| 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, "â??Stars in the Waterâ??: 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. McGreevyâ??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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| Richard Bulliet is Professor of History at Columbia University and one of todayâ??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." |
| Dr. 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 Consumersâ?? 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 Harvardâ??s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Her books include Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 and A Consumersâ?? Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. |