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April 18, 2011- April 29, 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 18, 2011
 

No scheduled events.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
 

"Neighborhood Effects on Subjective Well-Being" 

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

Speaker:  Jens Ludwig, Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy, University of Chicago

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

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

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

 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
 

"Licensing Dry Casks for 100 years as an Alternative to Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing"
221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Radovan Milincic, Drexel University
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a SGS Seminar -lunch is served.

 

"Precocious Albion: Factor Prices, Technological Change and the Industrial Revolution"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Cormac Ó Gráda, Professor of Economics, University College Dublin
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing & Research Program in Development Studies
Contact:  Lillian Anderson (latwo@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Brown bag lunch; bottled water provided.
CHW - http://www.princeton.edu/chw  

RPDS - http://www.princeton.edu/rpds 

 

Public Policy Address by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education 

Richardson Auditorium, 4:00 p.m. 

Speaker: Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs 

Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: This is ticketed event- tickets are available at the Frist Box Office, Monday- Friday from 12:00- 6:00 p.m. Tickets may also be available outside Richardson Auditorium before the event depending on availability. http://wws.princeton.edu/coverstories/ArneDuncan_42011/

 

Thursday, April 21, 2011
 

"Relative Power, Public Opinion, and Democratic Policy Responsiveness"
300 Wallace Hall 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Frederick Solt, SIU and CSDP
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students

 

"Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents"

Wallace Room 001, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speakers: Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Rutgers University; Julien Teitler,  Columbia University
Sponsor: Fragile Families Working Group
Contact:  Tracy Merone (ffdata@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This event is part of the Fragile Families Working Group series. It is only open to graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be served.
http://crcw.princeton.edu/schedules_wg/FFWG_Spring_2011.pdf   

 

"Politics of Snow II" 

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

Speaker: Diane Burko, landscape painter, artist responsible for current show in Bernstein Gallery

Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School 

Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: There will be a public reception following the discussion. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/DianeBurkoartpanel04_21/

 

Friday, April 22, 2011
 

"New Realities of Mexican Immigration to the United States" 

300 Wallace Hall, 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. 

Speakers: For a full list of speaker, please visit the website

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

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

Additional Information: http://www.opr.princeton.edu/ImmigrationConferenceFlyer.pdf

 

Monday, April 25, 2011
 

"Public Panel Discussion: The New Hungarian Constitution: The Long Goodbye to Liberal Democracy?"

Bowl 16, Robertson Hall, 4:30 p.m.

Speakers: Andrew Arato, New School University, Sociology; Erika Kiss, Princeton University, University Center for Human Values; Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University, Politics; Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Sociology, UCHV

Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs and the EU Program

Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=473

 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
 

"Stutter-Step Models of College Entry" 

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

Speakers: Steve Morgan, Professor of Sociology, Yale University 

Sponsor: Office of Population Research

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

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


 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
 

"Chernobyl Reduxs:  Soviet Nuclear Policy and the Elusive Concept of Safety"

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

Speaker: Sonja D. Schmid, PhD, Virginia Tech

Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security

Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)

Additional Information: NOTE: this SGS seminar is being held at a different time and location than normal

 

"The Beijing Dissensus: China's Continuing Foreign Policy Debate"
Bowl 001, Robertson Hall, 4:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan D. Pollack, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Sponsor: Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program
Contact:  Yan Bennett (ybennett@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This event is open to the public

 

Thursday, April 28, 2011
 

"Name Recognition and Candidate Support"

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

Speaker: Cindy Kam, Vanderbilt University

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

 

"Do Opposites Attract?: Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect"

Bowl 002, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: Edward Luck, Senior vice president for Research at the International Peace Institute; special adviser to the UN Secretary-General

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 their 10th anniversary. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/EdLuck04_28/ 

 

Friday, April 29, 2011
 
"Enhancing Practice for Early English Language Learners"

RSVP required for this event

Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 8:30 a.m.- 3:40 p.m. Speakers: Please see website
Sponsors: Education Research Section, National Institute for Early Education Research, The Future of Children Journal, Woodrow Wilson School
Contact: Lisa Markman-Pithers (lmarkman@princeton.edu)

RSVP and Additional Information:

http://www.futureofchildren.princeton.edu/ell/  

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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April 18, 2011
April 19, 2011
April 20, 2011
April 21, 2011
April 22, 2011
April 25, 2011
April 26, 2011
April 27, 2011
April 28, 2011
April 29, 2011
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