Sociology of Warfare, The
Professor of Sociology and History Craig Calhoun observes that whether people are working at a job or fighting a war, they usually achieve more when they share a common purpose.
Refuge: a film about Darfur
In this alternately enraging and heartbreaking documentary, Canadian student Jonathan Pedneault and filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau travel to Darfur to try to make sense of reports of genocide in the region. Making their way clandestinely with a group o...
War and Rebuilding in Iraq
Professor of Sociology and History Craig Calhoun talks about the sociological dimensions of the rebuilding effort during the war in Iraq. He focuses on the challenge of bringing together vast numbers of people with different cultural backgrounds, in...
The Arming of the Earth
The 20th century began with enormous hopes for a future made safe and humane by technology. Although it realized some of these hopes, the century neared its end under the shadow of superweapons that still threaten the earth with annihilation. In thi...