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April 19, 2004
Noted social critic and alum Victor Davis Hanson
to speak May 3 on Warfare and Democracy in the Middle East
By Scott Rappaport
Military historian and provocative social critic Victor Davis Hanson
will speak at UCSC on Monday, May 3, at 7 p.m. in the Media Theater,
Room M110. A prolific author, classical scholar, and UCSC alumnus who
is often featured on National Public Radio and the PBS NewsHour, Hanson
will speak on the topic: Warfare and Democracy in the Ancient
and Contemporary Middle East. The event is free and open to the
public.
UCSC alum Victor Davis Hanson will discuss Warfare and Democracy
in the Ancient and Contemporary Middle East, in his May
3 lecture at the Media Theater. Photo:
Onassis Foundation
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Hanson is the author of nearly 200 essays, editorials, and reviews
for such publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
International Herald Tribune, New York Post, National Review, American
Heritage, Weekly Standard, Commentary, Daily Telegraph, and Washington
Times.
He has written or edited 13 books, including Warfare and Agriculture
in Classical Greece (1983), the Western Way of War (1989),
and Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (2003). Hansons recent
books, particularly Autumn of War (Anchor 2002), have attracted
the attention of Vice President Dick Cheney, who read Hansons
work after September 11 and had him to dinner. Hansons latest
book, Ripples of Battle, was published by Doubleday last year.
Currently a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno,
Hanson is also a senior research fellow at Stanfords Hoover Institution.
His work offers a distinct perspective on a variety of topics--ranging
from the demise of the family farm, to the impact of Mexican immigration
on California, to the role of the United States in global statesmanship
and defense.
Hanson received his B.A. from UCSC in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. in
classics from Stanford in 1980. He was a National Endowment for the
Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford (1992-93), a visiting professor of classics at
Stanford (1991-92), a recipient of the Eric Breindel Award for Opinion
Journalism (2002), and winner of the UCSC Alumni Associations
Alumni Achievement Award in 2001. He also served as the visiting Shifrin
Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland
(2002-03).
Hansons lecture is presented by the UCSC Jewish Studies Research
Colloquium and sponsored by the Koret Foundation in honor of its 25th
anniversary. Murray Baumgarten, director of Jewish Studies at UCSC,
noted that Hanson will bring to the campus a historical perspective
on the Middle East, the birthplace of Jewish culture more than 3,500
years ago.
Hanson will also comment on the democratic governmental form
that was invented in Athens, but is nowexcept in modern Israel--nowhere
functioning in the Middle East region, Baumgarten added.
For more information, contact Eleanor Hilberman or Cheryl Van De Veer
at (831) 459-1225.
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