Department of Political Science

Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed for Israeli television. After shooting ended, the cameras kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette after the other, Golda spoke freely, pleading her case for her term as Prime Minister - five turbulent years that secured her place in history, albeit at a high personal cost. Based on these never-before seen materials, testimonies of supporters and opponents and…

A psychological thriller, Incitement follows the year leading to the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, from the point of view of the assassin. The film details, for the first time, the forces that act upon the assassin, including the religious and political incitement, the personal and the interpersonal turmoil. It is a psychological portrait of a political assassin seeking to kill democracy. It is also a portrait of a torn society on the brink of civil war. https://www.jcncf.org/gainesville-jewish-film-festival-1.html

Since W.E.B. Du Bois' analysis of Black American life in the late 19th century, we have known that racial inequities in health are primarily socially determined. Social scientists and activists have all agreed that racism has largely driven the disparate health outcomes for groups along racial and ethnic lines. Although having access to a decent quality of life should be a basic human right, little progress has been made in eradicating these disparities. In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King had recognized residential…

EU Briefing – Orban and Merkel’s European People’s Party: The End of the Affair? R. Dan Kelemen, Rutgers University Thursday, March 11th, 12:30pm Click here to register For some time, the membership of Hungary's nationalist ruling party, Fidesz (led by Viktor Orban), within the more mainstream European People’s Party (EPP) grouping at the European level has been a source of controversy. As Hungary shifted further away from traditional democratic norms, Fidesz membership led to tensions, conflict and criticism from other members of…

Guest Speaker: David Canton In 1939, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. As a black public intellectual he taught at Historically Black College and Universities, published in black journals such as The Journal of Negro History, gave speeches at black high schools and churches. African Americans created their own institutions and this black public space allowed them to be engaged in their community.