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November 7, 2011- November 18, 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, 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.

"As EU Foreign Policy Rises, Will the European Union Fall?"  
Room 035, Robertson Hall, 12:00- 1:20 p.m. 

Speaker: Asle Toje, Norwegian Nobel Institue
Sponsor: European Union Program
Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia (smeunier@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/europe/events/viewevent.xml?id=120 

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. 

"Community Pricing in Health Insurance: Inefficiencies Beyond Adverse Selection"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Geruso, Department of Economics
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Research Program in Development Studies
Contact:  Lillian Anderson (latwo@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: brown bag seminar; bottled water provided.
For more information: CHW - http://www.princeton.edu/chw
RPDS - http://www.princeton.edu/rpds

"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.

"From 'Open Secrets' to the Secret Ballot"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. 
Speaker: Isabela Mares, CSDP and Columbia University
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Faculty, fellows, and graduate students only. Paper posted at: http://www.princeton.edu/csdp/events/Mares11102011/

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
 
"India and America: The Future of a Strategic Partnership"  
Burr Hall 219,  8:45 a.m.- 4:45 p.m.

Speaker and Title: CISS Annual Symposium
Sponsor: Center for International Security Studies
Contact:  Cynthia Ernst (cernst@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Program available at http://www.princeton.edu/ciss/seminar-series/conferences/

"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

Saturday, November 12, 2011
 
"India and America: The Future of a Strategic Partnership"
Burr Hall 219, 8:45 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Speaker and Title: CISS Annual Symposium
Sponsor: Center for International Security Studies
Contact:  Cynthia Ernst (cernst@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Program available at http://www.princeton.edu/ciss/seminar-series/conferences/ 

WWS 16th Annual Students and Alumni of Color Symposium- "The 40th Anniversary on the 'War on Drugs' and the Impact on Communities of Color"
Robertson Hall, 1:30- 6:00 p.m.   

Speakers: Various, please see schedule in "Additional Information"
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Students and Alumni of Color
Contact: Melissa Lyles (melissa@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: All panel sessions are open to the public. Please view the schedule here- http://www.princeton.edu/saoc/agenda/
The Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) symposium titled,  "The 40th Anniversary on the 'War on Drugs' and the Impact on Communities of Color" on Saturday November 12 and Sunday, 13, 2011.  This year's event will feature panel discussions and working sessions that will address the drug abuse crisis, current "War on Drugs" policies, and its resulting impact on communities of color.  The sessions will be led by Professors Anne-Marie Slaughter, Douglass Massey, Imani Perry and Amy Lerman, along with other leading experts in the field.  The symposium will feature keynote address by Wanda Moore, assistant attorney general and director of the office of community justice within the office of the New Jersey attorney general has served as director of prisoner re-entry for the City of Newark as well as a deputy public defender prior to joining the attorney general's office.  
Sunday, November 13, 2011
 
WWS 16th Annual Students and Alumni of Color Symposium-"The 40th Anniversary on the 'War on Drugs' and the Impact on Communities of Color"
Robertson Hall, 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.

Speakers: Various, please see schedule in "Additional Information"
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Students and Alumni of Color
Contact: Melissa Lyles (melissa@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: All panel sessions are open to the public. Please view the schedule here- http://www.princeton.edu/saoc/agenda/
The Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) symposium titled,  "The 40th Anniversary on the 'War on Drugs' and the Impact on Communities of Color" on Saturday November 12 and Sunday, 13, 2011.  This year's event will feature panel discussions and working sessions that will address the drug abuse crisis, current "War on Drugs" policies, and its resulting impact on communities of color.  The sessions will be led by Professors Anne-Marie Slaughter, Douglass Massey, Imani Perry and Amy Lerman, along with other leading experts in the field.  The symposium will feature keynote address by Wanda Moore, assistant attorney general and director of the office of community justice within the office of the New Jersey attorney general has served as director of prisoner re-entry for the City of Newark as well as a deputy public defender prior to joining the attorney general's office.  
Monday, November 14, 2011
 
"Joining the Club:  Accession to the GATT/WTO" 
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 12:00 p.m.

Speaker: Christina Davis and Meredith Wilf, Princeton University
Sponsor: Niehaus 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/

"Are Supreme Court Justices Merely Legislators in Robes?"

Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jeffrey Segal, CSDP Visiting Scholar, Stony Brook University; and Commentator Keith Whittington, Princeton University, Politics
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. The commentators will open the session by summarizing the main themes in the paper and presenting some topics for discussion. The author then has the right of first response before the floor is opened for questions. http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=489

A Public Lecture with Alan Blinder
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: Alan Blinder '67, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School  
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Blinder's talk is one in a series of lectures that focus on economic recovery. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/AlanBlinder11_14/


Tuesday, November 15, 2011
 
"Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of US Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kim Weeden, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
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

"Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-Based Networks Are Transforming the European Union"
Room 219, Aaron Burr Hall, 12:00- 1:20 p.m.
Speaker: Mai'a Cross, University of Southern California
Sponsor: Program in Contemporary European Politics & the European Union Program
Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia (smeunier@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/europe/events/viewevent.xml?id=114
 
 

"Cyber Warfare and Special Ops: A General Weighs In"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: General James E. Cartwright (retired), four-star general and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/GeneralCartwright11_15/


Wednesday, November 16, 2011
 
Lunchtimer Discussion- "Conviction Politics - Maintaining your Ideals, Winning Elections, and Changing the World"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP.
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
 
Speaker: Congressman Tom Perriello, former Democratic Congressman for Virginia
Sponsor: 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.


"Continuities in Chinese Foreign Policy Thinking since the late Qing" 

Bowl 001, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Alison Kaufman, CWP Fellow and Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses
Sponsor: China and the World Program
Contact:  Rita Alpaugh (ralpaugh@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Free and open to the public, no RSVP necessary

LAPA Book Forum: "The Liberty of Servants - Berlusconi's Italy"
120 Lewis Library, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker:  Maurizio Viroli, author, Princeton University , Politics; with Discussants: R. Daniel Kelemen, Center for European Studies, Rutgers University; and Jan-Werner Müller, Program in the History of Political Thought, Princeton University
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs; the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; and the European Union Program at Princeton
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Free and open to the public. Book sales/signing to follow. Funded in part by the BOUTON LAW LECTURE FUND. http://lapa.princeton.edu/

"No Woman, No Cry" - Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30pm
Speaker: Christy Turlington Burns, Director and Producer, "No Woman, No Cry"; Elizabeth Armstrong, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Moderator: Stephanie Hauck, PhD Candidate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Office of Population Research, the Gender and Policy Network, the Princeton Health Care Club and Princeton's chapter of the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children
Contact:  Kristina Graff (kgraff@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/NoWomanNoCry11_16/  


"A Primer on Patents"
101 Friend Center, 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Manny Schecter, Chief Patent Counsel, IBM
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy and the Keller Center
Contact:  Laura Cummings-Abdo (lcumming@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://citp.princeton.edu/event/schecter/ 
Thursday, November 17, 2011
 
Lunchtimer Discussion- "The Foreclosure Crisis: Its Impact on Communities"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP.
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m. 
Speaker: Eileen Fitzgerald, CEO, NeighborWorks America
Sponsor: 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.


"Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: James Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: His talk will mark the inauguration of the School's "Media and Public Policy" series. The series, which was inspired by Fallows' article about new media in the April issue of the Atlantic, will examine how the new media influences thinking, knowledge, and analysis in order to understand its impact on policy. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/JFallows11_17/ 

Friday, November 18, 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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