Keynote Address
Thursday, September 12, 10:30 AM
Hanan
Ashrawi, Founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian
Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH),
served since 1996 as an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative
Council, Jerusalem District, earned her Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative
Literature from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Keynote Address
Friday, September 13, 10:30 AM
Gideon
Doron, President of the Israeli Association of Political
Science, a member of the Executive Board of the International Political
Science Association, Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv
University, and author of Awaiting Representation: Politics of Women in
Israel and Public Policy and Electoral Reform.
The New International
Disorder
Thursday, September 12, 2:30 PM
Gideon
Rose, Ph. D., Harvard University, Managing Editor of Foreign
Affairs since December 2000, former Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy
Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations,
during which time he served as Chairman of the Council's Roundtable on
Terrorism.
Ron
Suny, Professor of Political Science at the University of
Chicago (Ph.D., Columbia), Director of the Nations and Nationalism
Workshop, author of The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution,
and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
- David
Hendrickson (discussant), Chair and Professor of the Political
Science Department (International Relations) at Colorado College,
Ph.D. John Hopkins University, B.A. Colorado College, co-author of The
Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose.
Evaluating U.S. Responses to
Terrorism
Thursday, September 12, 7:00 PM
Michael McCann,
Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley; professor of Political Science
at the University of Washington; Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the
Advancement of Citizenship; Director of Comparative Law and Society
Studies Center, Director of Law, Societies, and Justice.
Thom Shanker,
Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times, former foreign
editor of the Chicago Tribune, and the first reporter to uncover and write
about the Serb campaign of systematic mass rape of Muslim women. Shanker
graduated Cum Laude in Political Science at Colorado College and has had
foreign postings to Moscow, Berlin and Bosnia.
- Andrew Dunham
(discussant), Professor of Political Science (Public Policy) at
Colorado College, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Congressional Fellow in
1983-84, served from 1983 to 1993 on the editorial board of the
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Religious Identity, Islam
and Women’s Liberation
Friday, September 13, 12:30 PM (box lunch served)
Maysam
al-Faruqi,
Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Temple University; Visiting Assistant
Professor in Theology at Georgetown University; specializes in Islamic
law, Islamic theology, and Qur'anic studies; author of "Women's
Self-Identity in the Qur'an and Islamic Law," a chapter in Windows
of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America.
Riffat Hassan,
Ph.D., University of Durham, professor of Religious Studies and Humanities
at University of Louisville; a pioneer in Islamic feminist theology,
founder of The International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of
Violence in Pakistan (INRFVVP), a non-profit organization (1999), present
adviser to Pakistani president, General Musharraf, on women’s issues.
- Margi Duncombe
(discussant), Ph.D., University of Denver, present chair and professor
of Colorado College Sociology Department, former director of
institutional and research planning, former director of Women Studies
at the Colorado College.
- Eileen
Bresnahan (discussant), Ph.D., Yale University, professor and
director of Women’s Studies, Colorado College.
Poverty and the Causes of
War
Friday, September 13, 2:30 PM
Robert
Kaplan, Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly,
essayist, lecturer, and author, most recently, of Warrior Politics: Why
Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. Kaplan, a senior fellow at the New
America Foundation, has lectured at military war
colleges, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and many colleges and
universities, and he has reported from nearly 80 countries.
David Laitin,
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University, author of the essay "Violence and the Social
Construction of Ethnic Identities" (with James Fearon) in
International Organization (October, 2000), recipient of Harry Frank
Guggenheim Foundation two year grant (1997-99) to examine ethnic and
nationality relations in Moldova and Azerbaijan.
- Lief Carter
(discussant), Ll.B., Harvard Law School, Ph.D., University of
California, Berkeley, McHugh Distinguished Professor of American
Institutions and Leadership and Professor of Political Science,
Colorado College, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley. His book
Reason in Law now appears in its sixth edition.
- Robert Lee
(discussant), Professor of Political Science (Comparative Politics of
the Middle East) at Colorado College, Ph.D. Columbia University, He
has translated and edited the work of Mohammed Arkoun, Rethinking
Islam, and is the author of Overcoming Tradition and Modernity:
The Search for Islamic Authenticity.
Can Liberal Democracy
Accommodate Religious Fundamentalism?
Saturday, September 14, 9:30 AM
Milner Ball,
Harmon W. Caldwell Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Georgia
School of Law; ordained Presbyterian minister and author of Called by
Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law (2000), The
Word and The Law (1993), and Lying Down Together (1985).
David Weddle,
Chair and Professor of Religion at Colorado College, Ph.D. Harvard; author
of The Law as Gospel: Revival and Reform in the Theology of Charles G.
Finney and past president of the American Theological Society (Midwest
division).
- Timothy Fuller
(discussant), Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Lloyd Edson Worner Distinguished Service Professor
of Political Science, Colorado College.
- Ruba Salih
(discussant); Visiting Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.
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