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Organized in memory of UNL alumnus Carroll R. Pauley, class of 1930, the Pauley Symposium takes place every three years on the UNL campus. Pauley memorial lectures are held in the years between the the simposia. Both events feature a wide variety of speakers addressing current research in History and other social sciences and engage both academics and the general public in an open discussion of the relationship between the past and the present.
This year the Symposium ran under the title "History, Truth & Reconciliation" and featured speakers from South Africa, Canada, and the United States.
October 17 --
Charles Villa-Vicencio, a South African theologian and political scientist, a National Research Director of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
“Violence, Religion, Financial Muscle and Liberation: Can Africa Heal Itself?”
In conjunction with the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues
October 18 --
Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and director of Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights
“Beyond Accountability: Historical Dialogue and Conflict Resolution”
Alexander Byrd, AssociatePprofessor of History at Rice University
“Intransigent Blackness: Houston’s African American High Schools since Brown”
J.R. Miller, Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations at the University of Saskatchewan
“History Rediscovered and Refashioned: The Role of History in Canadians’ Pursuit of Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples since the 1970s”
Christina Schwenkel, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside
“The Ambivalence of Reconciliation in Vietnam”
2011
Carroll R. Pauley Memorial Lecture “Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War”, presented by Bancroft Prize-winner Thomas G. Andrews, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
September 15, 2011, at 7:30 PM
Great Plains Art Museum
2007
Carroll R. Pauley Memorial Lecture "Academic Freedom in the Age of Homeland Security", presented by Barbara Weinstein, New York University,
President, American Historical Association, response presented by Waskar Ari, UNL
Department of History and Institute for Ethnic Studies.
October 11, 2007, at 7:30 PM
City Union Auditorium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2005
Carroll R. Pauley Memorial Lecture "The American Century and Beyond: Two German Perspectives", presented by Detlef Junker and Philipp Gassert of the Center for American Studies at Germany's University of Heidelberg.
September 7, 2005, at 7:30 PM
City Union Auditorium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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