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FRIDAY, APRIL 1

4:30 pm
"What of the Washington Consensus? Market Reform Prospects in Latin America"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

John Williamson, Institute for International Economics;
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, John Londregan, and Deborah Yashar, Princeton University, commentators.
Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Student Organization, Department of Economics, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows Program.


7:30 pm
Film Screening
"Children of the Secret State (North Korea)"
McCosh 10

Sponsored by the Global Issues Forum and the Department of East Asian Studies.


7:00-10:00 pm
"deFRAMED: The Princeton Festival of New Latin American Short Film"
010 East Pyne

Sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Graduate School.


SATURDAY, APRIL 2

5:00-8:00 pm
"deFRAMED: The Princeton Festival of New Latin American Short Film"
010 East Pyne

Sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Graduate School.


SUNDAY, APRIL 3

7:30 pm
Israeli Film Series
"Miss Entebbe"
East Pyne 010

Directed by Omri Levy, 2003.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.


MONDAY, APRIL 4

12:00 noon
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"Promoting Arab Reform"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multipurpose room C

Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.


4:30 pm
"The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq"
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

Brendan O'Leary, University of Pennsylvania.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.




TUESDAY, APRIL 5

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar
"God Isn't Yours Only: Spiritual Discussions with Moroccan Women who Transgressed Religious Laws"
012 Bendheim Hall

Jamila Bargach, Ecole nationale d'architecture, Rabat, Morocco.
Reservation required. Contact Greg Bell (gjbell@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.


12:00 noon
PLAS Luncheon Seminar Series
"Labor of Love: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers' Party & the Prospects for Lula's Government"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

John French, Duke University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.


12:00 noon
Arabic Lecture Series
"Lebanon: from Where to Where? A Look at Recent Events"
1915 Lounge, Butler College

Mahmoud Al-Batal, Emory University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.
Talk will be conducted in Arabic.


4:30 p.m.
Seminar Series - Understanding the Global AIDS Pandemic
"One Year Plus into the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief ($15 billion, 5 years, 15 countries): Early Wins, Surprises, Enduring Challenges"
127 Corwin Hall
J. Stephen Morrison, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sponsored by the Princeton AIDS Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

4:30 pm
"At the Crossroad Once Again: Lebanon and the Prospects of Political Change"
McCosh 60

Mahmoud Al-Batal, Emory University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.


6:00 p.m.
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"Poly-polis: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Perception of Urban Environments in Order to Map Cities in Flux"

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103

Elli Papakonstantinou, Princeton University;
Perry Cook, Princeton University;
Sophia Lycouris, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

4:30 pm
"Urban Governance in China"
023 Robertson Hall

Luigi Tomba, Australian National University.
Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the International Center.


4:30 pm
"Turkey and the E.U."
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

Osman Faruk Logoglu, Ambassador of Turkey to the U.S.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the European Union Program, and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.


THURSDAY, APRIL 7

12:00 noon CANCELLED
Globalization and Domestic Politics Luncheon Seminar
"Trade and the Size of Countries"

029 Robertson Hall

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University.
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


4:30 pm
60 Years Later: Critical Books of the 20th Century, Part 3
"Karl Popper's 'The Open Society and its Enemies'"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

William Scheuerman, University of Minnesota;
George Kateb, Princeton University;
Jan-Werner Muller, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Council of the Humanities, the University Center for Human Values, and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.


4:30 pm
"Palestinians in the Post-Arafat Era: What Direction?"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Program in Near Eastern Studies.


4:30 pm
"The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement: A Framework for Eventual Peace and Reconciliation for All Sudanese"
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

Charles Snyder, U.S. State Department.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Global Issues Forum, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


4:30 pm
"What Can the U.S. Do About North Korea's Nuclear Program?"
300 Wallace Hall

Donald Oberdorfer '52, Johns Hopkins University.
Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the International Center.


7:30 pm
Arab Film Series
"The Closed Doors"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Directed by Atef Hetata, 1999.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.


FRIDAY, APRIL 8

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
PIIRS Graduate Student Conference
"Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities, Institutions & Inequalities"
Frist Campus Center

Charles Tilly, Columbia University, keynote speaker.
For more information, click here to visit the website or send email to gradconf@princeton.edu.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Program in African Studies, Advisory Committee for the Fund for Canadian Studies, Program in Judaic Studies, Russian Studies Program, and the Graduate School.
Conference continues Saturday, April 9


9:45 a.m.
Conference
"Ibn Taymiyyah and His Times"
Friend Center Convocation Room (FC 113)

Various speakers.
For information on the conference, click here.
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Conference continues Saturday and Sunday, April 9 & 10


SATURDAY, APRIL 9

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
PIIRS Graduate Student Conference
"Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities, Institutions & Inequalities"
Frist Campus Center

Charles Tilly, Columbia University, keynote speaker.
For more information, click here to visit the website or send email to gradconf@princeton.edu.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Program in African Studies, Advisory Committee for the Fund for Canadian Studies, Program in Judaic Studies, Russian Studies Program, and the Graduate School.


