Please plan to attend an exciting Multidisciplinary Symposium on Terrorism (funded by an internal mini-grant) Friday, October 10th from 9-1, Cartersville Campus Student Center Ballroom (light refreshments will be offered). The main goal of this symposium is to offer multidisciplinary education for faculty and staff. A secondary goal is to also offer an example of how honor students can possibly use one topic for multiple honors option projects for different courses (may invite interested honor students). Below are the specifics on our guest speakers and I look forward to seeing you there.
Dr. Carol Winkler: Understanding Online Extremism: Strategic Use of Verbal and Visual Argument
Dr. Nadia Latif: The Right to Violence: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Terrorism
Dr. James Lange: Bioterrorism Perspectives: Historic and Current
Dr. Carol Winkler is Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Dean of Humanities at Georgia State University. Her research interests include visual communication, presidential foreign policy rhetoric, online messaging strategies of extremist groups, and debate as an intervention strategy for stopping violence. Her book, In the Name of Terrorism: Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era (SUNY, 2006), won the National Communication Association’s Outstanding Book Award for Political Communication. Her work on how visual images function to communicate ideology won the National Communication Association’s top research award in visual communication, and her debate partnership program was named the Bush White House’s signature school program for its Helping America’s Youth initiative. In August of 2014, the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College published her co-edited volume, Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online Environment.
Dr. Nadia Latif received a B.A. (magna cum laude) in Political Science from Amherst College and her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines Palestinian refugees’ intergenerational narratives of forced displacement. The manuscript is based on field research begun in 2003 in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Her research interests include conceptual histories of human rights and humanitarianism; representations of structural violence; law, religion, and the nation-state. Using the war on Gaza as a case study, her presentation will examine the use of the following terms in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: sovereignty, legitimacy, and terrorism.
Dr. James Lange received his graduate degrees in Microbiology and Infectious Disease Pathology, is a decorated Army combat veteran, and works for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). He has served as a researcher and project manager in Italy and the Near East, as a Health Scientist for the Division of Laboratory Systems for the CDC as well as developed and executed training plans and courses for the CDC Defense Threat Reduction Agency-Bioweapons Proliferation Prevention Program in former Soviet Union countries. He currently works for the CDC Emergency and Preparedness and Response Branch, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center for the Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Diseases.
May contact Karen Huggin at khuggin@highlands.edu for any questions.