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April 9, 2007 Mershon Center events Other events Mershon Center events Monday, April 9, 2007 Nadje Al-Ali Iraqi Women Between Dictatorships, Wars, Sanctions and Occupation Co-sponsored by OSU Women

1 April 9, 2007 Mershon Center events Other events Mershon Center events Monday, April 9, 2007 Nadje Al-Ali Iraqi Women Between Dictatorships, Wars, Sanctions and Occupation Co-sponsored by OSU Women in Development Nadje Al-Ali is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in Britain. She specializes in women and gender issues in the Middle East, especially women s movements and activism in Egypt and Iraq. She has also been working on the gendered aspects of transnational migration, and diaspora mobilization with special reference to Bosnia and Iraq. Her most recent book, Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (Zed Publishers, 2007), has just become available in the United States, and she will sign copies of that book, available onsite from Barnes and Noble, after the talk. Read more and RSVP Thursday, April 12, 2007 Paul Kennedy Reforming the United Nations: Mission Impossible? 4 p.m., Wexner Center Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St. Paul Kennedy is J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. Internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic and strategic issues, Kennedy is the author and editor of 19 books; his best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which provoked an immense debate upon its appearance in 1988 and has since been translated into more than 20 languages. From 1993 to 1996, Kennedy was Secretariat to the International Commission on the Long-Term Future of the United Nations. He distilled what he learned from that experience in his recent book The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (Random House, 2006). This lecture will focus upon the difficulties and the possibilities of reforming the world organization. After the lecture, Kennedy will sign copies of The Parliament of Man, available for purchase in the Wexner Center bookstore. Read more

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Nicholas Bamforth Public Law and the Emergence of a Multi-Layered Constitution in Europe Co-sponsored by the Moritz College of Law Nicholas Bamforth is a Fellow in Law at

2 Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Nicholas Bamforth Public Law and the Emergence of a Multi-Layered Constitution in Europe Co-sponsored by the Moritz College of Law Nicholas Bamforth is a Fellow in Law at Queen's College, Oxford University. His areas of specialization include constitutional and administrative law, European Community law, human rights, and philosophy of law. Bamforth is author or editor of three books and more than 40 articles on a range of constitutional and human rights topics. His books include Sexuality, Morals and Justice (Cassell, 1997), which re-examines arguments about the role of law in the regulation of morality; Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution (Oxford, 2003), which examines the effects of recent constitutional changes in the exercise of power by public bodies in Britain; and Sex Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Oxford, 2005), which explores the connections between human rights, gender, and sexuality. Read more and RSVP Friday-Saturday, April 20-21, 2007 The United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History Mershon Center for International Security Studies In light of prevalent anti-american sentiment in the Middle East and the world, policymakers, scholars, and others have become increasingly interested in public diplomacy. Also known as propaganda, informational policy, public relations, psychological warfare, and cultural diplomacy, public diplomacy has been an important part of foreign policy in the past century. This conference will bring together the latest scholarship on public diplomacy from a variety of disciplines. For more information, including a schedule, please see the conference web page. If you would like to attend, please contact Ann Powers no later than Wednesday, April 18, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Daniel Brumberg Islamists and Non-Islamists: Prospects for Coalition Building Daniel Brumberg is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University and a Special Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace. The author of many articles on political and social change in the Middle East and wider Islamic world, Brumberg's Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran was published in 2001 by University of Chicago Press. He is also co-editor, with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, of Islam and Democracy in the Middle East. He is currently writing a comparative study of Islamists and

3 power sharing in the Middle East and South East Asia. Read more and RSVP Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Jeffrey Taliaferro Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Primacy of Power Jeffrey Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, where he teaches courses on United States foreign policy, security studies, and the rise and the fall of the great powers. His research centers on international relations theories, security studies, political psychology, and U.S. foreign policy. Taliaferro is author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2004), for which he received the American Political Science Association's Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Award for the Best Book in International History and Politics. He has recently begun work on a project that examines the periodic recurrence of preemption and preventive war considerations in the grand strategies of the United States and other great powers. Read more and RSVP Other events Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Sarah Fields Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America Noon, Page Hall Policy Forum, 1810 College Road Sponsored by the John Glenn School of Public Affairs Sarah Fields is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Activity and Education whose research examines how sport reflects and perpetuates American society s values and beliefs. She is interested in the intersections of different aspects of U.S. culture with sport, such as gender, race, and law. Her work also considers how representations of sport in popular culture promote and defy traditional stereotypes. This policy forum will build on Fields recently published book Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America (2005), which examines how school age girls used the law to gain access to contact sports and the social backlash that makes girls in contact sport still a relative rarity. Seating is limited and RSVPs are required to apr11@jgippm.ohio-state.edu. Guests are welcome to bring a lunch. Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Total Denial (Milena Kaneva, 2006) 7 p.m., Wexner Center for the Arts Tickets are $7 general public; $5 students and Wexner members Total Denial is the story of a historic lawsuit against two Western oil companies on behalf of a group of Burmese refugees. In 1992, the French company TOTAL and the then California-based UNOCAL embarked on a joint venture with the Burmese military

