The University Forum:
The Global Response to Terrorism

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Each of the following links connects to a wide range of online material, maps, bibliographies of print and audiovisual media and other background information compiled by the staff of the Syracuse University Library, and by expert presenters. This is in association with The University Forum: The Global Response to Terrorism, a series that takes place on the Syracuse University campus throughout the Fall Semester, 2001. The forums will also be broadcast by Time Warner Cable on six consecutive Wednesdays beginning Dec. 12 (7pm on TW cable channel 3 in the city of Syracuse and on TW cable channel 14 in the Syracuse suburbs).

Forum Topics:

| Access to Information in Wartime | National Security & Civil Liberties | Biological Terrorism |
| U.S. Policy in the Middle East | U.S. & Muslim World: How We See Each Other | Origins of the Crisis |

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November 15 Access to Information in Wartime: A Report Card on the Performance of the Government and the News Media 7:30pm - Studio A - Newhouse II, Syracuse University Panelists: Rogan Kersh, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Science and the Maxwell School, Syracuse University Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of Media and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Director, Center for the Study of Popular Television, Syracuse University Amos Kiewe, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Speech Communication, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Thomas Edsall, National Political Reporter with The Washington Post Moderator: David Rubin, Dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. Resources Provided at the Forum: Bibliography (brief format) - Compiled by the Syracuse University Library (.pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

November 8 - National Security and Civil Liberties 7:30pm - Studio A - Newhouse II, Syracuse University Panelists: William Banks, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law - - current measures and implications for civil liberties David Bennett, Professor of History in College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University - - historical perspectives Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, Professor of International Relations and Public Administration in the Maxwell School, Distinguished Fellow of SU's Global Affairs Institute and Former U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Bulgaria. - - national security needs Moderator: Daan Braveman, Dean and Professor in the College of Law, Syracuse University. Resources Provided at the Forum: Bibliography (brief format) - Compiled by the Syracuse University Library (.pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Click on the November 8 link above for an expanded version of these resources. November 1 - A Primer on Biological Terrorism 7:30pm - Studio A - Newhouse II, Syracuse University Panelists: Ernest Hemphill, Associate Professor of Biology, Syracuse University - - biologic and chemical agents and how they can become terrorist weapons Peter Alberti, Director, Onondaga County Division of Emergency Management - - terrorist disaster planning in Onondaga County Dr. David P. Thomson, Associate Professor, Director of Transport Medicine & Medical Director of Telemedicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University - - the medical response to biologic or chemical terrorism Moderator: Joan Deppa, Associate Professor of Newspaper Journalism, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. Resources Provided at the Forum: Bibliography (brief format) - Compiled by the Syracuse University Library (.pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Click on the November 1 link above for an expanded version of these resources. October 25 - United States Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Is this the Key to Peace? 7:30pm - Studio A - Newhouse II, Syracuse University Panelists: Margaret Hermann, Director-Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Public Affairs, Syracuse University Mehrzhad Boroujerdi, Associate Professor-Political Science, Syracuse University Amos Kiewe, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Speech Communication, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Moderator: Robert Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, Director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC)-Syracuse University Resources Provided at the Forum: Bibliography (brief format) - Compiled by the Syracuse University Library (.pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required) Click on the October 25 link above for an expanded version of these resources. October 18 - United States and the Muslim World: How We See Each Other 7:30pm - Studio A - Newhouse II, Syracuse University Panelists: David Shomar, Board of Directors, U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East Stan Linhorst, Senior Managing Editor, Syracuse Newspapers Moderator: Jill Hurst, Senior Instructor - School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Resources Provided at the Forum: Bibliography (brief format) - Compiled by the Syracuse University Library (.pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required) Click on the October 18 link above for an expanded version of these resources. October 4 - Some Origins of the Crisis: The Middle East, Politics and Religion 8pm - Grant Auditorium-College of Law, Syracuse University Presenters: Tazim Kassam (Associate Professor, Religion): Islam and the Context for the Bin Laden Group, Michael Gaddis (Assistant Professor, History): Cultural Views on Religion and Violence, Ambassador Goodwin Cooke (Professor, International Relations): Sources of Near Eastern Concern about the U.S. Moderator: Eric Schiff (Chair, Physics Department) Resources Provided at the Forum: Bibliography (brief format) - Compiled by presenters and the Syracuse University Library (.pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required)-Click on the October 4 link above for an expanded version of these resources. Additional Links Responses to Acts of Sept. 11 Resources for understanding the events of Sept. 11. (Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University) Libraries with Middle East Collections on the Internet (Compiled by University of Washington) View international news broadcasts at Media Services, E.S. Bird Library, Lower Level (via SCOLA: "Satellite Communications for Learning," courtesy Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Public Affairs)-television programs transmitted in original languages from numerous countries (e.g., China, Uzbekistan, Israel, France, Iran, etc.). SCOLA broadcast schedule is at http://www.scola.org. An additional monitor provides continuous coverage of CNN news feeds.

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