"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, April 4, in UNCA's Owen Conference Center. The talks are free and open to the public.

Allan Combs, UNCA psychology professor, will give the keynote address. Other speakers will be Margaret Downes, UNCA Humanities program director and literature professor; Alice Weldon, UNCA assistant Spanish professor; and Anke Kurz, a UNCA senior from Germany who will compare Western and African perspectives on democracy.

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."