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Friday:
7:15-8:00pm
Introduction and Welcome
Kim Bottomly, President of Wellesley College
Keynote Speech
Dr. Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
8:00-9:15pm
Panel discussion
Moderator: Roxanne Euben, Political Science Department
Dr. Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
Nicolas deWarren, Philosophy Department
Kathy Moon, Political Science Department
Craig Murphy, Political Science Department
Saturday:
7:30-9:00pm
Panel discussion
Stacie Goddard, Political Science Department
Rob Paarlberg, Political Science Department
Sunday:
3:45-5:15pm
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Lara Tohme, Art Department
Anna Ronell, Jewish Studies
Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Political Science
Carolina Rivas, Director of The Color of Olives
Daoud Sarhandi, Editor and Producer of The Color of Olives
Jamal Dajani, Co-Director of Occupied Minds
David Michaelis, Co-Director of Occupied Minds
Fran Strauss-Baxter and Jack Baxter, Producers of Blues by the Beach
5:30-7:15pm
Closing Panel and Discussion with Students
Nicolas deWarren, Philosophy Department
Kathy Moon, Political Science Department
Craig Murphy, Political Science DepartmentBiographies of Panelists
Introduction & Welcome
Kim Bottomly, President of Wellesley College
A Montanna native, Bottomly graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in zoology and earned her doctorate in biological structure from the University of Washington School of Medicine. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1980, she did postdoctoral work in immunology at the National Institutes of Health.
In her role as deputy provost for science, technology and faculty development at Yale, Bottomly was responsible for an array of academic, administrative and budgetary activities across many departments and divisions. She also initiated and oversaw efforts to enhance faculty career development and was instrumental in Yale's efforts to recruit and retain women in the sciences and underrepresented minorities in all fields. A lifelong scientist and educator, Bottomly's research has focused on the molecular and cellular factors that influence the initiation of immune responses. She has pioneered studies defining cellular changes associated with allergic and asthmatic responses. Her research has investigated how people respond to allergens and why inhaled allergens lead to lung injury. She has been the principal investigator on five grants from the National Institutes of Health, as well as other research grants, which together supported her 16/person laboratory at the Yale Medical School. She has written more than 160 peer/reviewed articles and has lectured widely at universities in the U.S. and around the world.
Bottomly has served as a member of the Immunobiology Study Section at the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and has been a recipient of the highly selective National Institutes of Health MERIT award. She has been editor as well as associate editor of the scholarly journal, Immunity, and a section editor and associate editor of the Journal of Immunology. Her memberships in professional societies include the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the American Association of Immunologists. In addition to serving on and chairing many appointed and elected committees of the American Association of Immunologists, she was the distinguished lecturer at its 2004 annual meeting. She has served on many scientific and medical advisory boards and as a consultant to a number of large pharmaceutical companies. She has served as chair of the Committee on Status of Women of the American Association of Immunologists, as chair of the Women's Committee of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biologists and as a member of the steering committee of Yale's Women Faculty Forum.
She assumed the full duties of president on Aug. 1, 2007, following the 14/year tenure of DiAnna Chapman Walsh, which ended June 30, 2007.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
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FRIDAY PANEL
Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
Mahmood Mamdani is from Kampala, Uganda. He received his PhD in government from Harvard University.
He is currently Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he was also director of the Institute of African Studies from 1999 to 2004. He has taught at the University of Dar/es/Salaam (1973-79), Makerere University (1980-93), and University of Cape Town (1996-99) and was the founding director of Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda (1987-96).
He is the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Origins of Terror (Pantheon 2004); When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton 2001); Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton 1996); and ten other books. Citizen and Subject was recognized as "one of Africa's 100 best books of the 20th century" in Cape Town in 2003 and was also awarded the Herskovitz Prize of the African Studies Association of USA for "the best book on Africa published in the English language in 1996."
Mahmood Mamdani was president of CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa) from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, he was invited to present one of nine papers at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium in Oslo. In 2004, he presented one of nine papers at the African Union-organized Global Meeting of Intellectuals from Africa and the African Diaspora in Dakar. He is a chief advisor to the UN High Level Panel on Alliance of Civilizations for 2005-06.
