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February 13, 2012- February 24, 2012

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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, February 13, 2012

"The Fate of the Land Carbon Sink."
Students and faculty preferred
300 Wallace Hall, 11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Stephen W. Pacala, Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director, Princeton Environmental Institute
Sponsor: STEP & PEI
Contact: Chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/pei/events/viewevent.xml?id=335

Economic Policy Reform:  The Case of Trade Liberalization
Restricted to Princeton University faculty and students. 
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall; 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Judith Goldstein, Professor of Political Science, Stanford 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/.  

Lunchtimer- "Competition in U.S. International AID: the State and NGOs"

This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Rachel McCleary, Senior Research Fellow, Taubman Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs & the Center for the Study of Religion
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. 


"The Carrier"
This event is free and open to the public.  
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: Maggie Betts '99, longtime advocate for the rights of HIV positive women and children in sub-Saharan Africa, and producer and director of the film "The Carrier," Bill and Susan Belfiore, family ambassadors of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Moderator: Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Sponsors: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Princeton University Committee on Public Lectures
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: The film, "The Carrier" will be screened first, followed by a panel discussion. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/BettsThe%20Carrier02_13/

LAPA Seminar: Democracy Deficit or Democracy Surplus? Agency Rulemaking in the Electronic Age
Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Herz, Microsoft/LAPA Fellow; Cardozo School of Law
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=511
LAPA's seminar format asks that attendees familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. The commentator 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. Each seminar concludes with a brief reception, giving everyone a chance to mingle and meet. 
 
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

"Births and Infections: their Dynamics and Interactions in sub-Saharan Africa"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and students 
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.  
Speaker: Audrey Dorelien, Ph.D. Candidate in Demography and Public Affairs, 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://www.opr.princeton.edu/seminars/spring/2012

"Hungary's Constitutional Revolution"
This event is open to the public. 
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speakers: Kim Lane Scheppele, Director, LAPA; Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, WWS; Gábor Halmai, PIIRS fellow from the University of Budapest, former chief counselor to the President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary; Miklós Haraszti, author of Worker in a Worker's State and The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism, and Miklós Bankuti, Senior Research Specialist, WWS, Princeton MPA '11
Sponsor: The Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:  http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=519 
 
 
Lunchtimer- "Designing Organizations for Impact and Cost Effectiveness"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sue Lehman, independent consultant; strategy, impact assessment, board development and operational planning  
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.


Wednesday, February 15, 2012

SGS Seminar - "The Nuclear Socio-Political Economy"
RSVP required. 
221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Benjamin Sovacool, Vermont Law School
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact:  Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
RSVP: by noon on February 14th to (sgs@princeton.edu) or 609-258-4677
Additional Information: This is a lunch seminar.

Lunchtimer- "Real World Management for Public Policy Students"

This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Julia Sass Rubin, Associate Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University  
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. This LT is part of the Dean's Organizational Management Series.


Thursday, February 16, 2012

"Portfolio Politics"

Restricted to faculty and graduate students 

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

Speaker: Wendy Rahn, University of Minnesota
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a CSDP American Politics Colloquium.

"Incarceration and Father Involvement" 
This seminar is open to graduate students and faculty onl
y- RSVP required.
Wallace Hall Room 001, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Amanda Geller and Irv Garfinkel,
Sponsor: Fragile Families Working Group
Contact:  Tracy Merone (ffdata@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m.

Lunchtimer- "Israel: Broadening the Conversation"

This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ido Aharoni, Consul General, NY  
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.


Friday, February 17, 2012
 
Global Health Colloquium
This event is open to the public. 
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall, 12:30- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Nancy Scheper Hughes, Chancellor's Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
Sponsor: Program in Global Health and Health Policy
Contact:  Betsey Brada (bbrada@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45am.
http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events/viewevent.xml?id=45  
Monday, February 20, 2012

"Water for Sustainable Ecosystems "
Students and faculty preferred. 
300 Wallace Hall, 11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kelly Caylor, Assistant Professor Of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Sponsor: STEP and PEI
Contact: Chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/pei/events/viewevent.xml?id=336

"Gulliver Untied:  Entry Deterrence in a Unipolar World"
Restricted to Princeton University faculty and students.   
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 12:00p.m.
Speakers: Joanne Gowa, Professor of Politics, Princeton University; Kristopher Ramsay, Associate Professor of Politics, 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/

"Military Force Planning and Decision-Making"
Free and open to the public. 
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. Speaker: Robert L. Gordon III, MPA '89, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Military Community and Family Policy Sponsor: Office of Public & External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/RobertGordonIII02_20/  
 
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
 
"Rebuilding a Devastated Population: Family, Fertility, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and students 
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.  
Speaker: Jenna Nobles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
Sponsor: Office of Population Research 
Contact: Mary Lou Delaney (md@princeton.edu ) 
Additional Information: This talk is part of the Notestein Seminar Series. 
 http://www.opr.princeton.edu/seminars/spring/2012

Lunchtimer- North Korea Developments
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speakers: Mr. Zhe JIN, Secretary General, Korean Peninsula Research Center, Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences; Mr. Chen XUE, Research Fellow, Center for American Studies, Shanghai Institute for International StudiesMr. Quntong YU, Director of Consular Division, Foreign Affairs Office of Shaanxi Province  Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs, China & the World Program
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 


"Presidents and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century"
Free and open to the public. 
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., '58, considered the co-founder of the international relations theory neoliberalism and currently serving as Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University
Sponsor: Office of Public & External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Nye is the featured speaker of the 2012 Richard Ullman Lecture Series- http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/NyeUllmanLecture02_21_22/ 
 
 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

"External Validity and Partner Selection Bias" 
Free and open to the public. 
300 Wallace Hall  12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Hunt Allcott, Assistant Professor of Economics, NYU
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing and the 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

Lunchtimer with Alnoor Ebrahim
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Alnoor Ebrahim, Associate Professor of General Management, Harvard Business School  
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. This LT is part of the Dean's Organizational Management Series.


"Domestic Political Institutions and the Skill Composition of Inward FDI in Developing Countries, 1980-2008"
Free and open to the public.  
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Boliang Zhu, China and the World Program Fellow
Sponsor: Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program
Contact:  Yan Bennett (ybennett@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/cwp/events/repository/zhu/

"Ethics and Good Leadership in Foreign Policy"
Free and open to the public. 
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., '58, considered the co-founder of the international relations theory neoliberalism and currently serving as Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University
Sponsor: Office of Public & External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Nye is the featured speaker of the 2012 Richard Ullman Lecture Series- http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/NyeUllmanLecture02_21_22/ 
 
Thursday, February 23, 2012
 
"Exploring the Effects of Implicit and Explicit Racial Cues on Black Attitudes about Whites"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students. 
300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Vincent Hutchings, University of Michigan
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: CSDP American Politics Colloquium.  
Friday, February 24, 2012
 
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
February 13, 2012
February 14, 2012
February 15, 2012
February 16, 2012
February 17, 2012
February 20, 2012
February 21, 2012
February 22, 2012
February 23, 2012
February 24, 2012
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