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U.S.
Foreign Policy and Power Focus of Pomona College Hart
Lecture Series
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The roles the United States has played, does play and should
play are examined through the lenses of politics and
diplomacy, human rights, economic development and popular
culture in the 2006-2007 Hart Lecture Series “The U.S. in
the World,” sponsored by Pomona College the Hart Institute
for American History.
October 5, 2006
“Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and
the Rise of the New Imperialism”
Greg Grandin, the author of The Last Empire's Workshop:
Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New
Imperialism (2006), will discuss U.S. relations with
Latin America with a focus on the Reagan administration's
involvement in Central America during the 1980s, when it
backed the Salvadoran government in a brutal civil war and
the Nicaraguan Contras against the Sandinista regime. A
professor of history at New York University, he is also the
author of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in
the Cold War (2004), a study of evolution of state
violence and state democracy.
October 26, 2006
“The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for
Statehood"
Rashid Khalidi, the author of Resurrecting Empire:
Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle
East (2004), is the Edward Said Professor of Arab
Studies at Columbia University as well as director of
Columbia’s Middle East Institute. He is the author if six
books, dozens of scholarly articles and opinion pieces. His
book Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern
National Consciousness (1997), won the Middle East
Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Prize as best book of
1997. Khalidi has served as president of the American
Committee on Jerusalem, now known as the American Task Force
on Palestine, and is currently editor of the Journal of
Palestine Studies.
February 1, 2007
“The Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide”
Samantha Power’s book A Problem from Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize
for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics
Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on
Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in
U.S. foreign policy. According to Publisher’s Weekly,
“the book offers an uncompromising disturbing examination of
20th-century acts of genocide and U.S responses to them,”
based on declassified papers and interviews with more than
300 American policymakers. Power’s New Yorker article
on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan, won the 2005 National
Magazine Award for best reporting. Power is the Anna Lindh
Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy
at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
March 8, 2007
“The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth"
Benjamin Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of
Economics at Harvard University and an adviser to the
Federal Reserve Board. In his book The Moral Consequences
of Economic Growth (2005), Friedman explores two
centuries of data to illuminate connections between economic
conditions, social attitudes and public policy throughout
the world, offering, according to Publishers Weekly,
“a nuanced defense of globalization.” Friedman is the author
of twelve other books including Day of Reckoning: The
Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and
After (1988).
April 12, 2007
“Consumer Culture as Taproot of American Global Hegemony: An
historical perspective”
Victoria de Grazia, professor of history at Columbia
University, specializes in the contemporary history of
Western Europe, in particular, mass and consumer cultures,
gender, and the history of family politics. Her most recent
book Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through
Twentieth-Century Europe (2005) focuses on America’s
export of consumerism as the agent of change rather than
government leaders. Her publications also include The
Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist
Italy (1981) and How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy,
1922–1945 (1992).
Each of the Hart Lectures begins at 11 a.m. and will take
place in the Pomona College Rose Hills Theater, located in
the Smith Campus Center (170 E. Sixth St., Claremont, CA).
The Pomona College Hart Lecture Series was established in
the year 2000 with a gift from Gurnee Hart (’51) and
Marjorie Hart. For more information, call (909) 607-9435 or
visit
www.hart.pomona.edu.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the Web at
www.pomona.edu. |
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