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This fall if you look back, but i was particularly delighted to thismark here as part of fall series. We go way back to the early days of my time here at the Wilson Center running the colton history project. Mark has moved on to bigger and Better Things and he will be talking about this today. Hes the professor of history at the university of chicago along reimagined american human rights in the 20th century , the book he will be talking about today. His books include familiar made strange american icons and ,rtifacts published last year vietnam and war, 2009, and the making of postcolonial vietnam published in 2000. President ofast the American Society of foreign relations. With that, mark, it is great to have you here. Mr. Bradley it is nice to see very familiar faces. It has been a very long time, and its nice to see ....
Technology. Itt tech is now shut down. Students and staff say they got word via email this morning. That includes 3 campuses in the valley. That leaves nearly 8000 people without jobs. This comes barely one week before classes are scheduled to begin. All eyes are on hurricane newton. It made landfall early this morning near cabo san luca the National Weather service issued a Flash Flood Watch for the phoenix area. Especially around southeastern arizona. It made landfall packing quite a punch. A strong category 1 hurricane. Winds gusting up to 119 miles per hour. Right now sustained winds are at 75 miles per hour. It will start to affect our weather starting tomorrow morning and as a result we will see a lot of rain especially. 5 inches of rain possible. Highs in the lower 90s. But how long will the rain state . That answer coming up. Powerful winds are hammering away the ....
I want to thank the seminary coop for making this possible but especially all of you for being here. I am overwhelmed to see so many people because my main hope is to engage with you i will speak briefly to introduce the book and a general way then focus on one section of banning the of burqa in europe. Not long ago europeans prided themselves on the ally in the attitude of religious toleration and understanding. Or renew the history of the west was characterized by intense religious animosity and violence including bloody episodes as the crusades, but also the quiet violence of religious domination by europeans from many parts of the world with antisemitism and anticatholicism which a indicated not only germany but other nations as well, youre in the u. S. Like to think the dark times were in the past and religious violence was somewhere else. It was primitive but that of christian value but today we have reasons to doubt the self assessment. Searching for critical self examination as ....
About antimuslim bigotry in the west. This is just over an hour. [applause] well, thank you very much, mark, for that great introduction. And i want to thank the seminary coo open for making it possible and also especially thank you for being here. Im overwhelmed to see so many people. Because my main hope is to engage with you and spend at least a half hour on q a, im going speak briefly and what im going to do is introduce the book in a general way and focus on just one section about the bands in europe. Once, not very long ago, americans and europeans prided themselves on their enlightened attitudes of religious toleration and understanding. Although everyone knew that the history of the west was characterized by intense religious animosity and violence including such bloody episodes as the crusades and the wars of religion. But including as well, the quiter violence of colonial rebelling use domination by europeans in many parts of the world and added antiseminism and the gnat disi ....
I am really overwhelmed to see so many people, but because my main hope is to engage with you and spend at least half an hour on q a i am going to speak briefly and what i am going to do is introduce the book in a general way and focus on just one section about demands on the burke that in europe. Quince not very long ago americans and europeans pride themselves on religious toleration and understanding. And animosity and violence including such bloody episodes as the wars of religion, including as well be quieter violence of colonial religious domination by europeans in many parts of the world and added to that, domestic antisemitism and anti catholicism and culminating in the horrors of nazism which implicated not only germany but many other nations as well. Europe and the u. S. Until recently liked to think these dark times were in the past and religious violence was somewhere else, in societies more allegedly primitive, less characterized by heritage of christian values. Today we h ....