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Barbara Atwell
We want to extend our thanks to Barbara Atwell, our former Center Manager, who has been dedicated to helping CGPACS grow from its inception. Barbara retired in July 2004.


EVENTS

Upcoming and Recent Events
Annual Margolis Lecture Series
Faculty Expert Series


UPCOMING AND RECENT EVENTS top
CGPACS Graduate Student Panel
Thursday March 13, 2008
9:00 - 11:30 am
Social Science Plaza B 2296
For more information, please click here.

The Catch 22 of Political Asylum
Carol Bohmer
Tuesday March 11, 2008
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Social Science Plaza B 2296
For more information, please click here.

A Cultural Theory of International Relations
Ned Lebow
Monday March 10, 2008
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Social Science Tower 777
For more information, please click here.

CGPACS Graduate Student Panel
Tuesday March 4, 2008
9:00 - 11:30 am
Social Science Plaza B 2296
For more information, please click here.

The International Community of Weak States and the Perpetuation of Civil War
Prof. Ann Hironaka
Tuesday February 26, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
CGPACS Conference Room 777, Social Science Tower
For more information, please click here.

Why Both Big and Small States Need an Effective United Nations
Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations
Wednesday November 28, 2007
12:00 - 1:30 pm
CGPACS Conference Room 777, Social Science Tower
For more information, please click here.

An Informal Talk on Constructive Engagement with Iran
with Ali Shakeri, founding member of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding
Tuesday November 20, 2007
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Social Science Plaza A, room 2112
For more information, click here.

Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Campus Informational Workshop
Wednesday November 7, 2007
4:00 - 5:30 pm
CGPACS Conference Room 777, Social Science Tower

Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies and International Studies "Meet & Greet Luncheon"
Tuesday November 6, 2007
12pm
UCI Student Center Emerald Bay C

Chinese-African Cooperation: Development, Democracy, and Trade
Professor Wenping He and Professor Naiya Liu
Wednesday, October 24th
12pm to 1:30 pm
CGPACS Conference Room, 777 Social Science Tower
(light refreshments served)

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization
Prof. Scott Bollens
Department of Policy, Planning and Design
Thursday, October 4, 2007
12:30-1:30
Social Ecology I, Room 112

Will the U.S. Be Voted Out of Iraq?
Jack Miles
Distinguished Professor, English and Religious Studies, UCI
Thursday, October 4, 2007
3:30-5:00
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
For more information, click here.

The Quest for Justice After Terror: Perspectives from an Anthropologist/Victim
Susan F. Hirsch
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
12:00-1:30
Humanities Instructional Building 135

Satisfying Victims: The Challenge of Global Justice
Susan F. Hirsch
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
3:30-5:00
Anthropology Library, SSPB 4250

Chinese-African Cooperation: Development, Democracy, and Trade
Professor Wenping He and Professor Naiya Liu
Wednesday, October 24
12pm to 1:30 pm
CGPACS Conference Room, 777 Social Science Tower

 

 

Faculty Expert Series

Epidemic Cultures in the Asia Region: Toward a Comparative Ethnography of Emerging Epidemics
Tom Boellstorff and Mei Zhan
Date, time and location to be announced.
Policy in Flux: Conflict, Transnational Knowledge and Public Participation Reforming the Water Regime in Costa Rica
Helen Ingram
Date, time and location to be announced.
 
 
ANNUAL MARGOLIS LECTURES top
Dr Vandana Shiva - The New Food Wars: Globalization, GMOs, and Biofuels 2008
Founding Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, New Delhi
Click here for a video of Dr. Shiva's lecture.  
Dr Graham Allison - Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe 2007
Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government  
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy - U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy: India, Pakistan, and Beyond 2006
Professor of Nuclear Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad  
Dr Hans Blix - Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction: Lessons from Iraq 2005
Former UN Chief weapons inspector in Iraq, Chair of the International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction  
Senator George Mitchell 2004
Chair of “Good Friday” Peace Negotiations for Northern Ireland  
The Honourable Louise Arbour 2003
Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda  
Wei Jingshen & Congressman Christopher Cox 2002
Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Congressman - U.S. House of Representatives  
Dr. Susan Shirk 2001
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State  
Warren Christopher 1999
U.S. Secretary of State  
William J. Perry 1998
U.S. Secretary of Defense  
The Right Honorable Kim Campbell 1996
Canadian Prime Minister  
Richard N. Cooper 1995
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University  
The Honorable Stephen J. Solarz 1994
His Excellency Vladimir Lukin 1993
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States  
Congressman Les Aspin 1992
Chair, U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee  
Hans Bethe 1991
Nobel Laureate in Physics  
McGeorge Bundy 1990
Special Assistant for National Security, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations  
 
 
FACULTY EXPERT SERIES top
2006-2007
Kavita Phillip - Transnational Pirate Techno-Circuits May 31, 2007
Stergios Skaperdas - Socio-Political Conflict and Economic Performance in Bolivia May 11, 2007
Kamal Sadiq - Have Documents, Will Travel: The Role of Fraudulent Documents in Illegal Immigration April 20, 2007
Susan Coutin and Simon Leung - The Look of Law January 25, 2007
2005-2006
Etel Solingen - Taking Stock of International Sanctions in Nuclear Proliferation: What Next? June 7, 2006
Cecelia Lynch and Susan Coutin - Religious Ethics, Law and Violence: Sites at the Border May 19, 2006
Richard Ned Lebow - Fear, Interest, and Honor: Outlines of a Theory of International Relations March 20, 2006
Wayne Sandholtz - International Norm Change March 14, 2006
Kavita Philip and Jennifer Terry - The Next Wave in Feminist Technoscience Studies March 9, 2006
"Private" - A Keywords Roundtable Discussion March 8, 2006
Alison Brysk - Counter-Terror and Human Rights in Liberal Democracies: Comparative Perspectives on National Insecurity March 14, 2006
David Frank - Criminal Sex: Legal Regulations Around the World, 1945-2005 October 13, 2005
Critical Legalities Symposium: International Tribunals October 11-12, 2005
2004-2005
Vivian Price - Transnational Tradeswomen May 27, 2005
Gary Richardson & Dan Bogart - Political Economy of Parliamentary Legislation in England May 13, 2005
Raul Lejano - New Models of Resource Governance: Understanding Institutions as Structures of Care April 29, 2005
Alison Brysk - Good Samaritans: Human Rights Foreign Policy in Sweden April 7, 2005
Oladele Ogunseitan - Land, Water, and Sustainable Development March 11, 2005
Joseph DiMento - Trade and the Environment March 3, 2005
Kamal Sadiq - Porous Borders, Fluid Citizenship: Redefining India February 25, 2005
Margot Norris - Post 9-11--Military Responses/Alternative Responses to Terrorism? February 11, 2005
Etel Solingen - Why Some States Pursue Nuclear Weapons January 14, 2005


Last Updated: 03/07/2008
Artwork: Prismes Electriques by Sonia Terk Delaunay. Copyright Kathleen Cohen