Welcome to the 2006 EPIIC Colloquium Archive.
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The 2005-06
EPIIC Colloquium was comprised of 42 students from diverse majors
and backgrounds. The weekly classes covered a wide range of topics
grounded in specific case studies, such as Chile and South Africa.
Professor Andrew Bacevich, author of The
New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, was
the resource scholar during the Outward Bound immersion weekend
and EPIIC classes featured experts from a wide knowledge base
including constitutional theorists, former foreign correspondents,
neuroscientists, and a former prime minister.
Over 350 high school students from twenty schools participated
in the Inquiry simulation. Mentored by the EPIIC students and
Inquiry teaching group, the high school students discussed a wide range
of issues, including issues of security, terrorism, human trafficking
and natural disaster response, in the context of The Politics
of Fear in Asia.
The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium was
especially powerful this year. The symposium gathered 59 practitioners,
policymakers, scholars, journalists, artists, and musicians together
to explore, discuss and debate the politics of fear. The topics ranged
from identity and nationalism in Europe, especially in the wake of
the Danish cartoon controversy, to the necessity of torture; from
the causes and consequences of rising anti-American sentiment around
the globe to the changing nature of terrorists and states; from the
role of the media in propagating fear to extremism and ideology in
South Asia; from the tension between national security and civil
liberties to the challenges of reconciliation and renewal in post-conflict
societies.
In addition, there was extensive public programming throughout
the year including a weeklong residency by this year's INSPIRE
practitioner's Mort Rosenblum and Jack Blum. The 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate,
Shirin Ebadi, highlighted a deserving group of Dr. Jean Mayer Global
Citizenship award recipients.
The Politics of Fear shadow image is courtesy
of Gary Knight and the VII Photo Agency.