Pistoleros as Authors: Some Reflections on History and Violence in Twentieth Century Mexico
Program in Latin American Studies
Pablo Piccato, Columbia University
216 Aaron Burr Hall  ·  12:00 p.m.– 1:30 p.m.

The Arab Spring and the New Arab Public Sphere
Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies
Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director for the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University

202 Jones Hall  ·  12:00 p.m.– 1:30 p.m.

How Not to Build a National (or Global) Ballistic Missile Defense System
Science and Global Security Seminar
George Lewis
221 Nassau St. 2nd Floor Conference Room  ·  12:00 p.m.– 1:30 p.m.

"Saddam Hussein's Ba`th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime"
Workshop on Arab Political Development
Joseph Sasoon, Georgetown University
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall  ·  4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m.

"Russian Politics: The Paradox of a Weak State:
Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Marie Mendras, Sciences Po University, and Research Fellow National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS in French), Paris.
219 Aaron Burr Hall  ·  4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m.

The Nation's Vow: Haunting Fantasies of the Colonels' Greece
Hellenic Studies
Dimitris Antoniou, Jannah Seeger Davis Postdoc Fellow
Respondent: Lawrence Rosen, Anthropology
Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103  ·  4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m.