http://hdl.handle.net/1811/29324 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:14:31 GMT 2013-05-22T00:14:31Z http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53676 North Korea's Cold War Lerner, Mitchell Perhaps no country in the modern era has perplexed Western observers as much as North Korea, a nation whose extraordinary secrecy and internal repression has generally prevented scholars from exploring its Cold War experience. As a result, the country remains to many an enigma, a land of provocation and intrigue that is often criticized but rarely understood. Then came the liquidation of the Soviet empire, and with it a torrent of new information from the archives of North Korea's former communist allies. Records from the embassies of Russia, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Albania, Hungary, and elsewhere, pulled back the curtain of secrecy that had long enshrouded North Korea, and for the first time allowed outsiders to begin to understand the policies of the "Hermit Kingdom." By utilizing these materials, this conference will examine the inner workings and foreign relations of North Korea during the Cold War, and in doing so will open a virtually unparalleled window into the nation's use of force and diplomacy during the Cold War and beyond. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53676 2012-02-27T00:00:00Z Lerner, Mitchell http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53675 Somalia at Crossroads: Foreign Intervention, Humanitarian Crisis, and Aspirations for Statehood Mohamed, Jibril; Joseph, Laura; Malac, Deborah; Arman, Abukar This two-day conference will bring together some of the brightest minds in Somali affairs with the aim of deepening public discourse and understanding of the complex situation in Somalia and developing strong, pragmatic, and principled policy recommendations for, post-transition political development in Somalia. Issues discussed include the national roadmap, piracy, humanitarian crisis, frontline state military interventions, Diaspora remittance challenges and community development issues. Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53675 2012-01-27T00:00:00Z Mohamed, Jibril Joseph, Laura Malac, Deborah Arman, Abukar http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53674 Good Works in Central America: Interrogating North American Voluntary Service Borland, Katherine; Cardenal, Fernando Short-term delegations to Central America for the purpose of providing material aid, assisting with grassroots development, or offering direct service have proliferated in the last four decades. This conference critically examines travel-for-service and the micro-politics of encounters between privileged visitors (professionals, politically motivated groups, service-learning programs) and impoverished third-world communities they visit, as well as the larger implications of poverty relief efforts organized outside of and sometimes in opposition to existing national and international institutions. Such projects promise solutions to seemingly entrenched problems in poorer nations through virtuous vigorous action. Yet in actuality, the dynamics of cosmopolitan interaction are complex. This conference will provide an opportunity for students and faculty interested or already engaged in international service to reflect upon their motives, practices, and experiences and to consider not only their immediate accomplishments but the longer-term implications of the kind of citizen-diplomacy they aspire to enact. The keynote speaker, Nicaragua's Father Fernando Cardenal, has committed his life to direct service to the poor within the framework of a religious vocation and training, more specifically, liberation theology. In 1980, he directed Nicaragua's National Literacy Crusade, an internationally acclaimed voluntary effort to teach reading and writing to rural and underserved populations, organized through the revolutionary state as a nationalist project. The academic speakers come from a variety of positions within the university but share a concern for reflection and the identification of "best practices." They have all either volunteered with or facilitated volunteer missions/delegations. Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53674 2012-05-03T00:00:00Z Borland, Katherine Cardenal, Fernando http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53007 Transformations of the Public Sphere Mergenthaler, May This conference investigates the historical and contemporary significance of the public sphere and modern social imaginaries—of the discourses, norms, and ideas shared by members of a given society. The motivation for such an investigation arises from the growing interdependence of different nations, regions, and communities that demands and generates new ways of political, legal, economic, strategic, and cultural forms of cooperation. What kind of public spaces facilitate and what kind of shared imaginaries support such cooperation? What aspects in society hinder productive communication and interaction? Does productive social cooperation presuppose certain governmental, in particular democratic structures? Answers to these and related questions will be developed by drawing on several relevant disciplines, including, but not limited to social and political science, cultural theory, philosophy, history, history of science, and media studies. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53007 2012-04-13T00:00:00Z Mergenthaler, May http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53006 Tales of Trickery, Tales of Endurance: Gender, Performance, and Politics in the Islamic World and Beyond Noyes, Dorothy; Lloyd, Barbara Professor Margaret Mills, retiring in June 2012 from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has made major contributions to the study of women in contemporary Afghanistan, the folklore of the Persian-speaking world and South Asia, women’s oral traditions, and traditional pedagogies. She has helped us to think about the rhetorical dimension of oral traditions; the gendering of religious experience; the partitioning of the traditional public sphere into gendered and performative situations; how literacies and pedagogies are mobilized to form political identities; how individual and collective expressive repertoires respond to war and displacement. This conference assembles some of her former students and longterm colleagues to discuss new developments in these lines of research. Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53006 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z Noyes, Dorothy Lloyd, Barbara http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52943 Immigration: What's at Stake? Hubin, Don; MacGilvray, Eric "Immigration: What's at Stake?" is the first major interdisciplinary conference of the Immigration COMPAS, organized with the support of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies , that will focus on core ethical, political, social, and economic issues related to immigration. The conference will bring together a truly distinguished set of researchers addressing the main challenges and opportunities immigration poses in the modern world. The conference aims to interest not only researchers and students, but the broader community. Beside the academic panels, there will be two panels specifically oriented to public discussion. The introductory panel will focus on broad demographic changes on international, national, and local levels, including discussion of how immigration has affected Ohio. The final session will be a question and answer moderated by Fred Andrle (WOSU), encouraging reflective engagement by the community. Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52943 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Hubin, Don MacGilvray, Eric http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52941 Central Eurasian Studies Society 2011 Annual Meeting Levi, Scott; Liu, Morgan Annual Meeting of the Central Eurasian Studies Society is an event put on by the preeminent scholarly organization for Central Asian studies. CESS is a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based interdisciplinary organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia: a region that stretches from the Black Sea region, the Crimea, and the Caucasus in the west, through the Middle Volga region, Central Asia and Afghanistan, and on to Siberia, Mongolia and Tibet in the east. Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52941 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Levi, Scott Liu, Morgan http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52940 Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī Tamer, Georges Abu Hāmid al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) is a central figure in the history of Islamic theology, jurisprudence, philosophy and Sufism. Of Persian origin, he lived and worked in Baghdad and in other intellectual centers of the Muslim world of the 11th and 12th century. Besides his teaching activity in Baghdad and Tus (in Iran), al-Ghazālī wrote in Arabic and Persian on an enormous variety of subjects, which primarily include theology, Islamic law, logic, philosophy, mysticism, and epistemology. A major concern in his works involves the development of an approach to God which is both Islamic and rational; he also strove to integrate religious rationality in the worship of God and in spiritual life. His eminent works on this topic have been widely influential. Indeed, in general, the discourse on rationality, as accepted by orthodox Islam, was largely established, articulated, and solidified by al-Ghazālī. Al-Ghazālī's influence was so widespread that he earned, in the medieval period, the unique title "The Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islām); this honorific, merited by his preeminent scholarship, acknowledged the illustrious way in which he combined logic and ethics, knowledge and action, rationality and spirituality, orthodoxy and renewal of religious thought. To commemorate the 900 year-long legacy of al-Ghazālī, an international and interdisciplinary conference will take place on November 10-12, 2011. Leading scholars in intellectual history, philosophy, Islamic law and theology, and medieval Christian and Jewish thought will convene to discuss vital aspects of al-Ghazālī's work. Dealing with the increasingly important topic of Islam and rationality, and raising relevant questions related to the inter-religious exchange of ideas, the conference will aim to invigorate discourses between philosophy, religious studies, cultural history, and Islamic studies. The goals of this dialogue are to enhance research of and initiate new studies into the impact of al-Ghazālī's vast work and to create continuing forums for international conversation between scholars and the public on the topics of Islam, reason, and cross-cultural exchange. Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52940 2011-11-10T00:00:00Z Tamer, Georges http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52939 Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans Dragostinova, Theodora; Hashamova, Yana Ethnic diversity and national tensions in the Balkans have long attracted the attention of the international community of scholars and policy-makers who have tried to understand how states, societies and people in the area negotiate complex religious and ethno-national identities. Bulgaria and Bosnia exemplify two fascinating case studies of these issues of ethnic diversity and national conflict. The two countries share a similar history of strained transitions from empires to nation-states to communist internationalism and back to nationalism. However, after the fall of communism in 1989, the two states followed diverging paths; while Bosnia underwent a violent process of civil war accompanied with ethnic cleansing, Bulgaria maintained relative ethnic peace, religious tolerance, and political stability. The ultimate purpose of this conference is to debate how and why two similar states and societies experienced comparable challenges of ethnic complexity, political conflict, and national reconciliation differently. Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52939 2011-10-06T00:00:00Z Dragostinova, Theodora Hashamova, Yana http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52938 Science, Technology and Medicine in East Asia: Policy, Practice, and Implications in a Global Context Wittner, David; Blaylock, David Since the end of World War II, historical and contemporary developments in East Asian science, technology and medicine have received increasing scholarly attention partly due to historian of Japanese science James R. Bartholomew's career-long commitment to the field and his mentorship of a younger generation of scholars. This interdisciplinary conference proposes to examine the ways in which the sciences in East Asia – whether basic or applied, from technology to medicine—have shaped and been shaped historically, and are being transformed in the contemporary world by political, economic, institutional, social, and cultural forces, both regional and global. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52938 2011-10-07T00:00:00Z Wittner, David Blaylock, David http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49743 Cybersecurity: Shared Risks, Shared Responsibility Shane, Peter; Hunker, Jeffrey Cybersecurity: Shared Risks, Shared Responsibility conference looks at how cybersecurity -– whether in contexts as gripping as "cyberwar" or as mundane (but potentially devastating) as identity theft -– is now the stuff of daily headlines. Organized by I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, this conference approaches the subject with two ambitions. The first is to move beyond generalities in specifying the roles and responsibilities both the public and private sectors will have to shoulder in order for the United States to share global leadership in cybersecurity. The second is to bring together the many sub-communities of researchers, policy makers, and professionals around the globe who focus on cybersecurity from its many angles into a larger community interested in developing this analysis. Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49743 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Shane, Peter Hunker, Jeffrey http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49701 Gender and States of Emergency Bystydzienski, Jill The Gender and States of Emergency conference will gather a range of perspectives on how gender, in relation to racial, sexual, bodily and economic dimensions, is vital to investigating the impact of war, natural disasters, and political upheavals. At the same time, "states of emergency" is not confined to discussions of catastrophic events; trauma exists in the everyday. In addition, some political actors work to define a particular moment as a state of emergency in order to mobilize publics, re-define citizenship or utilize national machinery. Participants will explore the issue of states of emergency from a variety of angles, not only states in (economic, political or environmental) emergency, but what it means to be in a state of crisis as a specifically situated woman. Participants will examine the nexus of material and affective "states" of crisis, considering the difference that gender makes in natural disasters, war, public policy, institutions and national discourse about citizenship and belonging. Keynote Addresses: Kimberlé Crenshaw, UCLA and Columbia University Cynthia Enloe, Clark University Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49701 2011-04-21T00:00:00Z Bystydzienski, Jill http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49700 Military Frontiers: A Graduate Symposium Border Crossings Waddell, Will; Douglas, Sarah Military Frontiers: A Graduate Symposium brings together leading graduate students engaged in national academic debate within military history. The conference seeks to revive discussions of the successful "Theatrum Militarum" graduate conference held at Ohio State in the 1990s. This year, panels will highlight graduate students performing research that crosses both physical and disciplinary borders. The topics of discussion will address themes of the use of force and diplomacy to resolve conflict; ideas, identities, and decisional processes that affect security; "Law of War" and other ethical and legal issues arising from armed conflict; how war affects and is affected by race and gender; links between war, science and technology; and institutions that manage violent conflict. Students of military and diplomatic history, and specialists in military studies, are encouraged to attend Military Frontiers. Keynote Address: Victor Davis Hanson, Stanford University Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49700 2011-05-12T00:00:00Z Waddell, Will Douglas, Sarah http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49699 Migration, Religion and Germany Becker-Cantarino, Barbara Migration and religion have shaped in particular the United States but also the German-speaking territories of Central Europe during the religious wars in the wake of the Reformation; immigration (especially from Islamic countries) has taken again an important role in present political debate in Germany (and in the EU). A first group of lectures at the conference will present and discuss recent research on the historical phase of early German transatlantic migrations and colonization by Pietists and Moravians in North America, especially Pennsylvania and Ohio from a post-colonial vantage point. The sessions of the second conference day will then address individual and group migrations from Turkey and Islamic countries in the 20th and 21st centuries and the political and religious controversies and cultural clashes as well as efforts at resolution in Germany. The Migration, Religion and Germany conference will provide a stimulating intellectual environment for discussing important cultural issues concerning Central Europe, especially the German-speaking countries, and should also contribute to our understanding of the importance of the present migration / immigration debate in the United States. Keynote Address: Rebekka Habermas, University of Göttingen Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49699 2011-04-08T00:00:00Z Becker-Cantarino, Barbara http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49226 The Camouflage Project Ferris, Lesley; Tarantino, Mary The Camouflage Project, May 19-21, 2011, The Ohio State University. Overview: The goal of The Camouflage Project is to create, organize and execute a three-part interdisciplinary endeavor linked to the theme of secret agents, camouflage, deception and disguise in World War II, specifically the F section (France) of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The three parts are as follows: Performance: To devise a new performance work as collaboration between Ohio State University Theatre and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). This will be a multimedia work combining digital animations and video projections with experimental use of 3D printing, 3D scanning and projection mapping. Exhibition: To create a visual environment parallel to the performance space, that will have a second life as an exhibition. The exhibit features historical background (interviews and soldier training films) on the science and art of camouflage in both World Wars organized around a visual study of selected SOE (principally female) agents and espionage circuits in France, examples of military equipment, devices, disguises, gadgets and weapons of deception. Symposium: To organize and host an international symposium on the multiple artistic and instrumental meanings of camouflage, to be held in May 2011. The symposium features panels of Ohio State and international experts from military history, political science, and the Imperial War Museum addressing the subject of camouflage and the SOE. The camouflage project offers a fresh meaning to the expression "theatre of war." On one level it theatricalizes the history of military camouflage, particularly the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the role played by women agents in its espionage activity. On another it reveals the artistic dimensions of these activities: a variety of theatre artists — scenic, costume, make-up designers, and vaudeville magicians — were employed to use their theatrical skills to deceive and fool the enemy. In 1942 a group of New York scene designers created The Camouflage Society of Professional Stage Designers, hiring two specialists to teach them the art and science of camouflage. Rather than tales of derring-do and spying, this project seeks to look at different and often hidden aspects of the war: the use and creation of camouflage, both literally and metaphorically, by people who had to work secretly behind enemy lines. The performance storyline will highlight the work of women agents, many of whose accomplishments have been concealed, erased or obscured for a variety of reasons. A narrative strategy will be to include elements of the training process involved in preparing agents for the field and the often-disastrous consequences of strategic decisions made by the SOE leadership. Keynote Address: Juliette Pattinson, University of Strathclyde Streaming video requires Flash Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to view. Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49226 2011-05-19T00:00:00Z Ferris, Lesley Tarantino, Mary http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49179 Methodology in Political Psychology McConnaughy, Corrine; White, Ismail Overview: The field of political psychology seeks to address one overriding question: How do people make decisions in the realm of politics? Answers to this question involve explanations of how people come to understand what is at stake in domestic and international politics, how they construct and interpret who is on their side, and how they evaluate what they can or should do about it. Methodology in Political Psychology will gather scholars to discuss issues of measurement, technology, research design, and data analysis that are of particular interest to those working in the field of political psychology — the tools they think can offer particular leverage on the questions of this field. Research topics include the use of eye-tracking and fMRI technology; measurements of emotions, attitudes, and ideology; sampling strategies; and estimation of causal mediation. