A corollary to the traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine: "Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory."
A graduate of GSPIA and REES, Emilia Zankina is currently an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the American University in Bulgaria. Her areas of expertise include elite theory, democratization, East European transitions, and public policy analysis. Her most recent research focuses on populism, gender and political representation, and civil service reform in Eastern Europe.
Paul Goode is Associate Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues (Routledge, 2011), and has published articles in various journals including Europe-Asia Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Problems of Post-Communism. His present research focuses on nationalism and legitimacy among hybrid regimes in the post-Soviet region.
The Asian Studies Center and the Department of Anthropology invite you to talk with Dr. Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research—Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and Harry E. Preble Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this talk Dr. Abelmann will think about the changing aesthetics of desire and social mobility. She will consider the porous boundary between the radically normative and potentially transgressive in South Korea today.
A week-long summer professional development workshop for instructors from a multistate consortium of two-year colleges.
The XIXth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture
Robin Blackburn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and served as editor of New Left Review. He is author of many important books, including an influential trilogy on origins and history of Atlantic slavery: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988), The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997), and The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011).
The first in a year-long Arab film series. Like the novel ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, the film is a scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état of 1952. The setting is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the action takes place.
The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected Central Asia experts, explores the dynamics of the new competition over the region since 9/11.
