Presidential Memorial Exhibit
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What is a ghetto? A compulsory, exclusive, and enclosed district for Jews? A voluntary and densely populated immigrant enclave? A segregated African-American neighborhood? In Ghetto: A History of a Word, Daniel Schwartz reveals how this most malleable and loaded of words—ghetto—has historically been all of the above, chronicling its various and contested meanings from when it was first used in sixteenth-century Venice in reference to Jews to the present. In his remarks at the Washington History Seminar, he will focus on the transfer of the word ghetto from Jews to blacks in the postwar U.S. The story of this migration concerns more than the changing nuance of a particular word. Arguments over the usage, application, and even ownership of ghetto served as a stage on which were played out fundamental debates over the meaning of integration and segregation, the uniqueness of the black and Jewish experiences, and the ethics of analogy and comparison.
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This conference will explore the events leading to and influencing the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in the Autumn of 1989. A panel comprised of former officers from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and scholars will discuss the ways in which analysis from the time informed policymakers, assisting them in formulating the US policies and response to Communism’s collapse in the region.
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Poorly-implemented and inefficient wastewater systems can drain a third of municipal power, exacerbate water scarcity, and emit greenhouse gas. Yet cities can use innovative technologies to turn wastewater into a cost-saving and sustainable resource. Join us on this December 10th China Environment Forum meeting to hear our three speakers, Danielle Neighbour (State Department), Patrick Serfass (American Biogas Council), and Scott Houston (West Basin Municipal Water District) discuss opportunities to close the loop on wastewater.
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