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April 30, 2012- May 11, 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, April 30, 2012
 
"Google -Earth Satellite Imagery to Assess Nuclear Proliferation Programs"

Students, faculty and staff preferred
 
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Frank Pabian, Senior Geospatial Information Analyst at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Global Security Directorate; visiting scholar CISAC
Sponsor: STEP /PEI
Contact: Chuck Crosby  (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:

SGS Seminar - "Regulatory Notes from a Small Island"
Free and open to the pubilc.
221 Nassau Street, 2nd Floor conference room, 4:00- 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Nick Baldwin, Chairman, Office for Nuclear Regulation, UK
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact: Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
RSVP: BY NOON on Fri., April 27th to sgs@princeton.edu or 609-258-4677
Additional Information: Please note this seminar is held on a Monday (instead of the normal Wednesday) and from 4:00pm-5:30pm (instead of the normal 12pm-1:30pm)  

LAPA Seminar: "Debt and Discipline"
Free and open to the public. 
Kerstetter Rm, 301 Marx Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Tayyab Mahmud, LAPA Fellow; Seattle University School of Law Commentator: Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University, Anthropology
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 opens 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=516 
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"Medical Work/Nursing Work: Everyday Contests of Expertise within Primary Care"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and students  
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.  
Speaker: LaTonya Trotter, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, 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

"Panel on the French Presidential Elections"
Free and open to the public. 
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: Ezra Suleiman, Princeton; Angele Christin, EHESS; David Bell, Princeton, History; and Ezra Suleiman, Princeton, Politics
Moderator: Sophie Meunier, Princeton  
Sponsor: EU Program, LAPA, the Center for French Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School
Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitshalia (smeunier@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/europe/events/viewevent.xml?id=126 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Law-Engaged Graduate Student Seminar: "Divided Sovereignty: Race and Constitutional Innovation in the American Empire"
Graduate students, faculty, and fellows only, please. 
438 Robertson, 12 noon
Speaker and Title: Kip Kendall, Politics
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=545

Lunchtimer- "Lost* in Franklin County" - Student-Produced Documentary Short -- Screening & Discussion
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP. 
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speakers: MPA2s David Mitchell and Robert Quinn
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.

"Obamacare: In the Court, in Theory and in Practice"
Free and open to the public.
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall, 4:30pm
Speakers: Paul Starr, Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs; Heather Howard, Director, State Health Reform Assistance Network, and Lecturer in Public Affairs; Kristina Graff (moderator), Associate Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Sponsor: Princeton Health Care Club and the Center for Health and Wellbeing
Contact:  Kristina Graff (kgraff@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events/viewevent.xml?id=62 
Thursday, May 3, 2012

"Preferences and Party Discipline Enforcement Under Candidate-Centered PR: Evidence from the Polish Assembly"
Faculty, fellows, and graduate students only 
300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Monika Nalepa, CSDP and University of Notre Dame
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:

"Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism: The Constitution and the Future of Marriage"
Free and open to the public. 
101 Friend Center, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Stephen J. Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the  University Center for Human Values (UCHV)
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=546 
Friday, May 4, 2012

"Fourth Annual Princeton Workshop on European Integration"
Faculty and students only.
Bendheim 012, 8:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Speakers: multiple speakers- please see additional information
Sponsor: EU Program, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia (smeunier@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/europe/events_archive/repository/05-04-2012Conference/

 "The Aging Primate in the Natural World"
This event is for students, faculty, researchers and staff only. RSVP required.  
Wallace 333, 12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Susan Alberts, Professor of Biology at Duke University
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Program in Global Health & Health Policy
Contact:  Kristina Graff (kgraff@princeton.edu)
RSVP: email latwo@Princeton.EDU  by May 1st
Additional Information: Lunch will be served. http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events_archive/repository/05042012_lunchseminar/

Biodefense Seminar - "Biology is Technology:  Garage Biology, Microbrewing, and the Economic Drivers of Distributed Biological Production"
Free and open to the public
Carl Icahn Room 280, 12:30- 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert Carlson, PhD Principal at Biodesic, an engineering, consulting, and design firm in Seattle, WA
Sponsor: The MacArthur Foundation
Contact:  Laura Kahn (lkahn@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a lunch seminar. http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/seminars/biosecurity/ 
Monday, May 7, 2012

"Impacts of Fisheries and Global Warming on Marine Ecosystems"
Students, faculty and staff preferred
Wallace Hall 300,  12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Daniel Pauly, Professor, Fisheries Centre and Zoology, Principal Investigator, Sea Around Us Project, University of British Columbia
Sponsor: STEP/ PEI/ Canadian Studies
Contact:  chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:  
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

LAPA Seminar: "The Common Error in Theories of Adjudication - An Argument for a Doctrinal Approach"
Free and open to the public. 
Kerstetter Rm, 301 Marx Hall,12 noon
Speaker: Ralf Poscher, director at the Institute for Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law at the University of Freiburg, Germany
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact:  Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: SPECIAL NOON-TIME SEMINAR- LAPA's seminar format asks that attendees familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. The commentator opens 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=539
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

"We Can All Do Better"
Free and open to the public
McCosh 50, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bill Bradley '65, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey, author, "We Can All Do Better"
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School
Contact:  Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: A book sale and signing will immediately follow the talk. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/BillBradley05_09/  
Thursday, May 10, 2012

"Communist Socialization and Post-Communist Economic and Political Attitudes" 
Fa
culty, fellows, and graduate students only. 
300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Speaker: Grigore Pop-Eleches, WWS and Dept of Politics
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: 
Friday, May 11, 2012

"Patent Success or Failure: The America Invents Act and Beyond"
Free and open to the public- RSVP required. 
Friend Center Convocation Room, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Keynote Speakers: Chief Judge Randall Radar; former Chief Judge Paul Michel; David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Contact:  Laura Cummings-Abdo (lcumming@princeton.edu)
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGQ1bHVTdmxERkxZY0JhZFFQSmQwUWc6MA#gid=0
Additional Information: https://citp.princeton.edu/event/patent-success-or-failure/

Biodfense Seminar - "The Health Consequences of the 'War on Terror':  An Agenda for the Future
Free and open to the public. 
Carl Icahn Room 280, 12:30- 2:00 p.m.
Speakers: Victor Sidel, MD, MPH, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and consultant in occupational and environmental health
Sponsor: The MacArthur Foundation
Contact:  Laura Kahn (lkahn@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is a lunch seminar.  
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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