Although Agnes Varda is recognized as an early avatar of feminist filmmaking, her 1965 film Happiness remains a misunderstood work, frequently criticized for its ostensibly anti-feminist message. This lecture excavates specific sources of imagery from French women’s magazines that idealized the daily drudgery of the housewife and explains how Varda applied this imagery to her characters to challenge feminine ideals.

This year's undergraduate Model EU will take place on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College. The following schools are sending students:
Bowling Green State University
Kent State University
John Carroll University
Washington & Jefferson College
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Sylvia Kofler, from the Washington Delegation of the European Union will attend and give a presentation, as will EUCE Director Ron Linden.

Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor of Classics and Art History; Chair, Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University

Greek houses of the Classical and Hellenistic periods incorporated a number of features that were designed for the safe-keeping of the entire oikos, the homeowner, his family and slaves, and their possessions. While many of these security measures do not survive intact in the archaeological record, they can be reconstructed from both scant remains and from literary and epigraphical accounts.

During the 17-year rule of Kim Jong-Il, North Korea became a dictatorship armed to the teeth but unable to feed its own people without foreign aid. But with the death of Kim Jong-Il on December 17th, foreign policy experts across the globe have wondered aloud what the future holds for this nuclear power. “North Korea as we know it is over,” a Korea specialist who served in the second Bush administration confidently asserted in the New York Times, a mere two days after Kim died. North Korea, the last Stalinist state on Earth, became the latest country to join the nuclear club in 20006.

In the Khmer Rouge’s brief but devastating rule, approximately two million Cambodians died. The regime kept meticulous records, including registration photographs of the 20,000 prisoners tortured at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison.

This talk will consider conversations and experiences with former militia fighters from Lebanon's war between 1975-1990, to argue that fighters do not lose any part of their humanity when they kill and participate in armed warfare. I suggest, rather, that the discourse of humanity and the resort to the notion of dehumanization is a rhetorical device with hegemonic influence in debates and conversations about war and peace. My aim is to provide a critical anthropological approach to peace studies and our understanding of war and its violence.

The squatting of physical spaces is an important form of protest in European social movements. From
the 1970s onwards, activists began to occupy abandoned buildings transforming them in spaces
where to experiment alternative lifestyles and elaborate radical politics. In Italy, squatted spaces,
usually named “Self-Managed Occupied Social Centers” and first established in the 1970s, became
the backbones of national and transnational social movements that emerged late in the 1990s. Far
from being dismissed, this form of collective action continues to be used in order to create spaces of

The debate around globalization is entering a new and more mature phase reflected in the fact that it is now generally accepted that we live in an era of globalization. However, the concept is used in a bewildering variety of ways. This talk will offer a distinction between generic, capitalist, and alternative globalizations.

Next Wednesday (April 11), the Society and Honors College will proudly play host to a prominent intellectual historian of our generation: J.G.A. Pocock, author of Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law, Machiavellian Moment, and a multi-volume work on Edward Gibbon. An emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins, Pocock is noted for developing a novel approach to the study of history often referred to as the Cambridge School of intellectual history. His work encompasses a broad range of intellectual endeavors, including not only history, but also political science, philosophy, and literature.