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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.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
"Oil and Democracy: Endogenous Natural Resources and the Political 'Resource Curse'"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and students. Bowl 016, Robertson Hall; 12noon
Speaker: Sarah Brooks, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State 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/.
"First Census of Marine Life: Implications for Public Policy and For Global Science"
Students and faculty preferred. 300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jesse H. Ausubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment, Rockefeller University
Sponsor: STEP-PEI
Contact: Chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:
Lunchtimer- "Global Neonatal Health"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Shetal Shah MD '96, Associate Professor, Neonatal Medicine, SUNY School of Medicine
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs & Center for Health and Well Being
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.
"Beyond Legal Mobilization: Rethinking Rights and Power"
Free and open to the public. Kerstetter Rm, Marx Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speakers: Michael McCann, Crane/LAPA Fellow; University of Washington, and Paul Frymer, Politics
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact: Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: 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. http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=512
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
"Obesity among the Children of Immigrants: Selection, Adaptation, and Assimilation"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and students
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jennifer Van Hook, Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University Sponsor: Office of Population Research Additional Information: This talk is part of the Notestein Seminar Series.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
"Public Immigration Debates, National Integration Models and Transnationalism in Western Europe"
Restricted to Princeton University faculty and students. Room 029, Robertson Hall, 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Marc Helbling, WZB, Princeton
Sponsor: EU Progam, the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society
Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia ( smeunier@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/europe/events/viewevent.xml?id=124
"Law-Engaged Graduate Student Seminar: Patently Aggressive War, Mass Atrocity, and the Duty to Disobey"
Faculty and graduate students only, please. Robertson 438, 12 noon
Speaker: Tom Dannenbaum, Politics
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact: Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=528
"Moral hazard in health insurance: How important is forward looking behavior?"
Free and open to the public. 300 Wallace Hall from 12:15- 1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Liran Einav, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Research Program in Development Studies
Contact: Lillian Anderson (latwo@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Brown bag lunch seminar; bottled water provided. CHW - http://www.princeton.edu/chw and RPDS - http://www.princeton.edu/rpds
"How Should Doctors and Hospitals Be Paid?"
Free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker:Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of economics and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Sponsor: Office of Public & External Affairs & Center for Health and Wellbeing
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: A public reception will follow the talk in the Shultz Dining Room. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/UweReinhardt02_29/
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
"Mother-Child Relationships in Fragile Families: Going Beyond the HOME Scales"
This seminar is open to graduate students and faculty only. RSVP required. Wallace Hall Room 001, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Speakers: Anne Martin and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
Sponsor: Fragile Families Working Group
Contact: Tracy Merone (ffdata@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m.
"Corruption and Electricity Theft in an Indian State"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students 300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Miriam Golden, UCLA and CSDP
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact: Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:
"China's Upcoming Political Succession and Sino-US Relations"
Free and open to the public. Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 12:10- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Cheng Li, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Sponsor: Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program
Contact: Yan Bennett (ybennett@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/cwp/events/li/
"George F. Kennan: An American Life"
Free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.Speakers: John Lewis Gaddis, deemed the "dean of Cold War historians" by The New York Times, author, "George F. Kennan: An American Life,"; Bart Gellman '82, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, contributing editor at large for TIME magazine, visiting lecturer in public and international affairs, and author in residence, Woodrow Wilson SchoolSponsor: Office of Public & External Affairs Contact: Patricia Yelavich ( yelavich@princeton.edu) Additional Information: A book sale and signing will take place immediately after the discussion, although books may be purchased prior to the lecture. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/GaddisGellman03_01/
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Friday, March 2, 2012
No scheduled events.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
"Fiscal manipulation in non-democratic regimes. The Case of Egypt"
Restricted to Princeton University faculty and students. Bowl 016, Robertson Hall; 12noon
Speaker: Hoda Youssef, NCGG Fellow, 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/.
"How Quantum Mechanics Can Help Solve the World's Energy Problems"
Students and faculty preferred. 300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Emily Carter, Gerhard Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
Sponsor: STEP-PEI
Contact: chuck crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:
"My Life as a Toaster Oven"
Free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. Speaker: Bob Garfield, co-host of National Public Radio's "On the Media" and Ad Age columnist Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/BobGarfield03_05/
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
"Enthnoracial Indentification and Skin Color in Latin America's Pigmentocracy"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and students
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University Sponsor: Office of Population Research Additional Information: This talk is part of the Notestein Seminar Series.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
"Arms Control Options for Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program"
RSVP necessary. 221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Steven Kull, Sr. Research Fellow at the Center for Int'l and Security Studies, Univ. of MD; Director of IT Program on Int'l Policy Attitudes
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact: Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
RSVP: BY NOON on March 6th to (sgs@princeton.edu) or 258-4677.
Additional Information: Lunch will be served.
Lunchtimer- "Reframing the Access to Medicines Debate: Health as a Global Public Good"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jeff Sturchio '73, Senior Partner, RabinMartin
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs & Center for Health and Well Being
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 New Digital Age: The Future of Citizens, States, and Business"
Free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jared Cohen, director of "Google Ideas"
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Cohen's talk is part of the School's "Media and Public Policy" thematic lecture series. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/JaredCohen03_07/
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
"The Moderating Effects of Face-to-Face Interviewing Relative to Self-Complete Survey Modes & the Implications for Respondents with Low Cognitive Skills"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students. 300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Lynn Vavreck, UCLA
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact: Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: CSDP American Politics Colloquium.
Lunchtimer- "The New Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations: Enhancing the USG's Response"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Karin von Hippel, Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, senior fellow, International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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.
"Secrets, Lies, and Leaks: From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks"
Free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speakers:Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 precipitated a national political controversy when he released the top secret "Pentagon Papers" to the media; Bart Gellman '82, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author in residence and visiting lecturer in public and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School Office of Public & External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This lecture is part of the School's "Media and Public Policy" thematic lecture series. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/DanielEllsberg03_08/
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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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