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Oct 2

Tuesday Oct 2, 2018

Emotional Sources of Escalation in Cyberconflict

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

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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Oct 2

Tuesday Oct 2, 2018

Keeley Vatican Lecture: "The Catholic Church in the European Project" with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher

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Location: Eck Visitors Center Auditorium

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…

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Oct 3

Wednesday Oct 3, 2018

Kroc-Kellogg Peace, Conflict, Crime and Violence Workshop

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Location: C104 Hesburgh Center

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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Oct 4

Thursday Oct 4, 2018

Addressing Global Challenges: Lessons from Latin America

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Location: Hesburgh Center Auditorium

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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Oct 9

Tuesday Oct 9, 2018

Lecture by Huang Shan: How China’s Tech Sector Will Shape Itself and the World

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Location: Hesburgh Center C103

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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Oct 9

Tuesday Oct 9, 2018

Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003?

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

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.…

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Oct 10

Wednesday Oct 10, 2018

Lecture by Gilles Verniers, "India’s missing politicians: the underrepresentation of women in India’s state assemblies"

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Women currently make for 12% and 8% of national and state-level representative. This stark underrepresentation of women in elective assemblies contrasts with

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Oct 10

Wednesday Oct 10, 2018

Triggered! Is There Space for Safe Spaces in Free Speech?

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Location: Eck Hall of Law Room 1140

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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Oct 25

Thursday Oct 25, 2018

Why the Populists have a Point: The Tyranny of Merit and the Future of Democracy

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Location: McKenna Hall Auditorium

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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Oct 26

Friday Oct 26, 2018

Macrointerest

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Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Dave Peterson

Dave Peterson, Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University, will discuss Macropartisanship for the Rooney Center's 2018 Speaker Series.

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Oct 26

Friday Oct 26, 2018

Why the Populists have a Point: The Tyranny of Merit and the Future of Democracy

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Location: McKenna Hall Auditorium

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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Oct 29

Monday Oct 29, 2018

Lecture by Timothy Cheek, "Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation and China’s New World Order"

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Lecture by Timothy Cheek discussing “”background:white">Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation and China’s New World Order"

More details to come! 

Timothy Cheek has been a professor at UBC

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Oct 29

Monday Oct 29, 2018

Why International Liberalism Failed

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

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.…

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Oct 30

Tuesday Oct 30, 2018

"A Blue Wave?"

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Location: Jenkins and Nanovic Halls - Room 1030

"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).

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Oct 30

Tuesday Oct 30, 2018

No Little War: Beliefs and Liberal Military Intervention

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

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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Oct 31

Wednesday Oct 31, 2018

Workshop: Military Coups and International Security

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Location: C104 Hesburgh Center

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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