Previous Visiting Professors

Academic Year (1999-2000):

The 1999-2000 Savage Program consisted of lectures and classroom visits under the theme of The Ne w Europe at the Millennium. Visiting lectures include "The US and Europe during and after the Cold War" Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1977-81; "US -EU Relations, " Bryan Cassidy, Former Member of the European Parliament (1984-1999), Consultant and Writer on European Affairs; "European Union: The Newest Developments in Justice Matters, " Peter Hobbing, Assistant to the Director General of the European Commission on Justice and Home Affairs; and "The Northern Dimension: How the European Union, the Baltic States, Russia and the United States Shape Security and Cooperation in Northern Europe" Kari Möttölä;, Special Adviser, Security Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Academic Year (1998-1999):

The Savage Committee organized a conference titled Violence/ Suffering/ Image from May 20 - May 22, 1999. The keynote lectures included "A Deep and Dangerous Transformation: Experience of Suff ering, Pictures of Violence, and the Moral Processes of Everyday Life" by Arthur Kleinman, Medical Anthropology, Harvard University and "Violence and Representation: An Overview" by W.J. T. Mitchell Editor, Critical Inquiry, English and Art History, University of Chicago. Other visiting scholars and lecture titles were: Veena Das, Anthropology, New School for Social Research "Boundaries, Violence, and Time: Saying and Showing"; Lindsay French, Anthropology, Rhode Island School of Design "Exhibiting Terror"; Ronald Gottesman, English, University of Southern California "Reflections on Violence in America: An Encyclopedia" Susan Meisalas, Photojournalist, Magnum Photos "Documentation/ Mediation"; and Deborah Poole, Anthropology, New School for Social Research "Watching Your Back: Vision and the Politics of Fear in Peru";

Academic Year (1997-1998):

Fall Term 1997 brought Rashid Khalidi, Director of the Center for International Affairs and professor of history at the University of Chicago to deliver a public address titled "Palestinians and Israelis: Narratives of Peace and Identity." Winter Term 1998 featured Madhu Kishwar, Founder and Editor of Manushi and professor of gender studies, at Satyavati College, Delhi University who spoke on "From Ethnic Communities to Nationalities and Back Again: The Cycle of Conflict and Resolution in India." In addition, Chaim Seidler-Feller, Rabbi UCLA Hillel delivered a public lecture titled "Paths to Peace: A Jewish Perspective on the Search for Peace in the Middle East." Spring Term 1998 included the following visitors in residence: Galia Golan, professor of political science at Hebrew University in Israel and Zahira Kamal, General Director, Directorate of Gender Planning and Development for The Pal estinian Authority. David Newman, Director of the Humphrey Center for Social Research and professor political geography at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel delivered a public lecture titled "Shared Spaces or Separate Places: The Map of Israeli-Palestinian Peace."

Corazon C. Aquino (1996-1997):

Former President of the Philippines, was in residence at the University of Oregon April 24 and 25, 1997, as the 1997 Carlton Raymond and Wilberta Ripley Savage Visiting Professor in International Relations and Peace. Mrs. Aquino's visit included a public lecture, visits to UO cl asses as well as a visit to a local Middle School.

Academic Year (1995-1996):

The Savage Professorship Committee elected to try a different program model during this academic year that was designed to reach larger audiences on a variety of topics. The Committee lent its support to three symposia including multiple speakers for lectures, classroom visitations, and intensive interaction with the campus and the community. Fall term 1995 featured a conference on "Viet Nam and the United States: Forging a Peacetime Friendship," designed to foster dialogue between scholars from Viet Nam and the United States on normalization and its effect on developing peaceful cooperative relations in education, business, science, and politics. Guest speakers included Dr. Vo Quy, head of Viet Nam National University Environmental Institute; Dr. Phung Hu Phu, vice rector and dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Viet Nam National University; and D r. Nguyen Kim Cuc, head of the international relations department, Viet Nam Women's Union. Winter term 1996 focused on a lecture series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Principal speakers in this series included Professor Rey Chow, University of California-Irvine; and Professor Robert J. Lifton, City University of New York. Spring term 1996 featured a May conference on "Ethics after the Holocaust," which includes keynote speakers Boston Unive rsity Professor Elie Wiesel, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace; Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University; and Professor Emil Fakenheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dimitrina Petrova (1994-1995):

