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Updated November 1, 2006
Delmos
Jones Visiting Scholar Program
The
Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar Program was
inaugurated in Fall 2001 to honor the life
and career of Professor Delmos
Jones (1936-1999), a member of The Graduate
Center Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology
for 28 years. In his life and work,
Delmos Jones exemplified the highest ideals
of scholarship while also nurturing students
and engaging the important issues of our
times.
The
Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar Program brings
a number of prominent minority scholars
to the CUNY Graduate Center for several
days each year. Each Scholar gives at least
one public lecture, makes a presentation
(or presentations) in the area of his/her
research, and generally interacts with students
and faculty both within and across doctoral
programs.
Human
Rights Seminar Series
The
Human Rights Seminar Series provide an interdisciplinary
forum for scholars and practitioners to
present current research, as well as share
their field experiences, on issues relating
to the protection of internationally recognized
human rights norms. The seminar encourages
critical perspectives on the meaning and
practice of human rights in areas that either
have not received adequate attention, or
that need major reassessment. Past activities
have included conferences, seminars, and
workshops on the limitations of the state-centric
model for framing human rights discourse
and practice, the challenges of refugee
and IDP protection, accountability in the
application/enforcement of human rights
norms, globalization, the role of non-state
actors, and the overall contribution of
the United Nations System as an agent of
human rights. The co-chairs of the seminar
series are Professors George Andreopoulos and
John Wallach
and the administrative coordinator is Paulette
Weiss.
New
York Colloquium on American Political Development
The
New York Colloquium on American Political
Development, founded in 1994, brings together
faculty and graduate students from across
the metropolitan area to discuss research
exploring American politics from a historical
perspective. Drawing upon the rich
scholarly resources of colleges and universities
in and around the city, the colloquium welcomes
work covering any time period and reflecting
the different approaches that may shed light
on the emergence, evolution, and persistence
of American political institutions, practices,
and beliefs. The group meets at the
CUNY Graduate Center several times each
year. Papers are circulated via e-mail
in advance of each session. For further
information or a copy of the next paper,
please contact Professor Andrew Rich .
Political
Theory Colloquium
The goal of the Political Theory Colloquia is to provide a forum at the Graduate Center for students and faculty to engage in contemporary scholarship in political theory. We hope to foster community among theorists as well as interrogate what it means to conduct interdisciplinary work in this field.
Past colloquia:
Fall 2004
Professor Peter Bratsis, “Globalization and Political Corruption
Distinguished Professor Marshall Berman, “Montesquieu: The Enlightenment on Broadway”
Professor John Wallach, “Democratic Virtue and Its Obstacles”
Spring 2005
Professor Joan Tronto, “Vicious Circles of Privatized Care”
Professor Corey Robin, “Fear: History of an Idea, Politics of a Practice”
Dan Skinner, “The Politics of Necessity in Thucydides’ History and American Empire” Jen Gaboury, “A Sea Change: Masculinity and Politics”
Professor Tito Gerassi, “The American Empire: Friendly Fascism and Why We Are All ‘Good Germans’”
Ozgur Usenmez, “Backlash: A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the Rise of Political Islam in Turkey”
Annelies Kamran, “The American Metanarrative of Sovereignty”
Fall 2005
Professor Jack Jacobs, “On Critical Theory and Antisemitism: Horkheimer and Adorno in Exile”
Professor Benedetto Fontana, “Rhetoric and Hegemony in Gramsci”
Professor Wendy Brown, “Reconfigurations of Sovereignty and Democracy: Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism”
Professor Helen Pringle, “The Curious Incident of the Policeman in the Night-time: John Stuart Mill, Speech and Respect”
Spring 2006
Distinguished Professor Richard Wolin, “What is Heideggerian Marxism?”
Gerasimos Karavitis, “Philosophical Anarchism”
Professor Michael Goodhart, “Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization”
Professor Andreas Kalyvas, “The Tyranny of Dictatorship: When the Greek Tyrant Met the Roman Dictator
Professor Peter Euben, “Thomas More: Necessity and Utopia”
Fall 2006
Professor Nick Xenos, “A Patria to Die For”
Professor George Shulman, “Prophecy and Race in Baldwin and Morrison” Distinguished Professor Rosalind Petchesky, “Rights of the Body in Times of War”
Tony Monchinski, “Politics, Ethics and Education”
Organizers: Dan Skinner ; Jennifer Gaboury
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