10:00 a.m.
Conference
"Ibn Taymiyyah and His Times"
Friend Center Convocation Room (FC 113)

Various speakers.
For information on the conference, click here.
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Conference continues Sunday, April 10


SUNDAY, APRIL 10

10:00 a.m.
Conference
"Ibn Taymiyyah and His Times"
Friend Center Convocation Room (FC 113)

Various speakers.
For information on the conference, click here.
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.




MONDAY, APRIL 11

4:30 p.m.
Seminar Series - Understanding the Global AIDS Pandemic
"Why Is There No AIDS Vaccine?"
300 Wallace Hall
Michael Kremer, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Princeton AIDS Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Research Program in Development Studies.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

12:00 noon
PIIRS Luncheon Seminar
"Asia Transformed: The Economic and Strategic Rise of India and China"

012 Bendheim Hall

David Denoon, New York University.
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.


12:00 noon
PLAS Luncheon Seminar Series
"J. Sousandrade's Poetry and the Politics of Latin American Exile in 19th-Century New York"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Jussara Menezes Quadros, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.


4:30 pm
Goodman Lectures on Media and Global Affairs
"Al Jazeera: How It Sees the World"

Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Abderrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera Bureau Chief, New York.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Adam Smith Television. Also simulcast in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.


4:30 pm
"Arnold Schoenberg, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Stone Wall of Science"

Room 105, Woolworth

Steven Cassedy, University of California, San Diego.
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Russian Studies.


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

4:30 pm
Lecture Series on the Emerging International System
"The United States, Europe and the New Middle East"

Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Dominique Moisi, French Institute of International Relations.
Sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


7:00 pm
The Second Annual Edward Said '57 Memorial Lecture
"Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism, and the Messianic"
McCosh 50

Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine, the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of Politics, the Office of Religious Life, the Center for the Study of Religion, the Women's Center, the Carl Fields Center, and the Princeton Middle East Society.


8:00 pm
Princeton International Film Festival
"West Beirut"
East Pyne 010

Directed by Ziad Douieri, 1998.
Sponsored by Salaam and the International Consortium.


THURSDAY, APRIL 14

12:00 noon
Globalization and Domestic Politics Luncheon Seminar
"The Rules of Regulation"

029 Robertson Hall

Rawi Abdelal, Harvard University.
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch. To download a copy of the paper, click here.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


4:30 pm
"Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.


4:30 pm
Spring Colloquium Series
"The New Latin Nation: Immigration & the Hispanic Population in the U.S."
165 Wallace Hall

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development.


4:30 pm
"High Noon at the United Nations: Will the World's Leaders Agree to a New Consensus on Development, Security, and Human Rights?"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Robert C. Orr, *96, Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning, UN.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Pubilc and International Affairs.


4:30 pm
"The Recently Discovered Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the Cosmos"
307 Frist Campus Center

Yossef Rapoport, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.




FRIDAY, APRIL 15

2:00-4:00 p.m.
Seminar Series - Understanding the Global AIDS Pandemic
"Is Abstinence a Viable Strategy for Fighting the Global AIDS Pandemic?" (panel discussion)
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Chief Medical Officer, White House;
Keith Hansen, AIDS Campaign Team for Africa, World Bank;
Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania;
Peter Bearman, Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Princeton AIDS Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Center for Human Values, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

4:30 p.m.
"Insider Perspectives on Afro-Pessimism: Rethinking Our Role as Contemporary Self-Critics"
Friend Center 101
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet & critic.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies, Program in African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Office of the President, Princeton University Council of the Humanities, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University Public Lecture Series, and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Workshop
"After Afro-Pessimism: Fashioning African Futures"
McCormick 106
Various speakers and panels.
For more information on the workshop and schedule of speakers, click here.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies, Program in African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Office of the President, Princeton University Council of the Humanities, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University Public Lecture Series, and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17

7:30 pm
Hebrew Film Series
"Hacameri"
010 East Pyne
A play by Chanoch Levin, performed in the Tel Aviv Theater.
In Hebrew with no subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

8:00 pm
"Easy Peace: Game Theory Applied to Israel and Palestine"
Whig Hall, 2nd Floor Senate Chamber
Dominic Johnson, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the International Relations Council.

MONDAY, APRIL 18

12:00 noon
"Sartre in the United States"
East Pyne 305

Annie Cohen-Solal, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Sponsored by the Center for French Studies and the Program in European Politics and Society.


