February
Monday, February 25, 2013
This paper examines the visual economy of the Iraq War and its cultural memory, focusing in particular on the politics of visuality through which the war has been effectively erased from public discourse. It examines the images of the war and its aftermath, and the art projects of counter-visuality that have engaged with the war's memory in order to understand its erasure within the project of American Empire. This paper thus aims to engage with the larger question of the politics of visuality and visibility in the context of the post 9/11 war on terror. MORE
The Politics of Visuality and the Erasure of the Iraq War
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Dr. Richard Jackson is a pediatrician who analyzes and addresses the impact of the environment on health, particularly children’s health. Dr. Jackson chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and has done extensive work on pesticides, and in epidemiology, infectious diseases and toxicology.
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We are what we eat…and what we build: Designing Healthy Communities
Monday, February 18, 2013
In this lecture Lewis Hyde offers a defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. MORE
The Cultural Commons and Collective Being
Friday, February 15, 2013
A Celebration of the Humanities with Michael Witmore, director, Folger Shakespeare Library
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What is Access: Perspectives on the Archive
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This talk features the work of our 2012-2013 CMU Humanities Center Senior Research Fellow, Leshu Torchin. MORE
Leshu Torchin: Too Big to See: The Visual Culture of Economic Rights
Monday, February 4, 2013
Dr. Ariel Levite is a Nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Earlier he has been the Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (2002-2007), a Visiting Fellow at CISAC, Stanford University (2000-2002), Deputy Israeli National Security Advisor (Defense Policy) (1999-2000), and Head of the Bureau of International Security at the Israeli MOD. Dr. Levite has published extensively on issues of strategy, military doctrine, deterrence, arms control, proliferation, and intelligence. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He has received the Dr. Jean Meyer Global Citizenship Award from the IGL, Tufts University, and made into a Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur from French Republic. MORE
The New Normal: A Hybrid of Terrorism, Shadow Wars, and Armed Conflict
Monday, February 4, 2013
The American electoral system and the internal mechanics of Congress have evolved in such a way as to impede the ability of the federal government to act effectively in the national interest. The presentation will focus on the problems that have resulted from this system, how they undermine the constitutional design for representative government, and what changes are required to eliminate the dysfunction that currently exists in both the federal government and many state and local governments. MORE