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Unh Welcomes Filmmaker Michael Wood For 10th Anniversary Celebration Of Rouman Classical Lecture Series, Lori Wright
Unh Welcomes Filmmaker Michael Wood For 10th Anniversary Celebration Of Rouman Classical Lecture Series, Lori Wright
Media Relations
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"The Eleventh Commandment" And A Land Of Promise: Walter Clay Lowdermilk And The Middle East, 1937-1944, Robert Rook
"The Eleventh Commandment" And A Land Of Promise: Walter Clay Lowdermilk And The Middle East, 1937-1944, Robert Rook
Fort Hays Studies Series
This monograph will present only the barest details within the broadest of contexts. But even this brief overview clearly demonstrates the far-reaching power of American natural-resource development and management ideas both during and after World War II.
Imports Or Made-In-China: Comparison Of Two Constitutional Cases In China And The United States, Xiao Li
Imports Or Made-In-China: Comparison Of Two Constitutional Cases In China And The United States, Xiao Li
LLM Theses and Essays
When its economic increase attracts the global attention, China is also looking for a break-through in its judicial reform. The Qi v. Chen case (2001) was considered to be the Chinese version of Marbury v. Madison and gave rise to a heated discussion of the judicial review power in China. This article will analyze the doubts on the Qi case and the prospects of judicial review it indicates through comparison with Marbury v. Madison. Although Qi v. Chen opened the door for constitutional litigation, its dramatic facts and strained application of the Constitution threw it into question. Nevertheless, its effect …
Engaging The Eighties: Ethics, Objects, Periods, Kevin L. Ferguson
Engaging The Eighties: Ethics, Objects, Periods, Kevin L. Ferguson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation examines a recent decade in American history whose unique notion of self-periodization generated important questions of ethical engagement and withdrawal. Situated during a time of an increasingly complex relationship between literature and theory, thinkers in the 80s self-consciously shifted towards making claims about their present moment which were based on the logic of rupture, and which thus created an either-or logic of pessimism or optimism in response to this rupture. These kinds of self-periodizing notions generally are collected under the rubric "postmodernism" and the first chapter deals with a transatlantic movement between theorists such as Fredric Jameson and …
Soyinka, Tutu, And The Globalization Of African Humanism, Aaron Eastley
Soyinka, Tutu, And The Globalization Of African Humanism, Aaron Eastley
Faculty Publications
In an article dated 13 March 2006, the British weekly New Statesman reported on the latest social intervention of the “most popular priest on the planet” (Campbell), former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. Nobel Peace Prize recipient Tutu, famous for his chairmanship of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was negotiating a series of televised meetings between former Protestant paramilitaries from Northern Ireland and the surviving family members of people they had murdered. A reality TV spin-off with a suspiciously voyeuristic strain, the three-part BBC2miniseries “Facing the Truth”—an obvious reference to the South African TRC—was deemed “daring” …