This roundtable will address the rapid growth of Islamist political parties, the expanding Turkish economy and the rise of the "Anatolian Tigers," and new cultural trends in Turkey. Coffee, tea, […]

Please join us next Tuesday, October 26, for a talk by Shigeru "Shig" Yabu, a Japanese American who was interned at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp from 1942-1945. He is […]

This talk is about an American Arabist organization that received clandestine support from the CIA. In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of […]

Critical Issues in America "'God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law': Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" Tera Hunter, Professor of History and African-American Studies, Princeton […]

The African Studies Research Focus Group will hold its first research seminar for the 2010-2011 academic year on October 28 in HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room), focused on the theme […]

Please join us for a talk by Cassandra Engeman on "The Dynamics of Social Movement Unionism: Local Union Involvement in Immigrants’ Rights Movements in Los Angeles." Engeman is a Ph.D. […]

Prof. Hasegawa's Faculty Research Lecture will be on Friday, Oct. 29 at 3:30 pm at the McCune Conference Room (6th floor HSSB). A reception will follow. The Faculty Research Lectureship […]

What are some effective practices of feminist pedagogy?What is your teaching metaphor? What are some difficulties or obstacles facing instructors who advocate feminisms? Please come with examples of difficult situations […]

Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in […]

This discussion concerns the recent controversies surrounding the proposed building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan and the threatened burning of the Qur'an in Gainesville, FL. America's Muslims […]