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April 2019
The Politics of Race and the Development of the Law and Order President
Joshua Miller from Catholic University of America Miller will discuss his researched that focused on determining what "law and order" was in the context of the executive power.
Find out more »Cold War Emigres in the West
Dr. Nekola is a Czech political scientist whose focus is on exile and migration studies, Cold War studies, and non-democratic regimes. He is currently Research Director at Democracy 2.1, a Czech organization that has developed an electoral system that allows for the casting of both multiple and negative votes. He will speak on the role of Eastern European exiles in the U.S. during the Cold War era.
Find out more »The Czech Republic, the EU, and the Rise of Populism
Join us for this lunchtime Symposium! Dr. Nekola is a Czech political scientist whose focus is on exile and migration studies, Cold War studies, and non-democratic regimes. He is currently Research Director at Democracy 2.1, a Czech organization that has developed an electoral system that allows for the casting of both multiple and negative votes.
Find out more »Science: Unsilenced
UF climate scientist Andrea Dutton, retired Florida Department of Environmental Protection scientist Connie Bersok, and other scientists who’ve witnessed or experienced scientific censorship will host a panel discussion on scientific suppression and solutions.
Find out more »American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, award winning historian, CNN commentator and New York Times bestselling author Douglas Brinkley will take a fresh look at the U.S. space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge and America’s race to the moon on Friday, April 19 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy announced an astonishing goal: to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.…
Find out more »September 2019
Julian Go, Boston University
“Militarizing the Police: Empire, Race and Counter-Insurgency" The militarization of the police is not new. It reaches back to the very founding of modern policing. This presentation explores some of this history, from the nineteenth century through the twentieth century, in both the US and the UK, and shows their intimate connections to empire. It argues that police militarization has involved the appropriation of forms, operations and tactics not just from the “military” but more precisely from “imperial-military” regimes. It…
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