Lecture
Jack Preger (2006-2007)
Oct 20, 2006
“Urban and Rural Poverty in West Bengal: Some Solutions” Jack Preger is a doctor and humanitarian. Immediately after graduating from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin in 1972, Preger travelled to Bangladesh to provide assistance to refugees of the Indo-Pakistan War. [...]
Allen Buchanan (2005-2006)
Feb 20, 2006
“Institutionalizing the Just War” Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. From 2011 until 2014, he was Professor of Law at Duke Law School. [...]
Roberto Cipriani (2005-2006)
Jan 30, 2006
“Human Values – Religious and Secular” Roberto Cipriani is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roma Tre University. He has taught at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Recife, and Laval. He is Past President of the Italian Sociological Association and the ISA [...]
Eric L. Jones (2005-2006)
Jan 20, 2006
“Asian Values and the Self-Transformation of East Asia” Eric L. Jones is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, and Visiting Professor at Exeter University. He received his doctorate in economic [...]
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (2005-2006)
Jan 12, 2006
“Judging in the 21st Century” Beverley McLachlin is the first woman to become Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court of Canada. She gave royal assent to Canada’s Civil Marriage Act, which effectively legalized same-sex marriages in July 2005. She was born and raised in [...]
Hanan Ashrawi (2005-2006)
Oct 25, 2005
“The Global Context and Human Imperative of Peace in the Middle East” Hanan Ashrawi is a scholar and activist in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. As the founder and secretary general of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, [...]
Sister Helen Prejean (2005-2006)
Sep 28, 2005
“Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues” Sister Helen of St. Joseph of Medaille, New Orleans is a Roman Catholic nun. She has been a spiritual advisor to many individuals on death row. She wrote a book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the [...]
Evelyne Accad (2004-2005)
Mar 08, 2005
“Sexuality and War in the Aftermath of September Eleven” Evelyne Accad is professor emerita of Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was born in Beirut in 1943 and [...]
Linda Colley (2004-2005)
Nov 25, 2004
“The Difficulties of Empire: Present, Past and Future” Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University and the author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, which investigated how inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to [...]
Margaret MacMillan (2004-2005)
Nov 04, 2004
“The Uses and Abuses of History: Versailles and Beyond” Margaret MacMillan is a provost at Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is also emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony’s College at the [...]