Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison
Unburdening Empire
October 12, 2004 @ 7:00 pm
Madison Public Library, Pinney Branch
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
Victor Bascara specializes in the literature of colonialism, focusing especially on the era of American expansion in the South Pacific at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. He is the author of the forthcoming book Unburdening Empire (under contract with the University of Minnesota Press) and the leader of Empires in Transition, an interdisciplinary workshop for UW-Madison faculty and students organized as a part of the Center's A.W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities. He received his PhD at Columbia, and began his teaching career at the University of Georgia. He has been a member of the UW-Madison faculty since 2001.
Alfred W. McCoy
J.R.W. Smail Professor of History, UW-Madison
Hidden History of the CIA Torture: America's Road to Abu Ghraib
November 9, 2004 @ 7:00 pm
Madison Public Library, Sequoya Branch
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
After earning his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale in 1977, Alfred McCoy has directed his writing and research toward two topics — the political history ofthe modern Philippines and the politics of opium in the Golden Triangle. His 1972 book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (recently revised as The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade), sparked controversy at the time of its publication, but is now regarded as the standard work on the subject and has been translated into nine languages. Three of his books on Philippine history have won that country's National Book Award. In March 2001, the Association for Asian Studies awarded him the Grant Goodman Prize for his career contributions to the historical study of the Philippines.
Andrew Wolpert
Associate Professor of Classics and History, UW-Madison
War, Democracy, and Empire in Classical Greece
November 30, 2004 @ 7:00 pm
Madison Public Library, Central Branch
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
Andrew Wolpert holds a dual appointment in the departments of Classics and History, with affiliate positions in the Religious Studies and Legal Studies programs. His work centers on Greek history, historiography, rhetoric and oratory, and on Athenian Law and Society. Wolpert earned his PhD at the University of Chicago and MA at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous articles and essays, and the book-length study, Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). In the summer of 2005, he directed the University's summer session program in Athens, Greece.
