Calendar
2010
February 3, Wednesday Mat McCubbins will give a talk (no title available) on Wednesday Feb. 3rd at10:15 a.m. in Breedlove (206 Perkins). All are invited.
February 4, Thursday This week the Triangle Political Methodology Group/PARISS is featuring a talk by our own Nazli Avdan.
Who's Speaking?: Avdan is a Ph.D. candidate here at Duke. Her areas of research include theories of international conflict, the role of borders in territorial conflict, territorial salience, reconceptualizing border salience, border security, visa, asylum ,and immigration policies, transnational actors and soft security threats, globalization dynamics, cross-border human mobility, as well as issues of elite framing and public opinion.
What's the subject?: The title of the talk is "Whither Interdependence Sovereignty: Controlling Human Mobility Through Visa Restrictions." A full abstract for the talk is included below.
Time: Thursday at 5:15pm. We try to keep talks to about one hour.
Location: A103 at the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) of Duke
February 5, Friday, 12 - 130pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series; Robert Franzese, Michigan
February 11, Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m. University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Professor Michael Bordo, Rutgers "Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long-Run View" http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/GGD contact buthe@duke.edu or seth.cantey@duke.edu
February 16 Tuesday, 5:30 pm 0012 Westbrook Duke Divinity School “Three Battle-Cries In Search of Meaning: Social Justice, the Common Good, and Personal Liberty” Michael Novak, philosopher, theologian, and author, is the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He has been an emissary to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has taught at numerous universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and Notre Dame. He has written twenty-seven books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society, including The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982), Free Persons and the Common Good (1989), The Universal Hunger for Liberty (2004), and No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers (2008). Sponsored by the Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies
in cooperation with
the Duke Divinity School, the Center for the History of Political Economy Political Science Department
March 1, Monday, 12 - 130pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series; Cecilia Martin Gallard, UNC
March 18, Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy.Professor Megumi Naoi, University of California at San Diego "Resisting Protectionism (Take II): A Survey Experiment on Producer and Consumer Preferences during the Global Recession" http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/GGD contact buthe@duke.edu or seth.cantey@duke.edu
March 22, Monday, 12 - 130pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series; Marius Busemeyer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
April 1, Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy.Professor Sarah Babb, Boston College [title TBA] http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/GGD contact buthe@duke.edu or seth.cantey@duke.edu
April 8, Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Professor Kenneth Scheve, Yale University "Two Centuries of Taxing
Inherited Wealth" http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/GGD contact buthe@duke.edu or seth.cantey@duke.edu
April 16, Friday Mary Dietz the Editor of Political Theory and Professor at Northwestern University will give a talk at noon on Friday April l6th at noon in 201 Flowers 12:00
- 1:30pm.
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