Thursday-Friday, February 20-21 Pollock Theater Dirty Sexy Policy will bring together prominent scholars, attorneys, activists, regulators, and journalists to explore current challenges facing media policy and the broader stakes that citizens and policy critics share. Participants on three panels will engage in a lively discussion and debate...
Francis Dunn (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is at stake in our interest -- even obsession -- with narrative forms of care? We have become familiar, in recent years, with narrative medicine, narrative social work, and narrative forensics,...
E. Randol Schoenberg (Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP) Thursday, February 20 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The recent disclosure of more than 1,400 artworks found hidden in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt has generated renewed interest in the subject of Nazi-looted art. The upcoming release...
Thursday, February 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall This roundtable will focus on Sener Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, which examines why ethnic policies change. In Germany, the case is why the citizenship law changed. In Turkey,...
Thursday, February 20 /1:00-3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In honor of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day 2014, Caraol Chaski (Institute for Linguistic Evidence) will be speaking on "Forensic Linguistics and Models of Language" at 1:00 PM and Maria Carreira (Spanish, Cal State Long Beach)...
Jean Allman (History, Washington University) Thursday, February 20 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4080 Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana’s independence struggle and its first Prime Minister and then President, was a major theorist of pan-Africanism and neocolonialism and arguably one of the most important leaders of what was...