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Speakers come to campus :
The Levitt Center contributed toward part of the expenses of the following speakers during the academic year 2000-2001. The co-sponsors are shown in parentheses.
Speakers in Spring 2002
February 28 - 4:15 p.m.- KJ Red pit
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
"The Empty Gallery: Why American Museums Can't Interpret the History of Slavery."
March 4 - 7:30 p.m.- Chemistry auditorium
Prof. Robert Frank, H.J. Louis Professor of Economics, Cornell University
"Does Rising Inequality Harm the Middle Class?"
March 8 - 4:10 p.m. - Chapel
Susan Bordo, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
“Beauty on the Brain”
March 12 - 4:00 p.m. - Chapel
Richard Betts, Director of the Institute of War and Peace at Columbia University
"Problems and Opportunities in Counterterrorism"
March 13 - 7:30 p.m. - KJ Red Pit
Prof. Quinnggua Jia, Associate Dean of the School of International Affairs at Beijing University and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution
“The improvement of Sino-American relations after 9/11: is it sustainable?"
April 2 - 7:30 p.m. - Chemistry Auditorium
Ambassador James Lilly, Former ambassador to China
“The United States and China: the Anatomy of a Relationship”
April 4 - 7:00 p.m.
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
“Before the Storm.”
April 6 - 9:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
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.
Conference: “‘Cracking India’: Literary and Historical Perspectives on Partition”
April 14 - 7:00 p.m.
Stephen Ndegwa, Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and currently Governance Fellow at the World Bank
"Constitutional Reform in Kenya."
April 15 - 7:00 p.m. - Chapel
Joseph Nocera, senior editor at Fortune magazine,currently writing a book on Enron with Bethany McClean, the Fortune reporter who first broke the story.
“The Enron Scandal”
April 16 - 8:00 p.m.
Randy Cohen, New York Times columnist;
Jeffrey McArn, Hamilton Chaplain; and
Roderick Long, Auburn University
Roundtable discussion: “Everyday Ethical Problems.”
April 22
Quansheng Zhao, Associate Dean, School of International Affairs at Beijing University
“George W. Bush and the US-Japan-China Triangle”
April - TBA
Prof. Robert Polin, University of Massachusetts
“A living wage”
Speakers in 2001
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