Post Tagged with: "Making and Breaking the Law"

The Department of History announces a special offering of HIST 3070: Famous Trials in American History in Fall 2015. The course will explore some of our nation’s most significant and fascinating legal cases and trials that captured the nation when they occurred. It will be taught by Justice Marc Kantrowitz, a […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture offers a special team-taught interdisciplinary seminar course for the Making & Breaking the Law theme in Fall 2016. CAS 2500: Breaking the Law focuses on law and justice in relation to citizenship, global affairs, human rights, public health, and science and technology. It also […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2009) on Saturday, March 21, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. In Sleep Dealer, when Memo Cruz’s family is victim of a drone attack he finds himself with no option but to head […]

Dr. Paul Hirschfield, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, visits Ohio University on Thursday, March 19, at noon in Bentley 124 for a public lecture on adolescence, school, and the criminal justice system. The talk is on “Decriminalizing Schools? Recent Reforms in School Discipline and Policing.” Hirschfield presents on theories […]

The Middle East and North Africa Film Series presents Forget Baghdad on Monday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. The documentary (directed by Samir) tells the story of four Baghdadi-Jews, all former members of the Iraqi Communist Party during the 1940s and 1950s. The four elderly protagonists are […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Unveiled (2005) by the German director Angelina Maccarone, an American filmmaker of a Peruvian background, on Saturday, March 14, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. In Unveiled, Fabria, prosecuted in Iran because of her love affair […]

Katie Conlon, a junior majoring in HTC History, was awarded first place in the Creative Arts and Humanities category at the International Student Union’s International Research Symposium on February 20. Conlon presented on her research about the Cham Muslim minority in Cambodia, which she conducted during summer 2014 through LJC 3910: […]