2004/2005 Leadership Lecture Series

Recommended Readings

All lectures are held at 7:00 p.m. in Kenan Auditorium (unless otherwise noted) and are FREE for UNCW students, faculty, and staff with valid ID, $6 for general public

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Andrew Sullivan | Karen Armstrong | Jonah Goldberg & Peter Beinart | Stanley Fish 

(Copies of books available in the UNCW General Collection and through Course Reserves  - look under "Leadership Lecture Series" as Department)

Andrew Sullivan

September 27, 2004

"Same Sex Marriage: The Arguments Against and For" 

Award-winning former editor-in-chief of The New Republic, Sullivan is a practicing Catholic who is an avid supporter of gay rights.

Books:

Moats, David. Civil Wars: A Battle For Gay Marriage. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2004.
General Collection HQ1034.U5 M62 2004   

Sullivan, Andrew. Virtually Normal : An Argument About Homosexuality. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
General Collection HQ76.25 .S85 1995    

Sullivan, Andrew. Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex and Survival.  New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
General Collection HQ76.3.U5 S85 1998 

Sullivan, Andrew. Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con, A Reader. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
General Collection HQ76.25 .S26 1997    

Articles:

Sullivan, Andrew. "A Call To Arms: It's No Exaggeration To Say That The Federal Marriage Amendment Is The Biggest Assault On Gay Rights In U.S. History." The Advocate, Nov 11, 2003 p72(1).
(Full-text available from InfoTrac)

Sullivan, Andrew. "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage: Want To Foster Responsibility and Commitment? There Is No Better Way." Time, June 30, 2003 v161 i26 p76.
(Full-text available from InfoTrac)

Sullivan, Andrew. "The Sacred And The Pop Star (Against The Current)(Same-Sex Marriage)." The Advocate, Feb 17, 2004 p72(1).
(Full-text available from InfoTrac)

Web Resources:

http://www.andrewsullivan.com

http://www.tnr.com/

Karen Armstrong

October 25, 2004

"Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam"

Armstrong, a former nun, instructor of rabbis and best-selling author, discusses the history of fundamentalism and its relationship to politics and international affairs.

Books:

Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
General Collection BM390 .A69 2000 

Armstrong, Karen. The Gospel According To Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1987.
General Collection HQ1394 .A75 1987    

Armstrong, Karen. A History of God: The 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. New York : A.A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1994.
General Collection BT98 .A65 1994

Armstrong, Karen. Holy War: The Crusades And Their Impact on Today's World. New York: Doubleday, c1991.
General Collection D157 .A76 1991    

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.
General Collection  DS109.9 .A76 1997b 

Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco, c1992.
General Collection BP75 .A76 1992 (2 copies available)

Articles:

Patterson, Margot. "The Rise of Global Fundamentalism: Fundamentalists Battle What They See As Modernity's Evils, But The Movement Itself Springs From A Modern Mindset." National Catholic Reporter, May 7, 2004 v40 i27 p12(2).
(Full-text available from InfoTrac)

Keller, Julia. "Ex-Nun Helps Explore This `Unholy Mess'. (Chicago Tribune)." Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, April 19, 2004 pK7156.
(Full-text available from InfoTrac)

Web Resources:

http://www.thelavinagency.com/college/karenarmstrong.html

http://www.islamfortoday.com/karenarmstrong.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week602/armstrong.html

Jonah Goldberg & Peter Beinart

January 24, 2005

"A Look from the Left and the Right"

Contributing editors to the conservative National Review and liberal The New Republic meet to debate media bias.

Books:

Alterman, Eric. What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias And The News. New York: Basic Books, c2003.
General Collection PN4784.O24 A44 2003  

Goldberg, Bernard. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How The Media Distort The News. Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 2002.
General Collection PN4784.O24 G65 2002 

Niven, David. Tilt?: The Search For Media Bias. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002.
General Collection PN4888.O25 N58 2002 

Potter, W. James. Media Literacy. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Pub., c2001. 
General Collection P96.M4 P68 2001

Stay, Byron L., ed. Mass Media: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c1999.
General Collection P90 .M2926 1999    

Articles:  

Goldberg, Jonah. "Big Dumb Lie: Journalists Who Insist There Is No Media Bias Problem Are Just Cutting Themselves Off From The American Public." The American Enterprise, July-August 2003 v14 i5 p40(2).
(Full-text available from InfoTrac)

Web Resources:

http://www.nationalreview.com/

http://www.tnr.com/

http://www.kepplerassociates.com/speakers/goldbergjonah.asp

http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/gold.php

http://www.tnr.com/showBio.mhtml?pid=14

http://www.fair.org/

Dr. Stanley Fish

March 14, 2005

"There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too"

Well-respected though sometimes controversial dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago discusses why campus politics and free speech differ from the "real" world.

Books:

Fish, Stanley. Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1989.
General Collection PN441 .F44 1989

Fish, Stanley. Is There A Text In This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.
General Collection PN81 .F56   

Fish, Stanley. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change. Oxford [England]; New York: Clarendon Press, 1995.
General Collection PN81 .F57 1995  

Fish, Stanley. There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, And It's A Good Thing, Too. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
General Collection  Z657 .F5 1994 

Fish, Stanley. The Trouble With Principle. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
General Collection B105.P7 F57 1999    

Articles:

Fish, Stanley. '"Intellectual Diversity': theTrojan Horse of a Dark Design." Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/13/2004, Vol. 50 Issue 23, pB13, 2p, 1c.
(Full-text available from EbscoHost)

Fish, Stanley. "A University Is Not a Political Party." Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/ 4/03, reprint available at frontpagemag.com.

Web Resources:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/stanley_fish

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/stanley_fish.html

http://www.uic.edu/las/college/index.html/

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