The Matthew B. Ridgway Center will host a conference entitled "Avoiding a Nuclear Sarajevo: Lessons from WW I for Crisis Management in the Twenty-First Century" from 9 am - 3 pm, Thur. Sept. 25 at the University Club, Ballroom B. The event will feature Dr. Jack Levy, a professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and Dr. Avery Goldstein, professor of Global Politics and International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Levy will discuss “Conflicting Interests and Crisis Management in July 1914.” Dr.

All faculty and graduate students welcome!

Working in both the Greek/Southern and the Turkish/Northern parts of Cyprus, Rabia Hamansah conducted ethnographic research on six Orthodox Christian and Muslim religious sites for two years, in order to investigate how formerly shared religious landscape contributed to the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting is practiced by Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and how religious and cultural heritage was destroyed, manipulated, accommodated, and reimagined during periods of conflict.

Ruth Levin's concert is devoted to Yiddish art songs and poems written by Jewish poets from the Bukowina, Poland, Romania, and Russia. For the past ten years, Levin worked together with Alexei Belousov, a Russian-Jewish classical guitar concert artist in order to create a special program.