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Reflections on Globalization

in Our Time

Dr. Nicholas Hayes

9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Monday Mornings

September 8 - November 10, 2003

Thornton Auditorium, Murphy Hall

University of St. Thomas

1000 LaSalle Avenue

The program will combine lectures with questions and answers that probe key issues in the courses of globalization in our time. Topics are drawn from the political development of post-Communist Eastern Europe, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the current conflicts between radical Islamicist movements and the United States, the rise of anti-Americanism in Europe, and the legacy of the Bush Doctrine in world affairs.

1. Sept. 8 Russia Ten Years After Communism

2. Sept. 15 The Hammer and the Nail: Reflections on War, Genocide and Intervention in the ex-Yugoslavia

Sept. 22 No Session

3. Sept. 29 The Global AIDS Pandemic: South Africa and the Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Oct. 6 No Session

4. Oct. 13 The Rise of Radical Islam and the Taliban in Afghanistan

5. Oct. 20 The “Stans” and Central Asia

6. Oct. 27 Iraq – The 51^st State?

7. Nov. 3 The Old Europe Versus the United States

8. Nov. 10 Post 9/11 Politics: The Bush Doctrine in World Affairs

Nick Hayes is a professor of history and holds the University Chair in Critical Thinking at St. John's University in Collegeville. He is a specialist in contemporary Russian and East European history and regular commentator for TPT/Twin Cities Public Television's news and public affairs programs NewsNight Minnesota and Almanac. He is also a regular contributor to MPR's MIDDAY and the Star Tribune. He has published over 50 articles in publications ranging from the academic Slavic Review to the popular Interview Magazine. During 1994-95, he held a Fulbright Fellowship as a journalist in residence in the former Yugoslavia. From there, he filed regular reports for TPT, MPR, the Star Tribune, and VOA Dateline Bosnia.

Registration: $50
Call 651-962-5188 or e-mail mhseiter@stthomas.edu for more information.
Mail your check, payable to the University of St. Thomas, and your completed registration form to:           Dr. Mo Selim, Director
                                        Center for Senior Citizens' Education LOR309
                                        University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave
                                        Saint Paul, MN. 55105-1096

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