Dr. Bechtold has had a long and distinguished career researching and teaching about the Middle East, North Africa and Central and Southwest Asia. He is chairman emeritus of Near East and North Africa Area Studies at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. Currently he is the Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University.
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Afghanistan: Truths and Untruths
06/17/2012
Dr. Peter Bechtold
Pacific Northwest Earthquakes
06/10/2012
Dr. Charlene Montierth
This is a presentation about earthquakes by Dr. Charlene Montierth. Charlene is a professor and head of the Geology Department at Clark College. In 2001, she earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Oregon, where she did research on Hawaiian volcanoes. In 2003, she received the college’s Exceptional Faculty Award for her energy and commitment to student success.
The New Nazis
06/03/2012
Professor Randy Blazak
This program, given by Professor Randy Blazak, concerns the psychology and sociology of Neo-Nazis, racism, and hate-crimes. Blazak is a sociologist at Portland State University who has studied white supremacy groups in depth.
Nazi Occupation in the Netherlands
05/27/2012
Dr. Pieter Rol
This is a special program. It tells of memories of the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. It was presented by Dr Pieter Rol, Professor Emeritus of Physics at Portland State University. Dr. Rol wrote: “My presentation is not a balanced historical essay, but it describes the experiences of a teenager during the five-year occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis, as remembered by an eighty-four year old man. During those years, I lived with my family in a rural area about twenty miles north of Amsterdam and attended high school in a nearby town (when possible).”