David Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science […]

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Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of […]

Abstract:Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future. In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such […]

THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL AUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE, is pleased to […]

Joining Steven Greenhouse on this timely panel are award-winning investigative reporter Ann Louise Bardach and Peter Dreier, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College. Sponsored by […]

In this talk, Benjamin Soares is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among Muslim youth in contemporary Mali. While much recent scholarship about Muslim […]

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Scholar and artist E. Patrick Johnson is currently Chair and Directorof Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies, as well as Professor of African American Studies, at Northwestern University. […]

Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890) was born and raised in Mito domain, where she ran a small temple-school (terakoya). As most women in her day and age, she did not pay much […]