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/49179 2010-10-14T00:00:00Z McConnaughy, Corrine White, Ismail http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45701 Making Sense in Afghanistan: Interaction and Uncertainty in International Interventions Mills, Margaret; Noyes, Dorothy The counterinsurgency doctrine set forth in U.S. Army-Marine Field Manual 3-24 has prompted continual debate since its 2006 publication. The manual prescribes a focus on the civilian population rather than combatants, with stabilization and nation-building deemed central to the defeat of insurgencies. The manual has received extensive media coverage in the United States, influenced parallel efforts among allied militaries, and been elaborated and extended in the broader reshaping of U.S. military operations. Leaders both political and military disagree on the viability of the approach, whether it serves the national interest, and whether it strengthens or weakens the military as an institution. Scholars, while often sympathetic to the manual's goals, have been wary of the "conscription" of academic knowledge in the Human Terrain System, raising ethical, political, and intellectual concerns that most deem insurmountable. Particularly visible in the debate has been Field Manual 3-24's invocation of culture as a component of conflict and a necessary competency for intervention forces. The starting point of this conference is not FM 3-24's proposed solution, but its unusually forthright statement of the problem. In asymmetrical warfare with nonstate actors, the tools of the modern state are inadequate or counterproductive. Conflict takes place with imperfectly known actors on their own imperfectly known terrain. Their reliance on hybrid, localized tactics, unpredictable by standard models, leaves the dominant actor paradoxically vulnerable. The unfolding of the Iraq and especially the Afghan conflicts has opened the question of whether the intervening powers can reasonably expect to gain military, political, or even intellectual control of the situation. And their dependence on others – local authorities, civilians, and even insurgents -- in attempts to achieve any of these goals has become overwhelmingly clear. A workshop held at Cambridge University in July 2009 examined the attempts of militaries in the United States and United Kingdom to draw upon academic expertise in implementing the counterinsurgency strategy. Mars Turns to Minerva: The Military, Social Science, and War in the 21st Century, organized by Tarak Barkawi and Josef Ansorge, identified a rush to establish both epistemological and on-the-ground control through the revival of colonial policing methods enhanced with sophisticated technologies and typically less sophisticated adaptations of social-scientific frameworks. In this paired conference, we turn to the uses of uncertainty and informality, looking at interactions in the field through the eyes of NATO combatants, Provincial Reconstruction Teams, contractors, and diplomats; NGO workers; and, not least, Afghans themselves. We explore how all of these actors strive to make sense of one another and of an evolving situation. We consider how their modes of improvisation and their ambivalence over appropriate strategy redound upon the conflict itself, organizational and personal choices, and the larger context in which international relations take shape. We ask what can be learned from vernacular perspectives and methods that are not amenable to codification. Streaming videos requires Windows Media Player to view.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45701 2010-04-09T00:00:00Z Mills, Margaret Noyes, Dorothy http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45681 Hybrid Warfare: The Struggle of Military Forces to Adapt to Complex Opponents Mansoor, Peter Hybrid warfare, a combination of conventional and irregular forces fighting against a common foe, has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world, but these conflicts have only recently been categorized as a unique type of conflict. Informed defense analysts believe that hybrid wars are the most likely conflicts in the 21st century. An historical examination of hybrid wars will help to illuminate the various aspects of these conflicts, how great powers have dealt with them, and potential prospects for the future of these types of wars. The United States is currently engaged in extended counterinsurgency conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and has significant military and other national assets assisting other states and regions against insurgencies. Rather than historical anomalies, Iraq and Afghanistan are harbingers of the wars to come in the next several decades. Nation state competitors are unlikely to challenge the United States in the realm of high-technology, conventional warfare. Rather, they will likely use a combination of conventional and insurgent/guerrilla forces – hybrid forces – to wear down American military capabilities in extended campaigns of exhaustion. The United States and its allies must study and understand the strategic, operational, tactical, and doctrinal parameters of hybrid conflicts and prepare to apply lessons from them. This project, which will illuminate historical examples of hybrid warfare from Ancient Greece to the modern world, is a step along that journey of understanding. Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45681 2010-05-14T00:00:00Z Mansoor, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45665 Pacts and Alliances: Why They Succeed, Why They Fail, and Why We Should Care Carter, Charles; Crain, Anthony; Fink, Carole This conference brings together scholars and advanced graduate students to explore pacts and alliances, the mechanics of which have shaped history in fundamental ways, but whose presence has most often been ignored, taken for granted, and clearly understudied. Although sometimes pointing out reasons why a particular pact or alliance failed or succeeded in achieving its goals, historians largely have failed to say anything broader about the requisites necessary for the successful implementation of alliances. Drawing on both the nuanced work of historians and the structural expertise of social scientists, this conference aims to draw broad conclusions about the inner workings of this significant issue related to international security. Pacts and Alliances is organized around four fundamental but crucial questions. First, why do pacts and alliances generally fail in their aims? Second, what common denominators are shared by alliances and pacts that succeed in their objectives? Third, is it inevitable that pacts or alliances are destined to break down? And finally, what are the implications of these results on pact and alliance-making in the 21st century? The answers to these questions are critically important for the next generation of policy makers and international historians. Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45665 2010-04-16T00:00:00Z Carter, Charles Crain, Anthony Fink, Carole http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45104 Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies Hamilton, Ann; Hesford, Wendy; Shuman, Amy This conference begins with the question "What is Evidence?" Art offers a lens through which we come to recognize the politics of power and abuse. Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies brings together artists, activists, and scholars who will discuss their work in the context of human rights as it transforms the raw material of individual and collective suffering into legible and convincing data, confrontational imagery, and testimony. This conference will begin on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. with a presentation by artist activist Coco Fusco. It will conclude with the collaborative project Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954-0034064: A Public Reading. The conference will be held both days at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45104 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z Hamilton, Ann Hesford, Wendy Shuman, Amy http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45103 The Cold War in the Third World McMahon, Robert The first generation of Cold War scholarship was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, concentrating on the Soviet-American confrontation in the heart of Europe while paying but cursory attention to non-Western areas. In recent years, that imbalance has been righted as most scholars now recognize that the Cold War was a truly global phenomenon in which the Third World served as a