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TUESDAY, MARCH 1
12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar Series
"Property and Portraiture in Arab Cultures"
029 Robertson Hall |
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Larry Rosen, 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
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reconstructing Ancient Mexican Civilization "
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107 |
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John M. D. Pohl, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
4:30 pm
"Death in Darfur: Can Africa Handle Security Crises on Its Own?"
Bowl 016 Robertson Hall |
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Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, Under Secretary-General, UN.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. |
4:30 pm
"NATO and the Future of World Order"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall |
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Karl Kaiser, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. |
7:30 pm
Wilson College Faculty Fellows Film Series
"Discordia"
Rm. B204, Wilcox Hall, Wilson College
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A film by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, 2004.
A discussion with Dr. Pamela Barnett, Princeton University, will follow the film screening.
Sponsored by Wilson College. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
4:30 pm
"The Normalization of Torture: Egyptian Practice and U.S. Complicity"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall |
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Hossam Bahgat, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
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
PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows Conference
"A More Assertive Russia?"
Frist Campus Center, Rm. 302 |
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Various speakers.
Click here for the conference program.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Global Issues Forum.
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4:30 p.m.
"North Korea and the Bomb: How Real the Threat?"
McCosh 10 |
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Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago;
Joseph DeTrani, U.S. State Department;
Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University;
Harold Feiveson, Princeton University, moderator.
Sponsored by the Program in Science and Global Security and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. |
7:30 pm
Arab Film Series
"Canticle of the Stones"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall |
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Directed by Michael Khleifi, 1990.
Subtitled in English.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies. |
FRIDAY, MARCH 4
2:00 pm
Symposium, "Violence & Inequality in Latin America: Truth Commissions & Their Consequences"
Rm. 127 Corwin Hall |
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Carlos Ivan Degregori, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru;
Teresa Godwin Phelps, University of Notre Dame;
Elizabeth Oglesby, University of Arizona;
Jeremy Adelman & Deborah Yashar, Princeton University, discussants.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. |
2:30 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"What Makes a Greek Ship Greek? Trade and Legal Regimes in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
Room 103, Scheide Caldwell House |
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Molly Greene, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies. |
MONDAY, MARCH 7
12:00 noon
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"Peace and Democracy in the Maghrib?"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multipurpose Room C |
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James McDougall, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies. |
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
4:30 p.m.
The 2004-2005 Cyril Black Memorial Lecture
"The United States and Democracy Promotion: Learning from Postcommunist Eurasia"
Room 016, Robertson Hall |
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Valerie Bunce, Cornell University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. |
4:30 p.m.
"North Korea and the U.S."
300 Wallace Hall |
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Desaix Anderson '58, former director of Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO).
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Department of East Asian Studies, the International Center, Global Issues Forum, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. |
7:00 p.m.
"Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism and Security"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall |
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Hans Blix, former U.N. Weapons Inspector.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program on Science and Global Security.
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8:00 p.m.
"Arna's Children"
Frist 302 |
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A film by Juliano Mer Khamis.
Sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine. |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
4:30 p.m.
"Two Challenges in Iraq: Sunni Arab Engagement and Balanced Economic Growth"
Room 016, Robertson Hall |
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Robert Silverman, '80; MPA '82
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. |
7:30 p.m.
Israeli Lecture Series
"The Impact of Iraqi-Born Writers on Israeli Culture"
Chancellor Green 105 |
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Salim Fattal
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
4:30 p.m.
"Intergroup Forgiveness, Intergroup Trust and Sectarian Conflict in Northern Ireland"
Kerstetter Room, 3rd floor, Marx Hall |
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Miles Hewstone, University of Oxford.
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values, Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, and the Department of Psychology. |
MONDAY, MARCH 21
4:30 p.m.
Seminar Series - Understanding the Global AIDS Pandemic
"The Role of the World Health Organization in Fighting the Global AIDS Pandemic: Precedents, Possibilities, and Pitfalls"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall |
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Arthur Ammann, Global Strategies for HIV Prevention.
Christina Davis and Evan Lieberman, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Princeton AIDS Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. |
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
12:00 noon
PLAS Luncheon Seminar Series
"Contentious Liberalism(s): Argentina in a Comparative Perspective"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107 |
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Jorge Nallim, Sarah Lawrence College.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. |
12:00 noon
Seminar Series - Understanding the Global AIDS Pandemic
"Navigating AIDS in Rural Malawi"
300 Wallace Hall |
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Susan Watkins, University of Pennsylvania.
Sponsored by the Princeton AIDS Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Office of Population Research. |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
12:00 noon
"Muslims and the Religions in Question in Europe: The Case of France, England and Germany"
215 Bendheim Hall |
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Farhad Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
4:30 pm
"Microfinance in the Arab World"
McCosh Hall, Rm. 60
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Heather Henyon, Grameen Foundation USA.
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. |
7:30 pm
Arab Film Series
"Man of Ashes"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall |
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Directed by Nouri Bouzid, 1986.
Subtitled in English.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies. |
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
2:30 pm
Hellenic Studies Workshop
"Fled or Expelled? The Exodus of the Greeks from Nasserite Egypt"
Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103 |
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Alexander Kazamias, Coventry University.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies. |
MONDAY, MARCH 28
12:00 noon
PIIRS Luncheon Seminar
"The U.N. Secretary-General: Global Captain or Busboy?"
012 Bendheim Hall |
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Leon Gordenker, Princeton University.
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Click here for an outline of the seminar.
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12:00 noon
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"Washington & Damascus: Quo Vadis?"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multipurpose Room C |
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Moshe Ma'oz, Hebrew University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 29
12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar Series
"Women in Iran"
215 Bendheim Hall |
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Negin Nabavi, 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
" 'We live daily in two countries': Music & Dual Citizenship in Brazil"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107 |
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Frederick Moehn, SUNY Stony Brook.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. |
4:30 pm
"Internal Criticism and Religious Authority in Contemporary Islam"
101 McCormick Hall |
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Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Brown University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
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4:30 pm
"Modell Deutschland Never Worked"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall |
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Adam Posen, Institute for International Economics.
Sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society. |
4:30 pm
Buddhist Studies Workshop
"Soteriological Subterfuge: Secret Signs, Coded Language and the Buddhist Tantric Feast"
1879 Hall, Rm. 137
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Ron Davidson, Fairfield University.
Sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop, East Asian Studies Program. |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
4:30 pm
The 27th Carolyn L. Drucker '80 Memorial Lecture
"Jerusalem 1938 and After"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall |
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Walter Laqueur, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Program in Judaic Studies, and the Perelman Institute. |
8:00 pm
Film Screening
"Until When...."
Frist Campus Center, Rm. 307 |
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Directed by Dahna Abourahme, 2004.
Sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
12:00 noon
"The Indigenization of Popular Media in Bolivia"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 101 |
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Jeff Himpele, New York University.
Sponsored by the Anthropology Graduate Student Committee. |
4:30 pm
"Democracy in the Middle East: Historical Observations"
101 McCormick Hall |
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Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. |
4:30 pm
"A Major Realignment or Business as Usual: The Polish Party Scene Before the 2005 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections"
012 Bendheim Hall |
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Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington & Lee University.
Sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. |
4:30 pm
Spring Colloquium Series
"Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror & Hope"
165 Wallace Hall |
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Beatriz Manz, University of California, Berkeley;
Maria Juega, Latin American Legal Defense & Education Fund, discussant.
Sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development. |
7:00-10:00 pm
"deFRAMED: The Princeton Festival of New Latin American Short Film"
010 East Pyne |
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Sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures, Program in Latin American Studies, and the Graduate School. |
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