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April 19,
2002
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Nationalistic Fervor Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals
Confront the National Question, a new book by Professor of
Politics Joan Cocks, has just appeared with Princeton University
Press. "I had avoided the national question for most of my
life, in part because other questions seemed more pressing to
me and my generation, but also because of my almost instinctive
antipathy toward nationalist sentiments," writes Cocks. Says
Dean of Faculty Don O'Shea, "The outburst of patriotic fervor
in this country surrounding the Gulf War changed Cocks's avoidance
to anxious fascination and led to this highly nuanced and beautifully
written reflection on nationalism and what eight intellectuals
have to say about it: Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt,
Frantz Fanon, Isaiah Berlin, Tom Nairn, Edward Said, and V.S.
Naipaul."
Faculty for Peace On Tuesday, April 23, in Hooker Auditorium,
at 7 pm the International Relations Program will sponsor two speakers
from the Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Organization, a
network of professors trying to build peace in the Middle East
by advocating a complete withdrawal from the occupied territories
to the 1967 borders. The organization brings Israeli and Palestinian
faculty to speak at United States campuses to discuss the present
situation in the Middle East. Speaking at MHC about the war in
Israel and the possible outcomes of the Saudi Peace plan will
be Yoav Peled, an Israeli educated in Israel and the United States
who has taught at CUNY, NYU, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and
Tel Aviv University and an expert on Israeli nationalism and society,
and Issam Nassar, a Palestinian educated in Israel, Jersualem,
and the United States who has taught at Hebrew University and
Al-Quds in Jerusalem, as well as Birzeit and Parkland College
in Illinois. He is an expert on Jerusalem and Palestinian nationalism.
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Uplifting Music The Uplifters, a reggae band featuring
Jan Christiansen, son of MHC economics professor Jens Christiansen
and brother of Jette Christiansen '01, on the drums, will perform
at MHC Friday, April 19, at Blanchard Campus Center at 8 pm. The
event, which is free, is sponsored by the Student Coalition for
Action.
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