Fall 2009

Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 4.30-6.30 pm.
Jewish Worker Women: A Jewish Socialist Women's Organization
in Interwar Poland and Its Significance
Jack Jacobs, GC, CUNY
Concourse 202

Tuesday, October 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Human Rights Seminar
Sally Engle Merry, New York University, Room 9204
“The Vernacularization of Human Rights: A Comparative Perspective from India, China, Peru, and the USA”

Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Room 9204
Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Global Governance Seminar Series:
Mira Kamdar, "The Environmental Threat to India's Future"       
World Policy Institute

Friday, October 10 & Saturday October 11, 2008
Conference: The Future of Low Wage Work in Metropolitan America
The Center for Urban Research at The CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue (34th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues)

Thursday, October 16, 7 pm: 
Professional development workshop on getting funding for your dissertation research and writing.  Saul Fisher, Director of Fellowship Programs at the American Council on Learned Societies, and our very own Jack Jacobs, currently Acting Deputy Provost at the GC, will be speaking about funding opportunities inside and outside CUNY.

Thursday, October 23, 7 pm: 
Dan Skinner will be giving a mock job talk.  Come get -- and give -- some pointers!

Thursday, November 6, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Human Rights Seminar
Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University, Political Science Thesis Room
“The Violence of Rights: A Perspective from Bolivia”

Tuesday, December 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Human Rights Seminar
Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, CUNY, Room 9207
“The Land of Pale Hands: Feminicide, Social Cleansing and Impunity in Guatemala”

Friday, December 5, 2008
Political Science Graduate Student conference, Room 5200

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)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Panel Discussion on Ethical and Political Ramifications of Torture
Place: Room 9207