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Feb 7

Thursday Feb 7, 2019

Book Launch - Prof. Elisabeth Köll - Railroads and the Transformation of China

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Location: Oak Room - South Dining Hall

Please join the Department of History at a reception to celebrate the work of Professor Elisabeth Köll
with an introduction by Parks M. Coble, James L. Sellers Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China…

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Feb 16

Saturday Feb 16, 2019

Junior Parents Weekend

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Location: Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

The College of Arts and Letters Showcase for Junior Parents Weekend will begin at 10 am on Saturday, February 16, with a presentation by Arts and Letters faculty in the Browning Cinema.  From 11:15 am to noon there will be an informal reception for parents and students to meet with faculty…

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Feb 19

Tuesday Feb 19, 2019

Risky Business: Nuclear Dangers in Conventional Wars

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Reading Material – To be provided

Caitlin Talmadge is an Associate Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she serves on the core faculty of the Security Studies Program. She is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution.…

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Feb 21

Thursday Feb 21, 2019

How The Federalist Opened the Door to the ‘Antifederalist Appropriation’ of the Constitution

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Location: Jenkins and Nanovic Halls - Room B101

Lecture by Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin) will begin at 12:30 in room 1030 of Jenkins and Nanovic Halls.

Event is free and open to the public  - lunch will be served at noon

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Feb 26

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019

Dispelling the Terrorist Safe Haven Myth: Why Americans Are Safer Than They Think

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

Read Ahead Material  – To be provided

Risa Brooks’s research focuses on issues related to civil-military relations, military effectiveness, and militant & terrorist organizations; she also has a regional interest in the Middle East. Professor Brooks is the author of Shaping Strategy: The…

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Feb 28

Thursday Feb 28, 2019

“‘A Worse Type of Slavery’: Photographic Witnessing along Georgia’s Jim Crow Roads”, lecture by Steven Hoelscher, University of Texas Austin

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Location: Snite Museum of Art

Steven Hoelscher, Professor of American Studies and Geography at the University of Texas Austin explores a crucial moment in the turbulent history of American race relations, when post-emancipation hopes for African American civic equality and economic independence were crushed by disenfranchisement,…

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