Political
Science Events Calendar
updated February 10, 2008
Spring 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008, 5:30 pm, Room 5200.07
Political Theory Colloqium
“Competing Conceptions of Necessity in the Emergency Powers Debate”
Speaker: Leonard Feldman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon at Eugene
February 19, 2008 (6:00 – 8:00 pm)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Marnia Lazreg, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of the recently published Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Princeton University Press, 2007); "Torture and Anti-Subversive War: A Lesser or Greater Evil?”
Place: Room C-201
Friday, February 29, 2008, 5:30 pm, Room 5200.07
Political Theory Colloqium
“Questioning Authority: Political Resistance and the Ethic of Science”
Speaker: Professor Diana Judd, William Paterson University
Friday, March 7, 2008, 8:20 am-6:00 pm., Room 5200.07
Political Science Graduate Student Conference (program)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 6:00, Room C198 (GC)
Collaborative Political Theory Colloquium/Ralph Bunche Institute event
Wednesday, March 12, 6:00 pm
“Moral Responsibility for Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan”
Speaker: Neta Crawford, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, Boston University and Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
March 13, 2008 (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Darius Rejali, Professor of Political Science, Reed College, and author of the recently published torture and democracy (Princeton University Press, 2007); “Torture, Democracy and Our Future.”
Place: Room 630-T at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Av. (btw. 58th and 59th streets)
Co-sponsored with Princeton University Press
April 15, 2008 (6:00 – 8:00 pm)
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