An acknowledged expert on Middle Eastern affairs discusses political developments in Iran and their implications for Iran-U.S. relations under current conditions. The discussion also addresses how U.S. foreign policy may affect political developments in Iran.
Hosted by: Program in South Asian and…
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Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat lives with HIV/AIDS. He is an activist with roots in the anti-Apartheid struggle and is at the forefront of campaigns for the rights to health care and medicine. Among his numerous awards, he has received The Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and was voted one of 35…
Patch Adams, MD
For 15 years, Dr. Patch Adams has directed a medical facility that has charged no money, carried no malpractice insurance, accepted no 3rd party insurance, and given him the ability to live with his patients in a large group home / country farm setting. Adams will talk about how the Gesundheit…
Gerald W. Adelmann
One of the great traumas of modern life is the loss of a sense of place. Gerald Adelmann draws on his internationally recognized work as a regional environmental and historic preservation planner in Illinois to articulate ways in which nature, art and history need to be woven back into the fabric…
Arnold Adoff
or Race, Class, Gender, Generation, Geography, and Love as the Ultimate Fallback Positions. The Poet Celebrates Thirty (30!) Years of Publish Work by Indulging in an Orgy of Reading: With Obligitory Self-Critical-But-Amusing Comments, Explanations, and Elaborations
A pioneer in children's…
Charles Alcock
More than 90 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible, hence the term dark matter. But the question of what exactly dark matter is remains outstanding in the field of astronomy.
How do you search for objects that cannot be seen?
We look for how the invisible object's gravity affects light…
Neville Edward Alexander
The Second C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali has been an outspoken critic of the American occupation of Iraq and the larger U.S. administration agenda for proliferating democracy in the Middle East through an Iraqi beachhead. Here he reviews themes developed in Bush in Babylon to explain how current U.S. policy in the Middle East…
Svetlana Alpers
How have artists dealt with war? Has art served to encourage conflict? Should artists be blamed if they don't deal with war? Svetlana Alpers will examine striking instances when attention to the medium of art offered an alternative to strife. Painting can, literally, give us reason to pause.
The…
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez was born in the Dominican Republic and came to the United States when she was ten years old. Her first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, traces her family history,their flight from the dictator Trujillo and their often difficult, sometimes comic adjustments to life in…
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Professor An-Na'im argues that the state cannot be Islamic and that the Shari'a (usually translated as "Islamic Law") by its nature defies codification and implementation by the state. A Shari'a principle ceases to be Shari'a when it is enforced by the state. He also argues that he needs a secular…
Gillian B. Anderson
In conjunction with: College of Fine and Applied Arts; Graduate School of Library and Information Science; School of Music; Cinematography Program, School of Art and Design; Department of French; Unit for Cinema Studies; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; Lorado Taft Lecture Committee; George…
Elizabeth S. Anderson
A discussion of the consequences of de facto racial segregation in U.S. society for democracy and equal opportunity, and of reasons for supporting integrative measures, such as affirmative action.
Philosophy Annual Public Lecture
This lecture is held in conjunction with the 24th Annual Graduate…
John B. Anderson
John B. Anderson served as a congressman from the 16th District of Illinois from 1960-1980. During his later years in Congress, he was the chair of the Republican Conference and served on the Rules Committee. In 1980, he ran as an independent candidate for the presidency of the United States and…
George E. Andrews
George Andrews will describe the brief life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius whose legacy includes many formulas that were new and surprising and that took many years for others to prove. Andrews will use elementary arithmetic to illustrate Ramanujan's mathematical…
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is a woman of many talents. With just a high school education, she has been a singer, educator, dancer, author, historian, lecturer, actress, producer, editor, songwriter, and playwright. She is author of four autobiographical bestsellers including I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings and…
Gloria Anzaldúa
Gloria Anzaldúa explores the internal struggles and cracks among Latina/os, the fastest growing minority group in the United States. She explores some ideas for expanding awareness among this diverse population and suggests the need to work together to create a new "story" and a new "agenda" for a…
Aharon Appelfeld
Captured and sent to a concentration camp at the age of eight, Aharon Appelfeld managed to escape, only to spend the next three years of his childhood hiding in the Ukraine. In 1946, he immigrated to Israel, served in the Red Army, and completed his education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.…
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Expanding upon themes from his most recent book, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Kwame Anthony Appiah explores the role that racial and cultural factors have had in creating individual and collective identities. This work has been called "one of (very few) on race that…
Madeleine Arnot
Striking new findings regarding educational achievement in England suggest one of the most extensive reversals in patterns of social inequality in contemporary times. Girls have not only caught up with boys in test scores, but in a number of subject areas have decisively pulled ahead. How do we…
Dore Ashton
As so many commentators and artists have taken the term Post-Modernism as a rallying cry, it must, presumably, exist. Yet the lineaments of this new "ism" are exceedingly blurred. Although the term suggests the end of a stylistic era, it may be only a symptom of fatigue, and an emanation of an end-…
Thelma Awori
Thelma Awori examines the bilateral and multilateral institutions that were created to make international allies and friends. She argues that they have failed. Aid to Africa and other places has been abused and subverted for purposes that turn the word "aid" on its head.
Fifth Annual W.E.B. DuBois…
Alice Aycock
One of the best-known sculptors of her generation, Alice Aycock combines metaphors of scientific and technological languages into new and alternative unifying visions. Ms. Aycock's works are included in the permanent collections in many of the leading museums of contemporary art including the…
Ariella Azoulay
Archives are interwoven with the presence of those who occupy various positions of power, authorizing them to both preserve and expose materials, as well as with the presence of those who come to leaf through those materials. Yet, archives are also sites of “potential history,” unrealized…
Barbara Bailar, PhD
When the Census Bureau completes the counting of the population in December 1990, it will provide counts to the president of the unite dStates that are too low by at least three millions people. Most of the missing are Black or Hispanic. More men than women and more young people than older people…