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Fall 2009 Lecture Series

All lectures begin at 8 P.M. and are held in Russell House, located at the corner of Washington and High Streets.
These events are available for download on our podcast page.

 

Monday September 14, 2009
Rethinking Violence by Adriana Cavarero, Professor of Philosophy, University of Verona
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday September 21, 2009
The Military Normal and the Human Terrain of Warfare by Catherine Lutz, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday October 05, 2009
Blood and Soil: Genocide in World History by Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Director of Genocide Studies Program Yale University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Friday October 09, 2009
Center for Humanities 50th Anniversary Conference
Russell House All Rooms at 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Free

After the Humanities (CHUM 50th Anniversary Conference)
Usdan 300 (Daniel FC & Lounge) at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Center for Humanities 50th Anniversary Conference
Russell House All Rooms at 01:10 PM - 05:30 PM
Free

Monday October 19, 2009
Gone Nuclear: War, Disaster, and the Contemporary Imagination by Marianna Torgovnick, Professor of English, Duke University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday November 02, 2009
We Have Been Here: Visions of Internment in The Moriyuki Shimada Scrapbook by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday November 09, 2009
Before Trauma: Doppelgangers and Psychological Violence in Yumeno Kyūsaku's "Dogura Magura" (1935) by Miri Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday November 16, 2009
What Makes a New War? Some Critical Reflections by Yves Winter, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday November 23, 2009
Why Civil Resistance Works: Nonviolent Resistance as an Alternative to Armed Insurgency by Erica Chenoweth, Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday November 30, 2009
George Shultz at the Negotiations Table by Ronald Schatz, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday December 07, 2009
Mourning War: A Story of Love and Greed in British America by Kirk Swinehart, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free