Seminar Archives
2005
September 26 , Monday, 6:00 pm, Trent Hall Room 040; SSRI Dr. Helen Ladd of Public Policy Department will speak on "School Choice, Racial Segregation and Test-Score Gaps" at 6 p.m. Dr. Kerry Haynie will be the discussant. Dinner will be served at 5:30 in the same room. You can find her paper at http://www.ssri.duke.edu/links/documents/HelenLadd_000.pdf
September27 : Tuesday, 7:00 – 8:30pm, Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance: Paul Collier (Oxford Economics): "Democracy and Natural Resource Rents", co-sponsored by Duke Center for International Development.
October 4 , Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Shanker Satyanath (NYU Political Science): "Capital Controls, Political Institutions, and Economic Growth". His paper is available at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/pdfs/attnycef.pdf
October 12 , Wednesday, 11:45-1:15 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library: Faculty Brown Bag Seminar; Tianjian Shi, John Aldrich, and Ruth Grant, "Semi-Competitive Election in China".
October 14 , Friday:
3:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: Political Theory Colloquium; Professor Clemens Kaufmann, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; "John Rawls as a Socratic".
3:00 pm, 307 Perkins Library: Graduate Student Colloquium; Brett Benson, "A Theory of Strategic Ambiguity: Credibility, Transparency, and Dual Deterrance."
4:30 pm, 307 Perkins Library: Graduate Student Colloquium; Amy McKay, "The Effects of a Competitive Lobbying Environment on Policy Outcomes and Lobbyist Success."
October 18 , Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Lawrence Broz (UCSD Political Science): "Changing IMF Quotas: The Role of the U. S. Congress".
November 2 , Wednesday: 11:30 am, Breedlove Room Perkins Library: Program in Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy (DIPE): Jeffrey Jenkins, "Agency, Monitoring, and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate."
November 7, Monday: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Comparative Seminar: Graeme Robertson (UNC) "Collective Action in Partially Liberalized States" (in pdf format).
November 8,Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Kal Raustialia (UCLA Law): "The Evolution of Territoriality in an Age of Globalization".
November 9, Wednesday, 11:45-1:15 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library, Faculty Brown Bag Seminar; Alexander B. Downes, "War by Other Means: Civilian Targeting and Civilian Casualties in Interstate Wars".
November 11, Friday
1:00 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library; Political Theory Colloquium; Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto; "Nietzsche's Critique of Compassion".
3:30pm, Room 307 Perkins Library; Graduate Student Colloquium; Jorge Bravo, "The Political Economy of Mexico to U. S. Migration"
November 29, Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Xinyuan Dai (University of Illinois at U-C, Political Science): "The Power of Weak International Institutions: Specifying Alternative Mechanisms".
December 8, Thursday, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Comparative Politics Seminar: Michael Laver (NYU) "Agent-based Modeling of Endogenous Party Formation". Prof. Laver's paper; (The Birth and Death of Political Parties) .
December 13, Tuesday, 3:30pm, Room 202 West Duke Bldg.; Dr. Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong, "Democracy and Meritocracy: Towards a Confucian Perspective" (Sponsored by the Philosophy Dept, co-sponsored by Political Science)
2006
January 17, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance: Robin & Kevin Grier (University of Oklahoma, Economics and Duke University Political Science) "Policy Convergence and Output Divergence".
January 30, Monday, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library;
Comparative Politics Seminar: Isabella Mares (Stanford). "The Great Divergence in Social Protection" (in Word format).
January 31, Tuesday, 5:30-7:00 pm, Franklin Center 240, 2204 Erwin Road; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; V. Spke Peterson, University of Arizona, "From Nannies to Nanoseconds: Rethinking Global Political Economy".
February 3, Friday, 3:30 pm, 116 Old Chem; American Politics and Political Methodology: Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Columbia University), "Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: What's the Matter With Connecticut?".
February 7, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Jeffrey Frieden, Harvard, "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy".
