H. Brian Holland, Associate Professor of Law, Texas Wesleyan School of Law. Remix politics is here. As divergent audiences engage and manipulate the carefully crafted images of presidential campaigns, competing symbols evidence a struggle for power over s

Margaret Edson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright. We are born ready to talk and listen, but it takes years to learn to read and write. What is gained and lost when the redolent swirl of human experience is consigned to the abstract, linear, preterite alp

Richard Matthew, founding director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs and professor of International and Environmental Politics, UC at Irvine. Based on fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, this presentation by Richard Matthew, f

Kathleen Vogel, Associate Professor of Science and Technology, Cornell University, will discuss the public and policy controversies surrounding the 2012 publication of scientific data on artificially created, mutated H5N1 avian influenza viruses by two pr

David B. Rivkin Jr., Constitution Day Address Lecturer, Attorney and Constitutional Commentator. Mr. Rivkin will analyze the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, in particular Chief Justice John Robert’s pivotal opinion, an

John Priscu, professor of land resources and environmental sciences, Montana State University, will demonstrate that the Earth’s icy systems, particularly the Antarctic ice sheet and related subglacial environments, hold a large and potentially active c

Heather Love, professor of English, University of Pennsylvania. This lecture considers the fate of the spinster in the era of gay marriage. Through a reading of the 2006 film Notes on a Scandal, Love argues that, while monogamous gay and lesbian couples

Susan Abraham, professor of law, New York Law School. In September 2010, Dharun Ravi used a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi having sex with another man in a Rutgers University dorm. Clementi committed suicide a few days later. Abraham will

Rajbir Singh Datta, Former National Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Manar Waheed, Policy Director, South Asian Americans Leading Together; and Erik Love, Assistant Professor, Sociology, served as moderator. The Sikh community has

Lester Spence, Johns Hopkins University. The murder of Trayvon Martin has captured the nation’s interest. Many have used his murder to examine and complicate our understanding of the contemporary “post-racial moment”. However I suggest that the con