Browsing 2009-10 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Issue Date
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Veterans Learning Community Research Symposium
Hanson, Susan; Noyes, Dorothy ( 2010-06-02 )The Veterans Learning Community curriculum is a sequence of two general-education courses (GEC): a reading course that looks at representations of the experience of war in art, literature, and film from diverse cultures ... -
Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in Chinese Foreign Relations
Chen Weiss, Jessica ( 2010-05-27 )Jessica Chen Weiss is assistant professor of political science and research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include Chinese politics and ... -
Plato on Action and Knowledge
Bobonich, Chris ( 2010-05-26 )Chris Bobonich is professor of philosophy and classics at Stanford University. His research primarily focuses on Plato and has been supported by a number of awards and fellowships. Bobonich is the author of Plato's Utopia ... -
The War on Drugs in Mexico: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold
Gonzalez, Francisco ( 2010-05-25 )Francisco E. González is Riordan Roett Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His current research focuses on energy ... -
Ethos of Independence Across Regions in the United States: The Production-Adoption Model of Cultural Change
Kitayama, Shinobu ( 2010-05-24 )Shinobu Kitayama is professor of psychology and director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on cultural variations in various psychological processes such as ... -
The Salafis, the Wahhabis and the Nature and Doctrines of Global Islamic Movements
Haykel, Bernard ( 2010-05-20 )Bernard Haykel is professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He also directs The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and leads a project on ... -
Arbitrating Identity: Courts and the Politics of Religious-Liberal Reconciliation in the Middle East
Bellin, Eva ( 2010-05-18 )Eva Bellin is associate professor of political science at City University of New York, Hunter College. She is a comparativist with specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research interests center on issues ... -
Beyond War Crimes: Denazification, National Security and American Deportation and Internment of SS Agents after World War II
Messenger, David ( 2010-05-17 )David Messenger is assistant professor of history and graduate director for international studies at the University of Wyoming. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. ... -
Hybrid Warfare: The Struggle of Military Forces to Adapt to Complex Opponents
Mansoor, Peter ( 2010-05-14 )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 ... -
Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945
Rotter, Andy ( 2010-05-13 )Andy Rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate College. He is a specialist in U.S. diplomatic history, recent U.S. history, and the Vietnam War. His research interests focus on U.S.-Asia relations, the ... -
Why Yemen Now? Reassessing South Arabia's Recent Past
Blumi, Isa ( 2010-05-12 )Isa Blumi is assistant professor of Middle East and East European history and Middle East studies at Georgia State University. His primary fields of research and publication are modern Balkan history including Kosova, ... -
Liberation: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe
Hitchcock, William ( 2010-05-11 )William Hitchcok is professor and Chair of the Department of History at Temple University. He is also director of the International History Workshop. His research focuses primarily on the international history of Europe ... -
America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Andrle, Fred; Herrmann, Richard; Kay, Sean; Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John; Payind, Alam ( 2010-05-10 )The Mershon and Humanities Institute faculty panel, "America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq" will provide an in depth look at the issues surrounding America's increased military commitment in ... -
Blame, Italian Style
Wolf, Susan ( 2010-05-07 )Susan Wolf is Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works chiefly in ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, ... -
Running to Lose: The Muslim Brotherhood and Parliamentary Elections
Brown, Nathan ( 2010-05-06 )Nathan Brown is professor of political science and international affairs and director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University. His area of expertise includes comparative politics of the ... -
Shaded by Fear: The New Deal and its Legacies
Katznelson, Ira ( 2010-05-05 )Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory, as well a political and social history. ... -
Extreme Vulnerability of Migrants: The Cases of the United States and Mexico
Bustamante, Jorge ( 2010-05-04 )Jorge Bustamante is Eugene Conley Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues, of ... -
Rise of Red Terror: The Ethics and Effectiveness of Maoist Violence in India
Mahapatra, Sangeeta ( 2010-04-30 )Sangeeta Mahapatra is a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellow. As a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, she is currently working on a comparative study of ... -
The Islamic Dimension of the Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Weinbaum, Marvin ( 2010-04-29 )Marvin Weinbaum is a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as the director of ... -
Pacts and Alliances: Why They Succeed, Why They Fail, and Why We Should Care
Carter, Charles; Crain, Anthony; Fink, Carole ( 2010-04-16 )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 ...