critical theater and in which non-Western actors played a large and substantive role. The emergence of the Third World, together with the bloody, conflict-ridden process of decolonization that brought it forth, not only coincided temporally with the Cold War but was inextricably shaped by that same Cold War. Indeed, the very term Third World emerged directly out of the Cold War struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. One of the central paradoxes of the Cold War is that it ushered in the longest sustained period of peace in modern European history at the very same time that Asia, Africa, and the Middle East were convulsed by unprecedented amounts of violence and conflict. If Europe’s Long Peace can be directly attributable to the structure of stability imposed by the East-West standoff then to what extent did the Cold War encourage, ignite, or exacerbate, whether indirectly or directly, the Third World Conflicts of the Cold War era? This conference will address two distinct but closely interrelated sets of questions. First, how did the Third World affect the course of the Cold War and the behavior and priorities of the two superpowers? And second, what impact did the Cold War have on the developing states and societies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America? This conference will bring together leading younger and established scholars from the fields of international, diplomatic, and Third World history to produce an integrative, broadly focused approach to this large and complex subject. The conference will precede, and help shape a book project in which contributors will write an original interpretive essay on various aspects of the Cold War in the Third World in his or her own area of expertise. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45103 2010-02-26T00:00:00Z McMahon, Robert http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45092 West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror' Kalu, Kelechi; Joseph, Laura Since September 11, heightened security attention has focused on West Africa. The vast geographical expanse of the Sahel, with its relatively small governmental infrastructure, makes the region an appealing base for terrorist groups. One example is the oil-producing Niger-Delta zone of Nigeria. This area continues to show increasing vulnerability as a failed state, making it a target location to organize and train Islamic militants. To address such issues, the United States launched a $500 million Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Initiative, which seeks to boost the military capacity of selected West African nations and counter the security threats posed by terrorists. The establishment of the U.S. military's Africa Command (AFRICOM) in 2007 marks the growing importance of Africa in U.S. security calculations. According to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, AFRICOM oversees "security cooperation, partnership capability building, defense support to non-military missions, and, if directed, military operations on the African continent." Although these new developments represent a dramatic departure from past U.S. policy toward Africa, systematic scholarly efforts to understand these radical transformations are lacking. This conference seeks to provide a comprehensive study of the evolving U.S.-Africa security partnership. Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/45092 2009-10-30T00:00:00Z Kalu, Kelechi Joseph, Laura http://hdl.handle.net/1811/44583 The Transformative Election of 2008 Weisberg, Herb This conference will examine the 2008 presidential campaign and election, analyzing the foreign and military policy debates as well as the voting trends that remade the image of the U.S. abroad. The 2008 U.S. presidential election took place against the backdrop of the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a domestic financial crisis. The two major-party candidates secured their nominations in large part because of their stances on the wars. Discussion of foreign and military policies became paramount throughout the campaign. Few disputed that America's popularity abroad had declined during the George W. Bush years. This conference will examine how the change in the party controlling the White House, the accession of an opponent of the Iraq War, and the election of the first African-American President of the United States changed perceptions of the United States around the world. Topics raised by the 2008 campaign and election are crucial for academic understanding of elections. The role of issues versus candidate characteristics remains a topic of interest, especially in relation to race in the 2008 election. There is also reason to be concerned about voting turnout levels in the United States, particularly since they continue to be lower than in most other democracies. Such discussions will be explored in depth throughout this conference. Video requires RealPlayer to view; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/44583 2009-10-02T00:00:00Z Weisberg, Herb http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37913 Women in Politics: Global Perspectives Mann, Melanie Women in Politics: Global Perspectives is a one-day workshop featuring three panels of speakers with planned discussion and extended opportunity for informal communication. Three panels will be convened: (1) Women and Democracy, National Security, and Conflict, (2) Women's Global Organizing, and (3) Women in Politics - Gaining Access, Changing Institutions. The goal of the panels is to demonstrate multiple approaches to the same topics, spark conversations about fruitful ways to explain women's representation in regions and countries where traditional explanations are less helpful, and provide the backdrop for facilitated discussions of practical concerns in researching women in politics globally. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37913 2009-04-24T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37912 Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop Mann, Melanie The Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop was launched in 2005 as a more intimate and intensive supplement to the Middle East Studies Association meeting. It encourages exchange among scholars of the history, art, architecture, and folklore of the Ottoman Empire from the Great Lakes region and beyond. Emphasis is on intensive discussion of pre-circulated papers. Since its inaugural meeting at Northwestern University in March 2005, GLOW has met every spring (after initially meeting twice in 2005) at a major Midwestern institution. Past hosts have been (in order) Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Toronto, University of Michigan, and University of Notre Dame. Given Ohio State's strength in Ottoman studies, we expect a rich and rewarding program in 2009. