NEW WORLDS, OLD WORLDS
The rise of the U.S. and challenges to its cultural-political dominance
From the Old World of Europe, Africa, and Asia, to the New World of the Americas, with its indigenous cultures and grassroots movements of resistance, the U.S. cultural dominance faces many challenges. This series of Wednesday night events examines both the rise of the United States and its precarious situation at the start of the 21st century, through exploring tensions and conflicts within U.S. cultural and political identity, values, and ways of seeing ourselves and others.
9/20/06
U.S. Military Imperialist Policy and Oil (keynote address)
Contois Auditorium, Burlington
Michael Klare, Five College Director and Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (2004); Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (2001); Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws (1995).
9/27/06
The Selling of America: Hollywood film and its importance in the spread of the culture and values of the U.S.
Deb Ellis, award-winning independent film/video maker and educator.
Tom Garrrett, attorney, filmmaker, Executive Director of Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, and Board Member of The Vermont International Film Foundation.
10/04/06
The Spanish in America
Juan F. Maura, Professor of Spanish at UVM.
10/11/06
Cuba Today
Armando Vilaseca, Cuban American and Superintendent of Schools, Franklin West Supervisory District.
10/18/06
Making the World Safe for Democracy: Wilsonian interventionism and neo-conservative foreign policies
Mark Stoler, Professor of History at UVM
10/25/06
Orientalism & the Noble Savage and Primitivism in Modernism and the Avant-garde
Grant Crichfield, Associate Professor of Romance Languages at UVM.
Genese Grill, Ph.D. in Germanic Literatures and Languages, faculty of Writing and Literature at Burlington College.
11/01/06
Identity on the North American Frontier
Michael Sherman, Burlington College Dean, Vermont Historical Society Director (1985??–1995), professor of history, political science, and humanities, co-author of Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont (2004), author of numerous articles on Vermont and American history, and editor of the journal Vermont History.
11/08/06
The Story of Imperialism Compressed:
Mark Twain visits Hawaii
Nora Mitchell, Ph.D. in English and American Literature, poet, faculty, and Chair of Liberal Studies at Burlington College.
11/15/06
Cuban Architecture
Mannie Lionni, editor of 05401.
11/29/06
Patriotism in America: The right’s usurpation of moral values
David Callahan, Co-founder of the public policy center Demos, and author of The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots (2006).
12/06/06
Sister City Panel: Détente from below