February 10, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Lbrary; Political Theory Colloquium: Professor Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, "Rule Among Equals: Tragic and Comic Reflections on Democratic Leadership in Fifth Century Athens".
February 13, Monday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; International Relations Speakers' Series: Michael Zürn, Dean and Professor of International Relations, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin: "Law and Compliance in Postnational Constellations"
February 17, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Political Theory Colloquium: Josiah Ober, "Collective Action as a Problem in Classical Greek Political Theory."
February 21, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Barbara Koremenos, UCLA/University of Michigan, "If Only Half of International Agreements Have Dispute Resolution Provisions, Which Half Needs Explaining?". The background reading is now available at http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
February 24, Friday, 10:00am - 3:30pm, Flowers Bldg., Room 04; "The Future of Mexican Democracy" The Department of Political Science, the Carolina and Duke Consortium, the Political and Economic Regimes Working Group, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Duke are pleased to announce a one-day conference. The conference will consist of two roundtable discussions. The first, "Is Mexico turning left?" will take place from 10:00 - 12:00, and the second, "The 2006 Election Issues and Prospects" will run from 1:30 - 3:30pm. For more information on the conference, please contact Marco Antnio Fernández Martinez at maf16@duke.edu.
February 27, Monday, 12:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; IR Speaker Series: Prof. Timothy McKeown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "The Big Influence of Big Allies". A copy of Prof. McKeown's paper can be downloaded from Chris Gelpi's website at http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi/speakers.htm.
February 27, Monday, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Comparative Politics Seminar: Lisa Blaydes, UCLA, "Electoral Budget Cycles under Authoritarianism: Economic Opportunism in Mubarak's Egypt."
March 20, Monday, 12:00pm: Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: International Relations Speaker Series; Allan Stam. Dartmouth College, "Domestic Institutions and Wartime Casualties" copy of Prof. Stam's paper can be downloaded at http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi/speakers.htm.
March 24, Friday, 3:30 pm, 116 Old Chem Bldg.; American Politics and Political Methodology: Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government & Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (Harvard University), " Seminar".
March 28, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Globlization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Walter Mattli, Oxford, "Global Economic Forum Shopping".
March 31, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Political Theory Colloquium; Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University; "The Spirit of Democracy."
April 3, , Monday, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library;
Comparative Politics Seminar: January Ben Reilly (Australian National University) "Democracy and Diversity: Political Engineering in the Asia Pacific". CANCELED
April 4, , Tuesday 7:00-8:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center 240, 2204 Erwin Road: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance and Co-sponsored by the Duke International Relations Seminar Speakers Series; Michael Barnett, University of Minnesota, "The Transformation of Humanitarianism".
April 7, Friday, 12:00 pm - 2:00pm, Board Room 201 Allen Bldg., DIPE speaker in the Comparative Politics Seminar; Erik Wibbels, University of Washington, "Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development, and the Resource Curse in the U. S. States,"
April 7, Friday, 3:30 pm, 116 Old Chem Bldg.: American Politics and Political Methodology: Jeff Gill, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science (University of California - Davis), "Seminar".
April 19, Wednesday, 12:00- 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Faculty Brown Bag Seminar: Tim Büthe, "The Politics of Competition in the European Union: Institutional Change and Decisions from Messina to 2004."
April 24, Monday, 12:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; International Relations Speaker Series: Richard Herrmann, Ohio State University; Title TBA.
September 12, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Jude Hays (University of Illinois), "Globalization, Domestic Institutions and the New Politcs of Embedded Liberalism."
September 19, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Duncan Snidal (University of Chicago), "The Choice of International Institutions: Cooperation, Alternatives, and Strategy." The paper on which the talk is based has been posted at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
September 27, Wednesday, 12:00, Place TBA: Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series: Jerry Hough, "Military Force in Nation-Building: The Implications of the American and Mexican Wars of Independence for Iraq."
October 3, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Valerie Bunce (Cornell University), "The Diffusion of Democratization Through Electoral Revolutions in the Postcommunist World."
