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April 4, 2011- April 15, 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, April 4, 2011
 

"Even in the Digital Age: Documentary Journalism and the Power of Story"- Lunchtimer Discussion

Room 023, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Anne Hull, Journalist, Council on Humanities

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Dana Ricci (danar@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This event is open to WWS students and faculty only, please RSVP here: https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/    

 

"Iran, North Korea, and the future of Nuclear Proliferation"
Bowl 016 Robertson Hall, 4:30 p.m.- 5:50 p.m.
Speaker: R. Scott Kemp, Former Science Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, U.S. Dept. of State
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security and the Center for International Security Studies
Contact:  Grace Cooper (sgs@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This event is open to Princeton University faculty, staff and students.

 

"The Plasticity of Harm: An Experimental Demonstration of the Malleability of Judgments in the Service of Criminalization by Avani Mehta Sood and John M. Darley"
1st floor conference room, Bendheim Center for Finance (26 Prospect), 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Avani Sood,  Psychology
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a Law-Engaged Graduate Students [LEGS] seminar-http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=422    

 

"Constitutional Decay and the Politics of Deference - The 10th Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism"

Lewis Library 138, 7:30 p.m.

Speaker: Jeffrey Tulis, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs, James Madison Program, and the Bouton Law Lecture Fund

Contact:  Sophia O'Brien (scobrien@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=444  

 

 

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
 

"The US and China: Great Nations, Evolving Technology, and Challenging Policy"

Friend Center Convocation Room - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Edward Felten, Professor, Computer Science and Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Princeton University; Director, Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP); Chief Technologist, United States Federal Trade Commission
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Contact:  Laura Cummings-Abdo (lcumming@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: For a full list of speakers and the schedule, please visit- http://citp.princeton.edu/events/us-and-china/ 

 

"The Limits of Genocide: An Attempt at a Confidence Interval on the Khmer-Rouge Death Toll" 

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

Speaker:  Patrick Heuveline, Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

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

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

 
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
 

"The Next Generation of 123 Agreements"
221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Laura Berzak, Congressional Fellow
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)

RSVP: (sgs@princeton.edu) or 609-258-4677 by noon the day prior to the seminar.
Additional Information: This is a SGS lunch seminar.    

 

"School Reform"- Lunchtimer Discussion

Room 023, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Earl Kim, Superintendent, Montgomery Township Schools

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Dana Ricci (danar@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This event is open to WWS students and faculty only, please RSVP here: https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/   

 

"Gerrymandering"- screening of documentary and discussion
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Larry Bartels, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics; Nolan McCarty, Associate Dean, Woodrow Wilson School; Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; and Jeff Reichert, writer and director of the film "Gerrymandering"
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/Gerrymandering04_06/  

 

"The Colony and the Women's Kingdom: Two Documentaries"
Room 302, Frist Center, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker and Title: The Colony is a documentary about China's new aggressive economic role in Africa and the Women's Kingdom documents the Mosuo women in southwest China
Sponsor: Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program & East Asian Studies Program
Contact: Yan Bennett (ybennett@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/cwp/events/repository/colony/ 

 

Thursday, April 7, 2011
 

"The Emerging World Order: What It Means for Britain and America"

Prospect House, 12:00 p.m. (This event is by invitation only) 

Speaker: HE Sir Nigel Elton Sheinwald, British Ambassador to the United States

Sponsor: Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

Contact: Angella Matheney (matheney@princeton.edu)

RSVP: Angella Matheney (matheney@princeton.edu) by April 5th

Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/~lisd/grant.html  

 

"Partisan Pressure in the US House, 1955-2002"
300 Wallace Hall 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: C. Lawrence Evans, Newton Family Professor of Government, College of William and Mary
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students

 

"Nuclear Superiority or the Balance of Resolve? Explaining Nuclear Crisis Outcomes"

Wallace Hall 333, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. 

Speaker: Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown University
Sponsor: Research Program in International Security Seminar, CISS
Contact:
Cynthia Ernst (cernst@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/ciss/

Friday, April 8, 2011
 

"Globalizing Biosecurity:  The Virtual Biosecurity Center"
Carl Icahn, Room 280 - 12:30- 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Nishal Mohan, PhD, Executive Director of the Virtual Biosecurity Center at the Federation of American Scientists
Sponsor: The MacArthur Foundation
Contact:  Laura Kahn (lkahn@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a Biodefense Seminar - Lunch will be served. 

