A discussion will follow the brief lecture.
Admission is free.
The power of modern nationalism has become all too apparent in various regions of the world, including the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East and parts of the Third World. In addition, this formidable political force has often combined with ethnicity to create conflicts that have had frightful consequences. Loebsack will explore the various meanings of nationalism and ethnicity, historically and in more recent context, and provide examples of where these phenomena have been particularly evident. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1982, Loebsack has expertise in U.S. and Third World relations, American foreign policy and politics in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, with extensive experience in Brazil. His lecture draws from his studies last summer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the auspices of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar.