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Spring 2003
January 24 Tamar Herzog, (Univ. of Chicago, History Dept.), Topic: "Good Immigrants/Bad Immigrants: Defining a Spanish Community in the Early Modern Period"
January 29-30 Nadera Kevorkian, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Topics: "Judicial Conceptions of Female Child Sexual Abuse in Jordan" (January 29) and "Parallel Legal Systems and Virginity Tests" (January 30)
February 4 Judith Levine, (Author of "Harmful to Minors"), Topic: "Crimes of Passion: Statutory Rape & the Ambiguities of Sexual Consent"
February 18-19 Helena Michie, (Rice University, English Dept.), Topics: "Marriage and its Privacies: From Hardwicke to the Honeymoon" (February 18) and "Honeymoons and the Romance of the Archive" (February 19)
February 21 Jasonne O' Brien, (Fairleigh-Dickinson University), Topic: "Lest Justice Fail': Medieval Reprisals and the International Criminal Court"
March 5 Jared Diamond, (UCLA, Geography Dept.), Topic: "Why are Some Countries Rich, and Others Poor?"
April 22 Samuel R. Gross, (Univ. of Michigan), Topic: "Racial Profiling, Before and After September 11"