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2020: A World Themes

Renewed

2019: A World on
the Margins
2020: A World Renewed
2018: An Entangled
World
2019: A World on the Margins
Special Area - Unsolved Mysteries
2017: An Unlikely
History - Neglected Histories
World
Social Studies - On the Edge of Society
2016: An Imperfect Science - Enabling Technologies
World Art & Music - Louder than Words
Literature - Voices from the Margins
2015: The World

2018: An Entangled World

Unbound

2014: The World

Within Special Area - Human Relationships
History - The History of Diplomacy
2013: A World in
Social Studies - Black Markets
Motion
Science - The Science of Memory
2012: A World in Art & Music - Braving the Distance
Flux Literature - Voices of the Inseparable

2017: An Unlikely World

2011: A World
Transformed

2010: A World Special Area - Modern Mythologies

Divided Science & Technology - To Shoot for the Moon
History - History of Conspiracy
2009: The Fall of
Literature - Voices of the Almost Impossible
Empires
Art & Music - Fragments of an Improbable Universe
2008: The Frontier Social Studies - Predicting the Future

2016: An Imperfect World

Special Area - Crime and Justice
History - A History of Cheating
Science - Disease and Public Health
Literature - Words to Light the Darkness
Arts - Flawed Visions, Broken Sounds
Social Studies - When States Falter

2015: The World Unbound

History - Movements Toward Freedom
Science - Liberating Technologies
Literature - Voices of the Unbound
Special Area - Heroes and Superheroes
Arts - Peering Over the Edge
Social Studies - Worlds Held Together, Worlds Torn Apart

2014: The World Within

History - The History of Espionage
Science - Thoughtful Brain, Troubled Mind
Literature - Voices from the Inside
Special Area - The Science of Decision-Making
Arts - Echoes of the Interior
Social Studies - Worlds Within Walls

2013: A World in Motion

History - The Great Migrations
Science - The Science of Transportation
Special Area - The Turbulent Earth
Literature - Movement in Poetry, Film, and Prose
Arts - Movement in Art, Music, and Dance
Current A!airs - Globalization

2012: A World in Flux

Science - Biotechnology and Nanomedicine
Special Area - The Postmodern Metropolis
Literature (Fiction) - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Nightfall by Isaac Asimov, and Flowers for
Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Literature (Film) - Wall-E and Life is Beautiful
Arts - New Media in Art and Music
History - Technology and Social Change
Current A!airs - The Global Economic Crisis

2011: A World Transformed

Science - Biotechnology
Special Area - The Modern Metropolis
Literature (Poetry) - Changing Lives, Changing Worlds
Literature (Short Stories) - The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
by Gabriel García Márquez, Nightfall and The Last Question by Isaac
Asimov, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Julian: A Christmas Story by
Robert Charles Wilson, and There Will Come Short Rains by Ray Bradbury
Arts - A World in Flux
Economics - Fundamentals of Economics

2010: A World Divided

Science - Great Con!icts in Science
Special Area - The Psychology of War
Literature (Poetry) - Poetry of a World Divided
Literature (Novel) - The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Literature (Film) - The Motorcycle Diaries
Art (Visual) - Art of Separation and Di"erence
Art (Music) - Music of Separation and Di"erence
Economics - Fundamentals of Economics, The Economics of Wealth and
Poverty
History - When the World Breaks

2009: The Fall of Empires

Science - Sustainable Development
Special Area - The Fall of Empires
Literature (Poetry) - Poetry of the Fall
Literature (Novel) - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Reluctant
Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Visual Arts (Art) - The Art of Decline and Decadence
Visual Arts (Film) - The Last Emperor and Serenity
Mathematics - The Essentials of Standardized Assessment
Economics - Fundamentals of Economics, The Economics of Spectacular
Collapse
History - Empires at the Brink

2008: The Frontier

Science - Astronomy
Literature (Poetry) - Short Selections
Literature (Novel) - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Literature (Film) - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Art - Art on the Edge of the Possible
Mathematics - Mathematical Scenarios
Economics - Fundamentals
History - Exploration

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