October 16, Monday noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: International Relations Series Speaker Series; Professor Dan Reiter, Emory University, Professor Reiter's talk is entitled "Information, Commitment and War" and a copy of the paper will be posted at:
http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi/speakers.htm
October 18, Wednesday, 11:45am - 1:15pm, 109 Languages: Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series: Evan Charney, "The Uses and Abuses of Genetics for Political Science."
October 24, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Kevin Morrison (Duke University), "Oil, Non-Tax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability."
October 27, Friday, 3:30 pm, Allen Bldg. Board Room; Program in Asian Security Studies presents Dr. David Tawei Lee, Representative Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States will speak on "Prudence and Moderation: A Diplomat's View of the U.S. - Taiwan Relations". It is free and open to the public.
November 9, Thursday, 3:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium: Robert Pippin, University of Chicago, The Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy: "How To Overcome Oneself Nietzsche On Freedom"
November 14, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Gary Goertz (University of Arizona), "The Evolution of Regional Economic Institutions into Security Institutions or, The Demise of Realist Military Alliances."
November 15, Wednesday, 12:00, Place TBA, Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series: Despina Alexiadou, "Coalition Governments, Social Insurance, and Central Bank Independence versus Inflation: Fighting Inflation Alone or Together?" POSTPONED
November 17, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium; Catherine Zuckert, Univesity of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, " Platonic Dramatology."
November 20, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Gray 228 Divinity School, IR Speaker Series; Laura Sjoberg of Duke and Harvard Universities; " Mean Girls: Seeing Gender Subordination through Women's Violence in International Relations."
November 20, Monday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University Center for European Studies and Center for International Studies; Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University; "Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism."
November 28, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Nicole Simonelli (New York University and Duke University), "International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement-Making Process." CANCELLED: TALK WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN SPRING.
December 5 , Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Peter Katzenstein (Cornell University), "The American Imperium and Soft Power in World Politics."
December 8, Friday, 2:00 - 3:30pm, Room 307 Perkins Library: Political Institutions and Public Choice Program; Pat Seller, Davidson College; "Cycles of Partisan Spin: Strategic Communication in the U. S. Congress."
2007
January 16, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; David S. Law, San Diego Law School and UC, San Diego; Globalization and Constitutional Convergence: Professor Law's background reading paper (just revised) is available at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
January 18, Thursday, 12:00pm Erwin Mill Bldg, SSRI Event Room, A103, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS) Colloquia, Professor John Transue, Duke University, "Identity Salience, Identity Acceptance, and Racial Policy Attitudes: American National Identity as a Uniting Force." Lunch will be served. Please RSVP: http://rsvp.ssri.duke.edu
January 22, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Social Sciences 111, International Relations Speaker Series, Professer Miriam F. Elman, Arizona State University, "Security and Democratic Choice: Lessons from Israel's Formative Era."Table One - Three , Table Four.
January 30, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (214) Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Nicole Simonelli, Duke Universtiy; "International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement Making Process".
February 2, Friday, Time and Place TBA: The Program in American Values and Institutions; Alan Wolfe, Boston College, Topic TBA.
February 13, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute; University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy & Duke Social Science Research Institute (SSRI): Bruno Frey, University of Zurich - "Dealing with Terrorism - Stick or Carrot?" The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
February 23, Friday, 3:00 pm, in Tower 201 (Prior to all the renovations, this room used to be the Carpenter Board Room in Perkins Library), Political Theory Colloquium, Professor Patchen Markell, University of Chicago, "The Architecture of The Human Condition".
March 1, Thursday, 2:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Political Institutions and Public Choice; Jonathan Katz. California Institute of Technology, "Auctioning off the Agenda: Bargaining in Legislatures with Endogenous Scheduling."
March 2, Friday, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Duke Political Science Ph.D Alumni Speaker Series: Professoer Clark C. Gibson (Ph.D. Duke University, 1995), Professor of Political Science, Director, International Studies Program, University of California at San Diego; "The Fiscal Foundations of Political Accountability in Africa." Professor Clark's Fiscal Governance paper table can be found here.
