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Tuesday Oct 2, 2018
Entertaining Peace: Pop Culture and Critical Agendas in Peace Research
Featuring Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Department Chair of Political Science at Butler University.
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Tuesday Oct 2, 2018
Transformative Latino Leadership Lecture: A Conversation with Luís Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and award-winning writer, a master storyteller who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph.…
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Tuesday Oct 2, 2018
Emotional Sources of Escalation in Cyberconflict
Rose McDermott (Brown University)
Rose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D.(Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology)…
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Tuesday Oct 2, 2018
Keeley Vatican Lecture: "The Catholic Church in the European Project" with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher
The Most Reverend Archbishop Paul Gallagher is the head of secretary relations with states within the Holy See’s Secretariat of State. His Excellency was born in Liverpool and attended St. Francis Xavier’s College in Woolton. Throughout his life of service to the Catholic Church he…
Wednesday Oct 3, 2018
Kroc-Kellogg Peace, Conflict, Crime and Violence Workshop
Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and proposals, practice conference talks, etc.
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Wednesday Oct 3, 2018
Postgraduate Service Fair
A postgraduate service fair open to all Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s, and Holy Cross students. More details coming soon!
Originally published at gradcareers.nd.edu.
Thursday Oct 4, 2018
Addressing Global Challenges: Lessons from Latin America
Description:This year, Kellogg welcomes to the ranks of the Institute's faculty fellows three political scientists and one political sociologist whose primary work focuses on Latin America, building on Kellogg's historic strength in the study of Latin American politics. Each panelist will discuss…
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Friday Oct 5, 2018
University of Illinois Graduate Student Exchange
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be presenting their research at the weekly Rooney Center lunch workshop. Food will be served at 11:50 am.
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Tuesday Oct 9, 2018
Lecture by Huang Shan: How China’s Tech Sector Will Shape Itself and the World
How does China’s pursuit of high-tech prowess shape its economy and society and its global outreach program? This talk will examine funding sources, decision-making structures, and important sectors that drive domestic innovation with particular attention to semiconductor sector (which is set to be…
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Tuesday Oct 9, 2018
Pactantes de la Paz: Feminist Peacebuilding in Post-FARC Colombia
Featuring Kate Paarlberg-Kvam, Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellow.
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Tuesday Oct 9, 2018
Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003?
Ahsan Butt (George Mason University)
Ahsan Butt is an Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a non-resident fellow at the Stimson Center.
He is the author of Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy Against Separatists.…
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Lecture by Gilles Verniers, "India’s missing politicians: the underrepresentation of women in India’s state assemblies"
Women currently make for 12% and 8% of national and state-level representative. This stark underrepresentation of women in elective assemblies contrasts with…
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Triggered! Is There Space for Safe Spaces in Free Speech?
Josh Blackman, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston and Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame will discuss free speech in a debate moderated by V. Phillip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.
Originally…
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Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Imagining a Decolonial IR: Ch’ixi lessons of Equality, Disarticulation, and Reflexivity
Featuring Marcos Scauso, Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellow.
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Conversation on Why Liberalism Failed
With Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, Charles Kesler, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna, and Notre Dame's Patrick Deneen
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Debating the Trump Presidency
Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard and Charles Kesler, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Graduate Student Social
An open house of fellowship and food hosted…
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
The 20th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and Peace
Featuring Sarah Thompson, 2018 Generations Fellow at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
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Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Lecture by Roel Sterckx, "Work, Wealth and Want: A View from Ancient China"
Which professions and what types of labor make a good person? Is it morally correct to generate riches and accumulate wealth? What attitudes should a ruler and those who are materially well-off display towards the poor…
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Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Why the Populists have a Point: The Tyranny of Merit and the Future of Democracy
The Political Theory Program at Notre Dame presents the 2018 Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy. Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Harvard University, will present "Why the Populists have…
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Friday Oct 26, 2018
Macrointerest
Dave Peterson, Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University, will discuss Macropartisanship for the Rooney Center's 2018 Speaker Series.
Friday Oct 26, 2018
Why the Populists have a Point: The Tyranny of Merit and the Future of Democracy
The Political Theory Program at Notre Dame presents the 2018 Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy. Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Harvard University, will present "Why the Populists have…
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Monday Oct 29, 2018
Pope Francis, Capital Punishment, and Law
A Conversation with Professor John Finnis and Professor Gerard Bradley
Pope Francis recently announced an updating of part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church pertaining to the legitimacy of the death penalty. Notre Dame Law School Professors John Finnis and Gerard V. Bradley will…
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Lecture by Timothy Cheek, "Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation and China’s New World Order"
Lecture by Timothy Cheek discussing “”background:white">Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation and China’s New World Order"
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Timothy Cheek has been a professor at UBC…
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Why International Liberalism Failed
A lecture by Notre Dame Prof. Patrick Deneen. Prof. Deneen's best-selling Why Liberalism Failed has been acclaimed by the New York Times, President Obama and The Wall Street Journal. He will examine the history and failure of liberal ideology as the guiding principle of American foreign policy.…
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
"A Blue Wave?"
"A Blue Wave? The 2018 Mid-Term Elections and the Future of American Democracy" - a debate with Damon Linker (The Week) and Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review).
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India
Featuring Shivaji Mukherjee, Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellow.
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
No Little War: Beliefs and Liberal Military Intervention
Jacqueline L. Hazelton is an assistant professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College. Her research interests include compellence, grand strategy, great power military intervention, counterinsurgency, terrorism, and U.S. foreign and military policy. She received her Ph.D. in Politics…
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Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Workshop: Military Coups and International Security
Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and proposals, practice conference talks, etc.
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