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Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare 2/23/09 - WILLIAM LEE MILLER is Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center. From 1992 until his 1999 retirement, he was Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Director of the Program in Political and Social Thought at U.Va. A speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and a contributing editor and writer for The Reporter magazine, he was the founding director of the Poynter Center on American Institutions at Indiana University. He is the author of eight books, including Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002). |
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Schauer Charges Students to Ponder Nature of Legal Reasoning 2/20/09 - Professor Frederick Schauer asked students to consider what it is to |
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The Eight Stages of Genocide 2/16/09 - GREGORY H. STANTON, the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington, is the Founder and President of Genocide Watch, the Founder and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, the Founder and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide, and the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Stanton served in the State Department, where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. A fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he has been a Law Professor at Washington and Lee, American University, and the University of Swaziland. This Forum was co-sponsored with Students Taking Action Now, Darfur (STAND) and Genocide Awareness and Research Organization (GARO) and the Corcoran Department of History. |
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Panel Explores Minority Marriage Gap 2/13/09 - Research indicates that marriage is good for society, but there is a pronounced racial divide in the marriage rates and no easy answers on what actions |
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China's Rise in Historical Context: Challenges of Strategy and Security 2/13/09 - Are China's military capabilities able to meet the challenges of the modern era? How will China address domestic policy issues regarding Tibet, as well as regional concerns posed by nations such as North Korea and Taiwan? Michael Swaine (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) joined Professor Evelyn Rawski (University of Pittsburgh) to discuss new security challenges facing the emerging power. This discussion was moderated by U.Va. Politics Professor Brantly Womack and is part of a semester-long series on China's Rise in Historical Context. |
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Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover: Conservative Power in a Liberal Age 2/6/09 - BEVERLY GAGE is assistant professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University. Her teaching and research focus on the evolution of American political ideologies and institutions. Her first book, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, was published this month by Oxford University Press. The book focuses on the 1920 Wall Street explosion, an unsolved terrorist attack that killed 38 people in New York's financial district.
In addition to her teaching and research, Professor Gage has written for numerous journals and magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, TIME, Slate.com, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. Her next book will be a biography of J. Edgar Hoover. |
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China's Rise in Historical Context: China and the World Order: Dilemmas of Status 1/30/09 - How will China's past impact its future? Join us as professors Joseph Esherick (University of California, San Diego) and Lowell Dittmer (University of California, Berkeley) discuss the contradictory elements of a tradition of centrality and superiority versus a century of Western-oriented humiliation, and how these factors shape Chinese politics. This discussion will be moderated by U.Va. Politics Professor Brantly Womack and is part of a semester-long series on China's Rise in Historical Context. |
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The Medical Center Hour: "If That Ever Happens to Me...": Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo 1/28/09 - Lois L. Shepherd, J.D., explores ways in which the Terri Schiavo case continues to affect us all |
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