12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar Series
"Engaged Surrrender: African American Women and Islam"
012 Bendheim Hall

Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University
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.

4:30 pm
"Terror in Africa"
28 McCosh Hall

J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS/AIDS Task Force; CSIS Africa Program.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the African Studies Program, and Princeton in Africa.

12:00 noon
PIIRS Luncheon Seminar
"Bad 'isms' in International Development: A Critique of Current Paradigms"
012 Bendheim Hall

Susanne D. Mueller, Harvard University
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Click here to download a copy of the paper.

2:00-5:00 pm
"Panel on Asian Strategic Thought in 2004"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Panelists:
China: Thomas Christensen, Princeton University
Japan: Kazuhiko Togo, Princeton University
Korea: Shin-wha Lee, Korea University
Russia: Joseph Ferguson, Princeton University
India: Walter Andersen, Johns Hopkins University
Indonesia: Theodore Friend, fmr. president, Swarthmore College
Regionalism: Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

2:30 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"Preventing War Between Allies: The United States and the Greek-Turkish Conflict, 1976"
Rm. 103, Scheide Caldwell House

Sotiris Rizas, Academy of Athens.
Neophytos Loizides, Princeton University, respondent.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

4:00 pm
Middle East Lecture Series
"The Middle East 'Peace Process' - The View from Cairo"
Friend Center, Convocation Room (Rm. 113)

Khaled Fahmy, New York University
Sponsored by the Princeton Middle East Society and the Princeton University International Center.

12:00 noon
Globalization and Domestic Politics Luncheon Seminar
"Does the World Need a Universal Financial Institution?"
012 Bendheim Hall

James M. Boughton, International Monetary Fund
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

12:00 noon
Brown Bag Luncheon Series
"Ideological Shift: From Islamic Fundamentalism to Battle Against al-Qa'ida - the Political Evolution of Commander Massoud and the Afghan 'Northern Alliance'"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multi-Purpose Room C

Michael Barry, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
PIIRS Lecture
"The Tribal Background to the Contemporary Arab World "
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Frank Stewart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar Series
"Not 2 Late: Translating Emergency Contraception and Medical Abortion for an Arabic-speaking Audience"
012 Bendheim Hall

Lisa Wynn, Princeton University
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
"Challenges for Development: Water Engineering in Latin America"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.

4:30 pm
"My Escape from Slavery: A Young Man's Journey from Captivity to Freedom"
Frist Campus Center, Rm. 302

Francis Bok, a former slave in his native Sudan for ten years, is now an antislavery activist and writer based in Boston.
Sponsored by the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the International Center, the Princeton Justice Project, and the Black History Month Planning Committee.

12:30 pm
Luncheon Seminar
"Iran: Is a Nuclear Weapon Inevitable?"
221 Nassau Street, 2nd Floor

Gary Sick, Columbia University.
Reservation required. Contact Barbara Zelt (zelt@princeton.edu) and Dorothy Davis (dldavis@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and order lunch.
Sponsored by the Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

12:00 noon
Globalization and Domestic Politics Luncheon Seminar
"Clubs, Universes, and the Governance of Global Finance"
012 Bendheim Hall

Daniel W. Drezner, University of Chicago
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

12:00 noon
Bridging Cultures Luncheon Discussion
"Religions in Different Cultures"
Murray Dodge, West Room

Paul Raushenbush, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the International Center and the Offices of Campus Life, Vice President for Campus Life, Graduate School, Religious Life, Pace Center, and the Council of International Graduate Students.

12:00 noon
PIIRS/PLAS Luncheon Seminar
"Americas Plural: Old Wine in New Bottles?"
012 Bendheim Hall

James Dunkerley, University of London
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Program in Latin American Studies.

12:00 noon
"Supporting the Arts: A France-USA Comparison "
East Pyne 305

Frederic Martel, French Cultural Service, Boston.
Sponsored by the Program in European Politics and Society, and the Center for French Studies.

12:00 noon
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"Resurrecting Empire"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multi-Purpose Room C

Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
"Authenticity and Connoisseurship: Making Chinese Sculpture Art"
McCormick 106

Stan Abe, Duke University.
Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center.

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar Series
"Traditional Qur'anic Interpretation in a Changing Damascene Society"
023 Robertson Hall

Karen Bauer, Princeton University
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
"Global and Local Mobilities in the Making of Caribbean Space & Place"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Mimi Sheller, Lancaster University, UK
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.

4:30 pm
Journalists Writing the World
"Reporting From the Middle East: Whose Truth?"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

James Bennet, The New York Times.
Gary Bass, Princeton University, moderator.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

5:00 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"The Ottomans in Fifteenth Century Greece: A Travelogue"
Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103

Heath W. Lowry, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

4:30 pm
"Global Environmental Challenges: A Practical Policy Agenda"
Bowl 016 Robertson Hall

H. Jeffrey Leonard *85, Global Environment Fund.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

12:00 noon
Globalization and Domestic Politics Luncheon Seminar
"Rethinking Economic Growth in Developing Countries"
029 Robertson Hall

Dani Rodrik, 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. To download a copy of the paper, click here.

