The World Beyond the Headlines — Spring 2009

The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the University of Chicago Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and is funded in part by the McCormick Foundation. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the media.

Speakers at past World Beyond the Headlines events include former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, journalists William Langewiesche and James Fallows, economist Jeffrey Sachs, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat.

The current schedule is posted quarterly here on the CIS website. Questions, comments, or suggestions for future World Beyond the Headlines events can be sent to jbender@uchicago.edu.

  • International House Assembly Hall, 1414 E. 59th St.Thursday, April 16, 2009 • 7:00 PM

    Rising Power, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

    Michael Klare

    Michael T. Klare is the author of thirteen books, including Blood and Oil and Resource Wars. A contributor to Harper’s, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.

    Cosponsored by the Program on the Global Environment and the Undergraduate Program in International Studies.

  • International House Assembly Hall, 1414 E. 59th St.Thursday, April 30, 2009 • 6:00 PM

    "Partition" Film Screening and Discussion

    Tariq Ali

    Adapted by leftist author Tariq Ali and director Ken McMullen from Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story Toba Tek Singh, Partition reimagines the tumultuous events surrounding the India and Pakistan in 1947 and the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. The story focuses on the historical footnote that inmates of insane asylums were also transferred - Muslims to asylums in Pakistan, Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan to India. In the film, an asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers.

    Cosponsored by the South Asia Language and Area Center. Part of the CIS month-long series on "Partitions, Divisions and Population Exchanges". See the complete schedule at http://cis.uchicago.edu/partitions.

  • International House Assembly Hall, 1414 E. 59th St.Thursday, May 14, 2009 • 6:00 PM

    Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

    Mahmood Mamdani

    Mahmood Mamdani is Lehman Professor of Anthropology and Political Science and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. One of Foreign Policy’s top 100 global public intellectuals, Mamdani is the author of such recent notable books as Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism; When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and Genocide in Rwanda; and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, The Cold War, and the Roots of Terror.

  • International House Main Lounge, 1414 E. 59th St.Tuesday, May 26, 2009 • 6:00 PM

    The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, and the South African Elections

    Mark Gevisser

    Mark Gevisser is currently The Nation’s Southern African correspondent. In South Africa, his work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times and many magazines and periodicals. Internationally, he has written widely on South African politics, culture and society, in publications ranging from Vogue and the New York Times to Foreign Affairs and Art in America.

    Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Political Science Department, the African Studies Workshop, and the Human Rights Program.

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