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Feb 4

Monday Feb 4, 2013

CCHR: Human Rights Roundtable

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Location: Law School, Room 2130

 

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Location: Room 2130

Monika Nalepa and Emilia Justyna Powell, Dept. of Political Science, discuss their recent work “To Stay or to Go: Peaceful Surrender of Control after the International Criminal Court.”

This event is by invitation only.

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Feb 8

Friday Feb 8, 2013

European Cinema and the Postheroic Narrative of Nationhood: Claire Denis and Beau Travail

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Location: Giovanini Commons, Lower level of the Mendoza College of Business

Thomas Elsaesser

International film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam

Abstract: It could be argued that European cinema does not exist, except as a bureaucratic dream or a promotional tool for national producers and distributors of art house films. And insofar as it does  exist, European cinema has over the past three decades been funded mainly by governmental subsidy schemes, public service television, or via the European Union, that is, the tax payer. Such largesse is politically justified in the name of either preserving a national cultural heritage or promoting European integration, the latter of which obliges recipients of such funds to enter into transnational coproduction agreements or joint distribution arrangements. But what can this cinema tell us about the current state of the Union, its self-understanding and its standing in the world? The lecture will use a specific case, to argue for a more modest, but also more challenging agenda for such a cinema that does not exist.…

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Feb 19

Tuesday Feb 19, 2013

NDISP and Air War College present "The Asia Pivot Through a European Lense" research papers by AWC senior gradaute students

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Location: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall

NDISP and Air War College are hosting senior Air War College graduate students who will be presenting their research papers bound by broad limits of the question "The Asia Pivot through a European Lens".

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Feb 21

Thursday Feb 21, 2013

Arts and Letters as a Competitive Edge in a Wireless World

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Location: Eck Center Auditorium

 

Arts and Letters as a Competitive Edge in a Wireless World

Presenter: Dan Hesse (ND ’75), CEO of Sprint Nextel

Thursday, February 21

6:45pm

Eck Center Auditorium

 

Mr. Hesse will discuss how he utilized his Arts and Letters majors – Government and International Studies – in his career as well as the value of a liberal arts degree in today’s professional world.…

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