Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Public Intellectual in South Asian Scholarship
A roundtable discussion featuring C.M. Naim [moderator], Boria Majumdar, Biju Mathew, Siddharta Deb, Shekhar Krishnan.
Poetry Reading by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the College, the Committee on Jewish Studies, the Progr...
Militarization of U.S. Foreign Relations with Latin America: Prospects for Change
A panel discussion with:* Lisa Haugaard, Executive Director of the Latin America Working Group* Joy Olson, Executive Director of the Washington Office on Latin America* Adam Isacson, Senior Associate at the Center for International Policy
Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
Based on nearly a decade of painstaking research in archives and census records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elliot Jaspin's book Buried in the Bitter Waters provides irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred again and again on American...
Q&A with Director Hitomi Kamanaka
A discussion with the director of the film Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan.
The Persistence of the "Mythological" in Popular Hindi Cinema
Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, University of Iowa
Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way
A conversation between Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and Susan Thistlethwaite, President of Chicago Theological Seminary.In her book Failing America's Faithful, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend issues a spiritual call to a...
The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit Opposing the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq
A talk by lawyer Michiko Nakajima.In the course of the Iraq War, citizens in Japan, singly or in groups, have been taking the state to court alleging violation of the "no war" clause of the Constitution in deploying Self-Defense Force troops. Feminist ...
History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age (Part 1)
This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the ...