 

2011 Princeton Colloquium on Public & International Affairs- "Dollars, Diplomacy, and Development: Rethinking U.S. Foreign Aid and Policy"

Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 8:30 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Robert C. Orr, MPA *92, Ph.D. *96, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning, United Nations  

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Office of Public & External Affairs (extaff@princeton.edu)

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/4shqsqr 

Additional Information: For the full schedule, please visit- http://www.princeton.edu/pcpia/schedule/ 

 

Saturday, April 9, 2011
 

2011 Princeton Colloquium on Public & International Affairs- "Dollars, Diplomacy, and Development: Rethinking U.S. Foreign Aid and Policy"

Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. 

Speakers: For a full list of speakers and panels, please see the full schedule linked below 

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Office of Public & External Affairs (extaff@princeton.edu)

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/4shqsqr

Additional Information: For the full schedule, please visit- http://www.princeton.edu/pcpia/schedule/

 

Monday, April 11, 2011
 

Global Health Case Competition Presentation
333 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: For more information, please visit the link below
Sponsor: Health Grand Challenge
Contact:  Kristina Graff (kgraff@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events/viewevent.xml?id=15   

 

"Toward a Smarter Multilateralism"

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

Speaker: Mark Quarterman MPA '87, Senior adviser and Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: 

 

"U.S. War and Emergency Powers: The Virtues of Constitutional Ambiguity"
Library Lounge, Bendheim Center for Finance, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Gordon Silverstein, LAPA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California - Berkeley
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: LAPA's seminar format asks that seminar attendees familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=450  

 

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2011
 

"Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Models using Logit and Probit: A New Method" 

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

Speaker:  Richard Breen, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

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

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

 

Title TBD- Lunchtimer Discussion

Room 023, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Amb. Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan to the United States

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Dana Ricci (danar@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This event is open to WWS students and faculty only, please RSVP here:

https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/ 

 

7th Annual Donald S. Bernstein '75 Lecture: Degrees of Freedom
101 McCormick Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, and faculty co-director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=460    


 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
 

"How Peace Activists Saved the World from Nuclear War"

221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12:00- 1:30 p.m.

Speaker: Lawrence Wittner, State University of New York at Albany

Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security

Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)

RSVP: (sgs@princeton.edu) by 12noon on 4/12

Additional Information: This is a SGS Seminar - Lunch will be served.   

 

"Implementing Health Reform: Are the States Ready, Willing and Able?"
Bowl 16, Robertson Hall, 4:30 p.m.

Speakers: Thomas Considine, New Jersey Banking & Insurance Commissioner; Don George, President and CEO, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont; Kevin Lembo, State Comptroller, CT and former State Healthcare Advocate, CT; and Richard Nathan, Researcher and former director,  Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government

Moderator: Paul Starr, Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School & the Center for Health and Wellbeing

Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events/viewevent.xml?id=13  

 

 

Thursday, April 14, 2011
 

"Frenemies? Globalization and higher education policymaking in France" 

Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:00 p.m.- 1:20 p.m. 

Speaker: Cecile Hoareau, UC Berkely 

Sponsor: European Union Program & Department of French and Italian 

Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia (smeunier@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/europe/events/viewevent.xml?id=106  

 

"Ireland 2011-Path to Recovery"- Lunchtimer Discussion

Room 023, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Michael Collins, Ambassador of Ireland to the U.S

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs

Contact: Dana Ricci (danar@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This event is open to WWS students and faculty only, please RSVP here:

https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/  


"Responding to Secessionist Demands for Self-Determination: Great Power Coordination, Conflict, and Bargaining"

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

Speaker: Bridget Coggins, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: The discussion is part of the School's "Changing Notions of State, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination" Series, co-sponsored with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination as part of its 10th anniversary.

 

Friday, April 15, 2011
 

"Review of the National Academies' Investigation of the FBI's Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks"

Carl Icahn, Room 280, 12:30- 2:00 p.m.

Speaker: Nancy Connell, Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ

Sponsor: The MacArthur Foundation

Contact:  Laura Kahn (lkahn@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This is a Biodefense Seminar - lunch will be served.

 

Please send your event submissions to extaff@princeton.edu by Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. to be included in "The Weeks Ahead."
 
In This Issue
April 4, 2011
April 5, 2011
April 6, 2011
April 7, 2011
April 8, 2011
April 9, 2011
April 11, 2011
April 12, 2011
April 13, 2011
April 14, 2011
April 15, 2011
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