ULS

Monday, April 25

4:30 pm • Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)

A Massacre Averted: An Armenian Town, an American Nurse, and the Turkish Army They Resisted

Nancy Klancher, PhD candidate in the Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion at the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

The final years of the Ottoman Empire were characterized by ongoing wars, resulting in unspeakablesuffering for civilians of all ethnic backgrounds, but particularly Armenians. The mass deportation and deaths of Armenians, beginning in 1915, prompted Woodrow Wilson to send a corp of relief workers to this region. Among them was a 37-year-old nurse from Pennsylvania named Mary Super, whose memoirs illuminate in dramatic detail a struggle against wholesale massacre in the midst of civil war. In 1920, Super and five American and Canadian relief workers found themselves in the middle of a two-month Kemalist siege of thesmall mountain town of Hadjin. Super was a friend of the author’s family. Nancy Klancher found the memoirs among her grandmother’s possessions and will discuss the historical, religious, and cultural context of Super’s harrowing tale.

http://www.cmu.edu/uls/april/klancher.html

OTHER LECTURES OF INTEREST:

Monday, April 25

12:15 pm • Rachel Mellon Walton Room, Posner Hall

Why Women Matter

Debora Spar, President of Barnard College

Debora Spar is a political scientist by training. Her research focuses on issues of international political economy, examining how rules are established in new or emerging markets and how firms and governments together shape the evolving global economy. Spar is the author of numerous articles and books, including most recently Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Invention, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet and The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. Prior to coming to Barnard, Spar was the Spangler Family Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean, Director of Research.

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Relations and Politics and Women in the Social Sciences

http://www.cmu.edu/ir/newsevents.html

Tuesday, April 26

4:30 pm • Steinberg Auditorium (Baker A53)

America and the Arab Revolutions

Blake Hounshell, Managing Editor, Foreign Policy

Blake Hounshell joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. A graduate of Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science, he has appeared on CNN, NPR, C-Span, WTOP, WNYC, and Al-Jazeera, among others. In February 2011, he returned to Cairo to cover the Egyptian revolution. He speaks mangled Arabic and French and lives in Doha, Qatar.

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Relations and Politics and the Humanities ScholarsProgram.

http://www.cmu.edu/ir/newsevents.html

2011 BUHL LECTURE

Friday, April 29

4:30 pm • Mellon Institute

Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable

http://www.cmu.edu/physics/seminars-and-events/buhl-lectures/index.html