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37912 2009-04-18T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37911 Empire at End: Global Transformations in the Late Cold War Mann, Melanie Empire at End: Global Transformations in the Late Cold War is the third conference on global history at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. This symposium brings together junior faculty and advanced Ph.D. candidates to examine the patterns, limits, and agents of global change in late 20th century. Panelists will consider to what extent, and for what reasons, the bipolar balance of power that characterized the Cold War was challenged, particularly from the 1970s on. By examining the interplay of new forces for change with forces resisting change, we hope to better understand the relationships between the global transformations of the late 20th century and pan-European Empire. Did these transformations mark the "End of Empire" or merely redefine empire? Students of diplomatic, international, and transnational history, along with economists, political scientists, and specialists in globalization, are encouraged to attend Empire at End. The conference will examine themes of globalization and nationalism, as well as warfare, social protest, and political economy. Its geographical scope will be broad, focusing not only on the United States and the Soviet Union, but also Western and Eastern Europe, East and South Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37911 2009-04-03T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37910 The Race in Culture: 20th-Century Ethnology and Empire in Comparative Perspective Mann, Melanie Keywords of the modern period, "race" and "culture" have persisted as concepts shaping both institutional and vernacular practice. The imperialist context in which scientific representations of human difference emerged has been intensively studied. The Race in Culture: 20th-Century Ethnology and Empire in Comparative Perspective examines the persistence of such representations in post-imperial states and international institutions. We compare the 20th century trajectories of three states torn among nationalist, imperialist, and universalist aspirations: France, the United States, and China. The conference will have two principal foci. First we examine ethnological museums, their original importance as knowledge institutions, and their contested roles today as vehicles for promoting cultural diversity. Second, we consider how, in the wake of the Holocaust and the breakup of European empires after the Second World War, earlier concepts were reconfigured rather than erased. An overall shift from "race" to "culture" as the internationally legitimate framing of human difference can conveniently be dated to the 1950 UNESCO Declaration on Race. Nonetheless, continuities as well as ruptures can be traced in many realms of policy and administration. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37910 2009-05-01T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37909 Military Frontiers: A Graduate Symposium Mann, Melanie Military Frontiers: A Graduate Symposium brings together leading graduate students engaged in national academic debate within military history. The conference seeks to revive discussions of the successful "Theatrum Militarum" graduate conference held at Ohio State in the 1990s. This year, discussion will focus on issues raised by emerging scholars of the "Great War." Panelists will present on the role the United States played in providing humanitarian relief from 1914-1924 in response to war sufferings, the American military identity as presented in uncensored war testimonies gathered during the Great War, and the impact of changing military technology on leadership development of the United States military during the 20th century. Students of military and diplomatic history, and specialists in military studies, are encouraged to attend Military Frontiers. The symposium will examine themes on ethical and legal issues of armed conflict; ways in which war affects and is affected by race and gender; and links between war, science, and technology. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37909 2009-05-15T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37893 Mirrors and Compasses: An 85th Birthday Symposium for Erika Bourguignon Mann, Melanie Known for pioneering work on the relationship of religious trance to gender roles and social change, Erika Bourguignon set long-term agendas in psychological and psychiatric anthropology, religious studies, women's studies, and African American performance studies. More recently her explorations of her family past have garnered attention in Jewish studies and the study of memory in Central Europe. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37893 2009-02-20T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37892 The Limits of Empire in the Early Modern World: A Conference in Honor of Geoffrey Parker Mann, Melanie Conference on Diplomacy and Imperial Limitation, Information, Rumor and the Practice of Power The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37892 2009-02-27T00:00:00Z Mann, Melanie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36284 China Plural: Local Identites, Contesting Visions, and Constructing Nations Yeo, Kwang-Kyoon How much do we know about China, the most populous country on earth? Is it in the clutches of the Chinese Communist Party? Is it an awakening dragon with aspirations to dominate the global economy? Or, is it the convinced host of the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the motto of "One World, One Dream"? The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36284 2008-10-17T00:00:00Z Yeo, Kwang-Kyoon http://hdl.handle.net/1811/34020 Cold War as the Periphery: Global Change in the 1960s and Beyond Chamberlin, Paul; Gurney, Ursula; Irwin, Ryan; McMahon, Robert In his 1972 essay "The Diffusion of Power," Walt Rostow noted the shift in power in the world community away from Washington and Moscow.Particularly concerned with the developing world, he asked a question that has yet to be fully answered: "Are men capable of organizing this fragile global community of diffusing power in reasonably stable and peaceful ways, or will the diffusion of power lead to more violence and disorder than we already know?" This conference will explore how this "diffusion of power" transformed global politics in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together graduate students and junior faculty, it will examine the connections between three broad conceptual questions: • How did the political and material terrain of the pan-European world change during this period? • How did actors inside and outside government bureaucracies interpret and value these changes? • How did geopolitical "flashpoints" in the global South rally, reflect, and reconstitute understandings of global power after 1960? Taken together, these points aim to explore the assumptions underlying Rostow's query, as well as investigate the paradoxes of change in the postcolonial era. Space no doubt emerged for the articulation of alternative visions of world order –- visions often rooted in themes of racial justice, national sovereignty, and human rights -– but questions remain over the depth, nature, and permanence of these transformations. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/34020 2008-04-18T00:00:00Z Chamberlin, Paul Gurney, Ursula Irwin, Ryan McMahon, Robert http://hdl.handle.net/1811/34019 Online Consultation and Public Policy Making: Democracy, Identity, and New Media Shane, Peter; Coleman, Stephen The Internet now offers the world an unprecedented capacity to foster the sharing of information and to facilitate sustained, many-to-many communication. The networking of citizens with their governments, with each other, and with the organs of civil society has created unprecedented opportunities for popular engagement in the public sphere. The International Conference on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making: Democracy, Identity, and New Media will feature researchers from Australia, England, France, Israel, Italy, Korea and Slovenia, as well as the United States, addressing a variety of e-democracy issues from a diverse interdisciplinary background and both theoretical and applied research. This is an active workshop in which members of the International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making will both present and discuss the principal papers. Audience members, including students, are welcome, but reservations to attend must be made in advance. