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Washington Semester students visit Lebanese ambassador
Washington Semester students in Peter Weinberger’s foreign policy seminar got answers about U.S.-Lebanon relations straight from the Lebanese ambassador himself last week. Spending an hour in Ambassador Farid Abboud’s residence last Wednesday morning, the students didn’t shy away from hard questions, asking the ambassador how the growth of Islamic radicalism in the Middle East has affected Lebanon and whether Hezbollah should be considered a terrorist organization or political party.
“Policy studies can often be a little abstract, so experiences like this bring it home that these issues are real and tangible,” said Weinberger. Such “VIP guest speakers,” he admitted, tend to be the norm for the Washington Semester Program, which has also hosted student meetings with Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia and legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas this semester. “It’s easy to get these folks to talk to your class because this is Washington,” said Weinberger, “so how hard is it for them to take the Metro up here, or how hard is it for us to get on the Metro and go see them?” —MG |
Honors/Awards/Appointments
Lynn Addington, SPA: named to the editorial board of Homicide Studies, an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. Jane Hall, SOC: named to the editorial board of Open Source Media, a new Internet opinion Web site, November. Lectures/Presentations
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: speaker with Tony Blankley, author of The West’s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? at the lecture “Dialogue vs. Clash: Is Western Civilization in Danger?” National Press Club, Washington, D.C., November. Fanta Aw, International Student and Scholar Services, and Alice Davis, International Admissions: presented at the session “Building Intercultural Dialogue between American and International Students on Campus,” NAFSA: Association of International Educator’s regional conference, Atlantic City. Tim Bergin, professor emeritus, CSIS, CAS: “From Weaving Silks to Weaving Numbers!” and “From Ordnance Firing Tables to Modern Information Appliances,” Department of Computer Science in conjunction with the Distinguished Visitors Program, Haverford College, November. Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Nonnative English Speaking Teachers: More than Native Speakers?,” keynote address to the KOTESOL (Korean TESOL) Fall Convention, Seoul, Korea, October. Robert Durant, SPA: participated on the panel “Redefining Liberalism,” 11th Presidential Conference, “William Jefferson Clinton: The ‘New Democrat’ from Hope,” Hofstra University Cultural Center, November. Karen Froslid Jones, director, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment: plenary speaker at the Middle States Self-Study Institute, “Early Planning, the Campus Environment, and Self-Study Design,” November. Robert Pastor, director, Center for North American Studies, and SIS: “Constructing a North American Community: A Paramount Challenge for the U.S.,” University of Chicago, Yale University, and a Congressional Roundtable of the Council on Foreign Relations. Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: coauthored “Teachers’ Strategies in the Identification, Change, and Retention of Deviant Students,” Interdisciplinary Social Work Journal, vol 1, no 1, summer 2005. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “El banquete de la poesía,” La Gaceta, no 5, September 2005, Havana. Julie Mertus, SIS: coauthored “The Human Rights Dimensions of the War in Iraq,” Peace and Change, vol 3, no 1, June 2005. Jeffrey Reiman, philosophy and religion, CAS: “Toward a Secular Lockean Liberalism,” Review of Politics, vol 67, no 3, Summer 2005. David Rosenbloom, SPA: A Reasonable Public Servant: Constitutional Foundations of Administrative Conduct in the United States, M. E. Sharpe, 2005. Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: coauthored “Costs of Clubhouses: An International Perspective,” Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Media
Pat Aufderheide, director, Center for Social Media, and SOC, and Peter Jaszi, WCL: their work, Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, was the subject of a feature in Hollywood Reporter. Ethan Burger, SIS: made a presentation based on his law review article “The Future of Law School Faculty Hiring in Light of Smith v. Jackson,” symposium sponsored by the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, University of Virginia School of Law, November. Joni Comstock, director, athletics: discussed women’s basketball in the Philadelphia Inquirer, November. David Culver, biology, CAS, and his students: featured in an article about amphipods and isopods in Zoogoer Magazine, November–December. Robert Dinerstein, WCL: guest on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Montgomery County special education case, November. Amy Eisman, SOC: interviewed by WJLA ABC 7 regarding AOL’s downloading of old movies, November. Randall Eliason, WCL: interviewed by NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, and CNN regarding the CIA leak investigation and possible indictments against Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, October. Edmund Ghareeb, Center for Global Peace: while attending the World Summit on the Information Society Conference, organized by the United Nations in Tunisia, was interviewed by African and Middle East media outlets, among others, on issues dealing with Internet governance, the digital divide between North and South, the information technology revolution and its impact, and on the summit itself, November. Howard McCurdy, SPA: spoke about NASA outsourcing to Reuters and NPR’s All Things Considered, November. Andrew Popper, WCL: interviewed by NBC Nightly News on the Federal Tort Claims Act as it pertains to post-Katrina litigation against state and federal government entities, November. Jamin Raskin, WCL: interviewed regarding Harriet Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court by WRC NBC 4, WTOP Radio, Pacifica Radio, and the Bev Smith Show (Los Angeles radio program), October. Ira Robbins, WCL: interviewed by the Sunday Times (London) concerning torture and length of detention at Guantanamo Bay, November. Judith Shapiro, SIS: discussed university governance on Youth Campus, Voice of America (China Branch), November. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted in the Washington Post regarding the indictment of former House majority leader Tom DeLay, September. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on CNN (TV and radio), NBC, BBC, Radio Emisora Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Radio Mitre, and Radio America (Argentina) on the approval of the new constitution in Iraq, October. Stephen Wermiel, WCL: interviewed by Voice of America, WTOP, Associated Press, WUSA CBS 9, and Fox Morning News regarding the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and prospects for the future of the Supreme Court, September.
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