2006-07 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences
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Item Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General to visit central Ohio(2006-09-26) Becker, CathyA series of recommendations to end poverty by the year 2015 is the subject of two talks in central Ohio by Jeffrey Sachs, special advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and Director of the U.N. Millennium Project. Sachs will hold a press conference at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday (10/5) at Ohio State's Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Avenue. At 3 p.m., he will discuss "The End of Poverty" at the Ohio Union West Ballroom, 1739 N. High Street. He will also speak at 7:30 p.m. at Ohio Wesleyan University's Gray Chapel, where he will be awarded an honorary degree.Item Jerusalem: Cultures and Communities in Contention conference(2006-11-27) Horowitz, AmyJerusalem: Cultures and Communities in Contention brings together two Israeli and two Palestinian scholars for a working conference to complete a publication begun in the 1990s. Participants will review, critique and revise essays on cultural identities and practices in Jerusalem written under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Jerusalem Project in light of events over the past decade. Two colleagues from the Smithsonian will join the working group. The publication will make a significant and timely contribution to questions that arise at the intersection of international security and cultural identity in disputed territories.Item Preventive Self-Defense(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-19) Doyle, MichaelMichael Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of United States Foreign and Security Policy at Columbia University, with a joint-appointment at the Law School and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He will lecture on the ethics of preventive self-defense.Item The End of Humanitarian Intervention? Norms and International Politics after 9/11(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-11-14) Cottey, AndrewAndrew Cottey will argue that despite an apparent retreat from humanitarian intervention, there is a deeper normative shift in international politics that is re-defining the boundaries of state sovereignty and will create ongoing pressures for military intervention in internal conflicts and humanitarian crises.Item The Politics of Memory in Post-War Europe(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-11-13) Lebow, Richard NedRichard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and fellow of the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He will lecture on "The Politics of Memory in Post-War Europe."Item Gendered Insecurities, Religion and Contemporary International Theorizing(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-11-02) Tickner, J. AnnJ. Ann Tickner is Professor in the School of International Relations at University of Southern California. She researches feminist perspectives on internationItem The U.N. Security Council as World Legislator(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-30) Talmon, StefanStefan Talmon is a Reader in Public International Law and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Anne's College in Oxford University. He will speak on the U.N. as world legislator.Item Empire and Citizenship, 212-1946(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-27) Cooper, Frederick; Burbank, JaneFrederick Cooper is a Professor of History at New York University specializing in African history, colonization and decolonization, social sciences and the colonial world. Jane Burbank is a Professor of History at New York University specializing in Russian history, legal culture, imperial polities, and peasants. They will speak on empire and citizenship in the ancient world through the Second World War.Item The Contest: Hearts, Minds, and the History of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 'Third World'(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-25) Parker, JasonJason Parker is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. He received in Ph.D. in History at the University of Florida under Robert McMahon in 2002, and since then has been an Assistant Professor of History at the University of West Virginia in Morgantown. Parker will lecture on his current book project "The Contest: Hearts, Minds, and the History of American Public Diplomacy in the 'Third World'."Item Could the British Have Won the American War of Independence?(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-20) Black, JeremyJeremy Black is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter in Great Britain. His expertise is in post-1500 military history and on 18 th century British history, international relations, cartographic history and newspaper history. His lecture will explore the possibility of British victory in the American Civil War.Item Prosperity and Crisis in the World Economy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-12) Brenner, RobertRobert Brenner is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at University of California at Los Angeles. He will lecture on the history and future of the global economy.Item Wired for War: Science Fiction, Science Reality and the 21st Century Battlefield(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-10) Singer, PeterPeter Singer is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. He is speaking on advances in war technology and their use on the battlefield.Item The End of Poverty(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-10-05) Sachs, JeffreyJeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He will lecture on strategies for ending global poverty.Item Rethinking Moderation: The Politics of Participation in the Middle East(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-09-28) Schwedler, JillianJillian Schwedler is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project, publishers of the quarterly Middle East Report.She will speak on "Rethinking Moderation: The Politics of Participation in the Middle East."Item Peace Matters: A Forum on the Discipline and Practice of Peace and Conflict Studies(2007-05-11) Clemens, Julie; Herrmann, RichardThis conference will be an interdisciplinary workshop on peace and conflict studies in the United States. Day One will concentrate on how the subject is taught at U.S. universities, where it should head in the future, and how to institutionalize its presence in campus curricula. Day Two will feature peace activists from Ohio and beyond, highlighting practical steps that people interested in peace can take beyond the confines of the academy.Item Culture Archives and the State: Between Socialism, Nationalism and the Global Market(2007-05-03) Noyes, Dorothy; Mills, MargaretCulture Archives and the State assembles scholar-practitioners from Europe and Asia to discuss the political uses of culture archives. Not just the dusty preserve of researchers, archives define and discipline national identities, shape and censor national memories, as well as preserve cultural alternatives for future recovery. Their contents and uses are tensely negotiated between states, scholars, and citizens. Today archives have become key sites for the reconstruction of cultures and identities in transition. Emphasizing socialist and post-socialist settings, this comparative critical conversation brings together the actors inescapably involved in the instrumentalization of folklore: archivists working in state institutions with a mandate to preserve the national culture.Item The United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History(2007-04-20) McMahon, Robert; Hahn, Peter; Etheridge, Brian; Osgood, KennethThe United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History will bring together the latest scholarship on the history of public diplomacy from a variety of disciplines, with an eye toward publication of an edited book intended to introduce scholars, graduate students, practitioners, and the general public to public diplomacy studies. While at times a slippery term, public diplomacy denotes activities designed to shape, manipulate, or otherwise influence public opinion to facilitate the achievement of foreign policy objectives. Its practitioners have harbored ambitions ranging from advancing particular ideologies such as Nazism or communism, to spreading cultural values and products, to simply fostering goodwill between nations. Practitioners of public diplomacy have also used a range of methods to achieve their objectives, including • The creation of films, pamphlets, and other propaganda; the suppression of cultural products deemed injurious to their interest. • The employment of local people and firms to disseminate their message. • The building of coalitions with state and non-state allies to achieve their public diplomacy objectives. In particular, this conference will explore the ways public diplomacy reflects ideas and beliefs that inform security policy. Public diplomacy serves as an ideal nexus through which scholars can observe and analyze the interplay of culture and diplomacy, domestic and international politics, and security concerns and civil liberties.Item Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-09-25) Skocpol, ThedaTheda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She will discuss the results of her recent research in "Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy."Item Firm Responses to Politics(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2007-05-25) Jensen, NathanIn this lecture, Nathan Jensen argues that multinational corporations tailor their operations to minimize political risks and maximize political influence when investing in emerging markets.Item Oil and Democratic Prospects in the Persian Gulf States(Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2007-05-24) Gause, F. GregoryF. Gregory Gause III is an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont, and director of the University's Middle East Studies Program. His lecture will be on "Oil and Democratic Prospects in the Persian Gulf States."