United States, especially during the cold
war and the nuclear age, and how that discourse
has affected public culture and life. Professor Chernus
is the recipient of
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many fellowships and
honors such as the University of Colorado 20th
century Humanist Award. He is the author of
numerous articles and nine books including
Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on
Terror and Sin and the forthcoming
Eisenhower and Apocalypse Management: The
Discourse of National (In) Security.
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May 8, 2007: Dr. Catherine Lutz,
"Race and Militarization on the US Home Front"
Catherine A.
Lutz is professor of Anthropology at the Watson
institute for International Studies in Brown
University. She earned her B.A in Sociology and
Anthropology from Swarthmore College in 1974,
and her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from
Harvard University in 1980. She has
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occupied several professorial
rank positions in Harvard University, the State
University of New York at Binghampton, and the
University of North Carolina. Dr. Lutz is the
recipient of many grants and honors including: a
Fellowship from the Radcliff Institute for
Advanced Study for 2007-2008, a research grant
from the Campton Foundation in 2006, the Anthony
Leeds Prize, and an honorable mention by the
Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing in
2002 for her book
Homefront, and many more. She has written
many books and articles including: Homefront:
A Military City and the American 20th
Century (2002), and Reading National
Geographic (with Jane Collins,1993), amongst
others. Her latest book is entitled Local
Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public
Interests, and Private Politics (2007).
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May 3, 2007: Dr.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, "Which Iran?: Memoirs of
the Iranian Diaspora"
Seyed
Mohammad Marandi is an assistant professor of
English Literature at the University of Tehran
and head of the North American Studies
department. Since 2005, he has also been an
adjunct member of the Institute for North
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European Studies. Dr. Marandi
received his Ph.D in 2003 from Birmingham
University, writing his thesis on “Lord
Byron, His Critics and Orientalism.” He has
most recently co-authored a book entitled “The
British Media and Muslim Representation: The
Ideology of Demonisation,” published by the
Islamic Human Rights Commission in Great
Britain. He appears frequently as a commentator
on Al-Jazeera International.
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April 26, 2007: Dr. Robert Fisk, "After the
Collapse: Disengagement in the Middle East"
Robert Fisk
is correspondent for the British newspaper
The Independent. He has over thirty years of
experience in international reporting, beginning
with 1970s Belfast and Portugal’s 1974 Carnation
Revolution, and including the 1975-1990 Lebanese
Civil War, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the
1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, the 1991 Persian Gulf
War, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Robert Fisk
received a Ph.D. in Political Science from
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of two Western journalists to
stay in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. He
is the author of several books and articles
including Pity the
Nation: Lebanon at War (1990) and The
Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the
Middle East (2005). Fisk is the recipient of
numerous awards and honors such as the Lannan
Cultural Freedom Prize (2006) and the British
Press Awards’ International Journalist of the
Year which he won seven times. He was also
awarded honorary Doctorates from the University
of St. Andrews (2004), the Political and Social
Science Department at Ghent University in
Belgium (2006) and the American University of
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April 12, 2007: Dr.
John Munro, "American and Arab Identities in
Tension"
Dr.
John Munro earned his Ph.D in English Literature
from Washington University. He taught English
Literature at universities in the United States
and Canada and at AUB, where he also served as
Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. Later,
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American University in Cairo before acting as
political and media consultant to the European
Commission in Cairo. He is currently part-time
Visiting Professor in Human Rights and Democratisation at the University of Malta.
Among his publications are A Mutual Concern, (a
history of AUB) and Between Venus and Mars
(a history of Cyprus).
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March 19, 2007: Mr. John Zoghby, "Love, Hate,
Envy or Respect? Recent Trends in Arab and
American Public Opinion"
This lecture is co-sponsored with The
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and
International Affairs (IFI)
John
Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International,
is one of the most respected pollsters in the
United States today. |
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“All hail Zogby,
the maverick predictor who beat us
all,”proclaimed the Washington Post in November
1996 after Zogby alone called that presidential
election with pinpoint accuracy. In the
razor-thin 2000 elections, daily national
tracking polls conducted by Zogby International
in the last few weeks foretold a tightening of
the race for president while nearly all other
polling firms projected an easy victory for Gov.
George W. Bush. Since 1984, Zogby has polled,
researched and consulted for a wide spectrum of
business, media, government, and political
groups including Coca Cola, Microsoft, CISCO
Systems, Philip Morris, St. Jude’s Children
Research Hospital, MCI, Reuters American, and
the United States Census Bureau. John Zogby is
the author of a forthcoming portrait of the new
American consumer, which will be published by
Random House in October of 2007.He holds degrees
in history from Le Moyne College and Syracuse
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He has taught history for
twenty-five years. Zogby is also a Senior
Advisor at the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University and serves as the first-ever
Senior Fellow of the Catholic University Life
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March 6, 2007: Dr. Marcy Newman, "Promised Land
Propaganda: Jewish American Education and the
Zionist Lobby in the US"
Dr. Marcy
Newman is visiting professor at the Center for
American Studies and Research at AUB and
assistant professor of English at Boise State
University. Her research focuses on the
relationship between culture and American
policy. She is the author of Beyond Slash,
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Transforming Breast Cancer
Stories into Action and editor of The
Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by
Women and Jessie Redmon Fauset's The
Chinaberry Tree & Selected Writings. She is
currently at work on her latest manuscript,
tentatively entitled Disrupting Zionism:
Re-educating America About Palestine.
