Speaker: Ron Hirschbein
Student Center, Fountain Lounge, 11 a.m.Ron Hirschbein, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University Chico, has also served as a visiting professor at University of California campuses in San Diego and Berkeley, and at the United Nations University in Austria. His teaching and research involves peace and conflict studies. He also served as President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. Currently he teaches and mentors graduate students in Walden University's School of Public Policy and Administration. He has a Ph.D. in Social Science from Syracuse University. His publications include numerous papers, articles, and four books offering interpretive approaches to controversial international and domestic issues. These book include What If They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? (a book in which the author analyses the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to understand more fully how U.S. government actors frame crises and foreign threats by reference to past crisis narratives in order to resolve.
In his talk at 11 a.m., Dr. Hirschbein will focus on conceptual and strategic problems in the U.S. dependence on deterrence thinking when it comes to nuclear defense. Dr. Hirschbein will also speak at 7 pm the same day.
These talks are free and open to the public, and are held at UDM's McNichols Campus (4001 W. McNichols at Livernois).
CLASA gratefully
acknowledges support from the Jesuit Community at UDM. For more
info call CLASA Director Dr. Gail Presbey, 313-993-1124, or write
her at presbegm@udmercy.edu
http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/clasa/detroit.html