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October 31, 2011- November 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, October 31, 2011
 
No scheduled events- Students on break.

 

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
 
No scheduled event- Students on break.

 

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
 
No scheduled events- Students on break.

 

Thursday, November 3, 2011
 
No scheduled events- Students on break.

 

Friday, November 4, 2011
 
Biodefense Seminar - "The BWC:  The Next Generation"
Carl Icahn, Room 280 - 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Piers Millett, Deputy Head of the Implementation Support Unit for Biological Weapons Convention
Sponsor: The MacArthur Foundation
Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a lunch seminar.

 

Monday, November 7, 2011
 
"Amazon Forests in the Global Supermarket: New Policies for Conservation and Restoration "
Students and faculty preferred.
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Thomas Rudel, Professor, Departments of Human Ecology and Sociology, Rutgers University
Sponsor: STEP and PEI
Contact:  Chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:

"Democracy Promotion After the Jasmine Spring"
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jeremy Weinstein, Stanford University; Ethan Kapstein, University of Texas at Austin and Sarah Bush, Harvard University
Sponsor: Neihaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Contact:  Patricia Trinity (ptrinity@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This session of the International Relations Faculty Colloquium is sponsored by the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance.   Papers are posted several days before each presentation. You may download them by clicking the presentation title in the schedule of speakers.  Lunch will be provided.  http://www.princeton.edu/politics/graduate/departmental-colloquia/international-relations/


"The Jobs Dilemma: Moving From Talk to Action"

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

Speaker: Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Bernstein's talk is part of the School's Economic Recovery series. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/JaredBernstein11_07/ 

 

Tuesday, November 8, 2011
 
"Worldwide Family Changes" 300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Arland Thornton, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Contact: Mary Lou Delaney (md@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This talk is part of the Notestein Seminar Series.
http://opr.princeton.edu/seminars/fall/2011

Lunchtimer Discussion with Nick Rasmussen

This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP.
Bowl 002, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Nick Rasmussen MPA '90, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism, Counterterrorism Policy, National Security Staff, Executive Office of the President
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public and External Affairs  
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu )
RSVP:  https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/  
Additional Information: You must sign-up to attend as there is limited seating and lunch will be served. 

A Public Talk by Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem
This event is ticketed, please see additional information for ticket information.
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Tickets for Princeton University students, faculty and staff will be available at the University ticketing office at the Frist Campus Center for PUID holders on a first-come, first served basis beginning on Monday, November 7, at 12 noon while supplies last. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/NirBarkat11_08/  

 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
 
SGS Seminar - "Assessing Nuclear Dangers in Pakistan" 
221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Toby Dalton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
RSVP: by 12noon on November 8th
Additional Information: This is a lunch seminar. 

"The Future of War"

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

Speaker: William J. Lynn III MPA/JD '82, former deputy secretary of defense at the U.S. Department of Defense
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Secretary Lynn is visiting the School as the Conor D. Reilly Distinguished Visitor in Leadership and Governance. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/BillLynn11_09/

"Meeting the Challenge of Building an Innovative Country: Explaining China's Partial Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights"
Bowl 001, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Zhenqing Zhang, CWP Postdoctoral Fellow
Sponsor: China and the World Program
Contact:  Rita Alpaugh (ralpaugh@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Free and open to the public, no RSVP necessary
http://www.princeton.edu/cwp/events/repository/zhang/


Thursday, November 10, 2011
 
Lunchtimer Discussion- "The End of the Kyoto Protocol: On the Cloudy Future of Global Climate Politics"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP.
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bryan Walsh '01, environmental reporter, TIME magazine
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public and External Affairs  
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu )
RSVP:  https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/  
Additional Information: You must sign-up to attend as there is limited seating and lunch will be served.  
 

"Race, Ethnicity, Nativity, and Child Overweight in the US and England: An Investigation of Mechanisms"
Seminar is open to graduate students and faculty
Wallace Hall Room 001, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Melissa Martinson, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn  
Sponsor: Fragile Families Working Group
Contact:  Tracy Merone (ffdata@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Lunch will be served. RSVP Required.

LAPA Public Panel: "Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30 p.m. 
Speaker: Linda Greenhouse, Former Law Correspondent, The New York Times; Joseph Goldstein, Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School; Reva Siegal, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Professor of Law, Yale Law School.
Discussants: Christopher Eisgruber, Provost, Princeton University; Michael McCann, Crane/LAPA Fellow; University of Washington;  Gordon Silverstein, University of Connecticut School of Law
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This event is free and open to the public. Funded by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund. http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=492 
SPECIAL NOTE: No video recording or photography permitted at this event.

"Media and Social Change"
101 Sherrerd Hall, 5:30- 6:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, a principal research scientist at MIT's Media Lab, co-founded international blogging community Global Voices.
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Contact:  Laura Cummings-Abdo (lcumming@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:
 

 

Friday, November 11, 2011
 
"Medical Anthropology amidst Humanitarian Interventions: Mental Health Care in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall, 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Professors Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University
Sponsor: Program in Global Health and Health Policy, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Contact:  Peter Locke (plocke@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This event is part of the Global Health Colloquium. http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events/viewevent.xml?id=23



 

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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