March 6, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, "Diffusing Quality: Trade, FDI, and the Cross-national Adoption of ISO 9000 Quality Standards". The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
March 20, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance and Duke University, "Banking Alone: The Decline in International Monetary Cooperation and Implications for Global Economic Governance". The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
March 22, Thursday, 2:00 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library: Political Institutions and Public Choice, Alan Wiseman, Title TBA.
March 23, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium; Professor James Farr, University of Minnesota: "John Locke on Slavery."
April 3, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library; University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Ann Marie Clark, Purdue University, "The Effects of Participation in International Human Rights Discourse on State Behavior". The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
April 16, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 103A Allen Bldg., Duke Political Science Ph.D. Alumni Speaker Series; Dean Lacy (Ph.D. Duke University, 1994) Professor of Government, Dartmouth University: Topic; "Why Do Red States Vote Republican While Blue States Pay the Bills?"
April 17, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library; University Seminar of Global Governance and Democracy: David Soskice, Duke University, "Modern Macroeconomics and Political Science". The paper on the talk will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
April 18, Wednesday, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Allen Building Boardroom; Political Institutions and Public Choice Program Social Science Research Institute: Professor Peter Ordeshook, California Institute of Technology; "Detecting and Measuring Election Fraud Using Official Election Returns with Application to Russia, Ukraine, the US and Mexico."
April 27, Friday, 1:30 pm, Erwin Mill Building, Room A103; REGSS Colloquia: Rodney Hero, Department Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, " Dimensions and Dilemmas of Latino/African American Political Relationships: Some Recent Evidence and Observations."
April 27, Friday, 4:00pm, Room 307 Perkins Library; Casey Klfostad, the University of Miami, will be presenting a talk titled "The Art of Associating: The Central Role of Peers in Civic Life."
May 3, Thursday, 4:30pm, UNC's Global Center Room 3024 (the building is in
front of the Credit Union); The UNC-Duke Working Group on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America; Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University; He will be discussing material from his book manuscript on the politics of social programs in Mexico. The manuscript is co-authored with Beatriz Magaloni and Federico Estevez and tentatively titled "Poverty, Vote Buying, and Democracy".
May 3-4, Thursday and Friday, 4:30pm -6:30pm, 9:00am-3:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: Political Theory Working Group Spring Symposium: On Sovereignty; Sponsored by the Department of English and The Gerst Program: Michael Gillespie, Duke University; Nathan Tarcov, University of Chicago; Maureen Quilliga, Duke University; Paul Rahe, University of Tulsa. http://english.duke.edu/resources/workinggroup/
May 4, Friday, 2:00 pm, 201 Flowers; Political Institutions and Public Choice, Mat McCubbins; A paper titled "When Does Deliberating Improve Decisionmaking?" provides some background relevant to the talk can be found here www.duke.edu/~mcb20/McCubbins_Deliberating.pdf
May 14 Monday through May 17 Thursday (1:30 PM Monday; 9:30 AM Tuesday through
Thursday): PIPC Book Seminar, Jamie Carson (UGA) and Jason Roberts (Minnesota) will be presenting work from a manuscript entitled "Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform: The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time." Each day there will be one session where a few chapters are presented, with the final session reserved solely for additional discussion and comments. If you would like to participate in any or all of these sessions feel free to join us in the conference room on the 4th floor of Old Chem. The detailed schedule is below, and the manuscript is here:
http:/www.duke.edu/~mcb20/carson_roberts_duke.pdf
Schedule:
1:30 PM, Monday (5/14) --- chapters 1 and 2
9:30 AM, Tuesday (5/15) --- chapters 3, 4, and part of 5
9:30 AM, Wednesday (5/16) --- the rest of chapter 5 and chapters 6 and 7
9:30 AM, Thursday (5/17) --- discussion/comments
*Each session is expected to run for approximately 2.5 hours
September 6th, Thursday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, 201 Flowers: Political Theory Colloquium, Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Topic will be related to Professor McCloskey's most recent book, the first volume of a trilogy she is writing on the Bourgeois virtues. Find out more at her home page: www.deirdremccloskey.com
September 7 & 8, Friday and Saturday, Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC, TISS, Eighth Annual New Faces Conference sponsored by The Triangle Institute for Security Studies. This event brings 8 advanced graduate students (mostly in political science and history) working on security studies broadly defined to the area to present their work. It is an excellent opportunity for graduate students in our program to learn about interesting work in the field and also see examples of job talks.
