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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Peace |
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The Iraq War: A Panel on the First Anniversary |
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17 Mar 2004
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Thursday, March 18
4:00 p.m.
Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH Building
805 West Pennsyvlania Avenue |
PANELISTS
* STEPHEN HARTNETT (Speech Communication)
* JOHN LYNN (History)
* CLIFFORD SINGER (Arms Control, Disarmament, & Internation. Security)
* ASSATA ZERAI (Sociology & Afro-American Studies & Research Program)
CHAIR
* SUSAN DAVIS (Institute of Communications Research)
Thursday, March 18
4:00 p.m.
Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH Building
805 West Pennsyvlania Avenue
> Panelists
STEPHEN HARTNETT is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at UIUC. His research interest are in rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism of historical and contemporary discourse, American studies, the political economy of crime and punishment including the death penalty, and investigative poetics. A long-term political activist, he is the author of Democratic Dissent & The Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America (2002) and co-author of Sweet Freedom's Song: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America (2002). He is currently completing a co-authored book to be titled Empire of Deception: The War in Iraq, Globalization & The Twilight of Democracy.
JOHN LYNN is Professor of History at UIUC. A leading military historian, his interests include the history of Western and South Asian military institutions and warfare, with an emphasis on military change in early modern Europe, during the French Revolution, and during the era of European conquest in India, 1740-1805. His most recent book, Battle: A History of Combat and Culture (2003), spans the continents and the centuries. His other books include The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714 (1999), Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715 (1997), and The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94 (1996).
CLIFFORD SINGER is Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) and Professor of Nuclear Engineering at UIUC. His research interests include plutonium production and reprocessing in South Asia and arms control in India, Pakistan, and China. He is currently supervising research on global energy economics with emphasis on plutonium production and reprocessing in South Asia and on prospects for negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions between China and India. His publications include Nuclear Confidence Building in South Asia (1995) and Keys to Unblocking Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control (2002).
ASSATA ZERAI is Associate Professor of Sociology and in the Afro-American Studies and Research Program at UIUC. A former senior research associate of the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University, her scholarship focuses on the ways that race, class and gender as interlocking spheres of domination and resistance are reflected in maternal and child health as well as women's health activism. Her current research addresses how anti-drug laws and policy limit choices for women who have a cocaine-involved past and adaptive strategies of such women and their families. She is the co-author of Dehumanizing Discourse, Anti-Drug Law and Policy in America: A "Crack Mother's" Nightmare (2002) and is the Coordinator of the Black Feminist Caucus and a member of the Black Radical Congress.
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