Browsing 2008-09 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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The Race in Culture: 20th-Century Ethnology and Empire in Comparative Perspective
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-05-01 )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 ... -
Recipe for Success: Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research
Crenshaw, Edward; Hanawalt, Barbara; Schweller, Randy ( 2008-11-20 )Please join a panel of Mershon Center affiliated faculty for an interdisciplinary discussion on the basic ingredients of a good undergraduate research project. Panel members will cite examples of good undergraduate ... -
Reconsidering Presidential Elections in the Middle East
Brownlee, Jason ( 2009-04-14 )Jason Brownlee is Assistant Professor of Government and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas. He teaches undergraduate courses on U.S. foreign policy and Mideast politics, and graduate seminars on democratization ... -
Security in South Asia After the Mumbai Terror Attacks
Karim, Lt. Gen. Mohd Aminul ( 2009-01-16 )Lt. Gen. Mohd Aminul Karim is a Visiting Scholar at the Mershon Center in January 2009. He is studying security issues in South Asia, including the roles of China and India in relation to national security in Bangladesh. Lt. ... -
A Simple Political Economy of International Relations Between Democracies and Autocracies
Fearon, James ( 2009-04-06 )James Fearon is the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Political Science and CISAC affiliated faculty member at Stanford University. His research focuses on ... -
They Came From the North: The War for Korea, 1950-51
Millett, Allan ( 2008-11-19 )Allan R. Millett is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History at the University of New Orleans since 2006, and the Raymond E. Mason Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military ... -
What Way Forward for Offensive Realism?
James, Patrick ( 2008-10-06 )Patrick James is Director of the Center for International Studies and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He previously held the Middlebush Chair in Political Science at the ... -
Women and International Policy
Robinson, Mary ( 2008-10-09 )Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland and formerly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. She now chairs the Council of Women World ... -
Women in Politics: Global Perspectives
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-04-24 )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 ...