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Mark Rose, William Warner & Dr. Sarah Pritchard
"Media Ownership and Copyright"
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
The third event in a year-long series on Media Ownership:
Research and Regulation. William Warner will situate
contemporary copyright and ownership issues in a historical
context. Professor Warner conducts research on the Enlightenment,
the novel, the history of media culture from the 18th
century to the present and free speech and censorship.
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Cedric Robinson’s Radical Thought: Toward
Critical Social Theories and Practice
November 5-7, 2004
This symposium reflects on Cedric Robinson’s
charge in Black Marxism to recuperate and recover the
radical tradition and to work toward engendering that
radical tradition in the academy. While some are currently
questioning the futility of Black Studies and the many
manifestations of the study of race and power as disciplines,
knowledge production centered on emancipatory projects
continue to build on the legacy of the Black radical
tradition.
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Radical Scholarship: Past and Present Play
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The Future of Radical Scholarship Play
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Stanton "Larry" Stein
"Media Concentration and the Entertainment Industry"
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
The second talk in the year-long Media Ownership: Research
and Regulation series features Stanton “Larry”
Stein, co-founder and past president of Public Counsel,
former president of the Barristers of the Beverly Hills
Bar Association and one time board member of Bet Tzedek
Legal Foundation. Larry Stein (JD, USC) lectures frequently
on legal issues in the entertainment industry, including
film, tv and music. For other speakers and activities
in the series, see: www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/events.html
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A. James Rudin & Akbar Ahmed
"Judaism and Islam: A Conversation"
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Rabbi A. James Rudin, Senior Interreligious Adviser,
American Jewish Committee, New York City and Dr. Akbar
Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor
of International Relations, American University, Washington,
D.C. engage in a conversation on "Judaism and Islam"
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Patricia Aufderheide
"Feeds, Funnels, Filters and US: The Public’s
Interest in the Media Environment"
Monday, October 18, 2004
Patricia Aufderheide, in addition to her work at American
University, serves as director of the Independent Television
Service, which produces innovative television programming
for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Aufderheide is
a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst, and
editor on media and society, and has received numerous
journalism and scholarly awards.
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Kathleen Bruhn
"Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development"
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Kathleen Bruhn, author of Taking on Goliath: The
Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy
in Mexico and political scientist at UC Santa Barbara,
offers a uniquely broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's
contemporary struggle for democratic development.
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G. Reginald Daniel
"More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the
New Racial Order "
Thursday, November 7, 2002
In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African
American ancestry has been considered black. Even as
the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still
prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed
race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans.
In his book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at
a cross-roads, with members of a new multiracial movement
pointing the way toward equality
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Siobhan Darrow
"Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant
War Reporter"
Sunday, November 4, 2001
Siobhan Darrow, Emmy-nominated CNN foreign correspondent,
who for fifteen years reported from numerous world hotspots
including Chechnya, the Balkans, Northern Ireland and
the Middle East, provides a compelling account of Flirting
with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter.
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Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies:
Ruth Gruber
"From Holocaust to Haven"
Sunday, November 4, 2001
Ruth Gruber, internationally renowned foreign correspondent
and award-winning author of Exodus 1947, recounts
the dramatic story of her secret mission to bring 1,000
Jewish and Christian World War II refugees to sanctuary
in America.
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Philip Gourevitch
"Writing About Wrongs: Moral Clarity and Political
Reality"
Sunday, December 8, 2002
Award-winning journalist, Philip Gourevitch, discusses
his experience as writer and reporter covering morally
charged, and often violent, international political
conflicts and their aftermaths. In particular, he focuses
on questions of humanitarianism and its discontents
- and of the abiding tension between the appeal to conscience
in situations of great human suffering and the great
reluctance of the great powers to be moved to intervene.
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Arthur N. Rupe Distinguished Dialogue Series:
Professor Samuel P. Huntington & Senator George
J. Mitchell
"The Conflict of Civilizations?"
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Senator George J. Mitchell, Chairman of the Peace Negotiations
in Northern Ireland and Chairman of an International
Fact Finding Committee on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
and Harvard University Professor Samuel P. Huntington,
author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking
of World Order, explore the question of whether
conflicts between the world's major cultures in the
post-Cold War era are inevitable, particularly in light
of the terrorist attacks of September 11.
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Sandra Mackey
"The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein"
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Sandra Mackey, veteran journalist, award-winning author,
and CNN commentator, discusses her new book, "The
Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein,"
which argues that a future Iraq without Hussein could
be even more unstable and more problematical to the
security of the United States.
