report
Transatlantic Information Sharing: At a Crossroads
January, 2010
Information Sharing and Data Protection in an Age of Terrorism: Report Highlights Challenges and Proposes Way Forward for United States and Europe more»
Exhibition
Iconoclash – In Fall 1989, the Wall dividing East and West Germany fell, bringing about transformations that permanently altered the trajectory of politics and society. Using examples from material culture, the exhibition Iconoclash! – Political Imagery from the Berlin Wall to German Unification, premiering at the Goethe-Institut Washington November 4, 2009 – January 8, 2010, captures the
sentiments during the decades of change from the 1980s to the present. more»
study
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality – September 2009
The United States has been dominated by a political coalition in which conservative evangelical Protestants have played a major role leading to a vociferous conservativism in U.S. policy on issues of both gender and sexuality. Although the elections in 2008 ushered in a new alliance toward more progressivism, the result on questions of gender and sexuality is by no means obvious. By Janet R. Jakobsen and Elizabeth Bernstein more»
symposium
International Symposium 'On Torture' – November 18, 2008
The "torture debate" since the Abu Ghraib photographs has involved talk of legal permissibility, costs and benefits, policies, ticking time bombs and moral absolutes. Yet torture is much broader and deeper in its moral, political, legal, and social implications. more»
Essays and Interviews
1968 revisited. 40 Years of Protest Movements – May 2008
2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the worldwide protests of 1968. The events of that time such as the protests against the war in Vietnam, the Prague Spring and the student protests in Western Europe and the U.S. are closely connected – it was truly a global movement! more»