Faculty Seminar

Members of the monthly, interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, chaired by Dennis B. Klein (History and Jewish Studies), presented to their peers the following lectures addressing the 2008-09 theme, “Peace: Its Conceptions and Conditions”:

• "Does Peace Mean Nonviolence, Or Is There a "Culture of Peace?" by Sharon Snyder (English)
• "Peace: A Structural Approach" by Julis Nevarez (Sociology)
• "Indigenous Peacemaking" by Janet Yedes (Communications)
• "Explaining Protracted Civil Wars: The Cases of Angola and Columbia" by Nazih Richani (Political Science)
• "Anti-Religious Concord in Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Roman, and Demonic Imagery" by Jacquelyn Stonberg
     Tuerk (Fine Arts and Jewish Studies)
• "Lions Led by Donkeys: The British Ordeal of War, 1914-1918" by Frank Wetta (History)

Faculty Seminar E-Publications
Volume 6: Peace: Its Conceptions and Conditions, ed. Jacquelyn Stonberg Tuerk

The Faculty Seminar released in the fall its fifth installment in its “Comparative Cultures” e-book series. Entitled Peace: Its Conceptions and Conditions, it mainly comprises papers that Seminar members and selected students presented at the spring, 2009, Roundtable, which the Seminar sponsored in cooperation with the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the Nathan Weiss Graduate College, the Kean University Historical Society, and the Kean University Chapter of the National Honorary Society for Sociology. Following is the Table of Contents (papers written by faculty members are signified by members’ departmental affiliations):

• "Does Peace Mean Nonviolence, Or Is There a "Culture of Peace?" by Sharon Snyder (English)
• "Peace: A Structural Approach" by Julis Nevarez (Sociology)
• "Indigenous Peacemaking" by Janet Yedes (Communications)
• "Explaining Protracted Civil Wars: The Cases of Angola and Columbia" by Nazih Richani (Political Science)
• "Anti-Religious Concord in Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Roman, and Demonic Imagery" by Jacquelyn Stonberg
     Tuerk (Fine Arts and Jewish Studies)
• "Lions Led by Donkeys: The British Ordeal of War, 1914-1918" by Frank Wetta (History)

Comparative Cultures, Series Editor, Dennis B. Klein

To date, the Faculty Seminar on Comparative Cultures has posted 31 original articles online – 16 written by students and 15 by faculty. Articles for research or classroom discussion can be downloaded from http://orsp.kean.edu/communications/Klein.html (click “2009 - Comparative Cultures Journal, Vol.6”). The Faculty Seminar invites students and faculty to submit original articles for publication in any ebook by emailing dklein@kean.edu. Following are the five e-books in the series:

• Empire and Cultural Conquest, Part I (ed. Sue Gronewold)
• Empire and Cultural Conquest, Part II (ed. Julia Nevárez )
• Representations of Genocide (ed. Julia Nevárez )
• Forgiveness: Political Considerations (ed. Julia Nevárez )
• The Bystander: On the Politics of Disengagement (ed. Jacquelyn Stonberg Tuerk)
• Peace: Its Conceptions and Conidition (ed. Jacquelyn Stonberg Tuerk)

Thanks to Professor Julia Nevárez for supervising the 2008 e-book project and roundtable. Thanks also to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs staff for its support.

 

Faculty Seminar roundtable faculty and student panelists consider “The Bystander.” Left to right: Professor Dennis B. Klein (History and Jewish Studies), David Ziznewski, (partially hidden), Professor Brid Nicholson (History), Sean Mullan, and Professor Jacquelyn Tuerk (Fine Arts)