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The Environment & America, 1950-2010

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

7:30 PM | Baker Center Ballroom B

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Patrick Allitt (Emory University)

Patrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. An Americanist specializing in religious, intellectual and environmental history, he earned his PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of six books, including I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (2004) and The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History (2009). He is currently completing a book, which will be published by Yale University Press, on the history of the intellectual and political opponents of environmentalism, from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century.

Conference: God and the Enlightenment

Thursday-Saturday, October 4–6, 2012

TBA | Baker Center 240/242

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David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)

This conference will examine the origins, character and consequences of the Enlightenment, especially regarding religion. David Ruderman (Penn) will deliver the keynote, while Justin Champion (London), Jonathan Clark (Kansas), Sarah Ellenzweig (Rice), Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Paul Lim (Vanderbilt), Joan Pau Rubies (LSE), Jonathan Sheehan (University of California, Berkeley), and Dale Van Kley (Ohio State) will deliver plenary addresses.

The World Order after the Financial Crisis

Thursday, 14 October 2012

7:30 PM | Baker Center 240/242

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Harold James (Princeton University)

Harold James, Professor of History at Princeton University, studies economic and financial history and modern German history. He was educated at Cambridge University (Ph.D. in 1982) and was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight years before coming to Princeton University in 1986. He has written books on the interwar depression in Gemrany, German national identity, Deutsche Bank, and globalization. His latest book is The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (2009).

FOX News: Past, Present, Future

Monday, May 21, 2012

7:15 PM | Baker Center Ballroom B

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Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes is the Chairman and CEO of FOX News. A native of Warren, Ohio, and a 1962 OHIO alumnus, Ailes served as WOUB Radio’s student manager for two years before embarking on an accomplished career as a television producer and executive. In 1996, he oversaw the creation and launch of FOX News Channel, the top-rated news channel in America. Prior to FOX, Ailes was president of CNBC, making it the fastest growing major cable network in America and a leading source for business news, tripling ratings and increasing profits from $9 million to well over $100 million. In 2003, he was named Broadcasting and Cable’s first Television Journalist of the Year. In addition to his media work, Ailes served as an advisor to the campaigns of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and as a trustee for the National Trust for Historic Gettysburg.

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

7:30 PM | Walter Hall Rotunda

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Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-winning best seller Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided. Born in London, brought up in Los Angeles and educated in England, she did her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University before taking her doctorate in history from Oxford University in 1998. In addition to extensive commentary in newspapers, magazines, and radio, she has served on the juries for the Orange Prize, the Guardian First Book Prize and the National Book Awards.