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January 31, 2011- February 11, 2011

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This is the Woodrow Wilson School's consolidated weekly listing of events, which will be emailed out every Friday or, when there are holidays, on the last business day of the week. All WWS Centers and Programs are invited to include their events on this list. Please contact the Office of Public & External Affairs at extaff@princeton.edu to find out how to submit information on your events.

Monday, January 31, 2011
 

No scheduled events.


 

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
 

"Racial Boundaries and Demographic Change"

300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Daniel Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology, Cornell University

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

Contact: Mary Lou Delaney (md@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://opr.princeton.edu/seminars/

 

UPDATED: "Up to the Minute- Egypt in Turmoil"

Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m

Speaker: Ambassador Dan Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt; political officer, American embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv; Deputy Director of the Office of Egyptian Affairs; Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/events/ 

 

 

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

 

No scheduled events.


 

Thursday, February 3, 2011
 

"Death Penalty Decisions and State Supreme Court Selection Procedures"

300 Wallace Hall, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Speaker: Brandice Canes-Wrone, Woodrow Wilson School, Department of Politics

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics

Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This event is restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students only.

http://www.princeton.edu/csdp/events/viewevent.xml?id=400

*Please note: this is on a different date than the first webmail showed.

 

Friday, February 4, 2011
 

No scheduled events.


 

Monday, February 7, 2011
 

The Cyril Black International Book Forum

"Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System"

Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.

Speakers: Barry Eichengreen, the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley; author, "Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System;" G. John Ikenberry, Woodrow Wilson School's Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs; co-director, Center for International Security Studies; Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society; and Hyun S. Shin, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Sponsors: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Center for International Security Studies

Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: The discussion is part of the annual Cyril Black International Book Forum, named in honor of the late Cyril Black, the emeritus James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton. Black was director of the Woodrow Wilson School's Center of International Studies from 1968 to 1985 and a member of the Princeton faculty for fifty years. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/CyrilBlackBookForum02_07/

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011
 

"Of Beauty, Sex, and Power: Statistical Challenges in Estimating Small Effects"

300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

Contact: Mary Lou Delaney (md@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://opr.princeton.edu/seminars/

 



 

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
 

"China, Then and Now"

Robertson Hall, Bowl 16, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: Ambassador Nicholas Platt, former Foreign Service Officer for 35 years; Ambassador to Zambia, the Philippines, and Pakistan

Sponsor: Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program

Contact:  Yan Bennett (ybennett@princeton.edu)

Additional Information:

http://www.princeton.edu/cwp/events/repository/nplatt/


 

Thursday, February 10, 2011
 

"The New Maritime Arctic: Crossroads of Globalization, Climate Change & Geopolitics"

Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: Lawson Brigham, Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Sponsors: Woodrow Wilson School of Public & External Affairs & The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: The discussion is the first of four lecture events in the School's "Changing Notions of State, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination" Series. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/LawsonBrigham02_10/ 


 

Friday, February 11, 2011
 

No scheduled events.


 

Please send your event submissions to extaff@princeton.edu by Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. to be included in "The Weeks Ahead."
 
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January 31, 2011
February 1, 2011
February 2, 2011
February 3, 2011
February 4, 2011
February 7, 2011
February 8, 2011
February 9, 2011
February 10, 2011
February 11, 2011
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