Browsing 2008-09 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960
Anderson, Carol ( 2008-11-07 )Carol Anderson is associate professor of history at the University of Missouri and has recently completed a fellowship at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. She will be joining the ... -
British Colonial Violence and the End of Empire
Elkins, Caroline ( 2008-11-21 )Caroline Elkins is Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research interests include colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and ... -
Can Ayatollah Sistani's Alternative to Khomeinism Survive?
Cole, Juan ( 2008-10-08 )Juan R.I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. For three decades, Cole has sought to put the ... -
Can Islam be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State
Bowen, John ( 2009-02-06 )John Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms ... -
Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
Mogahed, Dalia; Fersh, Robert; Gutlove, Paula; Dine, Thomas ( 2009-02-20 )Dine and Mogahed will speak about about developing a new direction for U.S. relations with the Muslim world by advancing four goals: * Using diplomacy as the primary tool for resolving key conflicts involving Muslim ... -
China Plural: Local Identites, Contesting Visions, and Constructing Nations
Yeo, Kwang-Kyoon ( 2008-10-17 )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 ... -
Contracting States: Incomplete Contracts in International Relations"
Spruyt, Hendrik ( 2009-03-13 )Spruyt's research intersects comparative politics with international relations and focuses particularly on the formation of polities and their disintegration, and the rise and demise of sovereignty. He is currently working ... -
Crafting a China Strategy: Some Recent Lessons for the New Administration
Christensen, Thomas ( 2009-01-28 )Thomas J. Christensen is Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary ... -
The Dissent-Repression Nexus in the Middle East
Meyer, Katherine; Jenkins, J. Craig ( 2009-04-09 ) -
Electoral Observation: A Tool for Democratization and Peace in Latin America
Walker, Thomas ( 2009-03-10 )Formal electoral observation by credentialed international groups began in Latin America with the controversial but clean Nicaraguan election of 1984. Conducted by a number of credible groups -- ranging from the British ... -
Embedding Neoliberalism: Crisis, Sexuality and Social Reproduction
Bedford, Kate ( 2009-02-12 )This talk seeks to intervene in a vibrant and publicly prominent debate within development studies about the role of crisis in "postneoliberal" or post-Washington Consensus policy making. Gender and, especially, sexuality ... -
An Emerging Approach in International History: Information Technology, Strategy and Diplomacy
Winkler, Jonathan ( 2009-01-15 )Jonathan Winkler is an Assistant Professor of History at Wright State University in Dayton. The author of Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I (Harvard University Press, 2008), he is a ... -
Empire at End: Global Transformations in the Late Cold War
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-04-03 )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. ... -
Evo Morales, Bolivian Democracy, and U.S. Policy: Still on the Brink?
Gamarra, Eduardo ( 2009-05-14 )Eduardo Gamarra is Professor of Comparative Politics, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as previous director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. His research focuses ... -
France's New Museums in a Postcolonial Age
Ford, Caroline ( 2009-05-08 )Caroline Ford is Professor of History at University of California at Los Angeles, where she teaches on modern France, French colonialism and the Algerian war, religion and nationalism, modern European History, and European ... -
Gendered Bodies/Gendered Wars: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan
Nusair, Isis ( 2009-05-21 )This presentation is based on extensive research with Iraqi women refugees in Jordan during 2007 and 2008. It traces the causes that prompted the women to leave Iraq after 2003. It also traces the transition they went ... -
'Getting the Worst of Both Worlds': John F. Kennedy and Decolonization
Rakove, Robert ( 2008-10-24 )Robert Rakove has a M.A. in European History from Stanford University and will receive his Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Virginia in December 2008. His project, "Befriending the Nonaligned: Kennedy, ... -
The Global Crisis: War, Climate, and Catastrophe in the 17th Century World
Parker, Geoffrey ( 2009-02-26 )Geoffrey Parker spoke on "The Global Crisis: War, Climate, and Catastrophe in the 17th Century World" -
Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-04-18 )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 ... -
An Historian Looks at the Future Environment
Murray, Williamson ( 2009-02-18 )Williamson Murray is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defense Analyses. He studies military and diplomatic history and is currently working on a project that investigates the ability of military institutions to adapt ...