12:00 pm
Islam, Modernity, and South Asia Seminar Series
"The Rise and Fall of Glitter: Old Delhi's Muslim Artisans"
202 Jones Hall

Mira Mohsini, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies, the Transregional Institute, the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, and sponsored in part by a gift to the University Center for Human Values in honor of James A. Moffett '29.

4:30 pm
"The Nexus of Population, Health, and Environmental Issues in Russia"
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1

Murray Feshbach, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Sponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies.

4:30 pm
"The Transatlantic Relationships: A Thing of the Past or of the Future?"
Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium

John Bruton: Ambassador of the European Union to the United States.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs and the European Union Program.

4:30 pm
“Playing Our Game: China's Rise and the West”
McCosh Hall, Rm. 2

Edward S. Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sponsored by the China and the World Program.

7:00 pm
South Asia Film Society, film screening
"Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge"
Rocky-Mathey Theater

Directed by Aditya Chopra (1995).
Sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies and the South Asian Students Association.
Dinner at 6:30 pm before the film.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
"Translating East Asia: Thoughts from a New Course Project"
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Martin Kern, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.

12:00 pm
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"The IDF Goes to War: Israeli Military Culture, the Sinai Campaign and the Six Day War"
202 Jones Hall

Gil-li Vardi, Oxford University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
“Did the U.S.-Russian Cold War Really End?”
Robertson Hall, Bowl 2

Stephen F. Cohen, New York University; Princeton University, emeritus.
Sponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Politics, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

4:30 pm
“The Strategy of the Global Zero Campaign for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons”
Robertson Hall, Bowl 016

Bruce Blair, World Security Institute.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

4:30 pm
"The Travails of Democratic Governance in Central America"
Robertson Hall, Rm. 016

Kevin Casas-Zamora, Brookings Institution.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

4:30 pm
"Understanding the Present and Future of Oil"
100 Jones Hall

Leonardo Maugeri, ENI (Italy).
Sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Transregional Institute.

6:00 pm
"Justification of War in Late Byzantium (1204-1453)"
Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103

Savvas Kyriakidis, Princeton University.
Heath Lowry, Princeton University, respondent.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

8:00 am
Indaba
“African Governance Success Stories and Why They Work”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Jennifer Widner, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies.

12:00 pm
Work-in-Progress Lunch Seminar
“Community Development and Colombia's Cold War, 1960-1966”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Robert Karl, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.

4:30 pm
India and the World
“Why the Present Nuclear Nonproliferation Order Will Not Survive”
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16

Bharat Karnad, Center for Policy Research, Delhi.
Sponsored by Center for International Security Studies.

4:30 pm
“El fondo de los fondos” (lecture in Spanish)
219 Aaron Burr Hall

Alan Pauls, Princeton University.
Hosted by Ricardo Piglia, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.

4:30 pm
“FDI Liberalization in China and India: How Capitalist Networks Shape Economic Reform”
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1

Min Ye, Boston University.
Sponsored by the China and the World Program.

7:30 pm
Turkish Film Series
“Mutluluk" ("Bliss")
010 East Pyne

Directed by Abdullah Oguz (2007), in Turkish with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

7:30 pm
Arabic Film Series
“Akir Film"
McCormick 101

Directed by Nouri Bouzid (2006), in Arabic with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 pm
Islamic Studies Colloquium
“Shifting Authority in Islamic Legal Reasoning: The Punishment for Drinking Wine”
102 Jones Hall

Felicitas Opwis, Georgetown University.
Sponsored by the Department of Religion and Department of Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
Democracy, Diversity, and Development Speaker Series
“A Panel on State and Development”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Bruce Cummings, University of Chicago;
Diane Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
David Leonard, University of Sussex.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the University Center for Human Values, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Project on Democracy and Development.
For more information, click here.

7:00 pm
Latina/o Moves: New Adventures in Performance
The Acting Studio, Lewis Center for the Arts

Marga Gomez, Carmelita Tropicana and Nicolas Dumit Estevez.
Sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts, Center for African American Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, Program in American Studies, and LGBT Center.

