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The College Arts & Humanities Institute invites you to a presentation by:
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Aurelian Craiutu
and Jeffrey Isaac
America through European Eyes:
British and French Reflections on the New World
from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
5 p.m., Thursday February 11, 2010
Bush’s foreign policy touted America as the model of democracy worth exporting to the four corners of the globe. Osama bin Laden has painted a picture of our society as soulless and materialistic, representing values that are the antithesis of his version of Islam. Such starkly contrasting images of America fuel much heated debate today and drive conflicts around the world. But foreigners have long had a love/hate relationship with the United States, as this book reveals. read more » -
Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Is It Possible to Understand the Germans?
Reflections on the Life and Writings of Primo Levi.
from his forthcoming book, "The End of the Holocaust"
5 p.m., Tuesday March 2, 2010
His greatest wish was to understand the people who had been his persecutors, to judge them, and, if possible, even to forgive them. But despite many years of probing reflection on the Nazi crimes and those who had perpetrated them, Levi came to the conclusion that he was a failure. Why? Rosenfeld examines Levi's sustained confrontation with these issues in the post-Holocaust period and offers insights into why an impassioned need to come to clarity about the Germans was both so critical and so frustrating to this important author. read more »
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