Rulers of afghanistan have taken advantage of the geographical position of afghanistan to play a neutrality card using stuff favoritism to one global power to play that begins the possibility of leading to the other global power to keep both at day and this is the diplomatic strategy of successful afghan rulers whenever there have been any and the cold war is a notable period both the u. S. S. R. And the United States were interested in those competing to enlarge their influence in the country and somehow because of the counterbalancing of these forces there was a period when afghans were in control of their own destiny and during that period of use of modernization and change that was more rapid and it dramatic then you have seen anywhere in this country. That period ended when the pendulum of trying to swing back and forth started to swing so fast and so far it finally crashed in the country succumbed to the crew of a small communist group quickly followed by the soviet invasion and
Science education going on like this. Especially in a time when funding is being cut to sciences at the National Level so we need to keep pushing for as much Science Education as possible. I just finished writing an optimistic book about the apocalypse. I didnt realize this book would have a happy ending. It started because i have been fascinated with stories about destruction, especially massive global destruction, and apocalypses and everything from kind of the underground cannibal apocalypse to zombie stories and godzilla stories. Godzilla is one of my spirit animals. And i wanted to a couple of years ago when i was thinking about this, i thought how could i write a kind of nonfiction version of a godzilla movie, and what would that look like . If we delve into the scientific literature what history has to teach us, what would be the equivalent of some kind of massive destruction caused bay force that we dont understand, and i came upon the idea of mass extinctions which are the wor
Peniel joseph. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our third panel of the day. Again the title was 50 years later blacks in the 21st century. The panel is framed around but kind of progress blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement and the endorsement challenges and quality that these African Americans in the 21st century. The organizers have formulated two major questions for us to talk about. The first is of historical and contemporary factors continue to make racial equality a contested and elusive concept in the 21st century. And second, what kind of knowledge can we mobilize to face the specific challenges of racial inequity in our contemporary moment. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to be in conversation with two and possibly three speakers, dynamic speakers and thinkers today and i would like to introduce you to that before opening the conversation. Joining us is farah griffin, a professor of english, comparative literature and afr
Sixth floor exhibit today. I think i got that section. I did want to go through this quickly. We have eyewitnesses of the assassination. We have tina who was her youngest photographer at the time of the assassination. Seated behind tina are Dylan Dale Neumann the closest eyewitnesses to president kennedy at the time of the shooting and james payton is here today. He was supposed to be here. Im not sure if he isnt not if he is or not but thats okay. We hope all is well with jim. We had some other folks here. Wayland roads who was the tenth jury selected in the jack ruby trial is here today. Is Bill Williams here . I know we have others and we have been number of Museum Founders in the front row. Allen and Cynthia Montville are wonderful documentarians accreted the film. Where are they are the exhibit designers which continues to jackie mcelheny is here to did research and was involved in reconstructing the snipers perch. And number of our Board Members past and present are here. They se