7:15 pm
Hebrew Film Series
"A Weekend in the Galilee"
010 East Pyne Hall

Directed by Moshe Mizrahi (2007), in Hebrew with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
"Problems of Self-Representation: A Yemenite Jew Writes in Judaeo-Arabic for Europeans"
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Alan Verskin, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.

12:00 pm
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"Lying about the Prophet of God: Forgery and its Manipulation in the Islamic Tradition"
202 Jones Hall

Jonathan A. C. Brown, University of Washington, Seattle.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
Luce Speaker Series on Religion, Democracy, and Conflict
"Free Speech or Free Hate? The Danish Cartoon Controversy in the European Legal Context"
216 Aaron Hall

Erik Bleich, Middlebury College.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion.

4:30 pm
"Democracy and Violence, Agonism and Community, Politics and Not Politics in Eastern Sri Lanka"
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh.
Sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies.

4:30 pm
Richard Ullman Lectures
“Understanding the Global System”
Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium

Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton University Press.

8:00 am
Indaba
“Sustainable Design: Creating New Solutions for Global Development - Ghana Global Seminar”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Winston Soboyejo and Makeba Clay, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies.

4:30 pm
Richard Ullman Lectures
“Ethics and Global Policy”
Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium

Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton University Press.

12:00 pm
Islam, Modernity, and South Asia Seminar Series
"The Gotarka Pir: Delegation and Exchange at a Muslim Shrine in Gujarat"
202 Jones Hall

Parvis Ghassen-Fachandi, Rutgers University.
Sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies, the Transregional Institute, the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, and sponsored in part by a gift to the University Center for Human Values in honor of James Moffett '29.

4:30 pm
Lounge Seminar
“Could Manichaeans be Happy? Cosmology and the Appreciation of Daily Life in Manichaean Communities"
1879 Hall, Rm. 140

Michael Allen Williams, University of Washington.
Sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, Department of Religion, and Group Study of Late Antiquity.

4:30 pm
Richard Ullman Lectures
“U.S. Foreign Policy, Past and Future”
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16

Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton University Press.

4:30 pm
“States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000”
Corwin Hall, Rm. 127

Dorothy Solinger, University of California, Irvine.
Sponsored by the China and the World Program.

7:30 pm
“Who's in Charge: Leadership During Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks and Other Public Health Crises”
Lewis Library 120

Laura H. Kahn, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Lewis Library.

12:00 pm
"The Kobolo's Poetics: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life in Accra, Ghana"
111 East Pyne

Ato Quayson, University of Toronto.
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Program in African Studies, and the Center for African American Studies.

7:00 pm
South Asia Film Society, film screening
"Parzania"
Rocky-Mathey Theater

Directed by Rahul Dholakia (2007).
Sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies and the South Asian Students Association.
Dinner at 6:30 pm before the film.

1:30 pm
Film Screening
"Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think"
McCosh 10

A film by Michael Wolfe (2009).
Sponsored by the Muslim Life Program in the Office of Religious Life and the Princeton Public Library.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
"Translating a Puzzle: Richard Bruce Nugent's Smoke, Lilies and Jade"
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Antonio Calvo, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.

12:00 pm
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"The Industry of Lies: Myths & Facts Concerning the Middle East Conflict"
202 Jones Hall

Ben-Dror Yemini, Maariv (Tel Aviv).
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 pm
“The Challenge of Introducing New Vaccines: The UK Experience”
300 Wallace Hall

David Salisbury, Departmetn of Health, London.
Sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Center for Health and Wellbeing.

3:00 pm
Discussion
“Regaining Peace: Following the post-election violence in Iran”
102 Jones Hall

Shefalika Gandhi, Princeton University Health Services, facilitator.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies, University Health Services and Davis International Center.

4:30 pm
Luce Speaker Series on Religion, Democracy, and Conflict
"Religion and International Relations Theory"
216 Aaron Hall

Jack Snyder, Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion.

4:30 pm
"Political Islam in Palestine: The Future of Hamas and the Gaza Strip"
100 Jones Hall

Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Al Najah University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Program in Near Eastern Studies, and the Princeton Middle East Society.

12:00 pm
“The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys”
300 Wallace Hall

Anne Case and Christina Paxson, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Office of Population Research and the Research Program in Development Studies.

