Panel Discussants: Mike Davis, David Reid (writer) and Kerwin L. Klein (History)
“Maneaters of the Sierra Madre”
While urban theorist and social commentator Mike Davis holds degrees in History from UCLA and the University of Edinburgh, his work exceeds and expands the usual definition of historical writing. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Davis’ City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles won the Issac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and the award for Best Book in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association.
Panel Discussants: Mike Davis, Susanna Elm (History) and Victoria Nelson (writer)
While urban theorist and social commentator Mike Davis holds degrees in History from UCLA and the University of Edinburgh, his work exceeds and expands the usual definition of historical writing. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.
Panel Discussants: Ivan Klíma, Poet Czesław Miłosz (Emeritus, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley), Martina Moravcová (Philosophy, Charles University, Prague) and Michael Henry Heim (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA)
Ivan Klíma, Novelist & Playwright
Like Milan Kundera and Josef Škvorecký, novelist, essayist, and critic Ivan Klíma is considered one of the most important Czech writers of his time.
Opera and theatre director, teacher, and activist Peter Sellars has been a creative and deeply influential voice in the world of opera and theater for the past 30 years. Noted for his unique, contemporary stagings of both classical and contemporary plays and operas, Sellars is also professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA.
Panel Discussants: Michael Ignatieff, Thomas Laqueur (History), Robert Post (Law) and Eric Stover (Director, Human Rights Center)
“Civilizing Warfare”
Michael Ignatieff, Broadcaster & Critic
A regular broadcaster and critic on television and radio, Michael Ignatieff has hosted many programs including Voice; the BBC's arts program The Late Show; and the award-winning series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, which examined the issue of nationalism in the late twentieth century.