Dr. Franklin will address some of the origins of the battles currently raging over multiculturalism, gender issues in culture studies, the literary canon, and aesthetic criteria, showing how these struggles emerged from the Vietnam War.
This description of "border culture" by the performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, suggests that cultural interaction on a global scale is an undeniable facet of our contemporary existence.
Conversation topic: "Free Will in American Psychological Thought: From Jonathan Edwards to The Bell Curve"
"Experiments in Transculture: Rethinking Russian and American Creative Communication"; "2 Collective Improvisations"
"Presidential Leadership in Recent Wars: An Assessment of Truman, Johnson and Bush as Commanders-in-Chief" "Kremlin Bells and Bolsheviks: How Institutional Theory Explains the Failure of Revolutions"
A conversation with Don Rowney History Dept.
A conversation with Gary Hess History Dept. and Current Scholar in Residence, institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS)
"It is impossible to talk about being a Jew living in Germany today without the memory and the historical facts of the Holocaust and the Third Reich"
Ellen Herman will speak at the Arts and Sciences Luncheon.
Although Ireland is frequently recognized for its many oral and verbal expressive arts such as storytelling, it is also a very visual culture, especially in the six counties of Ulster, which comprise Northern Ireland. Torn with political unrest centered around questions of national identity, social…
Suzanne Juhasz will explore her life as a passionate reader in a talk entitled "Reading From the Heart." This talk examines why fiction attracts so many women readers and what that reading experience is like.
Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin, will address the topic of new ways of telling stories at the end of the 20th century in relation to human rights reporting and what she calls "committing truth."