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2009–2010 | 2008–09 | 2007–08 | 2006–07 | 2005-06 | 2004–05 | 2003–04 | 2002–03 | 2001–02 | 2000–01

2009-10
2008-09
Héctor Cantú

Wednesday, October 15, 6-7:30 pm
Mather Mansion 301, 2605 Euclid Ave

The Funnies and Race: Why is Everyone So Touchy About Stereotypes?

 

Eleanor Lerman
Poet, Writer and Winner, 2008 Lenore Marshall Award

Thursday, November 13, 1:30-3 pm
Main Classroom 134, 1899 East 22nd Street.

Vampires Are Happier When They Are Homosexual, or Adventures in the Poetry Trade

 

Steve Cagan
Documentary photographer and activist from Cleveland

Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 6-7:30 p.m.
Mather Mansion, room 301

“El Chocó, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival; an Everyday Resistance”

Arn-Chorn Pond
Human Rights Leader from Cambodia Founder of Cambodian Living Arts Subject of Emmy-Nominated Film The Flute Player

Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 6-7:30 p.m.
Mather Mansion, room 301, 2605 Euclid Avenue

“Child of War-Man of Peace”

 

2007-08: Windows on the World
  Dr. Sander Gilman
Keynote speech, Crossing Over Symposium

Saturday, October 6, 2007 | Fenn Tower 303, 6:00 pm
"Can the Experience of Diaspora Jewry Serve as a Model for Islam in Today's Multicultural Europe?"

Dr Stavans Dr. Ilan Stavans

Thursday, November 8, 2007 | Fenn Tower 303, 5:00 pm
"Growing Up Latino: Language, Culture and Identity"

Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail

Tuesday, February 12, 2007 | Rocky River High School, 20951 Detroit Rd, 7:30 pm
Sharing her poetry and the story of her life

  David Oliver Relin

Thursday, February 28, 2008 | Fenn Tower 303, 5:00 pm
Topic to be announced

Kevin Powell
Photo is at The Southern Digest 10/5/04
Kevin Powell
Book signing and reception following lecture

Thursday, April 3, 2008 | Mather Mansion 301, 5:00-6:30 pm
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, 5:30 pm
"Can You Hear Me Now? Listening to the Voices of One Billion Muslims"

Dr. Bassam Haddad
Photo from www.arabsandterrorism.com
Dr. Bassam Haddad

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

Tuesday, Febuary 6, 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
"What is said about Arabs & Terrorism?" Part I

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

  Dr. Walter Reich

Wednesday, February 28, 2006 | Drinko Hall, 2001 Euclid Ave. 5:00 pm
"Uses and Abuses of Holocaust Memory in International Affairs"

 

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

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, 2005| Music & Communication Bldg G 15, 5:00 pm
"Poetry as a Political Statement and as a Vehicle for Crossing Cultural Borders"

Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez

Thursday, April 20, 2005 | Dively Room (first floor), Levin College of Urban Affairs, 5:00 pm
"Hispanics -- The American Nightmare, and the American Dream"

 

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

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 | Waetjen Auditorium, 6:0 0pm
"Identity and Performance"

Irshad Manji

Irshad Manji
 
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 | Drinko Hall, 5:00 pm
"The Trouble with Islam"

 

Frederic Martel
 
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 | Mather Mansion, 4:00 pm
"Supporting the Arts: A French-American Comparison"

Tricia Rose

Tricia Rose

Friday, April 15, 2005 | Dively Auditorium, 5:00pm
"Hip-Hop Music (History, Technology, Commodification, Sexism)"

 

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

Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Performance artist, author, MacArthur Fellow 
Website: www.pochanostra.com

Thursday, September 11, 2003
"Ethno-techno: One of the Possible Futures of Performance Art"

Scot Brown

Scot Brown
Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, UCLA 

Wednesday, November 5, 2003
"Anywhere We Are US Is": Encountering Black Power as Living History

Holly Hughes

Holly Hughes
Performance Artist 

Tuesday, February 3, 2004
"Performance Art: Where it comes, What causes it and What can be done about it"

Lyn Mikel Brown

Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Colby College (Maine) 

Thursday, March 25, 2004
Bad Girls, Bad Girls: Watcha Gonna Do?

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

Camilo José Vergara
sociologist and photographer 

Thursday, October 17, 2002
"Churches in the American Ghetto"

Peter Wortsman

Peter Wortsman
writer, translator

Wednesday, November 20, 2002
"New York Does Not Exist: Excerpts from a Fugitive Work in Progress, text Peter Wortsman, photographs Gilles Vauclair"  

Manning Marable

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
"Black Studies and the Urban University"

Lily Yeh

Lily Yeh
artist and community activist

Thursday, March 20, 2003
"Community Building Through Art"

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

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

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

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

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
"Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and the Image of the City"

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

Edward Said

Edward W. Said
University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Sunday, October 1, 2000
"Defining the Humanities for the 21st Century"

 

Patricia Williams

Patricia J. Williams
Professor of Law, Columbia University

Thursday, October 12, 2000
"Justice and the Humanities: The Emperor's New Clothes"

Judith Butler

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. Min-Ha

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

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 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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