Professor/Chief Assistant, Department of Philosophy as the University of Sofia, Bulgaria; and member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. Petrova i s a noted human-rights and environmental activist with a particular focus on the rights of women and ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe. An elected member of the Bulgarian parliament from 1990 to 1991, Petrova participated in the creation of the 1991 Bulgarian Constitution following the overthrow of Communist rule. As the 1994-95 Savage Professor, Petrova taught "Human Rights and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe" and "Social Change and Gender in the Post-Communist Countries." Her public lecture addressed the compelling environmental and social issues facing Eastern European countries in the post-Communist era.

Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez (1993-1994):

Senior anthropologist and associate director of the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas in Caracas, Venezuela. Arvelo-Jimenez has worked as an advocate for the twelve ethnic groups that inhabit the Amazonas State in Southern Venezuela on land-rights issues. Because of her advocacy, the government has allowed for an implementation of intercultural bilingual education of Spanish with indigenous languages. During her te nure at the UO, Arvelo-Jimenez taught "Constitutional Rights and Human Rights: The Indigenous Peoples of Amazonia" and "Environmentalism and Indigenous Rights in Latin America." Her public lecture focused on the effects of global economy and environmentalism on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Winona LaDuke (1992-1993):

Internationally recognized activist and a member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabe from White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. LaDuke is a graduate of Harvard University and received a M.A. in community economic development from An tioch University. LaDuke has been a leader in the overlapping global struggles to restore native rights, protect the environment, and promote women's rights. She is a founding member of Anishinaabe Akeeng, a community land rights group, and current director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project. She is a board member of the Indigenous Women's Network and of IKWE, a native women's craft marketing collective. LaDuke serves on the board of Greenpeace Action and was the 1988 recipient of the International Re ebok Human Rights Award.

Yoshikazu Sakamoto (1991-1992):

Professor of peace and world order studies at the International Peace Research Institute Meigaku in Yokohama and Japan's leading scholar in peace research. Sakamoto has had extensive experience with both the United Nations and the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). As visiting professor, Sakamoto taught "Key Issues in Peace Studies: A Global Perspective" and "Approaches to Peace Research." His public lecture, "A Just Peace in the Pacific: The Role of the American and Japanese People," focused on the key roles these nations play in world peace.

Fatima Meer (1990-1991):

Professor of sociology at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, and author of Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela. Meer has been prominent as an opponent of apartheid and has published extensively on apartheid as well as cross-cultural and women's issues. Meer taught two courses during her term at the University of Oregon, "Women in South Africa" and "Current Issues in Peacemaking: Focus on Conflict and Change in Southern Afri ca, the Middle East, India, and Trinidad." Meer's public address was titled "The Peoples Search for Peace in South Africa."

Betty Reardon (1989-1990):

Assistant professor and director of the peace education program at Teachers College, Columbia Univers ity, and director of the peacemaking in education program of United Ministries in Education. Reardon has written more than 100 works on peace education, human rights education, global problems, and women's issues. During her term at the University of Oregon, Reardon taught two courses and gave two public lectures, "Peace Studies and the Future of the University" at the University of Oregon and "Peace Education in Public Schools: Towards Building the Capacities for Peacemaking" at the World Trade Center, Por tland.

Susan Griffin (1988-1989):

Author of several books focusing on a feminist approach to the issues of war and peace, including The First and the Last: A Woman Thinks about War and Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. Griffin's lecture was titled "A Woman Thinks About War."

Michael Klare (1988-1989):

Associate professor and director of peace and world security studies for Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of several books, including Low-Intensity Warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency and Antiterrorism in the Eighties. Klare lectured on "Defe nse in Arms Control in the 1990s: Challenges for the Bush Administration."

Margaret Papandreou (1988-1989):

Founder of the Women's Union in Greece and world renowned as a peace activist. Papandreou's public lecture focused on the developing leadership role of women in the international peace movement.