Weeks Ahead Header 
November 14, 2011- November 25, 2011

Hello, 
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 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
 


Lunchtimer Discussion with General Cartwright
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP.
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 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)
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.
 

"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.

"Self Control at Work"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:15-1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Research Program in Development Studies
Contact: Lillian Anderson (latwo@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: For more information:  http://www.princeton.edu/chw or  http://www.princeton.edu/rpds

"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.

"Roll Calls, Representation, and Agenda Control"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students.
300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30pm
Speaker: Robert Van Houweling, UC-Berkeley
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact: Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is the second in CSDP's American Politics Colloquium series for 2011-2012.  

"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.  
 

Monday, November 21, 2011


No scheduled events.  
 

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

"Family Instability, Genes, and Children's Externalizing Behavior"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Colter Mitchell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Office of Population Research, Princeton 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 
 

"Two States for Two Peoples? The Palestinian Bid for Statehood and the Road to Peace"
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School; Amaney Jamal, an associate professor of politics, Princeton University
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University's Tigers for Israel, and the Muslim Students Association
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/KurtzerJamal11_22/ 
 

Wednesday, November 23, 2011


No scheduled events.  
 

Thursday, November 24, 2011


No scheduled events- Happy Thanksgiving! 
 

Friday, November 25, 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."
 
In This Issue
November 14, 2011
November 15, 2011
November 16, 2011
November 17, 2011
November 18, 2011
November 21, 2011
November 22, 2011
November 23, 2011
November 24, 2011
November 25, 2011
WWS Connections
View our profile on LinkedInFollow us on TwitterFind us on Facebook

Join Our Mailing List