Special Events
September 22, 2005
8 am | Dewick-McFee Dining Hall David Rothkopf David Rothkopf, founder and chairman and chief executive officer of Intellibridge, a firm offering open-source intelligence and advisory services on international issues, also served for two years as managing director of Kissinger Associates. Earlier, he served as deputy under secretary of commerce for international trade policy. In this capacity, he played a central role in developing the Clinton Administration's ground breaking Big Emerging Markets Initiative.
September 22, 2005
7 pm | Pearson 106 The Process of Democracy-Building in Central America Victor Valle Dr. Valle is the Dean for Academic Administration and Professor of Human Security. As Dean, he oversees admission and registrar processes as well as the management of all academic programmes. He serves as Vice Chair of the Headquarters Management Committee, the Programme Academic Committees and Secretary of the Academic Board.
October 25, 2005
8:00pm | Braker 001 Judge Juan Guzman Beyond the Politics of Fear: Truth and Justice vs. Law and Politics in Post-Pinochet Chile Dr. Jean Mayer Award Presentation and Lecture. Cosponsored with Latin American Studies.
October 18, 2005
8:00pm | Pearson 106 Neuroscience and Neuroethics in an Age of Homeland Security Turhan Canli A Professor in the Graduate Program in Genetics and in the Psychology Department at Stony Brook University, his research is concerned with the molecular, genetic and neural basis of emotion, personality and individual differences. He is the editor of a book entitled The Biological Basis of Personality and Individual Differences. He is also the first author of several papers on this topic, which have been published in Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Behavioral Neuroscience among others. INSPIRE Lecture Series: IGL Scholar and Practitioner In Residence Program. Mort Rosenblum and Jack Blum
November 1, 2005
12:00pm | Zamparelli Room, Campus Center | Dessert Or Not, We Are What We Eat 7:30pm | Tisch 314 | Global Coups & Wars: Experiences of a War Correspondent
November 2, 2005
1:00pm | MacPhie Conference Room, Dewick Dining Hall | Media and Manipulation
November 3, 2005
12:00pm | 96 Packard Avenue | Covering Controversy: Interviewing skills and Investigative Methods 3:00pm | Tisch 316 | Tough Politics: Laws of Fear & The First Amendment in Times of Crisis 7:30 pm | Pearson 106 | The Politics of Fear in America
November 4, 2005
12:00pm | 96 Packard Avenue | Corruption and Global Politics Jack Blum Jack Blum is the Senior Counsel for Special Projects for Finance Sector Compliance Advisers Limited, and a US Attorney admitted at the district of Columbia Bar, the US Court of Appeals for the district of Columbia Circuit and the US Supreme Court. Blum is an expert on controlling government corruption, international financial crime, money laundering, international tax havens and drug trafficking. Mort Rosenblum Mort Rosenblum has reported on nearly every major international conflict since the Congo mercenary wars and the Biafra secession in the 1960s. Former chief editor of the International Herald Tribune from 1979-1981, Mr. Rosenblum took an American-style European newspaper to printing plants around the world and pioneered new forms of international journalism. He is author of numerous books including Coups and Earthquakes and the James Beard Award-winning Olives.
November 17, 2005
12:00pm | 96 Packard Avenue The Bush Administration and the Politics of Fear: Five Years In Corey Robin Corey Robin is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press), which recently won the Best First Book Award in political theory from the American Political Science Association. This event is cosponsored with the Tufts Political Science department.
November 17, 2005
3:00pm | Tisch 316 Liberalism and the War on Terror Corey Robin Corey Robin is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press), which recently won the Best First Book Award in political theory from the American Political Science Association. This event is cosponsored with the Tufts Political Science department.
February 23-26, 2006
2005-06 EPIIC International Symposium: The Politics of Fear.