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Impulsive Children on Psychostimulants: A National Scandal in the Making?
Jaak Panksepp
Flyer for Spring 1998 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Jaak Panksepp.
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Unthinking Whiteness: Towards a Revolutionary Multiculturalism
Peter McLaren
The tension between multiple ethnicities and the politics of universal justice is the urgent issue of the new millennium. How are educators to approach this question with a politics both progressively critical and optimistic? . .. Critical pedagogy speaks to specific forms of intelligibility and rationality, but it is also about the history of the soul."
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A Reading of Johnny Faustus
F Scott Regan
Flyer for Fall 1997 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by F. Scott Regan.
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Mental Illness as Cultural Problem with Examples from Modern Austrian Literature
Geoffrey Howes
Mental illness is not just a technical problem of psychology or public health: it is a cultural problem. Words such as "crazy," "nuts," ''wacko," "psycho," "mad," or "insane" reflect serious ambiguity about mental illness. This ambiguity about mental illness, embedded in Western culture, proves stronger than scientific and medical enlightenment. Because some notion of reason is so central to our notions of humanity and the self, perceived violations of reason are even more threatening than crossings of racial, cultural, and gender boundaries. We keep our own fear of mental illness at bay by constantly invoking it in jest and consigning whoever behaves differently to this category. In the majority of modem cultures, the mentally ill are everybody's Other.
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Desire, Preference, Choice: Toward a Theory of Reason and Value
Loren Lomasky
Lomasky investigates the limitations of these modem re-thinkings of Hume in regard to 1) their exclusively forward-looking vision of practical reason (i.e. reason is only determined by that which we want and desire in the present for our future) and 2) the foundational assumption that desire is the sole basis of reason.
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BORDER CROSSINGS: CONVERSATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND CULTURES
Coco Fuso, Barbara Harlow, and Micheal Awkward
The Spring 1997 PROVOST'S LECTURE SERIES, presented by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS), offers a series of events which explore cultural interactions at the crossroads between social realities and cultural worlds. The series includes talks and events by interdisciplinary scholar and performance artist Coco Fusco; Third World scholar Barbara Harlow; and African-American cultural critic Michael Awkward.
Bringing these nationally known scholars and artists to our learning community at Bowling Green State University marks an attempt to "dare to cross borders" between the "known" and "unknown"; to gather a group of scholars, artists, and individuals who are dedicated to cultural equity and international rights; and to "take ourselves there where we do not expect, are not expected to be." Borders thus cease to be dividing lines and instead, as Elsbeth Probyn has noted, become those places "at the limits of who we think we are" and where "we can articulate, respect and use our differences" to produce new knowledge.
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Mourning, Memory, & Public Display in Northern Ireland: Popular Visual Culture & Political Allegiance
Jack Santiano
Although Ireland is frequently recognized for its many oral and verbal expressive arts such as storytelling, it is also a very visual culture, especially in the six counties of Ulster which comprise Northern Ireland. Tom with political unrest centered around questions of national identity, social life is marked by many different events and artifacts presented visually and displayed publicly. These include painted curbstones which encode a neighborhood's political allegiance, murals, life-cycle rites including weddings and especially funerals, public commemorations, parades, effigy burnings, and the spontaneous marking, with flower wreaths and personal memorabilia, of the places where a violent death has occured. Dr. Santino will survey these forms, especially focusing on the spontaneous shrines. Through slides and personal testimony, he will explore the shrine created by a young woman who, in 1992, lost her father to sectarian violence in Belfast.
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Path Dependence and the Origins of Planning in Russia: Did the Bolshevik Revolution Escape Russian History?
Don Rowney
Flyer for Fall 1996 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Don Rowney.
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Warmaking and Democracy: Truman, Johnson, Bush and Congressional Authorization in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf
Gary Hess
A Conversation with Gary Hess History Dept. and Current Scholar in Residence, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS)
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Experiments in Transculture: Rethinking Russian and American Models of Creative Communication
Ellen Berry
Flyer for Fall 1996 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Ellen Berry.
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Raymond Williams's Theory of Culture: Intersections of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity
Epifanio San Juan
Flyer for Spring 1996 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Epifanio San Juan.
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The Experiences of Lesbians in Collegiate Sports
Vikki Krane
Flyer for Spring 1996 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Vikki Krane.
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Free Will in American Psychological Thought: From Jonathan Edwards to The Bell Curve
Ryan Tweney
Flyer for Spring 1996 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Ryan Tweney.
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Jesus' Daughter in Video Media
Burton Beerman
Related flyer from A Story of Courage: One Voice, an interactive symposium held on April 19, 1996 and moderated by Burton Beerman.
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Postcolonial and Feminist Discourses in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing
Khani Begum
This event was moderated by Dr. Khani Begum.
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