4 regime to build a gas pipeline. The Burmese army, hired by the companies to provide security, instead forced many in the local population into slave labor, destroyed villages, and raped and tortured dozens. This engrossing film documents these atrocities while detailing the landmark decision against the corporations, the first instance of a decision against a U.S. corporation for human rights abuses overseas. Read more Thursday, April 12, 2007 Selig Harrison North Korea Noon, The Hyatt Regency, 350 N. High St., Franklin Junior Ballroom Second floor Sponsored by the Columbus Council on World Affairs Selig Harrison is Director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has specialized in South Asia and East Asia for 50 years and is the author of five books on the subject. Harrison has visited North Korea 10 times. He was one of two Americans to first visit the country and interview Kim Il Sung after the Korean War. His trips have had significant policy implications. Following his 1987 visit, Harrison presided over a Carnegie Endowment symposium bringing together North Korean and American representatives for the first time. In 1992, he led a delegation that learned for the first time that North Korea had reprocessed plutonium. And in 1994, he won agreement to the concept of a freeze and eventual dismantlement of the North Korean nuclear program. President Carter, meeting with Kim Il Sung a week later, obtained an immediate freeze and opened the way for negotiations resulting in the 1994 U.S.-North Korean nuclear agreement. Harrison frequently testifies as an expert before Congress, and often appears on such programs as The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Read more and register Thursday, April 12, 2007 John Hagan The Importance of Public Criminology: From Darfur to Iraq 18 th Annual Walter C. Reckless Memorial Lecture 6:30 p.m., Faculty Club Grand Lounge, 181 S. Oval Drive Sponsored by the Criminal Justice Research Center John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is a widely recognized expert on a variety of topics within criminology and sociology. His current interests include youth violence and crime, genocide in Darfur, war crimes and resisters, the international criminal tribunal at the Hague, and lawyers. Hagan s most recent book is Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes at the Hague Tribunal (University of Chicago Press, 2003). He is also author of the award-winning books: Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (Harvard University Press, 2001) and Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (with Bill McCarthy, Cambridge University Press, 1997). Hagan is the inaugural editor of Annual Review of Law and Social Science, the criminology editor of Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and series editor for New York University Press s New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law. He is a Fellow and Past President of the American Society of Criminology, and a recipient of the organization s Edwin H. Sutherland Award for outstanding contributions to theory and research in criminology.

5 Friday, April 13, 2007 Christopher Atwood "Clansmen from the Barbarian Tribes: Can We Actually Find Them North of China? 1:30 p.m., 251 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road Sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies Christopher Atwood received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in His research interests include Mongolian nationalism in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia (China), Mongol and Chinese elites in the Mongol Empire, family history, and demography. His current projects include translations of Chinese primary sources on the Mongol world empire, and family and marriage in Mongolia's imperial and Qing-era upper class. Atwood s publications include Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire and Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia s Interregnum Decades Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Jesse Tyson Managing Government-Business Relations: The ExxonMobil Experience in Latin America 4 p.m., 375 Gerlach Hall, 2108 Neil Ave. Co-sponsored by the Fisher College of Business Center for International Business Education and Research, Center for Latin American Studies, John Glenn School of Public Affairs Please join us to learn about the Latin American opportunities and challenges that ExxonMobil faces in light of changing government policies toward natural resources. In some Latin American countries, opportunities have increased for ExxonMobil; in others, relations with Latin American governments have proven to be more challenging. Jesse Tyson has been employed by ExxonMobil for more than 30 years. In 2002, Tyson was appointed president of ExxonMobil Inter-America Inc. In his current capacity, he has responsibility for ExxonMobil s fuels marketing retail business in the Caribbean, Central America, the Andean region, and South America. Tyson earned an MBA in Marketing from The Ohio State University in He has been honored as one of Twelve Good Men by the Ronald McDonald House (2005), a recipient of the NAACP Achievement Award (2001), and Jack & Jill Father of the Year (2001 and 2004). To RSVP: Monday, April 23, 2007 CIRIT 5 th Annual Symposium Gender and Ethnicity Across Divides 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies Sponsored by Clusters of Interdisciplinary Research on International Themes Keynote speaker: Valentine Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies, Purdue University, Negotiating Women s Economic Citizenship in the Middle-East and North Africa. Panel: Gender, Women and Social Rights. Chair: Donna Guy, Professor

