Talks
2007-2008
Confronting Religion in the U.S. War of Ideas
Christopher MacPherson
30 April 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
Religion and Human Rights: When Are Rights Not Right?
Alison Boden, Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, Princeton University
17 April 2008
PORDIR 2007-2008 Lecture Series
Political Halacha (Jewish Law)
Avi Miller
16 April 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
America’s Role in East Asia
Amb. Christopher Hill and Prof. Thomas J. Christensen
11 April 2008
Co-Sponsored with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program
What's Special About Religious Disputes?
K. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University
10 April 2008
PORDIR 2007-2008 Lecture Series
The Hindu Nationalist BJP and Kashmir
Manav Lalwani
9 April 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
EU Policy: Serbia, Kosovo, and Turkey
Dusan Sidjanski, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission
8 April 2008
Co-Sponsored with the Program on Contemporary European Politics and Society, the EU Program at Princeton, and Near Eastern Studies
What’s Faith Got To Do With It?: Perspectives on Religion and Development
Katherine Marshall
2 April 2008
PORDIR 2007-2008 Lecture Series
Globalization, Empire, and National Law
Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
2 April 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
Turkey: Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain
Gülnur Aybet
1 April 2008
Co-Sponsored with Near Eastern Studies
The Role of Religion in Conflict Negotiations
Jon Gandomi
26 March 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
Religion in World Affairs: Its Role in Conflict and Peace
David Smock, Vice-President of the Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Associate Vice-President of the Religion and Peacemaking Program, United States Institute of Peace
6 March 2008
PORDIR 2007-2008 Lecture Series
Social Movements and Religion-State Relations
Mirjam Künkler, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
5 March 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
The Responsibility to Protect Afghanistan
Tom Koenigs, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Afghanistan
4 March 2008
Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School
Turkey in Motion
Egemen Bagis, Member of Turkish Parliament
29 February 2008
Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School, Near Eastern Studies, the EU Program at Princeton, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Transregional Institute, and the Center for French Studies
Religious Compartmentalization of the Balkans: A Stabilizing Trend?
Andrea Nedic
27 February 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
The Second World
Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative, New America Foundation
25 February 2008
Co-Sponsored with the Research Program in International Security
Post-Conflict Tribunals, Human Rights, and Islam
Nealin Parker
20 February 2008
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
EU Enlargement and the Question of Turkish Accession
Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University
11 February 2007
Co-Sponsored with Near Eastern Studies and the EU Program at Princeton
NATO: Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Alliance’s Future
Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
13 December 2007
Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
Fall Semester Wrap-Up
12 December 2007
Burma in Crisis: Background and Update on the Saffron Revolution
Edith Mirante, Founder and Director of Project Maje
11 December 2007
Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School
Clash of Civilizations or Alliance of Civilizations?
Leanne Smith, LISD Fellow in Religion and International Relations
5 December 2007
PORDIR Lunch Seminar Series
Afghanistan: A View from Parliament
Fawzia Koofi, Deputy Speaker of the Lower House, National Assembly of Afghanistan
4 December 2007
LISD Lunch Seminar Series
Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School
Discussing Afghanistan’s Future
Fawzia Koofi, Deputy Speaker of the Lower House, National Assembly of Afghanistan
4 December 2007
Co-Sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School
War of Beliefs: Liberalism and Islam
Ali Hamoudi, LISD Fellow in Religion and International Affairs
30 November 2007
Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations Lunch Seminar Series
The Status of Peace Processes: Kosovo, Cyprus, Georgia/Abkhazia and Haiti
David Harland, Acting-Director, Europe and Latin America Division, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
29 November 2007
LISD Lunch Seminar Series
Reporters’ Perspectives on the North Caucasus
Fatima Tlisova and Valeri Dzuysev
13 November 2007
Luncheon Seminar
Co-Sponsored with Woodrow Wilson School, Near Eastern Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
Forgotten, Not Frozen: A Roundtable on Violent Conflict in Chechnya and the North Caucasus
Roundtable Participants:
Valeriy Dzutsev, Muskie Fellow at the University of Maryland
Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Michael Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Fatima Tilsova, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University
13 November 2007
Co-Sponsored with Woodrow Wilson School and Near Eastern Studies
"Political" Islam: Euphemism or Redundancy?
Celene Lizzio, LISD Fellow in Religion and International Affairs
7 November 2007
Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations Lunch Seminar Series
Tehran: A Street Perspective
Kayvon Tehranian, LISD Student Associate
6 November 2007
Co-Sponsored with the Global Issues Forum
Small Peoples: Existential Uncertainty of Israeli Jews and Québécois
Uriel Abulof, LISD Visiting Fellow
25 October 2007
LISD Lunch Seminar Series
The Re-emergence of an Islamist Political Identity in Turkey?
Joshua Walker, LISD Fellow in Religion and International Affairs
24 October 2007
Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations Lunch Seminar Series
Human Security in 21st Century World Politics
Urs Ziswiler, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
15 October 2007
Co-Sponsored with Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences
More Successful UN Peacekeeping: Illusion or Reality?
Salman Ahmed, LISD and WWS Visiting Research Scholar
4 October 2007
LISD Lunch Seminar Series
Islam and Indonesian Attitudes Towards the U.S.
Syafi'i Anwar, Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Executive Director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism, Jakarta
26 September 2007
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