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May 7, 2012- May 18, 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, 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.  
Monday, May 14, 2012

No scheduled events. 
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

No scheduled events.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

No scheduled events. 
Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Nonresident Father Involvement, Mother's New Partners, and Childhood Injuries"
Open to graduate students and faculty only- RSVP required. 
Wallace Hall Room 001, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Speakers: Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Louis Donnelly.
Sponsor: Fragile Families Working Group
Contact & RSVP:  Tracy Merone (ffdata@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. 

"Incarceration Nation: Explaining the Rise of Punitiveness in the United States"
Faculty, fellows, and graduate students only 
300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Peter Enns, CSDP and Cornell University
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact:  Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: 

"Georgian Democratic Transformation: A Test Case for the Post-Soviet World"
Free and open to the public- tickets required. 
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. 
Speaker: The Honorable Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia
Sponsor: Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) and the Woodrow Wilson School
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Tickets not yet available, please continue to check the WWS website for information.

Friday, May 18, 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."
 
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May 7, 2012
May 8, 2012
May 9, 2012
May 10, 2012
May 11, 2012
May 14, 2012
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