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| | The Shakespearean Sonnet and the Modern Voice
| | Kristin Linklater |
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This e-seminar is more than an exploration of William Shakespeare's sonnets—it is also a personal journey to awaken the dormant power of the human voice. Drawing on Professor Linklater's experience as a student, teacher, actor and director, The Shakespearean Sonnet and the Modern Voice details her innovative approach to "speaking" Shakespeare. Enter.
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| | W.E.B. DuBois and the Black Experience
| | Manning Marable |
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This e-seminar is an exploration of the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois, the leading African American writer and political activist of the twentieth century and the author of The Souls of Black Folk. Enter.
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| | Life after Death: Malcolm X and American Culture
| | Manning Marable |
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This e-seminar considers the image of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X after his death by focusing on the popular view of his life and his treatment by historians and scholars. A generation after his assassination, Malcolm X's image and historical reputation have been profoundly transformed. Enter.
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| | Covering Terrorism—E-Seminar 1, The Media and 9/11
| | Brigitte L. Nacos |
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In the first e-seminar in her two-part e-seminar series, political science professor Brigitte Nacos examines the marriage of convenience that exists between terrorists and the media. In this seminar, Professor Nacos focuses specifically on how the media's coverage shaped the events of September 11 and what unfolded after the attacks occurred. Enter.
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| | Covering Terrorism—E-Seminar 2, How the Media and Terrorism Shape Public Understanding
| | Brigitte L. Nacos |
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In this second e-seminar in her two-part series, political science professor Brigitte Nacos examines how the tangled relationship between terrorists and the media has helped to create today's more lethal form of terrorism. Using recent examples of terrorism such as the Oklahoma City bombing, Professor Nacos raises questions about defining terrorists and terrorism, the influence of the end of the Cold War on international terrorism, media responsibility for terrorist acts, and other related topics. Enter.
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| | Tiananmen: June 1989 and Its Significance—E-Seminar 1, The Roots of Crisis
| | Andrew Nathan |
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From one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese politics and human rights, this seminar is a look at the most important event in the movement toward democracy in China—this time, explained from the point of view of the government itself. This examination, based in part on a new understanding offered by the publication of hundreds of previously secret memos, minutes of meetings, and other internal documents, sheds light on the perspective rarely considered when discussing the events of June 1989 in China. Enter.
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| | Tiananmen: June 1989 and Its Significance—E-Seminar 2, Chinese Democracy and Its Future
| | Andrew Nathan |
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Professor Nathan, one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese politics and human rights, traces the history of democracy in China in Chinese Democracy and Its Future, the second e-seminar of Tiananmen: June 1989 and Its Significance. Professor Nathan analyzes the differences between Western and Chinese conceptions of democracy. He also investigates the history of constitutions in China, and the role that constitutions play in Chinese politics. Enter.
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| | Tiananmen: June 1989 and Its Significance—E-Seminar 3, Behind Red Walls: Changing Politics in China
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This third and final seminar in the series examines what the Tiananmen Papers reveal about the workings of the Chinese political system. Professor Andrew J. Nathan discusses the process of internal documentation in the Chinese government and details its attempt to control any damage that might be caused by the publication of these highly classified documents. In the process, he looks at the question of political succession in China and considers the future of political reform and what form democracy in China might take if it is achieved there. Enter.
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| | A Political History of Pakistan
| | Philip Oldenburg |
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Professor Oldenburg, a leading scholar of South Asian culture and history, unravels the story of Pakistan, delving into the tumultuous past of this Muslim nation. Carefully examining its struggle to establish a national identity throughout the half-century of its existence, he narrates Pakistan's history from the viewpoint of its Muslim majority population while also explaining the perspectives of those nations with whom Pakistan has been at war. Enter.
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| | Dinosaurs and the History of Life—E-Seminar 1, Prelude to the Dinosaurs
| | Paul E. Olsen |
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In this first e-seminar in a series of nine, professor of geological sciences Paul Olsen takes us back to the time before the dinosaurs, 4.5 billion to 245 million years ago, when our planet formed and became habitable, the first complex organisms arose, and the direct predecessors of the dinosaurs—and ourselves—came to dominate Earth. Enter.
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