Ms. Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to eliminate antipersonnel landmines. International organizer and activist, teacher and writer, Williams is an eloquent speaker on human rights and international law, the role of civil society in international diplomacy, and individual initiative in social change.  Since February 1998, Williams has served as a Campaign Ambassador for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which she helped create, speaking on its behalf all over the world. She is also a member of the Coordination Committee of the Campaign, which carries out the strategies and action plans of the ICBL, and she serves as senior editor for the annual Landmine Monitor Report, which monitors compliance with the Mine Ban Treaty.

Art Exhibit
"Remembered Stories:
Mixed-Media Installations"

Curated by Carol Ann Lorenz
Art and Art History Department

Reception Monday October 11, 2004
from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Gallery Talk at 5:00 PM
in the Longyear Museum

Show runs from Monday, September 6, 2004 to
Friday, November 12, 2004
Longyear Museum
Second floor of Alumni Hall on the Colgate campus

NYC-based artist Carol Hamoy has created installations based on her feelings of connection, as a Jewish child of immigrants to the US, with children in Europe during and immediately following WWII.  Children’s Stories, for example, is the artist’s response to liberation newsreels she saw as a child in 1945.  It consists of a series of works based on memoirs by people who survived the Holocaust as children.  These survivors include children who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, those who were hidden during the war, twins who suffered the experiments of Josef Mengele, and children who describe the “honor” of being inducted into the Hitler Youth Movement.  Other works in the exhibition include the installation Kitchen Kaddish, regarding women at the Theresienstadt camp who exchanged recipes to have some semblance of normalcy in their tortured lives, as well as Wooden Synagogues, a work that documents the demise of eighteen of the hundreds of synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazi regime.  Finally, Remember is based on photographs that a young German soldier took surreptitiously in the Warsaw Ghetto, while Letters from the Front and Back is drawn from a collection of letters, postcards, photographs, leave passes, prayer books and other soldiers’ memorabilia, constituting a compelling anti-war commentary.

Reading Lecture Series
Geoffrey Parker
Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University

"The crisis of the Spanish Monarchy in the mid-17th-century: Local problem or global problem?"

Tuesday, September 14, 2004  4:15 PM
Persson Hall Auditorium

Geoffrey Parker has written extensively on the military history of early modern Europe.  

Art Exhibit
Bang.

Art Department Gallery Show of contemporary artists on weapons.

Curated by Linn Underhill
Art and Art History Department

Opening Discussion:
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 4:30 PM
Clifford Gallery of the Art and Art History Department
Little Hall

Nancy Ries and Karen Harpp, members of Colgate’s Center for Ethics Advisory Committee, and John Knecht, a member of the Peace Studies Advisory Committee, will be joined by artist Marion Wilson to discuss some of the implications of weapons and war that are raised by the exhibition BANG! and the year-long exploration of this theme organized by the Center for Ethics.  Nancy Ries writes that Bang! “asks that we ponder the presence of weapons in the world, asking what IS a weapon?  How do particular weapons work, and what do weapons do to people, landscapes, and to the trajectories of history?  How do weapons change our lives and our worlds?”
 

Art and Art History Lecture
David Barsamian

 “Media, Propaganda and War: The More You Watch the Less You Know”

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 4:15 PM
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall

David Barsamian, radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer, is founder and director of Alternative Radio. Author of Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting, and most recently, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile:  Conversations with Arundhati Roy, and Louder than Bombs:  Interviews from the Progressive Magazine, he is the winner of the ACLU's 2003 Upton Sinclair Award for independent Journalism.

Co-sponsored by the Sophomore Experience, Film and Media Studies Program, and Peace Studies.

Public Lecture
Lawrence Wittner
Professor of History
State University of New York at Albany

 “How Peace Activists Saved the World from Nuclear War”

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 4:15 PM
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall

This talk summarizes the three volumes of Wittner's trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, covering the history of the campaign against nuclear weapons and emphasizing its effectiveness.

Public Lecture
Robert J. Lifton

Superpower Syndrome:
Apocalyptic Visions and Weapons

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 7:30 PM
Love Auditorium, Olin Hall

Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College/CUNY, and author of many books about nuclear weapons, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, Vietnam, terrorism, militarism and empire, including: The Nazi Doctors, winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize; Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, winner of a National Book Award; Home From the War: Vietnam Veterans: Neither Executioners Nor Victim; Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo; Apocalyptic Violence; and the New Global Terrorism.
Dr. Lifton was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Colgate in 1999.

Public Lecture
James DerDerian

Weapon-Systems,
Sign-Systems, and the War on Terror

Director, and Professor of International Relations, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 4:30 PM
Persson Auditorium, Colgate University

There will also be a showing of the new documentary
"After 911"
http://www.infopeace.org
on Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 9:55 AM
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall, Colgate University

James Der Derian is the author of Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network and Anti-Diplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War.

Co-sponsored by the Peace Studies Program