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February 27, 2023

RECAP: “Divided We Stand?” February 24 KIRC Invited Lecture w/ American University Prof. and Author Jane Hall

“The U.S. is the only democracy that organizes its national election campaigns around the news media.” —Thomas Patterson, Out of Order As author and American University Associate Professor of Communication Jane Hall noted in opening her February 24 Kinder Institute Residential College Invited Lecture, we could think about Patterson’s statement as the byproduct of anything […]

February 16, 2023

RECAP: “The History of the World, 1950-2000,” February 10 Colloquium w/ MU Curators’ Distinguished Prof. Jonathan Sperber

Cuba. Computers, lasers, genetic engineering. The Internet. Women asserted themselves, a lot of demonstrations happened, colonial legacies were dismantled. The rise of East Asia, cell phones, McDonald’s. A list like this, MU Curators’ Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus Jonathan Sperber joked, is how pundits and journalists might sum up the topic of his February 10 […]