Please choose one or more of these Events and reserve your space via the link below.   Let the whole group know your choices. Thanks, Lee

http://greatissuesforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=64

Political Power

Thursday, October 2, 7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium

What is the most effective way to influence the exercise of political power? Can genocide be halted? What are the natural limits of political power? Join three preeminent policy and opinion makers as they discuss the violation and defense of human rights by national and international powers.  Featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor; Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times; and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center will moderate.

Economic Power

Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium

What is the role of the U.S. in the disposition of the world’s economic and environmental resources? How are financial markets best defended from economic shock? Does liberalization ensure prosperity? Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Cultural Power

Monday, November 10, 7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium
How does art affect consciousness, bridge political, ideological, religious, and geographic distances, and contribute to physical and political change? Tom Stoppard and Derek Walcott, two international literary luminaries, examine the power of culture and art in a globalizing world. David Nasaw, Distinguished

Professor of History at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

Power & Sex: America’s War on Sexual Rights

Monday, November 17, 7 pm, Elebash Recital Hall

How has the conser vative agenda come to dominate the national and international conversation on sexual practices and reproductive rights? Why have American liberals become so intimidated? Faye Wattleton, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women, speaks with Nation columnist Katha

Pollitt and historian Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics about the powerful influence of the religious right and other conservative forces on today’s sexual politics.

Welcome to course blog for the yearlong Honors Thesis Colloquium.

Click here to download the syllabus (or take a look at the pages on the right).

This 2-semester course provides an opportunity for in-depth research and analysis of a topic that stirs your curiosity and motivates your desire to share what you learn about it with others.  The weekly assignments are geared toward fostering intellectual community as well as cultivating skills in writing and techniques of inquiry.

Over the course of both semesters, you will meet in consultation with a faculty advisor in your research field.  Much of your work will be done individually as you gather sources and data about your topic.  As a class, we will meet to brainstorm about topics, focus and refine ideas, and offer advice on research, revision, and reorganization.  In addition, each of you will attend at least one Great Issues Forum Event at the CUNY Graduate Center as a way of placing individual topics within a wider intellectual context.

During the second semester, each student will present an in-progress oral report to the class. At the end of the spring term, students will present their findings in formal presentation in a conference format. Students should invite their advisors to attend their oral report and the Conference.