Archives 2017-2018

With Professor Yusur Wajih Al-Madani Friday, November 3 4:30 PM in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin M549) 2017 George Norlin Award Recipient Professor Yusur Al-Madani: 'Such a Transformation!' Shakespeare Re-made, Sulayman Al-Bassam's Richard III, an Arab Tragedy For more than three decades, Professor Yusur Wajih Al-Madani of...

with Professor Deborah Kamen, University of Washington Monday, October 23 5:00 PM in HUMN 250 Banter at festivals, biting satire on the comic state, invective in the courtroom, forbidden slanderous speech, and violent acts of hubris: Athenian insults and abuse ranged from benign to deeply offensive. In this talk, I...

With Henry R. Nau, Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. Trump says he is a nationalist and globalist. And he is. But he envisions a globalism rooted in nationalism not a globalism that replaces nationalism. Professor Nau, a former White House official in the Ronald Reagan presidency, offers a constructive understanding of Trump's foreign policy that draws from his scholarly work on the US foreign policy traditions of nationalism, realism, liberal and conservative internationalism.

A lunchtime event with the Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Ph.D. (Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 2006-2015). Registration is required. Humanity has become a geologic force shaping this planet. What wisdom do religious traditions bring to this crisis, especially about how we should live?

If you’re committed to supporting animal rights, does this mean you should also be committed to supporting fetal rights? If you’re opposed to abortion, does this mean you should also be opposed to eating meat? This panel will focus on the relationship between debates about abortion and debates about animal rights and will feature two legal scholars and two theology scholars, all of whom have written about these issues. Featuring: John Berkman (Regis College), Charles Camosy (Fordham University), Sherry Colb (Cornell University), and Michael Dorf (Cornell University).

The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Ph.D. (Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 2006-2015) will explore the varied approaches of science and religion to human relationships with the land, taking both historical and planetary views, in this public lecture. This lecture will focus on western frameworks, broadly understood, yet consider how interplay with other perspectives might prompt creative adaptation, particularly in regard to land ethics.

Can "religious rights" ever supersede human rights? Is the concept of "Islamic feminism" a contradiction, or can it be the intellectual genesis for a modern faith?

With Lorella Zanardo Thursday, Oct 12 5:00PM in HUMN 250 Watched by millions on people, the scathing documentary "Women's Bodies" denounces the pervasive, manipulative exploitation of the woman's body in Italian TV and on the Web. In Zanardo's words, "it all started with the observation that women- real women- are...

"The day I was elected presiding bishop, after all the hullabaloo in the house of deputies when the consents were given, a man said to me, “Now, don’t you wear dangly earrings.” It just confronted his image of what was proper and appropriate." - Katharine Jefferts Schori in Times Magazine. The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori will be giving a public lecture on Monday, October 9th, entitled "Science, Religion, and Land: The West and the Rest" in Eaton Humanities 150 at 5:15 PM. She will also be speaking at a seated lunchtime event entitled "Cosmic Faith in the Anthropocene Age" on October 11th, 2017, for which a couple slots still remain (reservations are required).

GSLL Presents on October 2, 2017at 6pm in Macky 230, University of Colorado Boulder "The Poesy of Class".