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Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Posted May 1, 2007Chris Csikszentmihalyi is a leading scholar, artist, and designer in the area of information, politics, and communities. Currently launching the new Media Design Matters program at Art Center College […] -
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Karl Shoemaker
Posted April 30, 2007“Sanctuary: the protection of fugitive criminals in the Western legal tradition.” Karl Shoemaker is a medievalist and legal historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is particularly interested […] -
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Nuruddin Farah
Posted February 27, 2007Nuruddin Farah is a prize-winning and outspoken Somali activist. Farah describes his purpose for writing as an attempt “to keep my country alive by writing about it.” His first […] -
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Yonatan Shapira
Posted February 20, 2007“From the Heart of Zionism: a Perspective of an ex-Israeli pilot” Yonatan Shapira is a former Israeli Air Force Captain and flew hundreds of missions over the territories […] -
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Rony Brauman
Posted December 4, 2006“Darfur/Tsunami: humanitarian discourse and propaganda” Dr. Rony Brauman was President of Medecins sans Frontieres (Paris) for twelve years, from 1982 through 1994. Since then he has taught at […] -
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Mazin Qumsiyeh
Posted December 1, 2006Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian activist and author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment. Qumsiyeh, a former professor of genetics who taught at Yale and […] -
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Trevor Paglan
Posted November 27, 2006“Tracking the Torture Planes: Secret Geographies of the War on Terror” Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer at the Department of Geography in the University […] -
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Laura Poitras’ “My Country, My Country”
Posted October 31, 2006“Viewing of My Country, My Country” Laura Poitras is an American documentary film director and producer. She co-directed, produced, and shot her 2003 documentary. Flag Wars, about gentrification in Columbus, […] -
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Monami Maulik
Posted October 31, 2006Monami Maulik was born in Kolkata, India and grew up in the Bronx. She has been an immigrant and racial justice organizer for over 15 years. After graduating from […] -
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John Torpey
Posted October 26, 2006“Reparations and American Civil Religion” John Torpey is a Professor of Sociology of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York as well as an author […]