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Making History: John Hope Franklin and Rita Dove 3/22/06 - John Hope Franklin (Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin) and Virginia Poet Laureate Rita Dove (American Smooth) reading from their works, followed by a conversation between them on personal and cultural history.
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Neglected Histories - Fascinating Tales 3/22/06 - A panel of the Virginia Festival of the Book held at the Culbreth Theatre. Fintan O'Toole (White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America), Melvin Patrick Ely (Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War), and Lindsay Robertson (Conquest by Law: How The Discovery Of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples Of Their Land ). |
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Aviation Medicine in Ophthalmology - History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series 3/22/06 - The Wright brothers ushered in the era of powered man flight just over a hundred years ago. As more accidents and fatalities resulted from increased air travel and combat, attempts were made to develop criteria for screening and selection of pilots. Dr. Newman will trace the history of the development of the importance of vision in aviation and provide insight into how theories are formulated and how bureaucracies often have a difficult time in changing standards and requirements. |
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Free Speech and Islam: The Cartoon Controversy and the True Character of the Prophet 3/20/06 - Are there limits to free speech, and if so, what kind of limits? The Imam Siraj Wahhaj of the Brooklyn's Masjid At-Taqwa weighs in on the recent uproar in the Muslim community regarding cartoons of the Islamic prophet. The event begins Islam Awareness Week at the University, a program of the Muslim Students' Association. |
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Public Service, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law 3/18/06 - Public service lawyers are the perfect models for how to face the decisive issues of the 21st century while upholding the values and ideas of the Constitution, said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in his keynote address March 18 at the Law School's seventh annual Conference on Public Service & the Law. Kennedy, a 1959 graduate of the School of Law, stressed the importance of working towards the common good and also offered tough words for the Bush administration. |
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Exploring Your Family Tree: It Ain't All on the Web 2/16/06 - Genealogist and author Tony Burroughs says an accurate description of your family roots cannot be produced using the Internet alone. Burroughs was brought to the University by the U.Va Library Multicultural Issues Committee. |
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History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series  2/9/06 - As the Civil War entered its third year, the fate of black slaves occupied center stage among northern thinkers. In this talk, Margaret Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D., explores the experience of diseases in black soldiers and the factors which caused such high morbidity and mortality during the Civil War. |
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History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series - Haunting Images: Dissection, Photography, and American Medical Students 11/30/05 - Medical students began to photograph the cadaver dissection process barely five years after the advent of the daguerreotype, as a way to preserve this central event of their medical education. James Edmonson, Ph.D., discusses the rise and fall of this phenomena and how we look at this period of history today. |
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