2004 - 2005

September 14: “Who is Winning the War on Terror?” Marc Lynch, James McAllister, Political Science and Bill Darrow, Religion

September 21: “Report from Kabul,” David Edwards, Anthropology

September 28: “Education and Development in Malawi,” Stephen Sneed, Associate Dean of the College

October 5: Three Student Presentations “Removing the Stigma: Public Art’s Transformative Effects on AIDS in South Africa” Drew Thompson, ’05;“One from ten leaves zero” Laurie-Ann Jackson, ’05; “The Traditional and Protestant Vocal Music of the Chinese Lisu Minority” Laura Wiens, ‘05

October 19: “Throwing Babies in the River: Why Economists Need to Think about HIV,” Kiaran Honderich, Economics

October 26: “American Policy toward Arabia & thePersian Gulf: Prospects and Constraints” Thomas E. Williams, Jr. ’87, Department of State

November 2: “Transnational Citizenship: Arab Immigrants in Brazil” Armando Vargas, Comparative Literature

November 9: “Conflicting Equalities? Protecting Women and Culture in South Africa” Monique Deveaux, Political Science

November 16: Panel Discussion “Being an International Student at Williams: Experiences and Perspectives” Solomon Makgoeng, ’06, Daumantas Mockus, ’07Nela Vukmirovic, ‘08

November 30: “The Art of Living in Unsettled Times: Freedom and Autonomy inMoscow” Olga Shevchenko, Anthropology and Sociology

February 15: “Wordsworth in the Tropics, Paz at Stockholm, Maathai on Kenya: Enviromentalism, Otherness, and Dystopia” Jorge Marcone, Environmental Studies

February 22: “Impressions of Morocco” Student report on Winter Study Trip led by Professors Barry and Cruz, Joyia Chadwick, ’05, Candice Corvetti, ‘07 Anna Edmonds, ’07 Kiana Scott, ’07, Noah Susskind, ‘07

March 1: “International Activism at Williams” Kate Ambler ’05, Saroj Bhattarai, ’05, Hannah Gary, ’07, Geraldine Shen, ’01 and Martin Williams, ’07, with Rick Spalding presiding

March 8: “The United States and Pakistan” Steven Fagin, ’89, Department of State

March 15: “’…all civilized men south of the Zambezi’: Strategies of race and gender in pre-apartheid South Africa” Patricia van der Spuy, History

April 5: “Elections in Iraq: Lessons from Failed Democratization in South Vietnam”James McAllister, Political Science

April 12: “From Washington to Baghdad and Back: Reflections on Americans’ Search for Victory in Iraq” Andrew P.N. Erdmann, ’88

April 19: “Reflections on the Lebanese Cedar Revolution: Roots and Prospects”George Abdelnour, Romance Languages

April 26: “‘There is still slavery in Brazil’: Politics and the limits of change in Rio Grande do Sul” Roger Kittleson, History

May 3: “Rogue States: the Hermit Kingdom and Island Fortress” Jee Sun Lee, Political Science, and Kate Gordy, Department of Government, Cornell University

May 10: “Japanese Science Fiction, From Anime to the Avant Garde” Christopher Bolton, Asian Studies