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/34019 2008-03-14T00:00:00Z Shane, Peter Coleman, Stephen http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32014 The United States and Iraq: Why We're There, Where We're Going: An Educational Forum Grimsley, Mark; Herrmann, Richard; O'Connell, Mary Ellen; Webber, Sabra In April 2004, the United States suffered more casualities in Iraq than during the entire period of declared hostilities last year. Almost every aspect of American occupation remains controversial. Has the removal of Saddam Hussein helped the United States in its war on terror? What are the prospects of fostering democracy in Iraq? What are the implications under international law? How does the invasion and occupation appear to people living in other parts of the world, especially the Middle East Streaming audio requires RealPlayer.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Tue, 11 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32014 2004-05-11T00:00:00Z Grimsley, Mark Herrmann, Richard O'Connell, Mary Ellen Webber, Sabra http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32013 American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Russia Derluguian, Georgi; Zubok, Vladislav; Brown, John The Slavic Center is organizing a symposium on “American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Russia” to be held on 7 May 2004 from 2:30-5:00 at the Mershon Center. This event is part of a series of symposia exploring the impact of American culture on various regions of the world. Each of the five area studies centers at OSU, in cooperating with the Mershon Center, will host a meeting dealing with its respective region. Last quarter the Middle East Center organized such a symposium. This quarter the Slavic Center invites a former diplomat, a sociologist, and a political scientist to participate in a panel focused on the impact of American culture on Russian culture and anti- Americanism emerging since the end of the Cold War. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 07 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32013 2004-05-07T00:00:00Z Derluguian, Georgi Zubok, Vladislav Brown, John http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32012 Exile and Otherness Stephan, Alexander The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32012 2004-04-30T00:00:00Z Stephan, Alexander http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31968 Russia's Parliamentary Elections: What is at stake on December 7th? Hopf, Ted; Frye, Timothy; Hudson, George Several of the Mershon Center’s professors, including Ted Hopf and Timothy Frye, both Political Scientists, and George Hudson, a visiting scholar from Wittenberg University, perform field research in Russia. The day before the parliamentary elections in Russia in December, these three experts discussed the political situation surrounding the elections. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31968 2003-12-05T00:00:00Z Hopf, Ted Frye, Timothy Hudson, George http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31967 Persecution and Conflict in Mediterranean Religions Mershon Center for International Security Studies The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31967 2003-10-31T00:00:00Z Mershon Center for International Security Studies http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31964 Conference on Adaptive Management and Global Climate Change Aryal, Joseph; Koontz, Thomas; Robbins, Paul; Sohngen, Brent; Thompson, Alex Scholars from a variety of disciplines, including Economics, Geography, Political Science, and others, came to Ohio State to discuss the human dimension of climate change during the Adaptive Research and Governance in Climate Change conference. With an eye on the policy-relevant, social scientific study of climate change and attacking the problem with an integrative approach, the conference convened scholars for two days to focus on one question: how to marry the myriad aspects of climate change to develop a policy to improve the current crisis of climate change. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31964 2003-10-31T00:00:00Z Aryal, Joseph Koontz, Thomas Robbins, Paul Sohngen, Brent Thompson, Alex http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31963 United Nations Association Mershon Center for International Security Studies The Mershon Center was the primary sponsor of the Columbus chapter of the United Nations Association’s two-day intercollegiate forum, which asked students to debate the relevance of the United Nations system in the twenty-first century. For two days, delegates from UNA chapters at universities throughout Ohio and neighboring states discussed various aspects of the UN system, including the security council, the role of NGOs, the World Trade Organization, and health care. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31963 2003-10-24T00:00:00Z Mershon Center for International Security Studies http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31962 Democracy, Citizenship and Legitimacy: A Citizenship Mini-Conference Williams, Melissa; Estlund, David; McCormick, John The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31962 2003-10-24T00:00:00Z Williams, Melissa Estlund, David McCormick, John http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31961 Deprivation, Violence, and Identities: Mapping Contemporary World Conflicts Jenkins, J. Craig; Gottlieb, Esther; Kukielka-Blaser, Joanna; Sikainga, Ahmad; Spaulding, Frank; Stephan, Halina With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many anticipated the advent of a “new world order” of global capitalism, or even an “end to history,” implying that conflicts based on ideology and competing national interests and identities would lose their political relevance in the post-Cold War era. Quite to the contrary, the 1990s saw an upwelling of ethnic and religious violence in locations as disparate as the former Yugoslavia, Central Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to the events of 9/11, the structure of international relations had still made it possible to imagine that such conflicts had local roots and were thus exclusively of regional consequence. The events of 9/11, however, rendered undeniable the global significance of local ethnic and religious-based differences. It is now an inescapable conclusion that social identities are everywhere threatened from within by local and ethnic formations, conditioned in their response by the prerogatives and ambitions of the state and its actors, and transformed from without by the global flows of capital, popular culture, and transnational ideologies and populations. As features of the contemporary world, deprivation, violence, and identities are but the local manifestations of the conflict between global systems of thought, power, and authority. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31961 2003-10-03T00:00:00Z Jenkins, J. Craig Gottlieb, Esther Kukielka-Blaser, Joanna Sikainga, Ahmad Spaulding, Frank Stephan, Halina http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31960 Protest Music As Responsible Citizenship Belafonte, Harry; Near, Holly; Johnson Reagon, Bernice; Seeger, Pete Protest Music As Responsible Citizenship was a special event that studied how music helps to construct the political consciousness of a nation, how songs mobilize thousands of people around issues affecting American life, and how music addresses the role of America in the global context. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31960 2003-09-10T00:00:00Z Belafonte, Harry Near, Holly Johnson Reagon, Bernice Seeger, Pete http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31959 Understanding Global Tensions Mershon Center for International Security Studies The Mershon Center received a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and led a three-day workshop on the causes and consequences of global tensions caused by extremist movements and political violence in the Middle East. The workshop was held in Istanbul at Bogazici University in late June and convened scholars from around the world to study topics such as the influence of religion and ideology and tensions between global and local cultures. