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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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Harry Harding Named Founding Dean of U.Va.'s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy 1/30/09 - Harry Harding, one of America's preeminent China scholars, will become the first dean of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy, University President John T. Casteen III announced on January 30. Harding begins his term on July 1. |
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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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War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism 1/26/09 - DOUGLAS J. FEITH is Professor and Distinguished Practitioner in National Security Policy at Georgetown University. A Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he is the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008). Feith has received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award. |
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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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Dealing with the Arab World: What the New Administration Will Face 1/16/09 - FRANCIS J. RICCIARDONE, U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt since 2005, has also served as Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau, Director of the Department's Task Force on the Coalition Against Terrorism, Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service, and the Secretary of State's Special Coordinator for the Transition of Iraq. In Washington, DC, he has served in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and in senior management positions under the Directors General of the Foreign Service and of Human Resources. He spoke at the Miller Center on January 16, 2009. |
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Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks to the UVaEngagement Community 1/14/09 - U.Va. Media Studies Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan spoke to the UVaEngagement Community, a group of engagement and fundraising professionals at the University, about the |
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