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Paul Oehlers, audio technology, CAS: featured composer at the concert Vicki Ray at the REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney–Cal Arts Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January. Honors/Awards/Appointments
Emilio Viano, SPA: elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology (Paris), January. Stanley Weiss, psychology, CAS: elected president of the Eastern Psychological Association. As president he delivered the conference’s presidential address, “Environmental Control of Drug Seeking,” Baltimore. Lectures/Presentations
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and the Center for Global Peace: “American Muslims Fighting and Dying for the United States in Iraq,” Howard University, Hilltop Lounge, Blackburn Center, November. Erran Carmel, Kogod: keynote address, “Narratives that Software Nations Tell Themselves,” 13th Cross Cultural Research in Information Systems workshop, ICIS, Las Vegas, December. J. Alberto Espinosa, Kogod: discussed the coauthored paper “The Effect of Time Separation on Coordination Processes and Outcomes” at a poster session, First IT Research and Innovation Open House. The poster session was followed by a paper presentation at the First Collaboration Workshop of the IT Innovation Group, Intel Corporation, January. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: poetry reading, Foundation Metáfora for the III Encuentro Internacional de Poetas, “El turno del ofendido,” San Salvador, El Salvador. Jocelyn Johnston, SPA: copresented “Social Welfare Contracts as Networks: The Impact of Network Stability on Management and Performance,” 2005 Annual Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November. Papers Presented
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication for Communication Disorders,” annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Saint Louis, February. Published Works
Lynn Addington, SPA: “Following in Her Footsteps: Revisiting the Role of Maternal Education on Adolescents’ College Plans,” in Gender Issues, spring 2005. Charley Hardwick, professor emeritus, philosophy and religion, CAS: “The Power of Religious Naturalism in Karl Peters’s Dancing with the Sacred,” in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, September 2005. Naima Prevots, professor emerita, performing arts, CAS: coedited Dance as Integrated in Humanities and Society, report on a European Union project. Jeffrey Reiman, philosophy and religion, CAS: the article “Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty: Answering van den Haag” was reprinted in Correctional Ethics, Ashgate Publishing. The article was originally published in the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1985 and has been reprinted in numerous anthologies. Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: quoted regarding the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections, Knight Ridder, February. Phillip Brenner, SIS: interviewed by CBS News regarding the U.S. billboard in Havana, February. Randall Eliason, WCL: interviewed about the ongoing investigation of William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, Louisiana Times Picayune, January. Edmund Ghareeb, SIS: appeared on CNN’s Insight discussing the Danish cartoons and their impact, February. Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: quoted regarding a U.S. billboard in Havana, the Miami Herald, February. Tamar Gutner, SIS: interviewed by Morgenbladet (Norway) on reform of the World Bank, October. Jane Hall, SOC: discussed the release of more Abu Ghraib prison photos on The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, February. William LeoGrande, dean, SPA: quoted by the Associated Press regarding the UNESCO award given to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, February.
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Peter Lewis, SIS: discussed the recent unrest in Nigeria’s delta region, its impact on oil exports, and reforms leading up to the country’s 2007 elections, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, February. Daniel Marcus, WCL: interviewed on the legalities of NSA surveillance techniques by Hearst-Argyle Television and on executive privilege on NPR’s Scott Simon Show, February. Howard McCurdy, SPA: quoted by Knight Ridder regarding the space shuttle and NASA, February. Kathryn Montgomery, SOC: quoted in the article “Here I Am Taking My Own Picture,” New York Times, February. Anna Nelson, history, CAS: quoted in a New York Times article about government declassification of sensitive documents, February. Jill Olmsted and Gemma Puglisi, SOC: quoted in the Hollywood Reporter about how ABC should respond to anchor Bob Woodruff’s injuries, received while on assignment in Iraq, February. Ira Robbins, WCL: quoted in the Washington Post regarding the death penalty, January. Abdul Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS, and Benjamin Jensen, research associate, SIS: wrote the op-ed “Islam and the West trapped in lies told about each other,” the Philadelphia Inquirer, February. Joshua Sarnoff, WCL: quoted in “UW officials face tough choice: Do they pay patent fees demanded by company, or incur expenses of court fight?” Casper Star-Tribune, February. Judith Shapiro, SIS: discussed lobbying, corruption, and the U.S. political system on Pro and Con (Mandarin), Voice of America television, February. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted by the Associated Press regarding Alito’s nomination and by Knight Ridder regarding DeLay’s resignation, January. Paul Wapner, SIS: interviewed by Voice of America about global warming, February. Stephen Wermeil, WCL: interviewed by FoxNews.com about whether Congress might require cameras in the Supreme Court; interviewed by the Associated Press about what may happen if important Supreme Court fall term cases depend on Justice O’Connor’s vote, November. Lewis Wolfson, professor emeritus, SOC: interviewed and quoted by CBS9 WUSA on the significance of the shooting incident to Vice President Cheney’s future and by FLN Spanish news service on stem cell research as an issue in the 2006 elections, February.
Photo Jeff Watts
Journalist rebuts claim Israel is an apartheid state
Benjamin Pogrund fought apartheid in South Africa as a newspaper editor and longtime friend of Nelson Mandela. Now he lives in Jerusalem, as the founder of a center that encourages dialogue across political and ethnic lines. And in his view, the campaign to characterize Israel as an apartheid state is a gross misrepresentation of reality.
Pogrund, left, who spoke Friday at a Center for Israeli Studies lecture, agrees that Israel is responsible for “oppressive and ugly actions.” But in South Africa, change wasn’t possible within the apartheid system. The system itself had to be eradicated. Change is not only possible in Israel, he says, but happens regularly through lawsuits and political pressure. While Israel’s mistakes warrant criticism, it is a democracy evolving under hostile conditions and should not be blasted as a “chamber of horrors” or equated with apartheid South Africa, he says.
Pogrund “was a principal crusader against apartheid, and he got into trouble for that,” says Howard Wachtel, director of the Center for Israeli Studies, right. “So he speaks from some experience about apartheid—not abstract ideas, but real living experience.” —SA |
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