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Spring 2010
A Focus on the Middle East
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| Date |
Speaker |
Lecture Title |
| January 25 |
Scott Carnicom, Honors College |
Introduction |
| February 1 |
Karen Petersen, Political Science |
Problem Solved? The Political Implications of Palestinian Statehood |
| February 8 |
Steve Saunders, Director of McNair Program |
Calamitous Clusters: The Conflict Implications of a Democratic Iraq |
| February 15 |
Allen Hibbard, Director of Middle East Studies |
An American Abroad: My years in Cairo and Damascus |
| February 22 |
Amy Sayward, History |
Main Themes in American Foreign Relations Toward the Middle East Since World War II |
| March 1 |
Andrei Korobkov, Political Science |
Chechnya: Statehood, Religion, and Nationalism |
| March 8 |
Spring Break - No Classes |
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| March 15 |
Clyde Willis, Political Science |
It Is Easier to Torture the "Others" |
| March 22 |
Ron Messier, History (retired) |
Jihad and Holy War: Are They the Same? |
| March 29 |
Leon Alligood, Journalism |
They Were Young Once: An Examination of America's Gen Y War Veterans |
| Aprill 5 |
Sonja Hedgepeth, Foreign Languages |
Words into Swords: Frightening Attempts to Misuse the Holocaust Today |
| April 12 |
Sean Foley, History |
When Only Women Will Work: Gender and Social Change in the Gulf |
| April 19 |
Honors Students |
Honors Thesis Presentations |
| April 26 |
Honors Students |
Honors Thesis Presentations |