Biography taken from http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/mm1124/fac.html
__________________________________________Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College Political Science Department
Roxanne L. Euben received her B.A. at Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. in Politics and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Her research and teaching is located at the intersection of Western and non/Western political theory, a newly emerging field called comparative political theory with a specific focus on the relationship between Islamic and Western political thought. She is the author of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search Of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2006), Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton University Press, 1999), and is co/editor of a forthcoming reader on contemporary Islamist political thought (Princeton University Press). She has also written a variety of articles/chapters on comparative political theory, including "Jihad and Political Violence" (Current History, 2002), "Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory," Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), "Contingent Borders, Syncretic Perspectives: Globalization, Political Theory and Islamizing Knowledge," International Studies Review, (Spring 2002), "Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices," in What is Political Theory? (Sage Publications, 2004) and "A Counternarrative of Shared Ambivalence: Some Muslim and Western Perspectives on Science and Reason" (Common Knowledge, 2003). Euben has previously been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wellesley.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
__________________________________________Nicolas deWarren, Wellesley College Philosophy Department
Having studied in Paris, Heidelberg, and Boston, Nicolas de Warren obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University. He is currently writing a book on time and consciousness in Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and has published on various philosophical problems. He has been a visiting professor at the Editorial Institute at Boston University, the Libera University Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome, and is currently at the New School for Social Research in New York. He teaches courses in phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, social and political philosophy, early modern philosophy, aesthetics, and German Idealism.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
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Katharine H.S. Moon Wellesley College Political Science Department
Katharine H.S. Moon is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Since her arrival at Wellesley in 1993, she has offered courses in International Relations and East Asian Politics, with an emphasis U.S./East Asia relations, militarism, gender, women, and social movements. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, Department of Politics. She has also taught at Trinity College in Hartford.
Moon is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S./Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997; Korean edition by Sam/in Publishing Co., 2002; Japanese edition forthcoming) and other publications on the U.S./Korea alliance and social movements in Korea and Asia. They are available in edited volumes and academic journals such as Asian Survey and The Journal of Asian Studies and Korean publications such as Changjak gwa Bipyeong, Dangdae Bipyeong, and Newsweek Korea. Currently, Moon is writing a book on "anti/Americanism" and Korea/U.S. relations from the perspective of Korea's democratization and the politics of social movements. Moon received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 to conduct field research in Korea on this subject and was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in 2002/03.
Moon has served in the Office of the Senior Coordinator for Women's Issues in the U.S. Department of State and as a trustee of Smith College. She serves on the editorial board of several journals of international relations and consults for NGOs in the U.S. and Korea. She also serves on policy task forces designed to examine current U.S./Korea relations.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
__________________________________________Craig Murphy, Wellesley College International Relations Department
Craig N. Murphy is M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College where he teaches courses in comparative politics, international relations, north/south relations and peace studies. He is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.
Professor Murphy did his undergraduate work at Grinnell College in Iowa, the Commonwealth Institute in London, and the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, GhAnna. He did his graduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the CAnnadian Peace Research Institute.
After joining the Wellesley faculty in 1981, Murphy served as director of the Peace Studies program from 1987-89, a role he again filled in 2004. He directed or co/directed the college's International Relations Program (1990-2000), served as Chair of Political Science (1999-2002), and as Director of the Social Sciences (2002-04). Before coming to Wellesley, Murphy was an instructor at Wesleyan University, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, and later served as a visiting professor at both Harvard's Government Department (1990) and Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies (1998-2002).
Murphy's research focuses on international institutions and the political economy of inequality across lines of gender, class, ethnicity, race, and geography. His most recent book The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? (Cambridge University Press, 2006) received the 2007 Chadwick Alger Prize for the best book in the field of international organization. Another major study, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Polity Press and Oxford University Press, 1994), explores the impact of global/level international agencies on the world economy. Other recent books include Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development (Routledge, 2004) and edited volumes Egalitarian Politics in an Age of Globalization (Palgrave, 2002) and International Relations and the New Inequality (with Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Blackwell, 2002).
