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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s) Date
2023 Luckens Prize Winner Eric Eisner presents "Jewish Rights on Middle Ground: Race and the Religious Test in Antebellum Maryland" Eric Eisner (Yale University) -
The First Jewish Justice: Anti-Semitism and the Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court Henry Fetter -
Blurred Lines: Buddhism in the Chinese Borderlands Dr. Megan Bryson -
The "Arab Spring" in Social Media: Possibilities and Perils in a Networked Age Professor Todd Presner -
Start-Up Army: Military Entreprenuers and the Evolution of Israel's Special Operations Forces Ami Pedahzur
The Specter of Global China: Contesting the Power & Peril of Chinese State Capital in Zambia Ching Kwan Lee -
Perelman’s Dissociations: Double Fidélité, Fighting the Nazis, and the New Rhetoric Project’s Canon of Invention David Frank, University of Oregon -
A History of Judaism Through Comix JT Waldman -
Problems with Marx…and Some Solutions Dr. Paul Paolucci -
Govenor Jon Huntsman Lecture UK Office of the President, UK International Center, and the UK Confucius Institute -
Latin American Populism: Between Authoritarianism and Democratization Dr. Carlos De La Torre -
Japanese Attitudes toward the United States since 311: New Perceptions for the Oldest Ally Dr. Kazuhiro Maeshima, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences, Bunkyo University -
"ELENA" - Modern Russian Society in Contemporary Russian Film Gregory Kataev -
Dacha Enchantments: Living a Natural Life in the New Russia Melissa Caldwell (University of California, Santa Cruz) -
Conflicting Realms of Russia: "Putin was Sent to Russia by God" vs. P****-Riot Alan Timberlake, Columbia University -
The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever Dr. Michael Wesch -
English in Russia: From a Language of Elite to a Language of the Masses Elena Lawrick, Purdue -
UK Linguistics Club Event - Tolkien's Imaginary Languages Prof. Ed Vajda, Western Washington University -