UnCommon Core | Wendy Doniger
Wendy Doniger speaks about Hinduism and her upcoming book as part of the UnCommon Core.
Lecture 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...
U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations (Part 1)
U.S. and Cuban scholars involved in academic, scientific, and cultural research face significant difficulties in maintaining open and thorough dialogue with each other due to restrictions governing travel between the two countries. Such exchanges, how...
Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas
A talk by Jorge Fernandez-Souza, Magistrate Judge, Professor of Law and former Dean of Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, former Delegado of Delegacion Miguel Hidalgo, and lawyer for Bishop Samuel Ruiz in the Chiapas negotiations (1994-1997).
Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juarez
A talk by Bertha Lujan, Secretaria del Trabajo, Gobierno "Legitimo" de México (de Andrés Manuel López Obrador), former Controlora, Cd. de México (2000-2006), and lead organizer of Frente Auténtico del Trabajo.
The Modern Human Rights Movement in Mexico
A talk by Mariclaire Acosta. Acosta is affiliated with the Organization of American States, co-founder of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos; founder, Comision Mexicana para la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, and former director of...
Why I Went to Iraq: Three Years Later
Noriaki Imai, student environmental and peace activist. At 18 years of age, Noriaki Imai traveled to Iraq to study the effects of depleted uranium on Iraqi children. While in Iraq, he was taken hostage and threatened to be killed unless Japan withdrew ...
Postwar Japan on the Brink: Militarism, Colonialism, Yasukuni Shrine
The inaugural lecture of The Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture Series in Japanese Studies, by Professor Tetsuya Takahashi, University of TokyoProfessor Takahashi's writings, including his 2005 bestseller, The Yasukuni Issue, make unmistakably clear t...
Baltimore Drowning: A Slavic Microhistory of Global Proportions
Keith Brown, Director of Politics, Culture, & Identity; Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown UniversityThis talk was the keynote address of "Rethinking Crossroads: Macedonia in Global Context." The conference assembled...
The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Mexican Revolution
A talk by Alan Knight, Professor of History, University of Oxford.Prof. Knight is a scholar of modern history and politics in Latin America, especially Mexico. His research interests include revolutions, state-building and peasant movements, and Britis...