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Daniel Bluestone discusses the latest issue of the Albemarle Historical Magazine2/10/09 - Daniel Bluestone, Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Historic Preservation program at the University of Virginia joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the latest issue of the Albemarle Historical Society Magazine on Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. |
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Suicide Terrorism 2/9/09 - ASSAF MOGHADAM is Assistant Professor and Senior Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he directs West Point's Advanced Terrorism Studies Course and the CTC's Shia Ideology Program. He is also a research fellow with the International Security Program's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. He is the author of The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and The Roots of Terrorism (Chelsea House, 2006). Moghadam's articles and book reviews have been published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune. |
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The Reckoning: Obama's Inheritance from the Bush-Cheney Years 2/6/09 - BARTON GELLMAN is a Special Projects Reporter at the Washington Post. His series on Vice President Cheney, with partner Jo Becker, won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Gellman also shared a Pulitzer for national reporting in 2002, and his work has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is the author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (Penguin Press, 2008). |
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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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Defending 9-11 Terrorists Zacarias Moussaoui and Walid Muhammad Salih Bin'Attash 1/30/09 - What is involved in defending some of the most despised men in the world? EDWARD B. MACMAHON, JR., is a veteran trial lawyer based in Washington, DC (and a U.Va. graduate), who served as counsel to Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in an American court with having a role in the 9/11 attacks. He presently is counsel to Walid Muhammad Salih Bin'Attash in a trial before a military commission at Guantanamo. Bin'Attash is charged with bombing the U.S.S. Cole and with the 9/11 attacks. |
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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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Christian McMillen, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia 1/23/09 - McMillen currently has an article in Bulletin of the History of Medicine titled "'The Red Man and the White Plague': Rethinking American Indians, Tuberculosis, and Race, 1890-1950." He is also working on a book on global TB control with the support of the Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia, the Welcome Trust in England and a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He spoke at the Miller Center on January 23, 2009. |
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King and Obama: The Dream, The Promise, The Fulfillment 1/21/09 - This year's Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration panel discussion was called "King and Obama: The Dream The Promise, The Fulfillment." Speakers included Claudrena Harold (History/University of Virginia), Andrea Y. Simpson (Political Science/University of Richmond) and Corey Walker (Africana Studies/Brown University). Sponsors of the event were the Office of African-American Affairs, Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Equity, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia Library, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The panel took place on January 21, 2009, in the Harrison-Small Auditorium. |
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