"World Politics and the Human Condition" is the focus of the Breman Forum, a cross-disciplinary project which explores patterns of behavior in world politics that influence dimensions of human life. Four talks on this topic will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, in UNCA's Owen Conference Center. The talks are free and open to the public.

Tom Sanders, retired Brown University religious studies professor, will give the keynote address on "The World Beyond the Adriatic: Islamdom in the 16th and 17th Centuries." Other presentations are: "Hegemon by Other Means: Vietnam, Cultural Imperialism and the American Centuries," given by Merritt Moseley, UNCA Literature Department professor; "U.S. Ambivalence and New Global Frontiers," given by John Fobes, retired United Nations official; and "Sitting in the Penalty Box: Irish Literature and British Politics in the Eighteenth Century," given by Garland Kimmer, UNCA Literature Department visiting assistant professor.

The Forum was established by Gene Rainey, UNCA political science professor and the 1998-2000 Sara and Joseph Breman Professor of Social Relations at UNCA. "The idea for the project was inspired by UNCA's Humanities Program, which brings together all the university's academic disciplines in four team-taught courses," Rainey said. "Parallel patterns in sociology, economics, science, religion, philosophy and psychology, for example, help us understand what was happening during the past 500 years of international history."

The next forum will be held on April 4.

For more information, call Rainey at 828/251-6983 or e-mail grainey@unca.edu.