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February 2002

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February 28, 2002
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Supreme Court Update
Tom Merrill – Professor at Northwestern University School of Law
Dennis Hutchinson – Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Chicago and an editor of the Supreme Court Review

February 27, 2002
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The Social Novel
Margaret Cohen – Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, and author of, The Sentimental Education of the Novel
Laura Miller – Books Editor for Salon.com, the on-line magazine.
Elaine Hadley – Professor of English, Gender Studies, and the Humanities at the University of Chicago

February 26, 2002
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Conceptions of Childhood
Katie Trumpener – Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Cinema and Media Studies, and General Studies in Humanities and the college of the University of Chicago
Kiku Adatto – formerly directed the Children’s Studies Program, at Harvard University, and now lectures in Social Studies at Harvard
Henry Jenkins – Director of Comparative Media Studies at M.I.T.

February 25, 2002
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Countering offensive speech
David Goldberger – Professor of Law at Ohio State University
David Strauss – Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and author of “Freedom of Speech and the Common Law Constitution” to appear in the forthcoming collection Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era

February 22, 2002
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Film Forum: Film and Suburbia
Scott Tobias – Film Critic for The Onion
John Archer – architectural historian and professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of the forthcoming book Housing Dreams
Lynn Spiegel – chair of the division of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California, and author of Make Room for T.V.: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America

February 21, 2002
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The Fifth Amendment
Albert Alschuler – Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
Ronald Allen – Professor of Law at Northwestern University
William Treanor – Professor of Law at Fordham University in New York

February 19, 2002
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Comics and Storytelling
Will Eisner – Creator of the comic book series "The Spirit," his latest graphic novel is The Name of the Game
Francios Mouly – Art Editor at The New Yorker magazine and co-editor of the Little Lit anthology series for children
Neil Gaiman – Graphic novelist whose latest work is American Gods

February 18, 2002
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Economic and Social Rights
Roger Normand – Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights in New York
Cass Sunstein – Professor in the Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do

February 15, 2002
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The Rule of Law
Herman Schwartz – Professor of Law at American University in Washington, D.C.
Frederick Schauer – Professor of Law at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Louis Aucoin – United States Supreme Court fellow, currently on leave from the Rule of Law Program at the United States Institute of Peace

February 14, 2002
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Love and Madness
Alan Richardson – Professor of English at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind
Laura Letinsky – Professor in the Committee on Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, and author of the photographic series Venus Inferred
Mark Strand – Poet and Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago

February 13, 2002
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The Catholic Church
Eric Hanson – Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University and the author of The Catholic Church in World Politics
Robert Schreiter – Catholic Theological Union
Paul Griffiths – Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago

February 12, 2002
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What is Freedom?
Steven Hahn – professor of history at Northwestern University, and the co-editor of the forthcoming book Freedom: A Documentary History Emancipation, and is also author of the forthcoming book, African American Politics in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Alex Keyssar – professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

February 11, 2002
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Changes in the Culture of Research - the Bayh-Dole Act
Sheldon Krimsky – Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and the author of Genetic Alchemy: Biotechnics and Society
Howard Bremer – legal consultant with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Milan Mrksich – professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago

February 8, 2002
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The Intertwined History of Film and Radio
Paul Young – author of the forthcoming book The Cinema Dreams its Rivals: New Media and Hollywood’s Public Spheres and professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech University, in Atlanta, Georgia
Michelle Hilmes – author of Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States, and professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

February 7, 2002
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The Ways We Read
Jonathan Rose – Associate Professor of History at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and author of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Elizabeth Long – Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and author of the forthcoming Women Reading Together: Book Clubs and the Fashioning of Female Subjectivity
Adrian Johns – Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago, and author of The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

February 6, 2002
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Recent U.S. immigration patterns
Saskia Sassen – Author of Guests & Aliens
Bonnie Honig – Author of Democracy and the Foreigner

February 5, 2002
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Lynching
Fitzhugh Brundage – Author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
Crystal Feimster – Author of the forthcoming Ladies and Lynchings
Jacqueline Goldsby – Author of the forthcoming A Spectacular Secret: the Cultural Logic of Lynching in American Life and Literature

February 4, 2002
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Is anti-Semitism on the rise in America and abroad?
Jerome Chanes - Author of Anti-Semitism in America: Exploding the Myths
Jonathan Rosen - Author of The Talmud and the Internet. His essay, The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism appeared last November in the New York Times Magazine
Richard Levy - Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the editor of the book, Anti-Semitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts

February 1, 2002
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Executive Privilege
Michael Dorf – Vice-Dean of the Law School at Columbia University in New York City
Cass Sunstein – Professor in the Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and author of Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do
Thomas Merrill – Professor of Law at Northwestern University


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