FILM SERIES:  "SAND AND SORROW"

Tuesday, March 4th at 7pm in Weis Theater

Recent documentary about the failed peace process in Sudan, with interviews with and commentary by Samatha Power, Alex de Waal, Nicholas Kristof, and many others. 

more info: http://www.sandandsorrow.org

LECTURE SERIES:  SAMUEL WORTHINGTON

"The Role of US NGO's: From Darfur to Public Policy"

When: Monday, March 10th at 6pm                                 Where: Olin Language Center 115

Sam Worthington is the President of InterAction, the nation’s largest alliance of relief and development nongovernmental organizations working overseas. Mr. Worthington will share his recent experiences in Darfur as well as discuss current efforts by humanitiarian agencies in the region.  More information can be found at:

http://www.interaction.org/about/

"The Canary of the Constitution: Debating same-sex equality in South Africa"

When: 6.30PM on Tuesday March 11th                          Where:  Olin 102

Graeme Reid is the founder of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa. He was one of the principal lobbyists for the sexual orientation clause in the South African constitution of 1996, arguably the most socially inclusive constitution in the world.

Graeme Reid is currently a research fellow at Yale University. In Johannesburg, he was a researcher at the Witswatersrand University Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER.)

"Based on research on the effects of the new inclusive South African constitution on the lives of smalltown gays and lesbians, we're taken on a roadtrip through parts of South Africa few have seen..."  (New York Times review summary)

 LECTURE SERIES: DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN                         

Professor Heller-Roazen is the author of The Inner Touch: Archaeology of aSensation (Zone Books, 2007), Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (Zone Books, 2005); and Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency (JHUP, 2003).   He has also translated and edited many works by the noted philosopher Giorgio Agamben. He is currently preparing the Norton Critical Edition of The Arabian Nights.  He teaches Comparative Literature at Princeton.

For this talk, Heller-Zoazen will draw on material from his new book project on piracy.

Prof. Mandel is the author of In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth Century France (2003) and currently teaches at Brown University.

(co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and HRP)

When:  6:30PM on Tuesday, March 25   

Where: Olin 102

Boris Buden is a writer and critic who regularly publishes essays in German, English and French on philosophical, political, and cultural subjects pertaining to the former Yugoslavia, western Europe and the United States.  His talk, titled "God Will Tear Us Apart (again)," will focus on religious revival in the wake of the former Soviet Union's collapse.

When:  6PM on Wednesday, April 9th

Where:  Olin 102

Peter Schneider is the author of numerous books and a regular contributor to leading newspapers and magazines, including Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and Le Monde.

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