Murphy is the author, co/author, or co/editor of three earlier books as well as special issues of the journals Development and Review of International Political Economy. His articles have appeared in many policy and scholarly journals, including Contemporary Security Policy, The Democratic Leaders of the Asia/Pacific Forum, International Affairs, International Interactions, International Organization, International Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Millennium, New Political Economy, Polity, and TransAfrica Forum.He was a founding editor of the international public policy journal, Global Governance, which received the 1996 award of the American Association of Publishers for the best new journal in the social sciences, mAnnagement, and the humanities. He has served as president of the International Studies Association (2000-01), the professional association of scholars of international relations, and as chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (2002-04).
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Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
SATURDAY PANEL
Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College Political Science Department
Stacie Goddard recieved her B.A. at the University of Chicago and did her Ph.D. at Columbia University.
She specializes in international relations theory, with a specific focus on international security. She is particularly interested in sociological models of rhetoric, studying how changes in rhetoric can influence bargaining and conflict. Currently she is working on her manuscript, Uncommon Ground: indivisible territory and the politics of legitimacy, which Annalyzes how territory becomes indivisible: why it that places such as Ulster, Germany, Jerusalem, and Kashmir appeared non/negotiable at certain moments of history. Her work on indivisibility was recently published in International Organization. Other research has been published in International Security and the European Journal of International Relations. Goddard has been a fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Security Studies at Harvard University; the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; the Center for International Studies at Princeton University; and the Center of International Studies at the University of Southern California.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
__________________________________________Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College Political Science Department
Robert Paarlberg received his B. A. at Carleton College and his Ph. D. at Harvard University .
Several of Rob Paarlberg's courses in the political science department draw upon his current research and consulting interests, which are in the area of international food and agricultural policy. Since 1999 he has published two university press books, one on the reform of U.S. agricultural policy and another on policies toward genetically modified crops and foods in developing countries. He had previously published policy monographs on U.S. foreign economic policy with the Brookings Institution, and on environmentally sustainable agriculture for the Overseas Development Council. Prof. Paarlberg maintains ongoing consulting relationships with the International Food Policy Research Institute, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of State. He is also an associate of the Harvard Center for International Affairs.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu
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SUNDAY PANEL
David Michaelis, Co-Director of Occupied Minds
David Michaelis serves on the Board of Directors for Internews Network and is the Director of Current Affairs for Link TV in San Francisco.
Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Michaelis studied at Hebrew University and received his degree in philosophy and sociology. He has produced and directed documentaries on social-political issues for the BBC Channel 4 in the UK as well as for ARD and ZDF in Germany. Michaelis served as a news editor in London and Washington for ARD. His work on various talk shows and documentaries has always been on the forefront of legitimizing the rights of minorities in Israel.
With Internews, he created the first satellite two-way link between Tunis and Jerusalem in October, 1993. Michaelis also helped to establish AMIN, the first Arab media site reflecting all media in the Middle East.
In 2004 he produced the film "Occupied Minds," a unique joint Palestinian-Israeli personal journey through the occupied areas. In 2006 he was the lead interviewer for the film, "In the Name of the Victims," a documentary film that raises the issue of Holocaust survivors and their fight for justice 70 years after World War II. Michaelis, along with co-producer Jamal Dajani, won a 2004 Peabody award for his work on Link TV's series, MOSAIC: World News From the Middle East.Biography taken from http://www.internews.org/dirs/michaelis.shtm __________________________________________
Jamal Dajani, Co-Director of Occupied Minds
Jamal Dajani is an award winning producer and the Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV. Born and raised in Jerusalem, Dajani completed his early studies at Collage des Frares and attended Columbia University in New York City, where he received a B.A. degree in Political Science. Since 2001 he has produced more than 1,600 installments of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, winner of the prestigious Peabody Award. In 2006, Dajani launched The Mosaic Intelligence Report monthly newsletter and MIR weekly videos, adding more in-depth and below the radar Middle East news Annalysis to Mosaic. Dajani has worked on several television productions, including Occupied Minds, a documentary shedding light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and Who Speaks for Islam?, both of which aired on Link TV and PBS stations. Recently he was a consultant for PBS Frontline World War of Ideas and author of The Arab Media Revolution. Dajani is a frequent guest on several national and international media broadcast networks and has published numerous articles on the Middle East in many print and electronic media outlets. He is the co-host of Arab Talk on KPOO radio, a contributor to the Listening Post on Al Jazeera English and serves on the board of New America Media, the largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations in the U.S. Dajani served for two years (2003-2004) as President of the Arab Cultural & Community Center in San Francisco. In 2005, he was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission where he serves as Acting Chair.
