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]. Harriet Murav, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, discusses the history of Jews in the Soviet Union.

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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]. Jean Comaroff, an anthropologist who is a leading expert on South Africa, its societies and cultures, gave the 2011 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture on Tuesday, May 17, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall. Comaroff, the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and the College at the...

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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]. The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday reveals a cross-section of unsung, dynamic men and women pioneering political and social change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather suit with matching red headscarf, and the Syrian engineer advocating a less political interpretation of the Koran....

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]. The 2009 Cafferty Lecture will be presented by Professor Wayne A. Cornelius from the University of California, San Diego, on Thursday, October 1, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the University of Chicago's downtown Gleacher Center. He will present "Toward a Smarter and More Just U.S. Immigration Policy: What Mexican Migrants Can Tell...

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]. A journalist for more than 20 years, Tom Rosenstiel designedand directs the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He alsoserves as vice chairman of the Committee of ConcernedJournalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a nationalconversation among journalists about standards and values.A former media critic for the Los...

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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]. Law professor Cass R. Sunstein talks about his book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and brings back from obscurity an important speech: FDR's State of the Union Address of 1944, in which he articulates the idea that human beings have inherent economic and social rights. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.