[act-ma] 3/17-19 Confronting Empire: Five Years of War in Iraq

[Charlie Welch]

Monday, March 17- Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Harvard Law School, Cambridge

Confronting Empire: Five Years of War in Iraq
A Series of Lectures and Events at Harvard Law School

Monday, March 17

On Empire & (Re)Colonization in the Middle East, 5 pm,
Austin Hall, West Classroom

Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia
University , and Author of the Forthcoming, Islamic
Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire
Roger Owen, Professor of Middle East History, Harvard
University , and Author, State, Power and Politics in
the Making of the Modern Middle East
Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School , Moderator

[Refreshments will be served.]

Resisting Empire, 7 pm, Austin Hall, West Classroom

Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology, Brown
University , and Author, Homefront: A Military City
and the American 20th Century
Karma Nabulsi, University Lecturer in International
Relations, Oxford University , and Author, Traditions
of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law

Tuesday, March 18

Accumulation through Crisis: Global Stagflation and
the New Wars, 3 pm, Pound Hall, Room 107

Jonathan Nitzan, Professor of Political Economy, York
University , and Co-Author, The Global Political
Economy of Israel
Talha Syed, Harvard Law School , Discussant
Empire and Nation-Building, 5 pm, Pound Hall, Room 107
Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School ,
and Author, What We Owe Iraq : War and the Ethics of
Nation-Building
Duncan Kennedy, Professor of General Jurisprudence,
Harvard Law School , and Author, A Critique of
Adjudication

Wednesday, March 19

US Foreign Policy & Intervention in the Middle East,
12 pm, Austin Hall, North Classroom

Irene Gendzier, Professor of Political Science, Boston
University , and Author, Notes From the Minefield:
United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle
East
Howard Zinn, Historian and Author, A Peoplefs History
of the United States
Iraq in Fragments, 7 pm, Langdell Hall, South
Classroom
Screening of James Longleyfs Iraq in Fragments, 2007
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
Faras Adel, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Discussant

For more information, go to www.confrontingempire.com.
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Legal Left, HLS Peace, Justice for Palestine at HLS,
National Lawyersf Guild at HLS. Co-Sponsored by
Association for Justice in the Middle East and the KSG
Arab Caucus

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