(Aleksey Balabanov, Russia, 2007. 89 min.)
Set against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's quagmire of a war in Afghanistan, Cargo 200 throws a brutal light on the moral implosion of government, society, and personal relationships in early 1980s USSR. Both a comedy and a horror film, it is not for the faint of heart.
William Sewell presents and Seymour Drescher responds in this Humanities Center Colloquium.
The laws of war are silent on what should happen after the bombs have dropped. Civilians lawfully harmed in war are often left with nothing. Do we owe war's survivors something more? CIVIC is arguing for a new standard of conduct one that expects warring parties to 'make amends' to the civilians they harm. This principle already is at work in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Talk by Joel Brady, Department of Religious Studies
Bob Donnorummo, Department of History, and William Harbert, Department of Geology
In defiance of a military curfew, more than 150,000 protesters packed into Tahrir Square Sunday to call on President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The mood was celebratory and victorious. For most, it was not a question of if, but when, Mubarak would leave. What will happen next for this long standing ally of the U.S. with 80 million people, what are the implications for Egypt's future, and how will this change relations with Israel, Hammas leadership in Gaza, and other countries in the Middle East?
University of Pittsburgh graduate students will interrogate and challenge the definitions of 'national' and 'transnational' through an investigation of American, German, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Mexican, South Korean, and Japanese screen cultures.
Aaron Abbarno is a PhD candidate in the University of Pittsburgh's Dept. of Political Science.
Sharon Kinoshita,works in Mediterranean Studies with Brian Catlos (History, UCSC), she co-directs the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org).
Do educational attainment and income in predominantly Muslim countries affect public support for suicide bombing? Does it make a difference whether the targets are civilians within the respondent's country or Western military and political personnel in Iraq? Dr. Shafiq has studied six predominantly Muslim countries that have experienced suicide bombings: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Turkey. His findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between targets of suicide bombings and the problems with making generalizations about all Muslim countries. M.
