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Gregory Huber is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University.

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Annalien De Dijn will kick off this term's Political Theory Colloquium with a paper on Montesquieu and political liberty.

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Ken Wald, Distinguished Professor of Political Science from the University of Florida, has written about the relationship of religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. His most recent books include The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period (co-authored, Princeton University Press, 2002) and Religion and Politics in the United States (4th ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, and many other journals. Wald co-edits the Cambridge University Press series, "Religion, Politics and Social Theory," edited a special issue of the International Political Science Review in 2004, and serves on the editorial board of two journals.…

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Professor Antonia Chayes, Tufts University

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Sebastian Karcher, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University; Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, University of Notre Dame. Karcher studies labor market change in the era of globalization.

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Professor Alexander Downes

Duke Univeristy

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Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College will be presenting a talk entitled “A. Lincoln, Philosopher” on Monday, March 21, 4:30PM in DeBartolo Hall 126.

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Professor Mary Sarotte, University of Southern California…

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Yury Avvakumov, assistant professor of theology, University of Notre Dame

Avvakumov specializes in Russian and Ukrainian religious history and in the theology and history of the Byzantine rite churches (Catholic and Orthodox) from their medieval beginnings to the present day.

Religious history for centuries provided a background for controversies between Ukrainian nationalism and Russian imperialism and was a source of political imagination. Today, religion remains one of the crucial flash points in relations between the two countries and peoples, given that churches and their leaders are actively engaged in political discourse. Ongoing discussions about the “national idea” and “global positioning” of each of these countries between “East” and “West,” “Europe” and “Asia,” make massive use of and recourse to religious history. The lecture will explore some basic paradigms of this discourse. The clash between different ideological orientations will reveal itself as a clash between different understandings of Christianity, its history, and its message in the contemporary world.…

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* Eileen Hunt Botting, associate professor of political science and gender studies * Robert Esuruku; Kellogg Institute visiting fellow; senior lecturer, Institute of Ethics and Development Studies, Uganda Martyrs University This is part of the Ford Family Program's Discussions on Development Series p(attribution). Originally published at "al.nd.edu":http://al.nd.edu/events/2011/03/30/5803-women-and-political-representation-john-stuart-mill-and-the-case-of-uganda/…

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Guillermo Trejo, assistant professor of political science, Duke University Trejo specializes in comparative politics (social conflict, religion, ethnicity, and democratization) and Latin American politics and society. His primary research analyzes the impact of religious competition and multi-party politics on the dynamics of social protest, rebellion, and inter-communal violence among ethnic minorities in Mexico. He is also working on state repression and human rights violations of political dissidents and religious minorities during the Mexican transition to democracy. His work combines quantitative methods with analytic process-tracing and case studies.…

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Rooney Center Visiting Scholar Speaker Series:

"Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States"

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John Danford of Loyola University Chicago will be presenting a talk entitled “’They ask of him only that they not be oppressed’: Hume's Philosophy for the Vulgar”on Monday, April 18, 4:30PM in DeBartolo Hall 129.

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Professor Yuan-Kang Wang, University of Western Michigan…

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Debate: "The EU: Epic Fail?"
 

Thu Apr 28, 2011 • 4:30PM - 6:15PM
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

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The Political Theory Colloquium will be hosting its second last guest for this term this coming Friday. Professor Ruth Grant of Duke University will be presenting a paper entitled, "Custom's Power, Reason's Authority: John Locke and the Myth of 'Atomistic' Individualism." 

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Professor Marina Calloni, visiting professor at the Nanovic Institute, will argue that violence and power are inter-subjective determinations, whose contents are culturally and anthropologically variable in space and time and basic elements of systemic structures in form of crystallization and reification of human relationships. 

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Family and friends attending should enter through the main entrance of Purcell Pavilion (gate 9).

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The fall 2011 semester begins.

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This even is open to all Notre Dame, Holy Cross, and Saint Mary’s undergraduate and graduate students.

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Professor Bonnie Honig will be kicking off this year’s Political Theory Colloquium with her paper “Ismene’s Forced Choice: Sacrifice and Sorority in Sophocles’ Antigone”. 

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A talk in honor of Constitution Day will be held on Thursday, Sept 15. 

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Debra Javeline, associate professor of political Science, Kellogg Institute faculty fellow, Kroc Institute faculty fellow, University of Notre Dame

Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies; cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Originally published at al.nd.edu…

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Alexandra Guisinger, assistant professor of political science, Kellogg Institute faculty fellow, University of Notre Dame Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studiesp(attribution). Originally published at "al.nd.edu":http://al.nd.edu/events/2011/09/27/7146-the-paradox-of-stabilization-imf-programs-domestic-politics-and-financial-crises/…

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Samuel Moyn, professor of history, Columbia University

Moyn works primarily on modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, Jewish studies, and the history of human rights.

Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns…

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Horst Köhler, former president of Germany (2004–2010) and former managing director of the IMF.

The topic of this Nanovic Institute for European Studies forum is comparative world politics.

For location information, contact the Nanovic Institute at 574.631.5253.

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies; co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Advance Study…

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 The Tocqueville Program and the Liberty Fund will be hosting a conference on religion and American politics on September 29 and 30. 

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Keynote by Notre Dame Alumna with Defense Intelligence Agency

Presentations by three agencies and Networking Forum

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Co-Sponsored by The Career Center, The Department of Political Science and The Notre Dame International Security Program…

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At the end of the 1970s, the vast majority of governments in Latin America were military dictatorships. By 1990, most had been replaced with elected governments — a dramatic transition to democracy in just over a decade.

Today in the Middle East, pro-democracy protests are unfolding. In Egypt and Tunisia, popular movements have overthrown dictatorships and elections are planned. Does the region hold the same potential as Latin America for democratic transition? Can insights from Latin America be applied to the Middle East?…

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