Speakers in the 2001 - 2002 Academic Year

The following speakers came to campus in April 2002:

Ambassador James Lilly, Former ambassador to China "The United States and China: the Anatomy of a Relationship"

Richard Perlstein, freelance writer for The Nation, New York Times, Newsday, Village Voice and others,author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.

The following speakers took part in the conference: "?Cracking India?: Literary and Historical Perspectives on Partition".

Kamila Shamsie, Pakistani novelist.

Ved Mehta, Indian-born writer for the New Yorker and author of The Ledge Between the Streams.

Gyanendra Pandy, professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of Remembering Partition: Violence, Natonalism, and History of India.

Stephen Ndegwa, Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and currently Governance Fellow at the World Bank who spoke on Constitutional Reform in Kenya.

Joseph Nocera, senior editor at Fortune magazine, who is currently writing a book on Enron with Bethany McClean, the Fortune reporter who first broke the story, "The Enron Scandal"

Randy Cohen, New York Times columnist; Jeffrey McArn, Hamilton Chaplain; and Roderick Long, Auburn University Roundtable discussion: "Everyday Ethical Problems."

Quansheng Zhao, Associate Dean, School of International Affairs at Beijing University spoke on "George W. Bush and the US-Japan-China Triangle"

Prof. Robert Polin, University of Massachusetts discussed "A living wage"

The following speakers came to campus in March 2002:

Prof. Robert Frank, H.J. Louis Professor of Economics, Cornell University spoke on"Does Rising Inequality Harm the Middle Class?"

Susan Bordo, Professor of English and Women?s Studies, University of Kentucky discussed"Beauty on the Brain"

Richard Betts, Director of the Institute of War and Peace at Columbia University shared "Problems and Opportunities in Counterterrorism"

Prof. Quinnggua Jia, Associate Dean of the School of International Affairs at Beijing University and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution talked about "The improvement of Sino-American relations after 9/11: is it sustainable?"

The following speakers came to campus in February 2002:

Dr. Richard Rabinowitz, Founder and President of the American History Workshop in New York City, organizer of the proposed National Underground Railroad and Freedom Center in Cincinnati discussed "The Empty Gallery: Why American Museums Can't Interpret the History of Slavery."

"The War in Afghanistan and the Global Refugee Crisis" was addressed by Lavinia Limon, Interim Executive Director of Immigration and Refugee Services of America at a luncheon sponsored by the Levitt Center in November.

Public Affairs Journalism was a series co-sponsored with the Department of English and the Department of Communications Studies and included

Sam Fulwood III - columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and author of Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class

Bernard Lefkowitz - author of Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life in the Perfect Suburb