Monday, 27 Mar 2006
Media-ting the Torah: The Hebrew Bible and/in the Popular Press - Leonard Greenspoon
Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University and is Professor of Classical & Near Eastern Studies and of Theology. He is especially interested in the way Bible translators reflect the historical, social, cultural, political, as well as religious environments in which they work, how specific Bible translations influence the communities for which they were intended, and how later...
Diversity and Its Discontents: The Bumpy Road to Recognition, Representation and Reality - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte was an assistant editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she was responsible for expanding coverage of Mexico and Central America, as well as that of U.S. minority communities. She is now an Associate Professor in Journalism, Latin American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and publishes frequently in mass media and academic publications. She recently completed a project funded by the Ford Foundation examining journalism ethics, intellectual diversity and professional development: Diversity Disconnects: From Classroom the Newsroom. It draws on two years of research to fully assess efforts over the past 25 years to integrate newsrooms and diversify press content. She received her PhD and MA in American Studies from Yale University.
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2006
The Middle East, Global Energy and Terrorism - Flynt Leverett
Flynt Leverett served at the White House as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council until March, 2003. In this role, he advised President Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice on Arab-Israeli issues and U.S. relations with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Previously, Dr. Leverett served on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, handling Middle East and counterterrorism issues. He is the author of Bashar's Trial By Fire, the editor of The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term , and earned his masters and doctorate in politics from Princeton University. Part of the Technology, Globalization and Culture Series.
German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Legacies - Judith Gerson
Judith Gerson is the 2005-06 Life Reborn Fellow for the Study of Displaced Persons at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Professor Gerson received awards from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the National Science Foundation to conduct research on the sociological perspectives of life during and after the Holocaust.
The Saving Grace of Stories - Sandra Benitez
Sandra Benitez is the author of A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Bitter Grounds, The Weight of All Things, and Night of the Radishes.
Wednesday, 29 Mar 2006
The Global War on Terror: Is It Really Worth It? Major Gen. Robert Dees (Ret.)
General Dees has served in a wide variety of command and staff positions culminating in his last two assignments as Commander, Second Infantry Division, United States Forces Korea, and as Deputy Commanding General, V (US/GE) Corps in Europe, concurrently serving as Commander, US-Israeli Combined Task Force for Missile Defense. He commanded airborne, air assault, and mechanized infantry forces from the platoon through division levels.
Gender and Executive Leadership: Are We Ready for a Woman President? Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the eldest child of Ethel and Robert Kennedy and recently served two terms as Maryland's first woman lieutenant governor from 1995-2003. She lost an election to become Maryland's first woman governor in 2002. Before becoming lieutenant governor, Townsend served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where she worked to establish community-policing programs across the country. She currently is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Public Policy and president of Operation Respect, a nationwide character education program that teaches personal and social responsibility.
Technology, Globalization, and Culture Panel - Vance Coffman and Robert Stevens
Vance D. Coffman has served as Chairman of the Board of Lockheed Martin Corporation since 1998, and until 2004 he also served as CEO. In addition to Lockheed Martin, Coffman serves on the board of 3M, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, and Deere & Company. Coffman joined Lockheed Martin in 1967 and has since held several executive positions within the Space Systems Division, including Vice President, Division Vice President and Assistant General Manager, and President. Coffman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. Robert J. Stevens is President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin and is a member of the corporation's board of directors. He also currently serves on President Bush's Commission to examine the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry. At Lockheed, Stevens has served as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of the Strategic Development organization, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Lockheed Martin Energy and Environment Sector, and President of Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management. He is a graduate of the Department of Defense Systems Management College Program Management course and has served in the United States Marine Corps. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
Thursday, 30 Mar 2006
Terror, Violence and the Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective - Neil L. Whitehead
Neil L. Whitehead is the author of Violence: Poetics, Performance and Expression; In Darkness and Secrecy; Dark Shamans; Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death; and Beyond the Visible and the Material, among others. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and received his doctorate from Oxford.
Deeper than a Digital Divide: Women, Welfare and the 'High-Tech' Economy - Virginia Eubanks
Virginia Eubanks is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her doctorate in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August 2004. Prior to her graduate work, she wrote and edited the cyberfeminist 'zine Brillo and was active in the community media and technology movements in the Bay Area of California.
Friday, 31 Mar 2006
Peace and Human Rights Organizing - Alice Dehle and Marcia Brink
Alice Dahle is President of the Linn County Chapter of the UN and President of the Iowa Chapter of Amnesty International. Marcia Brink is an Ames peace and justice activist. Their presentation is part of a symposium entitled "Walk the Talk: From Theory to Activism." To register for the entire symposium, go to: http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/activism%20conference/homepage.htm. The symposium will provide the opportunity for participants to share their work and thoughts about the diverse means for confronting injustice and discrimination.
Building Ownership in the Age of Inauthentic Leadership - Bruce J Avolio
Bruce J Avolio is the Clifton Chair in Leadership; Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute; Senior Research Scientist with The Gallup Organization in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.