Park Scholar Saturday Seminars:
Fall 2015: Race and Culture: Part 1 Michelle Alexander, The New
Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Spring 2016: Race and Culture: Part 2 Juan Gonzalez and Joseph
Torrews, News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the
American Media
Fall 2014: Visual Culture: Part 1 Susan Sontag, Regarding the
Pain of Others
Spring 2015: Visual Culture: Part 2 Stefan Sagmeister, Ten Things
I Have Learned In My Life So Far
Fall 2013: Humanitarianism: Part 1
Linda Polman, The Crisis
Caravan: What’s Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?
Spring 2014: Humanitarianism: Part 2
Wangari Maathai, The
Challenge for Africa
Fall 2012: Technology and Political Change: Part 1
Wael
Ghonim, Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than
the People in Power: A Memoir
Spring 2013: Technology and Political Change: Part 2
Evgeny
Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Fall 2011: Gender and Gendered Narratives
Susan Faludi, The
Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America.
Spring 2012: Gender and Political Landscapes
Anne Kornblut,
Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and
What It Will Take for a Woman to Win
Fall 2010: Visual Culture and the Representation of Trauma: Part 1
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Spring 2011: Visual Culture and the Representation of Trauma:
Part 2
Emmanuel Guibert, The Photographer: Into War-torn
Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Fall 2009:Disaster Capitalism: Part 1
Naomi Klein, The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Spring 2010: Disaster Capitalism: Part 2
Naomi Klein, The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Fall 2008: Media and Marketing
Benjamin Barber, Consumed:
How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow
Citizens Whole
Spring 2009: Media and Organizing
Clay Shirky, Here Comes
Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Fall 2007: Education and the Public Good
Greg Mortenson and
David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to
Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Spring 2008: Media and the Public Good
Anna Politkovskaya, A
Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption,
and Death in Putin’s Russia
Fall 2006: Human Rights and Healthcare
Paul Farmer,
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on
the Poor
Spring 2007: Human Rights and Gender
Shirin Ebadi, Iran
Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
Fall 2005: Globalization
Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A
Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Spring 2006: Multiculturalism
Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The
Last Discovery of America