To see the program and register for the conference, go to the TISS website:
http://www.duke.edu/web/tiss, or http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/tiss/
September 11, Tuesday, 12:00 noon: Job talk; details forthcoming
September 11, Tuesday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Gil Merkx and Robert Keohane: Celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the seminar and the 40th year anniversary of DUCIS, the Duke Center for International Studies. Topic "Democracy-Enhancing Multilateralism".
September 27, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library , University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Dan Nielson, Brigham Young University; Topic: "IOs as Norms Platforms: The World Bank's Influence on Environmental Practice at the Islamic Development Bank".
September 27, Thursday, 4:00 pm, Upper East Side, East Campus Marketplace; Lecture given by Mark Oaten, Member of Parliament, Britain; "The United States and Britain: the Special Relationship" Mark Oaten is currently a Member of Parliament for Winchester and Meon Valley, England.
During the early 1980's he joined Britain's Social Democratic Party (SDP) and acted as agent in a number of elections. In 1986 he became one of the country's youngest Councillors and the first ever SDP Councillor on Watford District Council. He served for eight years, culminating in leading a group of six other SDP councillors.
He was selected to fight for the seat in Winchester in 1995. His two-vote victory in May 1997 was declared invalid, but a by-election held in November 1997 convincingly confirmed him in the seat with a majority of 21,556. Mark Oaten's parliamentary responsibilities have included: the Spokesman for Disabilities; a member of the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and Defence team; and Chairman of the All Party Groups on Far Eastern Prisoners of War and on Adoption.
At the June election 2001, Winchester achieved the highest turnout, and returned Mark Oaten with a majority of 9,634. After the election Mark Oaten was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Party of the Liberal Democrats. In October 2003 Mark replaced Simon Hughes as Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. He resigned in January 2006.
He is a member of the All Party EU Accession group and of the All Party Adoption Group. Mark is also a trustee of Unlock, the prison reform group. http://unlock.org.uk His new book, entitled 'Coalition - the politics and personalities of coalition government from 1850' was published in September 2007 by Harriman House.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Focus Program and the Gerst Program in Political, Economic & Humanistic Studies.
October 18, Thursday, 12:00 - 1:00pm; Erwin Mill Bldg, A103, REGSS Colloqui: Dr. Niambi Carter, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Conflicted Nativism: African Americans, Race, and National Identity"
October 18, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Peter Rosendorf, New York University's Wilf Family Department of Politics; Topic: "Strengthening International Courts and the Early Settlement of Disputes".
October 22, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers: Comparative Politics: Michael Hechter, Foundation Professor of Global Studies at Arizona State Univesity and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: "Alien Rule and its Discontents."
October 26, Friday, 2:30 -4:00pm, 201 Flowers: Political Theory Colloquium: Stephen Salkever, Bryn Mawr College: Topic: "The Ethics and Politics of Natural Questions."
October 29, Monday, 12:oo - 1:20, 211 Languages, Political Science Talk
October 30, Tuesday, 7:00pm, White Auditorium, East Campus: Author Laura Stepp to talk about her book "Unhooked". Laura Stepp, writer for the Washington Post, and author of the book "Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both"
In her book, Unhooked, Stepp follows three groups of young women for more than a year. She attended classes, parties, and lots of conversations to try to learn how female sexuality is evolving in a "hook up" culture.
October 31, Wednesday, 12:00 Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library, Political Science Talk
November 1, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; David Singer, Political Science at MIT, Topic: "Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes".