4:30 pm
"Shaping Global Sympathy: The Transnational Human Rights Agenda"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

James Ron, McGill University.
To download a copy of the paper, click here.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


4:30 pm
"Gold Ink and Black Hair: Mantra and Mandala in Pre-Modern Japan"
Frist Campus Center, Rm. 234

Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Boston University.
Sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop, East Asian Studies Program.


TUESDAY, APRIL 19

12:00 noon
PIIRS Luncheon Seminar
"Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel"

012 Bendheim Hall

James Ron, McGill University
Reservation required. Contact Jayne Bialkowski (jayne@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
To download a copy of the paper, click here.


12:00 noon
PLAS Luncheon Seminar Series
"Building Civil Society among Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the U.S."
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.


4:30 pm
"The Politics of Reproduction in Egypt"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Beth Baron, City University of New York.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.


4:30 pm
"Britain's Gulag: Violence and the End of Empire in Kenya"

Frist Campus Center, Rm. 307

Caroline Elkins, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the African Studies Program and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


4:30 pm
"Disengaging Ethnography: The Challenge of Fieldwork among Indigenous Peoples"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Alcida Rita Ramos, University of Brasilia;
Larry Rosen, Princeton University, discussant.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology.


6:00 pm
Student Presentation
"Athens: Representations of a Twentieth Century City" (Field Research in Athens)

Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103

Students report on their field trip to Athens as part of the HLS361/COM361 seminar "Representations of a Twentieth Century City."
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.


THURSDAY, APRIL 21

12:00 noon
PIIRS Luncheon Seminar
"Governance and an Integrated World: A Corporate Viewpoint"

012 Bendheim Hall

Derek Harvey, Exxon Mobil Corp. (retired)
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
To download a copy of the paper, click here.


FRIDAY, APRIL 22

12:00 noon
"Partisans of Allah: Jihad in Theory and South Asian History"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


2:30 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"Byron in Greece: The Roots of Humanitarian Intervention"
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103

Gary Bass, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.


4:30 pm
"Bubble Culture: Speculation and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century Tokyo"
211 Dickinson Hall

Jordan Sand, Georgetown University.
Sponsored by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.


7:30 pm
Arab Film Series
"Al-Sabbar"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Directed by Patrick Burge, 2000.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.


MONDAY, APRIL 25

12:00 noon
Brown Bag Luncheon Series
"Advocating Democratic Change: Islamist Intellectuals in Iran and Indonesia"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multipurpose Room C

Mirjam Kuenkler, Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.


7:00 pm
Panel Discussion on Veiling in the Muslim World
"Self-Representation and the Construction of Identity: Women and Hijab in Muslim Cultures"
Room 016, Robertson Hall

Erin Augis, Ramapo College;
Yesim Arat, Bogazici University, Istanbul;
Jamila Bargach, Ecole nationale d'Architecture, Rabat, Morocco.
Amanay Jamal, Princeton University, discussant and moderator.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, the Princeton Middle East Society, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


TUESDAY, APRIL 26

12:30 pm
PIIRS Luncheon Seminar
"The Making of Foreign Policy on Capitol Hill: The Steady Erosion of Congressional Authority"
012 Bendheim Hall

Juliet K. Eilperin, The Washington Post.
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.


6:00 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"The Clash of Empires and the Re-Fashioning of the Greater Middle East, 1913-1923"

Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103

Vasillis Fouskas, Kingston University;
Molly Greene, Princeton University, respondent.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.


6:30 pm
"Voices from the Edge: The Favela Goes to the World Social Forum"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

A film directed by Daniela Broitman.
Sponsored by the Princeton Social Forum and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


THURSDAY, APRIL 28

12:00 noon
Globalization and Domestic Politics Luncheon Seminar
"Through a Glass and Darkly: Attitudes Toward International Trade and the Curious Effects of Issue Framing"

029 Robertson Hall

Michael Hiscox, Harvard University
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch. To download a copy of the paper, click here.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


12:00 noon
"Liberalism & Indigenous Autonomy in Southern Mexico"
300 Wallace Hall

Matthew Cleary, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.


4:30 pm
Spring 2005 Colloquium Series
"Immigration Policy and the Employment Conditions of U.S. Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic"
165 Wallace Hall

Katharine Donato, Rice University.
Sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development.


FRIDAY, APRIL 29

10:30 a.m.
Globalization Conference
"The Political Economy of Globalization: How Firms, Workers, and Policymakers Are Responding to Global Economic Integration"

Bowl 16, Robertson Hall

Various speakers.
For conference information and program, click here.
Sponsored by the Center for Globalization & Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Conference continues Saturday, April 30.


SATURDAY, APRIL 30

9:00 a.m.
Globalization Conference
"The Political Economy of Globalization: How Firms, Workers, and Policymakers Are Responding to Global Economic Integration"

300 Wallace Hall

Various speakers.
For conference information and program, click here.
Sponsored by the Center for Globalization & Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


 

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