Free Inquiry at Risk: Endangered Scholars Panel
Endangered Scholars Worldwide event October 30, 2008 This keynote panel of endangered scholars from Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Belarus, and...
Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I
18th Social Research Conference October 29-31, 2008 Rapid globalization, international collaborations, massification, corporate...
Endangered Scholars Panel
Endangered Scholars Worldwide event February 7, 2008 First in a series, and in commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the University in...
Disaster: Recipes and Remedies
17th Social Research Conference November 1-2, 2007 This conference is convened at a time in which we are seriously threatened by an...
Punishment: The U.S Record
16th Social Research Conference November 30 - December 1, 2006 The conference examined the foundations of our ideas of punishment,...
Politics and Science: How Their interplay Results in Public Policy
15th Social Research Conference February 9-10, 2006 American scientists have long been on the forefront of scientific inquiry and...
Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives
14th Social Research Conference April 14-15, 2005 Fairness is a central motivating force in our private and public lives. Who gets what,...
Their America: The United States in the Eyes of the Rest of the World
13th Social Research Conference October 18-19, 2004 There are urgent questions that not only are central to the time and place in which...
Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses
12th Social Research Conference February 5-7, 2004 Again, we are living at a time of collective fear--fear that is encouraged by our...
Privacy in Islam: The Public and Private Spheres, Part III
11th Social Research Conference December 5-7, 2002 For the past three years, Social Research has engaged in an international exploration...
International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record
10th Social Research Conference April 25-27, 2002 International Justice, War Crimes and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, a three-day...
Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Part II
9th Social Research Conference March 23-24, 2001 Eastern Europe has emerged from a recent communist past where everything was officially...
Altered States of Consciousness
8th Social Research Conference February 22-24, 2001 Drugs, meditation, hypnosis, ecstasy, dreaming, hallucination, mass hysteria: There...
Privacy in the U.S. and Europe, Part I
7th Social Research Conference October 5-7, 2000 The distinction between what is public and what is private is becoming more and more...
Food: Nature and Culture
6th Social Research Conference November 5-7, 1998 What we eat; the ceremonies surrounding it; how food marks our sameness and difference;...