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Political
Science Events
Spring 2009
May 8, at 4:00 pm, in the Thesis Room
Discussion of a reform of the first examination in comparative politics
Led by Susan Woodward
Political Science Department Alumni Award Night
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The Skylight Room, Room 9100
Reception to follow, Room 5200
Monday, April 27, 6pm-8pm
Room 9204
Human Rights Seminar Series Spring 2009
A Roundtable on “UN Counterterrorist Policies and Human Rights: A Reassessment”
George Andreopoulos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center, CUNY
Edward Flynn, Senior Human Rights Advisor, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate
and Yvonne Terlingen,Head, Amnesty International Office at the United Nations
April 7, Tuesday, 7-9 PM
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
Room C 197
Sex Tourism and Male Prostitution in Weimar Berlin
Robert Beachy, Associate Professor of History,Goucher College
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wine and Cheese, Student Mixer, 7.30 pm
Political Science Department Lounge, 5200
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 6:30-8:30 pm
Room 9207
The Disintegrative Logics of American Primacy
Talk by Vassilis K. Fouskas
Professor Susan L. Woodward, The Graduate Center, CUNY, will introduce the speaker and moderate the Q & A.
Friday, March 20 at 2:00 PM
History Lounge (Room 5114)
"Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes"
A Talk by Paul Corner
Professor of European History
University of Siena (Italy)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 17:30
Alfred H. Kingon, Former US Ambassador to the EU
Retrospective on Changes in the European Union
Rooms: 9204/9205
Monday, February 23, 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
Human Rights Seminar Series
“When is Sexual Violence A Threat to Peace and Security?”
Letitia Anderson, Advocacy and Women’s Rights Specialist
United Nations Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict
Room: 9204
Thursday, February 19, 4PM
Rooms C203/C204
Party and Democracy in Brazil
Frances Hagopian, Associate Professor of Political Science and a faculty fellow and former Director of the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Room 5414
Global Governance Seminar Series:“Whither the Responsibility to Protect?”
“A Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War”
Conor Foley
Commentator: James Traub, (Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect)
Conor Foley has worked for a variety of human rights and humanitarian aid organizations, including Liberty, Amnesty International and the UNHCR, in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His books include The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War (2008) and Combating Torture (2003).
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 6:30
C198
Learning to Love Democracy: Turkish Bourgeoisie and the State
Devrim Yavuz
Visiting Scholar at MEMEAC (Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center),
Graduate Center
February 5,
4:30pm, C198
Jewish Studies Colloquy
Rebecca Kobrin, Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University
"Crisis and Collapse: Jewish Immigrant Banks, Financial Failure and the Reshaping of American Capitalism 1914-1930"
