Dostoevsky” by Alexander Gribanov, archivist, Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, Brandeis University
“Language Acquisition” by Steven Pinker, Peter de Florez Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate
“Civil Society in Japan” by Frank Schwartz, Harvard University
“Human Rights and U.S. Military Assistance to Latin America: Training Protectors or Perpetrators?” by Father Roy Bourgeois, Maryknoll priest; director, School of the Americas Watch
“Who’s Next? Asian Views of the New American Preventive War Policy” by Hendro Sangkoyo, Indonesian Institute of Technology
“Chechnya: Russia’s Forgotten War and Its Human Rights Impact” Amnesty International speaking tour with Eliza Mouseeva and Bela Tsugaeva, Memorial in Narzan, Republic of Ingushetia, Russian Federation
Doug Rogers ’95 and David Napier
Doug Rogers ’95, a newly minted Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, returned to his alma mater to speak with students in Professor David Napier’s senior anthropology seminar about graduate opportunities in cultural and international studies. He also gave a public talk on his ongoing research with Old Believers in Russia, titled “Religion and Modernity in Contemporary Russia.”
“The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from Comparative Analysis” by Eva Bellin, associate professor of government, Harvard University “Language and Culture Revisited” by Claire Kramsch, professor of German and foreign language acquisition, University of California, Berkeley; author of Language and Culture and Context and Culture in Language Teaching
“Why Japan Isn’t Changing: The Persistent Drag of Relational Politics” by Walter Hatch, assistant professor of government, Colby College
MAY “Election 2000 and the Limits of American Democracy” by Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University “Writing of the South Asian Diaspora” by Mariam Pirbhai, Department of English, University of Montreal “Who Owns the Past? Native American Perspectives on Archaeology and History” by Donna Roberts Moody and John Moody of the Abenaki Nation
“International Human Rights and the Status of Women in Africa” by Betty Mould-Iddrisu, chief state attorney, Ministry of Justice, Accra, Ghana; chairperson, African Women Lawyers Association
Lectures and Events ROHATYN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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