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March 1, 2007: Dr. Nomi Stolzenberg, "The Paradox of
Tolerance: How Religious Groups Are undermined
and Empowered by American-Style Liberalism and
Constitutional Values"
Dr. Nomi M.
Stolzenberg is Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair in
Law at the University of Southern California Law
School. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School,
where she served as an editor of the Harvard
Law Review. Her interdisciplinary research
interests include law and
religion, cultural pluralism, law and
liberalism, and law and literature.
Dr. Stolzenberg helped to |
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establish
the USC Center for Law, History and Culture.
Her influential publications include “’He Drew a
Circle that Shut Me Out': Assimilation,
Indoctrination and the Paradox of a Liberal
Education,” “The Property of Culture,” and “The
Profanity of Law.” She is currently at work on a
book on liberalism and religion in American law
and culture, which explores the paradox of
religious tolerance from the angles of cultural
and intellectual history, political theory and
law.
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December 5, 2006:
Dr.
Sirčne Harb, "Writing
and Identity in Suheir Hammad's Born
Palestinian, Born Black"
Dr. Sirčne Harb is Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative literature at the
American University of Beirut. She received her
MA from AUB in 1996 and her PhD from Purdue
University in 2002. Dr. Harb was a visiting
scholar at ColumbiaUniversity's Center for
Comparative Literature and Society in the
summers of 2004 and 2005 and in the spring of
2006. She is the author of several articles on
American and Francophone literatures and
postcolonial/gender studies. |
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Her work appeared
in Romance Languages Annual and Discursive
Geographies, and her annotated translation
of the GIP pamphlet on George Jackson (by Michel
foucault et al.) is forthcoming in Warfare:
Prison and the American Homeland from Duke
University Press.
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November 28,
2006: Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi, "'The Arab
Street': Tracking a Political Metaphor"
Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi is
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the
American University of Beirut. He earned his MA
and Ph.D in Philosophy from Columbia University
in 1987 and 1991 respectively. Professor Khalidi
is the editor and translator of
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings |
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(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the author
of several articles on the philosophy of science
and the
philosophy of mind and language. Dr. Khalidi is the recipient of numerous awards and
fellowships, the most recent of which is the
Teaching Excellence Award at AUB (2005).
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November 16,
2006: Dr. Paul Jahshan, "Dark
Margins: Invisibility and Obscenity in the Works
of Thomas Pynchon"
Dr. Paul Jahshan is Assistant Professor of
American Studies at Notre-Dame University in
Lebanon. He received his Ph.D. in American
Studies from Nottingham University in the UK in
2000.
Dr. Jahshan is the author of
Henry Miller and
the
Surrealist
Discourse of Excess:
A
Post-Structuralist Reading
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(2001),and of
Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth
(forthcoming, January 2007). He has also
published numerous articles on such topics as
cyberculture and the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
Dr. Jahshan presented a paper on Poe in the
Transatlanticism conference in July 2006 in
Oxford. Paul Jahshan is also the founder of
critical theory reading groups at NDU in 2000,
and has recently been appointed Special Lecturer
at the School of American and Canadian Studies
at Nottingham University.
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November 9, 2006:
Dr. Victoria Fontan, "Back to
the Think-Tank: Humiliation Awareness,
Non-violence and Counter-terrorism"
(This lecture is co-sponsored with the Issam
Fares Institute for Public Policy and
International Affairs IFI)
Dr. Victoria Fontan is Director of Academic
Development and Assistant Professor of Peace
Studies at the University for Peace, a United
Nations mandated institution headquartered in
Costa Rica. Dr. Fontan earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Peace
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and Development Studies at the
University of Limerick in Ireland. Her research
focuses on the development of terrorism and
political violence in post-conflict areas, more
specifically on humiliation and social
polarization. She is the editor of Education
and Training in Modern Peace Operations
(2004), as well as numerous articles such as
“David vs. Goliath: The Lebanese Hezbollah in
the Current World Order” and
“Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in
Post-Saddam Iraq: Humiliation and the Formation
of Political Violence."
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October 31, 2006:
Dr. Hilton Obenzinger, "American Palestine:
Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania"
(Text)
Dr. Hilton Obenzinger is the
Associate Director for Honors Writing and
Undergraduate Research Programs, and Lecturer in
the Department of English at Stanford
University. He earned |
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his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature
from Stanford University in 1997. Dr. Obenzinger is the author of eight books of
fiction, poetry, history and criticism,
including
This Passover Or
The Next I Will Never Be in Jersualem
(1980),
New York on Fire
(1989),
Cannibal Eliot
and the Lost Histories of San Francisco
(1993),
American Palestine:
Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania
(1999), and
A*Hole
(2004).
Hilton Obenzinger has also taught on the Yurok
Indian Reservation, operated a community
printing press in San Francisco's Mission
District, and co-edited a publication devoted to
Middle East peace.
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October 19, 2006:
Dr. Matthew Smith, "Terrorism, Shared Rules and
Trust: A Moral Framework for an American
Response to Terrorism"
Dr. Matthew
Smith is Assistant Professor at the Department
of Philosophy and Program in Ethics, Politics
and Economics at Yale University.
He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the
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University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004.Dr.
Smith is the author of “The Law as a Social
Practice: Are Shared Activities at the
Foundations of Law” (forthcoming in
Legal Theory), and “Terrorism, Shared Rules
and
Trust” (forthcoming in Journal of
Political Psychology). Dr. Matthew Smith is
also the recipient of several fellowships and
awards including an undergraduate teaching
award. |
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