6 of History. Panelists: Pamela Paxton, Associate Professor of Sociology; Jill Bystydzienski, Professor and Chair of Women s Studies; and Katherine Meyer, Professor of Sociology, all at The Ohio State University. Lunch will be served to participants who RSVP to cirit@osu.edu no later than April 19. Monday, April 23, 2007 Ian Haney López Nation of Minorities: Race, Ethnicity, and Reactionary Colorblindness 5:30 p.m., Barrister Club, 25 W. 11 th Ave. Sponsored in part by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Office of Minority Affairs Ian Haney López from Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley, writes about race relations and law. His most recent book, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Belknap/Harvard, 2003), uses the legal history of the Mexican-American civil rights struggle in Los Angeles to explore the relationship between legal violence and self-conceptions of racial identity. His previous book, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (New York University, 1996), examined a series of cases brought under U.S naturalization law between 1790 and 1952 that maintained a racial bar on citizenship. This event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the talk; books will be available for purchase. Parking is available in the South Campus Gateway parking garage. Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Andrew Keeler Climate Politics and Public Policies Toward Climate Change Noon, The Athletic Club of Columbus, 136 E. Broad St. Sponsored by the Columbus Council on World Affairs Andrew Keeler teaches at The Ohio State University s John Glenn School of Public Affairs, and conducts research in environmental and natural resource economics and policy. His current research is on water resource and climate change policy. Keeler served as the Senior Staff Economist for Environment at the President s Council of Economic Advisers ( ), where he was a member of the U.S. negotiating team for climate change and a diplomatic representative to OECD meetings on coordinating national sustainability policies. He served on the White House climate change policy teams under both President Clinton and President Bush. The presenting sponsor for this event is Honda of America Mfg. Read more and register Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Michele L. Swers Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence 4 p.m., Faculty Club Grand Lounge, 181 S. Oval Drive Sponsored by the John Glenn School of Public Affairs Michele L. Swers, Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University, will discuss her book Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence (co-authored with Julie Dolan and Melissa Deckman, Prentice Hall, 2006) at the 2007 Deborah Jones Merritt BookMarks Lecture. Swers earned her

7 B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Teaching from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests encompass Congress, women and politics, and issues of representation. Swers is also author of The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress (University of Chicago, 2002), and is currently writing a book on gender differences in policy participation in the U.S. Senate in women s issues, defense, and judicial nomination politics. This lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Please apr24@jgippm.ohio-state.edu or call (614) , ext. 4, by April 17, Friday, April 27, 2007 Eliot Jaspin Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden Story of Racial Cleansing in America Noon, Page Hall Policy Forum, 1810 College Road Sponsored by the John Glenn School of Public Affairs Elliot Jaspin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Cox Newspapers. A pioneer in the use of databases as an investigative technique, he founded the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting. Jaspin will speak about his recently released book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden Story of Racial Cleansing in America. Based on nearly a decade of painstaking research in archives and census records, the book provides irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred on American soil, fundamentally reshaping the geography of race. Time after time between Reconstruction and the 1920s, whites banded together to drive out blacks in their midst, sweeping entire counties to make them racially "pure." Shockingly, these areas remain virtually all-white to this day. Seating is limited and RSVPs are required to apr27@jgippm.ohio-state.edu. Guests are welcome to bring a lunch. Mershon Memo is a weekly newsletter created by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. You have received this newsletter because you have been identified as a party to whom these mailings may be of interest. If you would like to unsubscribe, please becker.271@osu.edu.

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March 26, 2007 Mershon Center events Other events OIE offers graduate student scholarships Mershon Center events Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Anne Davies The Role of the International Labor Organization in