Thursday, October 14, 2004
Bush Administration, Islam topics of lectures
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Two free public lectures will examine timely subjects this month: the Bush Administration and Islam. Dr. Judith Hoover, professor of communication at Western Kentucky University, will present “The Lack of Authentic Discussion – Groupthink in the Bush White House” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 19, 2004 in Room 1101 of the Education Center. Her lecture will focus on the methods used by the Bush Administration to make executive policies and decisions, and she will consider what drives the decision-making process: data bases and reports or ideologies. Hoover has published numerous books and journal articles in the areas of rhetoric and group communication, and is the former editor of the World Communication Journal. Her research interests include small group and team communication, rhetorical criticism, and cultural studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University. A question-and-answer session will follow the program. The Department of Communications is sponsoring Hoover’s presentation as part of the 2004 Community of Scholars Lecture Series. On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, Dr. Scott Hughes Myerly, cultural and military historian, will deliver the lecture “’To the Shores of Tripoli’: American Perspectives on Islam before 1860.” The program will begin at 5 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center, where Myerly will propose negative American stereotypes of Islam and Arabs during and after the early 19th-century Barbary wars were actually part of a larger cultural conflict between the Christian West and Muslim Middle East that dates back to the rise of Islam. Myerly is the author of British Military Spectacle from Waterloo to the Crimea as well as numerous articles assessing the connection between military and cultural history. He is the husband of Dr. Tamara Hunt, chair of the USI Department of History. |
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