Scope and Contents Evan Wolfson, Senior Fellow, Rose and Erwin Wolfson Center for National Affairs, Director of the Freedom to Marry Project, moderator.This panel discusses various current issues relating to U.S. immigration laws and their enforcement with particular reference to the impact of 9/11 on government policies and public attitudes. What changes have taken place or have been proposed in immigration laws and procedures? Has there been a serious increase in violence or discrimination...

Scope and Contents Eli Sagan, author of Citizens and Cannibals, with Marshall Berman, author of All that Is Solid Melts into Air; and Mark Lilla, author of The Reckless Mind. Citizens and Cannibals, subtitled The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Idelogical Terror, examines questions that have haunted our...

Scope and Contents Participants: David Garrow, Emory University Law School; Nadine Strossen, New York Law School; and Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker.Now is a perilous time for American democracy. Perhaps foremost among the present threats to our government and citizenry is the politization of the courts. The advancement of partisan objectives, concerns about the erosion of civil liberties, and the mounting influence of corporate interests on federal policies often...

Scope and Contents Evan Wolfson, Senior Fellow, Wolfson Center for National Affairs, moderator. Discussants: Sylvia Law, Professor of Law, New York University; Barbara Cooms Lee, attorney, President of Compassion in Dying; and Rev. Dr. Paul Smith, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn.Whether the terminally ill, mentally competent adult should have choice about the end of life has been a prominent national debate at least since Oregon's unique Death with Dignity Act became law more than five...

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Panel discussion. Moderator: Michael Wilke. Panelists: Sophia Cranshaw, Stuart Elliott, Mark Robinson, Jeffrey Wolf, Tony Wright. [information on this event was also found in Publications box 1, in folder Alumni News Online Newsletter, Summer 2003 Issue]

Inscription: Advertising Stereotypes / Ad Spec Programs / 6/16/03.

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Screening of documentary film "Mothers and Daughters: Mirrors that Bind" and discussion. Participants: Victoria Mills, Flavia Fontes, Aleksandra Wagner. [information on this event was also found in Publications box 1, in folder Alumni News Online Newsletter, Summer 2003 Issue]

Inscription: Mothers + Daughters / June 25, 2003 / Ad Spec.

Scope and Contents Ken Corbett, psychoanalyst, co-editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Michael Kimmell, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook; with invited discussants including Terence Real, author of / Don't Want to Talk About It; Sam Osherson, author of Finding Our Fathers; Pedro Noguera, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Barney Brawer; and Jeffrey Canada.This day of dialogue and debate is devoted to our understanding of male development and the movement of boys into manhood in...

Scope and Contents Mark Galanter, Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of Dept. of Addiction Medicine, NYU School of Medicine; Esther Heinerman, Professor of Literature, Long Island University; Jerome D. Levin, Senior Fellow of the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, author of Theories of the Self. Whether anesthetized, repressed, or acted out, people in New York City are all living with the potentially devastating anxieties induced by the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. The important question...

Scope and Contents The Wolfson Center for National Affairs, in association with Harper's magazine and Seven Stories Press, presents a discussion of issues raised by Nat Hentoff in his new book The War On The Bill of Rights. Steven Brill, author of After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era; Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's; Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU; and Kurt Vonnegut, author, join Nat...

Scope and Contents How does a democratic citizenry assess scientific research and debate that affects public policy? How do we temper our excitement and fears about discoveries and inventions that affect our personal health, the environments in which we live, and our most basic values with respect to privacy, social betterment, security and peace, etc.? How can lay people understand and make decisions about ethical and practical implications of scientific work? Where can we go for accessible information? In...