November 2, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Old Trinity Room: Speaker, Eldon Eisenach, University of Tulsa; Topic: "How the Progressives Transformed American Liberalism": There will be an informal Q & A session afterwards.
November 5, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30, 201 Flowers: Comparative Politics Speaker Series; Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford Political Science, "The Comparative Logics of Authoritarian Survival."
November 6, Tuesday, 12:00, 201 Flowers, Political Science Talk
November 15, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Ethan Kapstein, INSEAD, Paris; Topic: "The Fate of Young Democracie".
November 19, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Erick Wibbels, Duke University, "Natural Resources, Development and Democracy: The Quest for Mechanisms."
November 29, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Chris Whytock, Duke University/University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law, Topic: "Domestic Courts and Global Governance: The Politics of Private International Law".
December 3, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins LIbrary; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Guillermo Trejo, Duke University, Title TBA.
December 3, Monday, "A Conversation with Karl Rove" December 3, 2007, 6-7pm Page Auditorium, Sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Dept. of Political Science, Dept. of Public Policy, and DUU (Major Speakers).
Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush
Karl Rove will be at Duke University for a public conversation moderated by Duke Political Science Professor Peter Feaver. Tickets are free and available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Duke University Box Office.
Mr. Rove served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush. Mr. Rove oversaw the strategic planning, political affairs, public liaison, and intergovernmental affairs efforts of the White House. He was also Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, coordinating the White House policymaking process.
Karl Rove was the architect of the President's 2000 and 2004 campaigns and, for the 18 years before the start of the 2000 campaign, president of Karl Rove + Company, an Austin, Texas-based public affairs firm that worked for Republican candidates, non-partisan causes, and non-profit groups.
January 14, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Ken Greene, University of Texas-Austin, (tentative), Title TBA
January 24, Thursday 5:30 -7:00pm, Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Arthur S. Alderson, Indiana University, "Globalizaton and the World City System: Region, Role, and Position since 1981."
January 28, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Orit Kedar, MIT, Title TBA.
February 6, Wednesday, 2:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Institutions and Public Choice Speaker Series, Barry Weingst and Jed Stiglitz (Stanford); Topic TBA
February 7, Thursday, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 204 John Hope Franklin Center, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University, "Democratization and Civil Society in Postcommunist Europe."
February 11, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, "Construction of an Original Data Set."
February 18, Monday: Griffith (7pm) | North Carolina premiere!
Terror's Advocate -- comments and Q&A with visiting Duke Law Prof. Michael Tigar to follow!
(Barbet Schroeder, 2007, 135 min, France, French, German, English, Khmer, Color, 35mm)
About Barbet Schroeder's controversial new documentary:
Communist, anti-colonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès? Barbet Schroeder takes us down history's darkest paths in his attempt to illuminate the mystery behind this enigmatic figure, who agreed to be interviewed for the film. As a young lawyer during the Algerian war, Vergès espoused the anti-colonialist cause and defended Djamila Bouhired, 'la Pasionaria,' who bore her country's hopes for freedom on her shoulders and was sentenced to death for planting bombs in cafes. He obtained her release, married her and had two children with her. Then suddenly, at the height of an illustrious career, Vergès disappeared without trace for eight years.
He re-emerged from his mysterious absence, taking on the defense of terrorists of all kinds, from Magdalena Kopp and Anis Naccache to Carlos the Jackal. He represented historical monsters such as Nazi lieutenant Klaus Barbie. From the lawyer's inflammatory and provocative cases to his controversial terrorist links, Barbet Schroeder follows the winding trail left by this 'devil's advocate,' as he forges his unique path in law and politics.
Schroeder explores and questions the history of 'blind terrorism' through his penetrating investigation of this compelling man and leads us towards shocking revelations that expose long-hidden links in history.
Comments + Q&A w/ Prof. Michael Tigar to follow!
