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Feb 8

Tuesday Feb 8, 2011

The Choosing People: The Puzzling Politics of American Jews

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Location: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall

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…

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Feb 22

Tuesday Feb 22, 2011

Business and the Politics of Changing Labor Markets: Argentina, Germany, and the United States in Comparison

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Location: Hesburgh Center, Room C103

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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Mar 24

Thursday Mar 24, 2011

Moscow, the Third Rome’ / ‘Kiev, the New Jerusalem’: Religious History and Political Mythology in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine

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Location: DeBartolo Hall, Room 209

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…

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Mar 30

Wednesday Mar 30, 2011

Women and Political Representation: John Stuart Mill and the Case of Uganda

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Location: Hesburgh Center, Room C103

  • 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…

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Apr 18

Monday Apr 18, 2011

"They ask of him only that they be not oppressed": Hume's Philosophy for the Vulgar

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Location: DeBartolo Hall 129

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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Apr 29

Friday Apr 29, 2011

Custom's Power, Reason's Authority: John Locke and the Myth of "Atomistic" Individualism

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Location: 307 Brownson

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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May 6

Friday May 6, 2011

Challenging the Notion of Power: Private Spheres as the Roots of Political Legitimation

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Location: 307 Brownson

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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Sep 27

Tuesday Sep 27, 2011

The 1977 Carter Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights

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Location: Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

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…

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Sep 28

Wednesday Sep 28, 2011

The Whole is at Stake

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Location: Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium

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.…

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Oct 4

Tuesday Oct 4, 2011

Transitions to Democracy and the Arab Spring: Are There Lessons from the Latin American Experience for the Middle East?

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Location: Hesburgh Center Auditorium

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…

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