Community Events
Cleveland Italian Film Festival
September 18 - October 2, 2008
Cedar Lee Theatre
2163 Lee Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Tickets: $10.00 per film
Italian Oscar Winning Movies coming to Cleveland with English subtitles at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Hts. Ohio. Experience the sensual beauty of Italy through her films. Click here for more information.
Opening Night Party - Italian Film Festival
September 18, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Tickets:
Opening Night Party - Italian Film Festival
September 18, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Tickets:
$15.00 - Single
$25.00 - Couple
Fabulous dinner with imported Peroni beer from Italy and Campari coctails included!
For film and opening party tickets call: (440) 461-2806.
Proceeds benefit the $350,000 Renaissance Restoration Project in the Italian Cultural Garden, Cleveland's Cultural Monument to Italy in Rockefeller Park.
Proceeds benefit the $350,000 Renaissance Restoration Project in the Italian Cultural Garden, Cleveland's Cultural Monument to Italy in Rockefeller Park.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Oberlin College
Hallock Auditiorium, Environmental Studies Building
Oberlin, Ohio
This symposium will explore the ways that the Constitution of Japan, and especially Article 9 (the war renunciation clause), has shaped postwar geopolitics in Asia, the current heated debate in Japan over changing the Constitution and resurgent nationalism, and the implications of constitutional revision for American security in East Asia and in the world.
Participants
"Making Security Legal."
Richard J. Samuels, Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Constitutional Revision by Any Other Name Will Smell as Sweet: Administrative Law as a Shortcut”
Helen Hardacre, Religion, Harvard University
“Courts of Law & Citizen Activism in Japan and Germany”
Franziska Seraphim, Department of History, Boston College
"Constitutionalism in the Public Sphere: A Brief History"
Timothy S. George, History, University of Rhode Island.
For more information:
Ann.sherif@oberlin.edu
www.oberlin.edu/eas
440-775-8827
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program
2008 Covenant Lecture Fund Lecture
Douglas Johnston
Faith-based Diplomacy: Bridging the Religious Divide
Co-Sponsored by the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
October 29, 2008
7:30pm
Church of the Covenant
11205 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
It is clear from the war in Iraq that America has little, if any, ability to deal with religious differences in a hostile setting. Indeed, it is supremely ironic that a deeply religious nation like the United States should be incapable of dealing with religious imperatives such as those that permeate today's geopolitical landscape. Among the underlying reasons, two stand out. One is a longstanding commitment to the rational-actor model of decision-making, which has effectively excluded religion from the policymaker's calculus. The other is a proclivity for using our separation of church and state as a crutch for not doing the necessary homework to understand how religion informs the world views and political aspirations of others, who do not similiarly separate the two.
Douglas Johnston is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy and holds a Masters degree in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Dr. Johnston has a broad range of executive experience in government, academia, the military and the private sector, starting with ten years in the submarine service where, at the age of 27, he was the youngest officer in the US Navy to qualify for command of a nuclear submarine. Dr. Johnston's hands-on experience in the political/military arena coupled with his work on preventive diplomacy, has guided the work of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy since its inception.
This lecture is free and open to the public.