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Academic Year 2010-2011
Spring 2011
“Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity.” Dr. David Ohana (Ben-Gurion University)
“Transformation of the Jews from Corporate Order to Citizenship: 1750-1950.” Dr. Dan Diner (Director of the Simon Dubnow-Institute, University of Leipzig)
“Arab Spring: An Interdisciplinary Panel on Political Transformation in the Middle East.” Co-sponsored by Political Science and History student honor societies. The panelists included Michaelle Browers and Tom Brister.
Fall 2010
AACS 52nd Annual Conference, Oct.15-17, 2010
Stevenson McIlvaine, Visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellow, "Interested in Pursuing a Career in the US Foreign Service?" November 2, 2010 and "Human Rights and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy: An Insider's View," November 4, 2010
Professor Nuhu Yaqub, Senior Fulbright Fellow, "The Struggle for Democracy: A Critical Analysis of the Upcoming 2011 General Elections in Nigeria," November 11, 2010
Academic Year 2009-2010
Spring 2010
Lord Robin Butler is speaking on Iraq and the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom at 11.00 am on Friday 22nd in De Tamble (Tribble Hall). He was head of the UK civil service at the time of the invasion of Iraq, and headed an inquiry in 2004 on whether the intelligence data had been used properly in the run up to the invasion (The Butler Report).
The Political Science Department and the Latin American/Latino Studies Program will be hosting a Recruitment Information Session for the U.S. Department of State on Thursday, April 15th at 11:00 A.M. in Tribble C-316. Flyer.
Talks by Woodrow Wilson Fellow Stevenson McIlvaine: "Interested in Pursuing a Career in the US Foreign Service?" Tuesday, November 2, Tribble Hall C316, 11:0 AM (Flyer), and "Human Rights and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy: An Insider's View," Thursday, November 4, Pugh Auditorium, 7:00 PM (Flyer).
THE FIRST YEAR OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SPEAKER SERIES
- Dr. Suisheng Zhao,
Professor and Executive Director,
Center for China-US Cooperation,
Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, "The Challenge of an Increasingly Assertive China to Obama's Positive China Engagement Policy", Thursday, April 8, 4:30 p.m. Greene Hall, Room 145. Flyer. - Dr. Andrew Rich, Executive Director of the Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation, “THINK TANKS AND POLICY CHANGE IN THE OBAMA ERA”, Monday, February 8, 5:00 p.m. DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall. Flyer.
Fall 2009
Dr. Kimberly Katz, Department of History, Towson University, "Life, Work, and Girls in Palestine: The Diary of Sami ‘Amr," October 7, 2009, Wednesday, 4:30 pm.
Academic Year 2008-2009
As part of the Alumni Office’s Back to the Classroom Event at Homecoming, Professors Dinan, Harriger, and Smith participated on a panel discussion analyzing the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. The panel was followed by a reception hosted by the department for its alumni. In late January and February we organized a speakers series entitled “Challenges Facing the New President” which included a panel of faculty discussing key policy challenges (and included our professors Coates and Kennedy), a talk by Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institute entitled “The Obama Transition: Hitting the Ground Running”, a panel of students from various party perspectives entitled “Looking to the Future: Will Young People Stay Involved?”, and the Voices of our Times lecture by David Gergen entitled “David Gergen on the New American President.”
We also served as the departmental host for a visit by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. In addition to organizing and co-sponsoring his public talk entitled “The 9/11 Attacks, Iraqi WMDs and the Decline and Fall of the CIA,” he lectured in two classes, met with students informally over lunch and coffee, and went out to dinner with six of our majors who were also members of Phi Beta Kappa.
In addition we sponsored /co-sponsored the following speaker events:
- Professor Menachem Hofnung of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Courts and Terror: Democratic Governance and State Security,” September 2, 2008 (co-sponsored with the Associate Provost’s Office of International Affairs)
- “A Debate between College Republicans and College Democrats,” October 27, 2008 (Hosted and moderated by Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society).
- Dr. Anna Rubino, independent scholar, “How A Female Journalist Challenged Power – And Succeeded” February 25, 2009 (Co-sponsored with Women’s and Gender Studies, Journalism Program, and Babcock Women in Business )
- Professor David Ricci, Visiting Professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Dilemmas of the War in Gaza,” February 26, 2009.
- Dr. Thomas Meyer, Simon Dubnow Institute, University of Leipzig, “Leo Strauss’ ‘Natural Rights and History’ in the Context of his Early Work.” March 2, 2009 (Co-sponsored with the Thomas Jack Lynch Fund of the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of History).
- Speaker Series on Women and Militarism, various events during Spring 2009 (Co-sponsored with Women’s and Gender Studies and Office of the Provost )
Conferences
- CONFERENCE: Immigration: Recasting the Debate, October 3-5, 2007
- LECTURE: "Foreign Policy Issues and the U.S. Presidential Election", Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center,Wake Forest University, October 7, 2004.
- CONFERENCE: “Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Democracy in Latin America,” Graylyn International Conference Center of Wake Forest University, April 2 - 4, 2004.
- LECTURE: "Democracy and Diplomacy: US Policy toward Taiwan and China after Taiwan’s 2004 Presidential Election", Room 102, Scale Fine Arts Building, March 25, 2004
- GENDER, IDENTITY & SOCIAL CHANGE IN MOROCCAN FILM, Fall 2003
- Conference on Taiwan under Lee Teng-hui, 1988-2000
- Conference on Debatable Issues 2000
- International Society for Utilitarian Studies 2000 Conference