College-bound minority students from Brashear High School learned about international studies and career opportunities through a panel session with Pitt study abroad returnees and breakout sessions with UCIS international studies advisors.
Closing Discussion, Paul A. Bove, Chair
Third Panel Discussion: Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, “Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists”, Jonathan Arac, Mellon Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh “What Can We Learn from Uniqueness?” and Donald E. Pease, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Dartmouth College “Said’s Melville”
Second Panel Discussion: QS Tong, Professor of English, University of Hong Kong “The Question of Tibet and Orientalism”, and RA Judy, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh “‘Gods always fail’: Said as an Index of Secular Humanism, the Arab Revolution, and Frantz Fanon”, Daniel T. O’Hara, First Term Mellon Professor of English, Temple University “On Late Style? The Question of a New Beginning”
First Panel Discussion: Wlad Godzich, Distinguished Professor of Literature, UCSC, and Visiting Fellow, the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh “The Stateless and the Proper” Stathis Gourgouris, Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature & Society, Classics, Columbia University “The Epistemology of Edward Said”
February 19, 2013, Newsweek published an article that was provocatively titled “France: Leader of the Free World.” Even more provocatively, the subtitle taunted U.S. leaders with “The French are a decisive, manly superpower. Unlike America.” Gendered rhetoric aside, French foreign policy in recent years has led other powers to take note. Rather than waiting for collective decisions from NATO or the EU and citing historical interests in the region, the French intervened in Libya and the Ivory Coast under President Sarkozy and Mali under President Hollande.
