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2005 FALL SYMPOSIUM:
Hope & Fear



Friday, November 18, 2005
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
9:00 AM - 5:20 PM

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Thank you for attending this year's Fall Symposium!

 

Keynote Speakers:
Reza Aslan, University of California at Santa Barbara
"The Islamic Reformation in America"
Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University
"The Great White City: Hope and Fear in the Heart of Modern America"
Mark Danner, University of California at Berkeley and Bard College
"Torture and Fear: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror"
Carol Jacobson, University of Michigan
“Clemency and Human Rights in Michigan Women’s Prisons”
Internal Speakers:
Ellen Barton, Linguistics and Ken Jackson, English
"Hoping against Hope in the Discourse of Medicine"
Joseph Fitzgerald, Psychology
"Emotional Expression in Autobiographical Memory"
Donald Haase, German and Slavic Studies
"Fairy Tales, Hope, and the Culture of Defeat from the Postbellum South to Postwar Germany"
Kirsten Thompson, Film Studies - English
"Fear and Trembling: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)"