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Intl. Fest’s Big Ideas
‘Fault Lines' to examine key divides between and among societies, groups
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Business New Haven
6/9/2003
By: BNH
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The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has unveiled the "Ideas" component of its 2003 program. Dubbed Fault Lines, the ten-day series of panel discussions explores such major global issues as racism, culture, identity, religion, violence and government.
An overarching theme of the series is that, despite the miracle of instantaneous global communication made possible by the breakneck advance of technology, humans remain as divided politically, economically and ideologically as ever.
Panel including "The Global Income Divide," "Governance & Corruption, "Religion: Dividing Or Uniting?" and "Ethnicity, Identity & Violence" are intended to foster debate, challenge beliefs and ultimately inspire change.
"This year's program speaks to the wider global community about issues that really matter to everyone," says Festival Director Mary Miller. "And they're incredibly relevant to the people of this city and state."
Best known as a performing arts extravaganza, the 16-day Arts & Ideas event has labored to draw greater attention to its thought-provoking and conventional wisdom-challenging event-within-an-event.
Among the best-known Fault Lines attendees: Ambassador Robert Hunter, senior advisor to the Rand Corp. in Washington, D.C.; Edward Mortimer, director of communications for the United Nations; Julianne Malveaux, writer, syndicated columnist and CEO of her own multimedia production company, Last Word Productions; and Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social & Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and co-chair of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Fault Lines panels include:
o "The Global Income Divide" (5-6:30 p.m. June 16), moderated by Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International & Area Studies and a professor of international economics at Yale.
o "Fault Lines in America" (5:30-7 p.m. June 17), led by Stephen Robinson, interim CEO of Empower New Haven.
o "Ethnicity, Identity & Violence" (5:30-7 p.m. June 18), moderated by UConn law professor Laura Dickenson.
o "Late-Breaking International Affairs" (5:30-7 p.m. June 20), featuring panelist James C. O'Brien, a principal of the Albright Group and former special Presidential envoy for the Balkans in the Clinton administration.
o "Religion: Uniting Or Dividing?" (5:30-7 p.m. June 23), led by Rabbi Herbert Brockman of Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden.
o "Governance & Corruption" (5:30-7 p.m. June 24) moderated by Yale law and political science professor Susan Rose-Ackerman.
o "Europe/USA: Tensions in the West" (5:30-7 p.m. June 25), led by Yale history professor and author Paul Kennedy (The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers).
All Ideas events will take place at Yale's University Theater, 222 York Street. For information about the series, or any IFAI event, is available at www.artidea.org or by calling 888-278-4332.
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