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A lecture by Mark Ramseyer, of Harvard Law School
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:00pm Poetry Center, Mildred F. Sawyer Library (3rd floor) 73 Tremont St
 

Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard University. Over the past several years, his research has focused on the finance and governance of Japanese firms. He regularly teaches both American Corporate Law and courses related to Japanese law, and is co-editor of casebooks in both fields. Prior to his work at Harvard, Ramseyer taught at the University of Chicago (1992-1998) and at UCLA (1986-1992). Ramseyer was raised in Japan, where he attended Japanese schools until the 6th grade. He attended Goshen College (B.A., History, 1976), the University of Michigan (A.M., Japanese Studies, 1978), and the Harvard Law School (J.D. magna cum laude, 1982).

This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies.  For more information about the Institute, please visithttp://www.suffolk.edu/college/30058.html.  For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.

March 26, 2009 1:00pm C.Walsh Theatre

James Carroll has the distinction of being the first participant in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Distinguished Visiting Scholars program and is now with the College on a permanent basis as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence.

Carroll is an award-winning author and a columnist for the Boston Globe. His novels include Madonna Red, Mortal Friends (New York Times bestseller), Family Trade, Prince of Peace, The City Below, and Secret Father. His memoir, American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us, won the National Book Award in 1996. He has published Constantine’s Sword: the Church and the Jews: A History, which was a New York Times bestseller and listed Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor, and has since been the subject of Oren Jacoby’s documentary James Carroll’s Constantine’s Sword; Toward a New Catholic Church: The Promise of Reform, in response to the Catholic Church abuse scandal; and Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War, a compilation of op-ed pieces written for the Boston Globe since 9/11; and House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power, a history of the Pentagon, was called “the first great non-fiction book of the new millennium” by the Chicago Tribune.

A panel discussion 6:00pm Monday, April 6th, 2009 at C. Walsh Theatre

Broadcast Journalists have been praised for breaking important news stories and criticized for breaking political candidates. Is the role of television news in our democracy to present politically neutral information or to provide informed opinion? 

Charles Kravitz, President of NECN, has had a distinguished career as a television news director at several stations in Boston. 

Dana Rosengard is assistant professor of Broadcast Journalism in the department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University.  Prior to his academic career, Dana was a producer for WCVB news. 

Robert Rosenthal is chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University. He is an international consultant specializing in strategic communication, with a core emphasis on institutions subject to government regulation. A specialist in the field of political communication, Rosenthal is a frequent guest on radio talk shows and television newscasts. 

Reservations will be accepted starting March 20 at 617-720-7600.

Thursday, April 2nd, 6:00 p.m. Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property analyzes Nat Turner’s slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory. The film explores the many interpretations of the event, including William Styron’s controversial 1967 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Confessions of Nat Turner and the deep racial divisions that it exposed. What is the distinction between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? The debate over the meaning of Nat Turner has been at the heart of race relations in the United States for the past 178 years.

CHARLES BURNETT is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker. Major films include Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield, To Sleep with Anger, NightJohn, The Wedding, The Annihilation of Fish, and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation. He is co-writer and director of Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property.

FRANK CHRISTOPHER is an award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor whose major film credits include Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers, In the Name of the People, and the PBS series Remaking American Medicine. He is currently at work on a film about the explorer Samuel de Champlain. He co-wrote and co-produced Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property.

KENNETH S. GREENBERG, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Suffolk University and distinguished professor of history, has authored Honor and Slavery, as well as Masters and Statesmen. He is the editor of Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory and of Thomas R. Gray’s original The Confessions of Nat Turner. He co-wrote and co-produced Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property.

Reservations will be accepted starting February 4 at 617-720-7600.

This film is presented in conjunction with The Ford Hall Forum, a partner of Suffolk University and the nation’s oldest free public lecture series.

A lecture by Josh Silver, Free Press: 6:00pm, Tuesday, March 31, 2009
@ The Boston Athenæum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street

Josh Silver argues that the media policies made in Washington, D.C. are the cause of corporate programming on radio and TV, fake news that fails to inform, slow, overpriced Internet service, and struggling public media.  His organization, Free Press, calls for media that give the American people quality news and programming, reflect our country’s diversity, meet the information needs of local communities, and support our democracy.  Silver will discuss important current policy debates and how individuals can get involved in the public policies that shape our media system.  .

Josh Silver is the executive director and co-founder of the nonpartisan media policy reform organization Free Press.  He previously served as campaign manager for public funding of elections in Arizona and as the director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.  Silver publishes frequently on media, campaign finance, and other public policy issues.

A reception will follow this lecture.  Reservations will be accepted starting March 11 at 617-720-7600.

A lecture by Bruce Cumings, of the University of Chicago

Tuesday, March. 24, 2009 2:30pm Munce Conference Room, Archer 110 20 Derne Street, Boston

Bruce Cumings’ research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, 20th century international history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy,and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. He is the editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge History of Korea (forthcoming), and is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Nation, Current History, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,and Le Monde Diplomatique. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and the Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council. He was also the principal historical consultant for the Thames Television/PBS 6-hour documentary, Korea: The Unknown War. In 2003 he won the University’s award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2007 he won the Kim Dae Jung Prize for Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights and Peace. He has just completed Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power, which will be published by Yale University Press. He is working on a synoptic single-volume study of the origins of the Korean War, and a book on the Northeast Asian political economy.

This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies.  For more information about the Institute, please visithttp://www.suffolk.edu/college/30058.html.  For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.

6:00pm Wednesday, March 25, 2009 @ The Boston Athenæum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street

For more than two centuries, America’s newspapers have been the public’s primary source of information about our government.  As circulation and staffs shrink, there are significant implications for democracy, which is dependent upon an informed public.

Bruce D. Butterfield is an assistant professor and professional journalist in residence in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University.  Butterfield spent 16 years as a staff writer for the Boston Globe, where he covered national labor issues and was an investigative reporter on the newspaper’s Spotlight Team.  A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he has won numerous major awards for his reporting.

Cullen Murphy is the editor-at-large of Vanity Fair magazine and was, for two decades, the managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly.  Murphy’s articles and essays have appeared in many publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, the New Republic, Slate, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, American Heritage, and Smithsonian. His most recent book is Are We Rome?, which he wrote, in part, at the Boston Athenæum.

Robert E. Rosenthal is chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University.  He is an international consultant specializing in strategic communication, with a core emphasis on institutions subject to government regulation.  A specialist in the field of political communication, Rosenthal is a frequent guest on radio talk shows and television newscasts.

Joan Vennochi writes regularly about national and local politics for the Boston Globe, and also covers issues relating to business, law, and culture.  She began her career at the paper as a researcher on the Spotlight Team, the newspaper’s investigative unit, and shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the team for local investigative reporting.

Reservations will be accepted starting March 12 at 617-720-7600.

Saturday, March 14th, 12:00 noon Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street

This six-time Oscar-nominated 2005 docudrama chronicles how, in the mid-1950s, Edward R. Murrow and his “See It Now” producer, Fred Friendly, helped to bring an end to the tyranny of the blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee’s anti-Communist hearings. 

The film will be introduced by DAN KENNEDY, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University. He writes for the Guardian (U.K.), CommonWealth Magazine and the Boston Phoenix, and is a regular panelist on WGBH-TV’s “Beat the Press,” hosted by Emily Rooney. His blog, Media Nation, is online at medianation.blogspot.com.

Reservations will be accepted starting January 29 at 617-720-7600.