Demography of Ancient South Asian Populations
S.R. Walimbe, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute
Chicago Humanities Festival Presents: Wangari Maathai
A Chicago Humanities Festival talk by Kenyan politician and environmental activist Wangari Maathai.Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, the first black African woman to win a ...
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
A panel featuring John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard"i? 1/2 s John F. Kennedy School of Government."The Israel Lobby"i? 1/2 "i? 1/2was originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006. It pro...
Legal Defense and Human Rights in Russia
A talk with Robert Amsterdam, founding partner, Amsterdam & Peroff, legal defense counsel for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Moderated by Thomas Ginsburg, Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School.Robert R Amsterdam is a founding partner of Amsterdam...
Time and the Sacred: Photographs by Pance Velkov
Time and The Sacred is a collection of photographs, taken by Dr. Pance Velkov, which redresses the general lack of knowledge about religious art of the Republic of Macedonia, and at the same time it provides a venue for acquainting viewers with a uniqu...
In Defense of Academic Freedom
Two panels on academic freedom, chaired by Tariq Ali, editor of Verso Books and New Left Review.The growing evidence of outside interference in the hiring process at universities and the recent tenure denials at DePaul University, has prompted leading ...
Poetry Reading by Donald Revell
Donald Revell is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently of A Thief of Strings (2007) and Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems (2005), both from Alice James Books. Winner of the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the...
Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, speaks on his new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," coauthored by Jules Lobel. In their critique, two of the country's preeminent constitutional scholars argue ...
National Interests, Regional Concerns: Historicizing Malayalam Cinema
Muraleedharan Tharayil, Dept. of English St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth (University of Calicut, Kerala).