The Berkeley China Initiative brings together the exceptional resources that UC Berkeley offers across the disciplines and professions to strengthen research and teaching about China, forge new international partnerships, and enrich public life by communicating those results. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and International & Area Studies. [events] [glopubaffairs] [bci] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services, sponsor:International & Area Studies, speaker:Camille Crittenden - Assistant Dean for Development, IAS, speaker:Thomas B. Gold - Associate Dean for External Relations, IAS
Wilson was at the center of a major political maelstrom involving the White House, the C.I.A. and the second gulf war in Iraq. In 2002, at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney, Wilson was assigned by the C.I.A. to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking to acquire uranium from Niger for the purpose of advancing his nuclear program. When his investigation turned up nothing, Wilson reported back to officials in Washington that there was no basis for the claims.
At the podium, Wilson lays out his side of the controversy in an enlightening, incisive presentation. Drawing from his new memoir, The Politics of Truth, he takes audiences inside two decades of world politics — from facing down...
"The Politics of the Veil"
Joan Wallach Scott, Professor in the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Joan Wallach Scott who traces her intellectual odyssey and recalls the impact of the women's movement on her research and teaching. Professor Scott also describes the intellectual influences that led her, more than twenty years ago, to write the now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical analysis." The conversation continues with a a discussion of the utility of critical history for elucidaing contemporary policy debates. This part of the discussion focuses on her recent book "The Politics of the Veil," an analysis of the political, cultural, and social factors that led to the French ban on the wearing of the veil by Muslim young women in public schools.
Recorded February 26, 2009
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