About the guest speaker: Michael Tigar has represented many American radicals including Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, the Chicago Eight, the Seattle Eight, Kiko Martinez and Lynne Stewart, as well as other controversial figures ranging from accused Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. He has lectured and written on the work of Jacques Verges at universities in the United States and France.
Sponsored by the Film/Video/digital Program with support from the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for International Studies, the Center for French & Francophone Studies, the Department of Romance Studies and the Department of Political Science.
February 21, Thursday, 5:30-7:00 pm, Breedlove Room Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon, "The Relative Effects of Environmental Regimes: A Quantitative Comparison of Acid Rain Agreements."
February 25, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Gretchen Helmke, Rochester, Title TBA
February 28, Thursday 4:15 - 5:45pm, Meeting Room A in the Bryan Center located on upper level, Political Theory Colloquium: Linda Zerilli, Northwestern University, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment."
March 3, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library: Comparative Politics Speaker Series: David Rueda, Oxford University, Topic TBA
March 17, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Jonathan Rodden, Stanford, Title TBA.
March 20, Thursday, :30-7:00 pm Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Beth Simmons, Harvard University, "Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court."
March 25, Tuesday, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library, The Asian-Pacific Studies Institute (and Political Science) are sponsoring a talk by Ellis Krauss, Professor of Political Science at the University of California at San Diego, on "ELECTORAL REFORM AND CHANGING POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN JAPAN" Krauss will be talking about recent electoral reform and how it has affected political parties, policymaking routines, policy outputs, prime ministerial leadership, and the nature of debate over public issues.
Along with Rob Pekkanen (University of Washington) and Benjamin Nyblade (British Columbia), Krauss has been building a large database about all LDP and DPJ members of Japan's Lower House from 1980 to 2006, and he is also folding this project into a larger one with Pekkanen and Matt Shugart (UCSD) that includes eight countries.
March 28, Friday 12:00 - 2:00pm, 204 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium: Lars Rensmann, University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science, "Between Republicianism and Cosmopolitanism: Hannah Arendt on Post-National Democracy in Europe."
March 31, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, Place TBA; Comparative Politics Speaker Series; More information forthcoming.
April 3, Thursday, :30-7:00pm, Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Margaret Levi, University of Washington, "Achieving Good Government and Citizen Support in Developing and Transitional Societies."
April 7, Monday, 2:00 pm, 201 Flowers: Peter Stone, Assistant Prof. of Political Science, Stanford University; "Justice, Rationality, and Indeterminacy",
His paper is an interesting and innovative perspective on lotteries as a choice mechanism. Copies are available on the table in the hall.
Professor Stone's, Ph.D. University of Rochester (2000), work focuses on political theory, with a particular interest in theories of justice; democratic theory; rational choice theory; and the philosophy of social science. His current research concerns lotteries—not just state lotteries and the like, but all the various kinds of decisions that one might choose to make via random selection. There are more than you might initially believe. Think of Ancient Athens, which filled most of its political offices by lot. Think of the randomly-selected jury today. Think of the military draft. And think of all the times in life when you might wind up saying, "Let's toss for it!" or "Let's just draw straws." http://polisci.stanford.edu/faculty/cv/stone.pdf
April, 10, Thursday, 5:30-7:00pm Breedlove Room Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Jeffrey Chwieroth, London School of Economics, "The Silent Revolution: Professional Training, Sympathetic Interlocutors, and IMF Lending."
April 10-11 Thursday & Friday,The English Department's Working Group on Political Theory and the Gerst Program are pleased to announce the schedule for its Spring
Symposium on Sovereignty and the Right of Revolution
Alan Houston, University of California, SanDiego, Department of Political Science
"On the Levellors"
David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin, Department of English, "Milton and English Nationalism"
Joyce Lee Malcolm, Geroge Mason University, School of Law, title TBA
Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, Department of English, "Hobbes and Early America"
Contact person: Michael Gillespie (mgillesp@duke.edu) or Kris Weberg (kris.weberg@duke.edu)
See schedule
April 14, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series; More information forthcoming.