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 Date & Time  Sponsoring Institutions / Title of Event  
January 2006 - December 2006 All events are held at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, unless specified otherwise
 

December 12, 2006

6:30 to 8:30 pm
9th floor conference rooms

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, World Learning

Open to the public by registration only, $10 per person.
Please RSVP by Dec 5: (802) 258-3214

"Shaping the Future: World Learning and Global Citizenship"

Carol Bellamy, President and CEO, World Learning/SIT

December 1-5, 2006

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Academic Council on the United Nations (ACUNS)

 

ACUNS Executive Committee Meeting

 

November 16, 2006

Room TBA

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Closed meeting

A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General? "UN Secretariat"

James O.C. Jonah

November 8, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room 9206-9207

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

Global Governance Seminar Series: "Cultural Dialectics"

Mahmood Mamdani (invited), Department of Anthropology and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

November 1, 2006


Room 9206

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Norm of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and Global Warming"

Leslie Lowe, Program Director, Energy and the Environment, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

October 26, 2006


Room TBA

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Closed meeting

A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General?
"Peace and Security"

Edward Luck

October 25, 2006


12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room C201

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

Global Governance Seminar Series: "Globalizing mining capital: a third wave of neoliberal reform for extractive industries of the third world"

Jeanette Graulau, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lehman College

October 19, 2006


Room TBA

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Closed meeting

A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General?
"Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention"

Iain Levine

October 18, 2006


12:00 - 2:00 pm
Skylight Conference Room

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

Global Governance Seminar Series: "Beyond Oil: the role of religion and religious communities in global warming"

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Shalom Center Philadelphia

October 11, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room 9206

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

Global Governance Seminar Series: "The ideological uses of culture in global politics"

Marnia Lazreg, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College

October 4, 2006


12:00 - 2:00 pm
Skylight Conference Room

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Arab Human Development Report Series"

Dr. Azza Kharam, AHDR Coordinator, UNDP

October 5, 2006


Room TBA

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Closed meeting

A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General?
"Development and Environment"

Richard Jolly

September 19, 2005

6:00 - 8:00 pm
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public
Please call: (212) 817-1936

A Rule-Based International Order: Illusory or Achievable?
Dankwart A. Rustow Memorial Lecture

Gareth Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group
September 7, 2006


Room 5203

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Please RSVP to RBInstitute@gc.cuny.edu by September 5

Fall 2006 Welcome Reception

 

May 23-24, 2006

Social Science Research Council

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Social Science Research Council Conference for the "Transformation of Humanitarianism" Project
April 14, 2006

 

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies John H. E. Fried Memorial Fellowship application due
April 5, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Skylight Conference Room

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

UN Seminar Series: "Moving the Human Rights Commission/Council from the oversight of ECOSOC to that of the General Assembly"

Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan, Senior Fellow, The Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies; Former Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

March 29, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Segal Theater

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

UN Seminar Series: "Assessing the Work of the Disarmament Commission and the I.A.E.A."

H.E. Ambassador M. Javad Zarif, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations

March 24, 2006

6:00 - 7:00 pm
Crescent room

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Political Science Department

CUNY Graduate Center reception at the 2006 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego

March 22, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room 9207

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936
Note: registration by March 8th is strictly required

UN Seminar Series: "The Human Rights Commission at ECOSOC"

Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Director, Division for ECOSOC Support and Coordination United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

March 15, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room C201

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

UN Seminar Series: "The Present Crisis in Nuclear Weapons Policies"

Mr. Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute; Co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Non-Proliferation of the American Bar Association

March 8, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room 9207

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

UN Seminar Series: "Global Corporate Accountability Frameworks: The Role of Socially Responsible Investors"

The Reverend David Schilling, Director, Contract Supplier and Promoting Human Rights Groups, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

March 1, 2006

12:00 - 2:00 pm
Room 9207

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1936

UN Seminar Series: "The United Nations: Implementer or Obstacle?"

Adamantia Pollis, Professor (Emerita) and Senior Lecturer in Political Science, The New School for Social Research

February 28, 2006

4:00-5:30pm, Conversation (President's conference room, 8th floor)
5:30-6:30pm Reception (Ralph Bunche Institute, Room 5203)

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY Graduate Center Political Science Department

Please RSVP at 212-817-1920 or zturan@gc.cuny.edu.

"Women in International Development and Security Policy"

Devaki Jain, development economist and founding member of DAWN, and author of the recently published Women, Development, and the UN
Barbara Haering, vice president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and member of the Swiss Parliament

February 15, 2006

8:30 - 10:30 am
The Church Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room
777 United Nations Plaza

The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Franciscans International, the International Crisis Group, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and the Quaker United Nations Office

By invitation only. Please RSVP to Alison Jones, at capf@fiop.org or 212-490-4624.

"From Darfur to Chad: Is the Instability Spreading?"

Speakers: Alex de Waal, Social Science Research Council & Harvard University; Roland Marchal, CERI, Paris; and Delphine Kemneloum Djiraibe, Peace and Reconciliation Initiative Committee, Chad. Moderator: Suliman Baldo, International Crisis Group.

January 10, 2006

8:30 - 10:30 am
The Church Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room
777 United Nations Plaza

The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Franciscans International, the International Crisis Group, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and the Quaker United Nations Office

By invitation only. Please RSVP to Alison Jones, at capf@fiop.org or 212-490-4624.

"Regional Political and Security Dynamics in Katanga and the DRC Elections"

First meeting of The Central Africa Policy Forum (CAPF) in New York. Speakers include: Jason Stearns, International Crisis Group; Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, UNDP; Herbert F. Weiss, Woodrow Wilson Center; Peter Rosenblum, Columbia University.
January 9, 2006

8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Skylight Conference Room

The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Social Science Research Council

"Transformation of Humanitarianism?"

Author meeting


 
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