4:30 pm
Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Seminar
"The Problem of the Public in Public International Law"
Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx Hall

Benedict Kingsbury, New York University.
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Ethics, and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
For more information, see the University Center for Human Values calendar of events at www.princeton.edu/values.

7:30 pm
Arab Film Series
"Living in Paradise"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Directed by Boudrem Guerdjou, 1998
Sponsored by the Program in Near Eastern Studies.

8:00 pm
Concert - Omar Sosa Quartet
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

Omar Sosa, piano; Mino Cinelu, percussion; Geoff Brennan, acoustic bass; Eric Crystal, saxophone.
General admission $12; Seniors $6; free to all students with valid Princeton University ID.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University Concerts, Program in African American Studies, Program in African Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

4:30 pm
"State, Islam, Gender: Middle Eastern Perspectives"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Mounira Charrad, University of Texas.
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
"Puerto Rican Plena: World Music, (Trans)local Roots"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Marilyn Grace Miller, Tulane University
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.

4:30 pm
PIIRS Lecture
"Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Generate an Indigenous Corporate Law"
Computer Science Bldg., Rm. 104

Timur Kuran, University of Southern California.
To download a copy of the paper, click here.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

4:30 pm
Global Issues Forum
"The North Korean Nuclear Crisis "
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

Selig Harrison, Center for International Policy.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Department of East Asian Studies, and the International Center.

6:00 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"Continuity and Change: Reflections on Damascus from Byzantium to Early Islam"
Room 103 Scheide Caldwell House

Nancy Khalek, Princeton University.
Jack Tannous, Princeton University, respondent.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

11:00 am
Hebrew Lunch Talk
"Perspectives on Palestinian-Israeli Relations within the Green Zone"
Frist Campus Center, Rm. 205

Ayman Agbaria, Palestinian-Israeli poet & author.
Talk will be presented in Hebrew.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar
"Des politiques de lutte contre la criminalite aux politiques anti-terroristes: L'Europe adopte-t-elle l'approche americaine?"
305 East Pyne Hall

Sophie Body-Gendrot, University of Paris IV and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, European Politics and Society Program, and the Center for French Studies.

4:30 pm
"Creative Reception: Canonical and Noncanonical Tales of the Heike"
Frist 234

Michael Watson, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.

4:30 pm
"A Druze Poet's Perspective on Israeli Culture and Multi-Culturalism"
McCormick 106

Rehda Mansoor.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 noon
Bridging Cultures Luncheon Discussion
"Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Different Cultures"
Murray Dodge, West Room

Sponsored by the International Center and the Offices of Campus Life, Vice President for Campus Life, Graduate School, Religious Life, Pace Center, and the Council of International Graduate Students.

4:30 pm
"Revisiting the Conditions for Stability in Western Europe in the Two Postwar Eras: The Constitutional Struggle for Administrative Governance, 1920s-1950s"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Peter Lindseth, University of Connecticut School of Law.
Sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society.

4:30 pm
"A Serial Murder in Tehran: Crime, Science, and the Formation of Modern Society in Interwar Iran"
New South Bldg., 7th Floor Conference Room

Cyrus Schayegh.
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
Lounge Seminar
"Jewish Counter-Geography in a Christianizing Empire: Martyrs, Relics and Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity"
Room 140, 1879 Hall

Ra'anan (Abusch) Boustan, University of Minnesota.
Sponsored by the Group Study of Late Antituity, Program in Judaic Studies, and the Department of Religion.

7:00 pm
Conference, "Trading Morsels, Growing Hunger, Decimating Nature: Linking Food and Trade to Development and the Environment"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

Keynote: George McGovern, UN Ambassador on World Hunger.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Center for Migration and Development, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
For information and conference schedule, click here.
Continues Friday and Saturday, February 25 and 26.

8:30 a.m.
Conference, "Trading Morsels, Growing Hunger, Decimating Nature: Linking Food and Trade to Development and the Environment"
Bowl 16, Robertson Hall

Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Center for Migration and Development, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
For information and conference schedule, click here.
Continues Saturday, February 26.

12:30 pm
Arabic Lunch Talk Series
"The Role of the Arab Woman in Contemporary Issues"
Frist Campus Center, Floor A, Class of 1952 Room

Hafiz al-Zubair.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

9:00 a.m.
Conference, "Trading Morsels, Growing Hunger, Decimating Nature: Linking Food and Trade to Development and the Environment"
Bowl 16, Robertson Hall

Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Center for Migration and Development, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
For information and conference schedule, click here.

12:00 noon
"Yemeni Democracy: Why Women Count"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multipurpose room C

Ambassador Edmund J. Hull, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
"Patents, Drugs, and Developing Countries"
300 Wallace Hall

John Barton, Stanford University Law School (emeritus).
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Research Program in Development Studies.

6:30 pm
"Radical Hope: Creating a Culture of Peace and Healing Israel/Palestine"
Frist Campus Center, Rm. 234

Jordan Pearlstein, Tikkun Campus Network.
Sponsored by the International Center, the Office of Religious Life, and the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.