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Marty E. Marty
"Awash in A Sea of Pluralism"
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Marty E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, who
is among the most well-known and visible of distinguished
scholars of American religious history, discusses pluralism
on the American religious scene, including how differing
understandings of pluralism matter in the context of
current world affairs.
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Panel Discussion by UCSB Faculty
“Prospects for the War on Terror”
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Over the last year much of the focus of national concern
has been the war on terrorism, which was declared by
President Bush in the wake of 9/11 and strongly supported
by Congress. How well is this war going and what are
the prospects for success? How does it differ from other
wars? What have we learned about terrorism in the last
year and how has this knowledge affected policy?
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Ahmed Rashid
"Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia"
Sunday, February 9, 2003
Pakistan-based journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of the
bestselling Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism
in Central Asia,discusses his critically-acclaimed
new book, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central
Asia, explaining the roots of fundamentalist rage
in this region, the goals and activities of its militant
organizations, and the methods required to neutralize
the threat and bring stability to Central Asia.
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Richard Rodriguez
"Brown: An Erotic History of the Americas"
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Richard Rodriguez, Peabody Award-winning journalist,
is an editor at Pacific News Service and regular essayist
on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. His previous
memoirs, Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation,
addressed the intersection of his private life with
public issues of class and ethnicity. In Brown: An
Erotic History of the Americas, he completes his
"trilogy on American public life" by considering
the issue of race.
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Lawrence Schiffman
"Scholars, Scrolls, and Scandals: Judaism, Christianity
and the Dead Sea Scrolls "
Monday, November 4, 2002
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has revolutionized
our picture of the early history of Judaism and of the
Jewish background of early Christianity. With the completion
of the publication of the entire scrolls collection,
it is now possible to draw significant and balanced
conclusions from this unique treasure trove of ancient
documents. This illustrated lecture given by Professor
Lawrence Schiffman will discuss the discovery of the
scrolls, the archaeology of Qumran where the scrolls
were unearthed, the nature of the library, and its significance
for the study of Judaism, Christianity and their common
destiny.
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Tom Segev
"Beyond Sharon and Arafat"
Sunday, February 2, 2002
Tom Segev, Award-winning Israeli journalist and historian,
who writes a column for Ha‚aretz and
is the author of several bestsellers, including 1949:
The First Israelis, The Seventh Million The Israelis
and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete,
considers the future of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
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Gerry Spence, Judge Alex Kozinski,
Moderated by Stuart Banner
"Executing Justice? A Debate on America and the
Death Penalty"
Monday, January 27, 2002
Tom Segev, Award-winning Israeli journalist and historian,
who writes a column for Ha‚aretz and
is the author of several bestsellers, including 1949:
The First Israelis, The Seventh Million The Israelis
and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete,
considers the future of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
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Gregory Stock
"Redefining Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future"
Monday, April 22, 2002
Gregory Stock, Director of the Program on Medicine,
Technology and Society at UCLA's School of Medicine,
discusses his latest book, Redesigning Humans: Our
Inevitable Genetic Future. He explores critical
technologies poised to have large impacts on humanity's
future and the shape of medical science.
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Arthur N. Rupe Distinguished Dialogue Series:
"An Evening with Elie Wiesel"
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner, celebrated writer,
and Boston University Professor, who has worked on behalf
of oppressed people for much of his adult life, reveals how
his personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use
his talents as an author, teacher and storyteller to defend
human rights and peace throughout the world.
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Garry Wills
"Citizen Believers"
Sunday, October 6, 2002
Garry Wills, distinguished historian and critic, who wrote The
New York Times bestsellers Why I am a Catholic, Papal Sin,
and St. Augustine, the Pulitzer Prize winner Lincoln
at Gettysburg, considers the question “If religious
belief comes into conflict with democratically-arrived-at decisions
of the community, how is that conflict to be resolved?”
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Ambassador Joseph Wilson
"Iraq: Disarmament or Conquest?"
Wednesday, January 22 , 2003
Ambassador Joseph Wilson served in Baghdad, Iraq as Deputy Chief
of Mission at the U.S. Embassy from 1988 to 1991. His talk deals
with the potential war with Iraq and whether this war and subsequent
occupation of Iraq by American troops is the best way of achieving
the goal of disarmament.
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Ken Wiwa
"In the Shadow of a Saint"
Monday, October 22, 2001
Ken Wiwa, journalist for the Toronto Globe and Mail, discusses
his riveting memoir, In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey
to Understand His Father's Legacy, which is part primer
on the modern Nigerian nation state and part biography of the
martyred writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
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