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31959 2004-06-23T00:00:00Z Mershon Center for International Security Studies http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31958 The Sino-American Security Dialogue Andrews, Julie; Yu, Bin; Gries, Peter Mershon Center for International Security Studies The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31958 2004-06-06T00:00:00Z Andrews, Julie Yu, Bin Gries, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31957 Identity Matters...And How Neumann, Iver; Doty, Roxanne Lynn; Oren, Ido; Richter, Jim; Larson, Deborah; Blum, Douglas; Abdelal, Rawi; Weldes, Jutta; Hopf, Ted; Noyes, Dorothy; Sterling-Folker, Jennifer; Kowert, Paul; Sylvan, Don; Klotz, Audie; Herrera, Yoshiko; Fierke, Karin The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Sun, 30 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31957 2004-05-30T00:00:00Z Neumann, Iver Doty, Roxanne Lynn Oren, Ido Richter, Jim Larson, Deborah Blum, Douglas Abdelal, Rawi Weldes, Jutta Hopf, Ted Noyes, Dorothy Sterling-Folker, Jennifer Kowert, Paul Sylvan, Don Klotz, Audie Herrera, Yoshiko Fierke, Karin http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31871 The Dark Side of Globalization Hashamova, Yana; Stephan, Halina A recent CIA report estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 women and children are brought to the United States every year under false pretenses and are forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers or servants. More than 700,000 people all around the world are trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Besides being a human rights issue, trafficking in human beings is a public health concern due to the widespread infection of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Additionally, it is a transnational organized crime and a socioeconomic issue. In Eastern Europe, a recognized “supply” and “demand” region, the practice is fed by economic disparity, corruption, lax law enforcement and is tied to global criminal economies. The estimated $15-billion international turnover from trafficking is on a par with the drug trade and an international crisis. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 14 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31871 2004-05-14T00:00:00Z Hashamova, Yana Stephan, Halina http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31870 Religion, Secrecy and Security: Religious Freedom Urban, Hugh Mershon is funding a small conferenceon the topic of religion, secrecy and security in a global context that will offer an explicitly comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to the problems of secrecy and religion. The scholars involved will be drawn not only from the field of religious studies, but also from political science, sociology, law, anthropology and communications. Tentatively proposed for Autumn 2003, the conference will involve an intensive discussion of papers submitted by twelve participants and two public keynote lectures for the University community at large. The conference will address the following key questions: Why do some religious traditions insist that certain aspects of their beliefs and practices remain secret and closed to outsiders? Is secrecy a potentially dangerous force within religious traditions, either as a means of concealing immoral activities (such as pedophilia or other sexual crimes) or as a means of conducting subversive and violent activities (such as terrorism)? Conversely, how far should government agencies be allowed to go in order to monitor or infiltrate religious groups that may pose a threat to other individuals or to national security? And to what degree do such groups retain the rights to privacy and freedom from government surveillance? These questions have become all the more critical in the wake of recent events within the United States itself. The spread of terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda have generated a whole new wave of fears --not only the fear of infiltration by secretive and destructive religious movements, but also the fear that this will in turn lead to the loss of privacy and freedom for many alternative religious groups who now face more ever intense government scrutiny within an increasingly "surveilled" society. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31870 2004-04-16T00:00:00Z Urban, Hugh http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31869 Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa Conference Sikainga, Ahmad The Center for African Studies at the Ohio State University will organize a two-day conference in spring 2004 on Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa. The conference will bring academics from various disciplinary backgrounds, professionals, and individuals involved in the reconstruction process to examine the reconstruction efforts currently taking place in a number of waraffected African countries. Participants will have an opportunity to share their experiences, to develop strategies of intervention, and to examine and discuss approaches and theoretical paradigms for the study of conflict resolution, reconciliation, democratization, and nation building. The conference will address the following themes: Children in Conflict and Reconstruction, Gender issues in Conflict and Reconstruction, Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex- Combatants, Natural Resources and Conflict, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, and Agriculture and Other Resources During and After Conflict. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31869 2004-04-16T00:00:00Z Sikainga, Ahmad http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31857 Distributive Politics and Social Protection in the 21st Century Rudra, Nita; Nooruddin, Irfan; Simmons, Joel; Kaufman, Robert; Scanlon, T. M.; Cook, Linda; Wilson, Sarah; Haggard, Stephan; Brooks, Sarah; Béland, Daniel; van Wijnbergen, Christina; Weyland, Kurt; Kurtz, Marcus Dramatic economic and demographic transitions have prompted societies around the world to renegotiate the social bargains underpinning national social protection systems. In the process, social welfare reforms have laid bare deep fault lines of distributive conflict, cleaving societies across generations, income levels, and risk groups. Although considerable scholarly attention has been paid to the distinctive contours of these reforms, much of this inquiry remains bound within regional or national lines. As a step toward bridging these empirical and theoretical gaps, this workshop will bring together scholars engaged in research on social protection and distributive conflict in diverse regions of the world, from Latin America to Europe and Asia. Questions addressed in the workshop will include efforts to understand the longer-term implications of social welfare transformations, while asking what changes in social welfare spending, structure and function will imply for longer-term distributions of political and economic resources, risk and life chances. Lastly, participants in the workshop will ask how the shift of risks from collective social insurance programs to individuals affect social cohesion, and democratic stability. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31857 2004-10-29T00:00:00Z Rudra, Nita Nooruddin, Irfan Simmons, Joel Kaufman, Robert Scanlon, T. M. Cook, Linda Wilson, Sarah Haggard, Stephan Brooks, Sarah Béland, Daniel van Wijnbergen, Christina Weyland, Kurt Kurtz, Marcus