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" |
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