Biography taken from http://www.jamaldajani.com/
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Jack Baxter, Co-producer of Blues by the Beach
Mr. Baxter is an independant filmmmaker and freelance journalist. He wrote and directed the controversial and critically acclaimed documentary "Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X".__________________________________________
Carolina Rivas, Director of The Color of Olives
Carolina Rivas studied at School of Writers / of the General Society of Writers of Mexico (SOGEM) / and at University Centre of Film Studies (CUEC/UNAM), where she specialized in direction and script writing. She completed theatre studies at Forum of Method Actors and Forum of Contemporary Theatre. In 2002, Carolina Rivas received a prize (Departure Point) from Independent National University of Mexico (UNAM) for her play Huye de Z. Huye (Escape of Z. Escape).
Since 1999, Carolina has regularly collaborated with the film magazine Movie Studies. For the last six years she has taught cinema and film making in diverse academic institutions in Mexico.
In 2004 she studied butoh dance in Brazil with Yohito Ohno, Akira Kasai and Mitsuru Sasaki among others. In the same year, Carolina studied experimental cinema with film director Naomi Uman.Carolina Rivas' thesis film Zona Cero (fiction; duration 28 min; produced by CUEC/UNAM, 2003) has been awarded at a number of international and national film festivals.
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Daoud Sarhandi, Editor and Producer of The Color of Olives
After studying film and photography in London (1982/1985), Daoud worked as a documentary film editor in Britain, where he cut numerous feature documentaries for Channel Four Television and the BBC.
In October 1995, Daoud made his first visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he worked in the humanitarian industry during the Balkan wars and subsequent reconstruction periods / at first in Bosnia and later in Kosovo and Macedonia.
In 1997 Daoud started work on a collection of political posters from the Bosnian War period. A book featuring this collection: Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters from the Bosnian War by Daoud Sarhandi was published in New York and London in 2001.
Daoud moved to Mexico in 2002, from where he has been a regular contributor to Eye magazine a London/based visual communication journal. In Mexico, a series of articles on Palestine by Daoud Sarhandi was published at Proceso, La Jornada and Tinta Seca.
Between 2002 and 2004 Daoud worked with Mexican graphic designer Gabriela Rodriguez.
In early 2004 Daoud made his first trip to the West Bank in order to interview Palestinian artists. He returned with Carolina Rivas later the same year to film The Colour of Olives.Daoud currently teaches film and video in the Institute of Arts in the Autonomous University of Hidalgo, Mexico.
Biography taken from http://thecolourofolives.com/filmmakers.htm
__________________________________________Lara Tohme, Wellesley College Art Department
Lara Tohme is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Art Department, where she teaches Islamic and European medieval art and architecture. She joined the Wellesley faculty in 2005, having taught previously at Dartmouth College and the Boston Architectural Center.
Dr. Tohme received a BA in Art History from the University of Washington (1992), an MA in Art History from the University of Oregon (1995), and a PhD in the History of Architecture: Theory and Criticism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005). She worked with the Museum With No Frontiers on a project that aims to promote the global awareness of the art and architecture of Islamic cultures bordering the Mediterranean and co/authored The Umayyads: The Rise of Islamic Art (2001).
Her research interests include: early and medieval Islamic art and architecture, historiography of medieval art and architecture, Mediterranean art and architecture from the 5th through the 14th centuries CE, and the survival of classical architectural traditions in the medieval period. She has held distinguished fellowship at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu __________________________________________
Anna Ronelle, Wellesley College Jewish Studies Department
Anna P. Ronell received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Jewish Studies Program where she teaches Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Hebrew, Hebrew Literature and Contemporary Israeli Culture. She also teaches world Jewish literature in translation. Professor Ronell's research focuses on the renewed interest in the Eastern European past in contemporary Jewish fiction as well as on Russian-language literature and art in Israel. Her fields of interest are Eastern European Jewish civilization, Hebrew-Russian literary relations, American-Jewish literature, ethnic, literary and cultural studies. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Polin, and Studies in American Jewish Literature.
Biography taken from www.wellesley.edu __________________________________________
Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Wellesley College Political Science Department
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