If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago political science professor Robert Pape, an expert in international security affairs and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), interviews Robert Kagan, a senior fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, about the future of American foreign policy. Kagan,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago political science professor Robert Pape, an expert in international security affairs and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), interviews Robert Kagan, a senior fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, about the future of American foreign policy. Kagan,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Marshall Bouton, President of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, delivers a lecture titled “Reorienting America: How Americans are Shifting Their Foreign Policy Focus to Asia” at the Center in Beijing on September 19, 2012. After a decade of preoccupation with the terrorist threats and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. UChicago trustee Jack Fuller has a conversation with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek. Early in 2013, journalist Paul Salopek will embark on a seven-year foot journey around the world that retraces the pathways of the first human migration out of Africa some 50,000 years ago. This...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Svanibor Pettan, Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of Ljubljana, delivers a presentation titled “Musical Perceptions of the Turks in Slovenia, Croatia, and Kosovo” on Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. His research interests include applied ethnomusicology,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Trude Jacobsen, Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University, presents on the topic “Ascribing ‘Pomakness’ in Rural Muslim Communities of the Greek Rhodope Mountains” on Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. She is currently working on a new monograph that will examine the historical and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Steven Fink, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, gives a presentation titled “Towards a Dynamic Vision of Muslim Identity: Progressive Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia” on Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. His...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. An evening at the International House Assembly Hall on February 9, 2012, opened the conference “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia” held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities February 10-12, 2012. Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Chiara Formichi, Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong, presents a paper titled “Reshaping Shi’i Identities in Southeast Asia: Between Local Tradition and Foreign Orthodoxy" on Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Her current research projects examine Islam and politics in 20th...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alexander Arifianto, PhD candidate in Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies, gives a presentation titled “The Making of Progressive Islam in Indonesia and Turkey” on Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. His research interests include Islamic politics, Islam, democracy...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Stephanie Hanson, director of policy and outreach at One Acre Fund, gives a presentation titled "Can Smallholder Farmers Feed the World?" at Swift Hall on June 25, 2012. Her presentation provides an overview of One Acre Fund's outreach in East Africa in training and equipping small farmers and outlines One Acre Fund's ambitious...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Lisa Ainsworth, Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presents a lecture titled "Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yields and Implications for Food Security" at Swift Hall on June 25, 2012. Her presentation provides detailed data on the developing changes in the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Sam Loewenberg, the 2011-2012 Nieman Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow at Harvard University, delivers a presentation titled "The Hunger Season, A Cynical Cycle" at Swift Hall on June 25, 2012. Loewenberg uses case examples in Kenya and Guatemala to illustrate that the increase in the percentage of the population living...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Erin Koepke, communications and outreach associate at World Food Program USA, delivers a presentation titled "Hunger: The World's Greatest Solvable Problem" at Swift Hall on June 25, 2012. Her talk provides an overview of global hunger as a problem with many underlying causes that can be solved with the implementation of a few...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Rochelle Davis, president and CEO of Healthy Schools Campaign, delivers a presentation titled "School Food: An Important Strategy for Addressing Children's Nutritional Needs " at Swift Hall on June 27, 2012. Her lecture provides an overview of the history of school meals programs and developments in nutritional guidelines, and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Daniel Block, Professor in the Department of Geography at Chicago State University and director of the Fred Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center, delivers a presentation titled "Food Deserts, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Food Security" at Swift Hall on June 27, 2012. His lecture addresses the existence of food deserts, particularly...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Mark Winne, Food Policy Council director for the Community Food Security Coalition, presents a lecture titled "Closing America's Food Gap: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities" at Swift Hall on June 27, 2012. His talk addresses the issues of food poverty and obesity simultaneously facing the US and examines the role of local...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Susanne Wengle, a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, delivers a presentation titled "Industrial Agriculture and its Alternatives in the US and Russia: The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops" at Swift Hall on June 26, 2012. Her talk examines the role of industrial...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Kathleen Morrison delivers a presentation titled "Food Security in India: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Concerns" at Swift Hall on June 26, 2012. Her talk traces historical issues of food distribution in India and examines hunger issues in India today. Ms. Morrison is Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Social...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Ray Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, delivers a presentation titled "Understanding Food Access as a Human Right, " at Swift Hall on June 26, 2012. His lecture examines the global factors that have led to rising food prices and volatility in the markets and outlines the goals of Oxfam's GROW program to address these...