12:00 pm
“Gender Mutation: Sexuality, Race and Medicine in Early Modern France”
305 East Pyne

Elsa Dorlin, Universite Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and Center for French Studies.

8:00 am
Indaba
“Medieval and Early Modern Ethiopian Literature: An Overview of Ge'ez Poetry and Prose”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Getatchew Haile, African scholar.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
“After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain
Future”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Andrew Feinstein, author & former ANC member of South African Parliament.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies.
Please rsvp to Rebecca Aguas (raguas@princeton.edu).

4:30 pm
“International Return Migration and its Political Impact in China: Contexts, Dynamics and Comparisons”
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1

Donglin Han, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the China and the World Program.

7:30 pm
Arabic Film Series
“Madinat Bab el-Oued"
McCormick 101

Directed by Merzak Allouache (1994), in Arabic with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

7:30 pm
Persian Film Series
“Tehran has no more pomegranates"
100 Jones Hall

Directed by Massoud Bakhshi (2007), in Persian with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 pm
Islamic Studies Colloquium
“A Diachronic Survey of the Ottoman Exegetical Tradition”
102 Jones Hall

Susan Gunasti, Princeton University.
Katharina Ivanyi, Princeton University, discussant.
Sponsored by the Department of Religion and Department of Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
“Linea de sombra: un grafismo dominante” (lecture in Spanish)
010 East Pyne

Regina Silveira, Brazilian artist.
Hosted by Kelly Baum, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies.

4:30 pm
“In but not Of the State: Claims to Social Citizenship in Western India”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Project on Democracy and Development.

9:30 am
Symposium
"China Seen by the Chinese: Documentary Photography, 1951-2003"
McCosh 50

Various speakers.
For the symposium schedule, click here.
Sponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Princeton University Art Museum.

2:00 pm
“Gaza After the Goldstone Report: Challenging the UN and World Public Opinion”
006 Friend Center

Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Program in Near Eastern Studies, and the Princeton Middle East Society.

7:15 pm
Hebrew Film Series
"Children of the CCCP"
010 East Pyne Hall

Directed by Felix Gerchikov (2007), in Hebrew with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
"Ejusdem generis: Lessons from China for Legal Drafting"
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Preston Torbert, University of Chicago School of Law.
Sponsored by the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.

12:00 pm
Brown Bag Lunch Serminar
“The U.S. in the Middle East: A Retrospective Look”
202 Jones Hall

Joel S. Migdal, University of Washington, Seattle.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

4:30 pm
Luce Speaker Series
“Secular States and Religions: Comparing the United States, France, and Turkey”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World.

4:30 pm
“National Allegiance and Imperial Loyalty: Greeks Under European Colonial Rule”
Scheide Caldwell House, Rm. 103

Alexis Rappas, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
Robert Tignor, Princeton University, respondent.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
“Challenges Facing Higher Education in South Africa”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies.
Please rsvp to Rebecca Aguas (raguas@princeton.edu).

4:30 pm
The Caucasus: Zones of Contestation
"What's in a Name? Pedigree, Prestige, and Power in the Folklore of the Caucasus"
219 Aaron Burr Hall

John Colarusso, McMaster University.
Sponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Council for the Humanities, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and a gift to the University Center for Human Values in honor of James A. Moffett '29.

4:30 pm
Oil, Energy and the Middle East
"The Gulf Cooperation Council Paradox: Resource Nationalism and Political Liberalization in the Gulf"
100 Jones Hall

Antoine Halff, Newedge Brokers and Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Institute for Transregional Study.

8:00 am
Indaba
“The Globalization of Healthcare Professionals: Migration from Nigeria to the U.S.”
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Anita Obodo, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in African Studies.

12:00 pm
Luncheon Seminar
“Iranian Nuclear Issues: The Difference in the Public Opinions of the West and Iranian Public Views”
012 Bendheim Hall

Ambassador S. Hossein Mousavian, Former Senior Nuclear Negotiator of Iran.
Sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.
RSVP required (matheney@princeton.edu). University ID cards are required for admittance.

4:30 pm
“What is a Hinayana Fundamentalist doing in Fifth-Century China?”
1879 Hall, Rm. 137

Daniel J. Boucher, Cornell University.
Sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop.