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2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03 | 2001-02 | 2000-01

2007-08: Windows on the World

Photo from Emory University website	Dr. Sander Gilman Saturday, October 6, 2007 Fenn Tower 303, 6pm Free public lecture; Keynote speech, Crossing Over Symposium Title: "Can the Experience of Diaspora Jewry Serve as a Model for Islam in Today's Multicultural Europe?"
	Dr. Ilan Stavans Thursday, November 8, 2007 Fenn Tower 303, 5pm Free public lecture Title: "Growing Up Latino: Language, Culture and Identity"
	Dunya Mikhail Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 pm Rocky River High School 20951 Detroit Rd Free public program Sharing her poetry and the story of her life
	David Oliver Relin Thursday, February 28, Fenn Tower 303, 5pm Topic to be announced
Photo is at The Southern Digest 10/5/04	Kevin Powell Thursday, April 3, 2008 Mather Mansion 301, 5-6:30pm Free public lecture Book signing and reception following lecture Black and Male in America

2006-07: In support of the new Middle Eastern Studies program

John Esposito; photo at http://cmcu.georgetown.edu/images/sm_jle2.jpg

Dr. John Esposito

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
University Center Auditorium 6, 5:30pm
Free public lecture
Title: "Can You Hear Me Now? Listening to the Voices of One Billion Muslims"

Photo from www.arabsandterrorism.com website

Dr. Bassam Haddad

Director: "What is said about Arabs & Terrorism?"

Tuesday, Febuary 6th, 6PM: Documentary (45 minutes)
Dively Community Seminar Room, Cleveland State University
1717 Euclid Avenue, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, UR 112
Free public showing and discussion with Dr Haddad
Title: "What is said about Arabs & Terrorism?" Part I

Wednesday, Febuary 7th, 5PM: Documentary (45 minutes)
Strosacker Auditorium, Case Western Reserve University
2125 Adelbert Road
Free public showing and discussion with Dr Haddad
Title: "What is said about Arabs & Terrorism?" Part II

Photo from George Washington University website

Dr. Walter Reich

Wednesday, February 28, 5 p.m. in
Drinko Hall, 2001 Euclid Ave.
Free public lecture
Title: "Uses and Abuses of Holocaust Memory in International Affairs"

2005-06: Windows on the World: A Dialogue Across Borders

Arun Gandhi

Advocate for Nonviolence and Understanding
Keynote Speaker: Symposium 2005
October 8, 2005
"Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters"

Dr. Micere M. Githae Mugo

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Music & Communication Bldg G 15, 5:00pm
Title: "Poetry as a Political Statement and as a Vehicle for Crossing Cultural Borders"

Richard Rodriguez

RESCHEDULED: Thursday, April 20, 2006
Dively Room (first floor), Levin College of Urban Affairs, 5 p.m.
Title: "Hispanics -- The American Nightmare, and the American Dream"

2004-05: Identities and Performance--A Public Dialogue

	James Luna Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Waetjen Auditorium, 6:00pm Title: "Identity and Performance"
	Irshad Manji Wednesday, November 17, 2004 Drinko Hall, 5:00pm Title: "The Trouble with Islam"
	Frederic Martel Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Mather Mansion, 4:00pm Title: "Supporting the Arts: A French-American Comparison"
	Tricia Rose Friday, April 15, 2005 Dively Auditorium, 5:00pm Title: "Hip-Hop Music (History, Technology, Commodification, Sexism)"

2003-04: Identities and Performance --A Public Dialogue

	Guillermo Gómez-Peña Performance artist, author, MacArthur Fellow Website: http://www.pochanostra.com/informational_site/bio_gp.html Thursday, September 11, 2003 Title: "Ethno-techno: One of the Possible Futures of Performance Art"
	Scot Brown Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, UCLA Wednesday, November 5, 2003 Title: "Anywhere We Are US Is": Encountering Black Power as Living History
	Holly Hughes Performance Artist Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Title: "Performance Art: Where it comes, What causes it and What can be done about it"
	Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Colby College (Maine) Thursday, March 25, 2004 Title: Bad Girls, Bad Girls: Watcha Gonna Do?

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2002-03: The Humanities in the City--A Public Dialogue

	Camilo José Vergara sociologist and photographer Thursday, October 17, 2002 Title: "Churches in the American Ghetto"
	Peter Wortsman writer, translator Wednesday, November 20, 2002 Title: "New York Does Not Exist: Excerpts from a Fugitive Work in Progress, text Peter Wortsman, photographs Gilles Vauclair"
	Manning Marable historian and political activist Professor of History and Political Science, Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Title: "Black Studies and the Urban University"
	Lily Yeh artist and community activist Thursday, March 20, 2003 Title: "Community Building Through Art"

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2001-02: The Humanities in the City--A Public Dialogue

	JAMES GROSSMAN Vice President for Research and Education, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL Thursday, November 8, 2001 "Streets, Libraries, and Laboratories: Urban Studies and the Humanist Dilemma"
	EDWARD DIMENDBERG International Institute Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Film and Video Studies, and Architecture, University of Michigan Thursday, December 6, 2001 "Film Noir, the Metropolis, and the Humanities"
	GERALD GRAFF Associate Dean for Curriculum and Instruction, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Thursday, March 21, 2002 "Clueless in Academe, or Parlez-vous Arguespeak?"
	J. MARK SCHUSTER Visiting Professor at The Cultural Policy Center, The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago Thursday, April 11, 2002 Title: "Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and the Image of the City"

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2000-01: Defining the Humanities for the 21st Century

	EDWARD W. SAID University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Sunday, October 1, 2000 "Defining the Humanities for the 21st Century"
	PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS Professor of Law, Columbia University Thursday, October 12, 2000 "Justice and the Humanities: The Emperor's New Clothes"
	JUDITH BUTLER Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature; Chair, Rhetoric Department, University of California at Berkeley Thursday, November 16, 2000 "Ethics, Politics, and the Humanities"
	TRINH T. MINH-HA Professor of Women's Studies, Film Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley Friday, February 23, 2001 "The Humanities in a Postcolonial World"
	RAFAEL CORTADA Associate Professor of History and of Educational Policy and Leadership, Ohio State University - Newark Campus Friday, March 23, 2001 Keynote address at Conference on Humanities "The Importance of Majoring in the Humanities in the Urban Public University"
	ROBIN D. G. KELLEY Professor of History and Africana Studies, New York University Thursday, April 12, 2001 "The Humanities and the Future of Democracy"

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