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Calendar of Past Events
Fall 2008
~Wednesday September
24~
Brendon O’Connor, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
“Americans, the World, and Anti-Americanism”
2 pm, University Park Campus,
MARC Pavilion
Co-Sponsor: Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship
Studies, FIU
~Monday September 29~
Leonardo Villalon, University of Florida
“Negotiating Democracy in Muslim Contexts: West African Experiences”
12:30 pm, University Park Campus,
Graham University Center 243
Co-Sponsor: African and African Diaspora Studies, FIU
~Thursday October 9~
Mahmood Monshipouri,
San Francisco State University
“Human Rights in the Middle East”
6 pm, University Park Campus,
Graham University Center 243
Associate Sponsor: The Middle East Studies Center, FIU
~Monday October 13~
Roger Coate, University of South Carolina
“The EU, International Organizations and Global Governance”
2 pm, University Park Campus
MARC Pavilion
Co-Sponsors: Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, FIU and
the European Studies Program, FIU
~Friday October 24~
Eric Williams Memorial Lecture,
organized by the Eric Williams Collection and African and African
Diaspora Studies
Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University
“The Challenge of Leadership in America: Race, History, and the
Emergence
of Barack Obama”
7:30 pm, Wertheim Performing Arts Center
1091 SW. 17th St., Miami
Associate Sponsor:
Broad International Lecture Series, FIU.
~Thursday, November 6~
Ferdinando Fasce,
University of Genoa, Italy
“Coming to the U.S.: Men, Women, and Labor across the Atlantic in the Age of
Mass Migration”
2 pm, University Park Campus,
MARC Building, MARC Pavilion
Co-Sponsors: Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, FIU and the
European Studies Program, FIU
~Wednesday November 12~
Roundtable Discussion
“International Relations in a Constructed World:
Ten Years Later”
Featured Speakers: Nicholas Onuf (FIU), Elisabeth Prügl (FIU),
Harry Gould (FIU); and Vendulka Kubalkova (University of Miami);
moderated by
François Debrix (FIU)
2 pm, University Park Campus,
Green Library 220
~Friday November 21~
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
“US Foreign Policy Toward Iran and North Korea After the Bush
Administration”
3:30 pm, University Park Campus,
Graham Center 140
Summer
2008
~Saturdays
June 21 and July 19~
Dan Grech, Latin American Correspondent,
National Public Radio
"The Art of
the Interview": Two-day Graduate Workshop
2 pm, University Park Campus,
Green Library 220
Spring
2008
~Thursday
January 31~
The Miami-Florida European Union Center
of Excellence
Presents
Rafal Riedel, University of Opole, Poland
“EU Cohesion After the Enlargement: A View From Central Europe”
2 pm, University Park
Campus
MARC Pavilion
Associate Sponsors:
Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Educational Series of the Department of International
Relations.
~Tuesday February 12~
Bates Gill, Center for Strategic and
International Studies
“Rising
Star: China's New Security Diplomacy”
6:30 pm, University Park
Campus
MARC Pavilion
Associate Sponsor: Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public
Policy & Citizenship
~Thursday February 14~
Senator Robert Graham
“US Foreign Policy After Democratization”
11 am, University Park Campus
MARC Pavilion
~Wednesday March 12~
Anna Secor, University of Kentucky
“The State,
Territory, and (Dis)order: Lessons from Turkey”
6:30 pm, University Park Campus
MARC Pavilion
Associate Sponsor: The Middle Eastern
Studies Center
~Tuesday April 1~
Mark Lacy, Lancaster
University
“Designing
Security, or Biopolitics 2.0”
6:30 pm, University Park Campus
MARC Pavilion
Associate Sponsor: Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public
Policy & Citizenship
Events
Co-Sponsored by the International Relations Department
~Wednesday
January 16~
The Jack D. Gordon Institute
for Public Policy & Citizenship Studies
Presents
James Piscatori, Australian
National University
“Iraq in the Future of Political Islam”
2 pm, University Park Campus
Graham Center East Ballroom
Fall 2007
Friday October 5
The Eric E.
Williams Memorial Lecture at FIU
Presents
Joseph Inikori,
University of Rochester and
Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies,
Jamaica
“Emancipation, the African Atlantic and the Long Road to Freedom”
6:30 pm, Wertheim Performing Arts
Center
11200 SW 8th Street,
Miami,
Florida
Associate Sponsor:
Ruth
K. & Shepard Broad Educational Series of the
Department of International Relations.
Other Sponsors: The Eric Williams Memorial Collection and African
New World Studies
Thursday November 1
Jack D. Gordon
Institute for Public
Policy & Citizenship Studies
Presents
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
“What Does ‘National Security’ Look Like to Women: Some Feminist Lessons from
the US Iraq War”
2 pm, University Park Campus
Graham Center East Ballroom
Thursday November 8
The Middle Eastern
Studies Center
Presents
Gary
Sick, Columbia University
“The
United States and Iran -- Is a Military Conflict
Inevitable?”
6:30 pm, University Park
Campus
MARC Pavilion
Presenting Sponsor:
Ruth K. & Shepard Broad Educational Series of the
Department of International Relations.
Friday November 16
The Miami-Florida European
Union
Center
of Excellence
Presents
Myra Marx-Ferree,
University of Wisconsin
“Framing Inequalities: Race, Class and Gender in the
US, Germany and the EU”
11 am, University Park Campus
Court Room
– School of Law
Co-Sponsors: Ruth K. & Shepard Broad Educational Series of the Department of
International Relations
Thursday November 28
The Middle Eastern
Studies Center
Presents
Daniel Brumberg,
Georgetown
University
“Autocracy With Democrats in the Arab
World”
6:30 pm, University Park
Campus
Graham Center
243
Associate Sponsor:
Ruth
K. & Shepard Broad Educational Series of the
Department of International Relations.
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Spring 2007
Thursday
January 25Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton University
“The Failure of Liberalism in the Iberian World”
3 pm, University Park Campus MARC Pavilion
Associate
Sponsors: The Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies, FIU and Latin
American and Caribbean Center, FIUThursday February 22
Timothy Oakes, University of Colorado
“Adventures in Frontierland: The Place of Utopia in
China’s Campaign to Open Up the West
2 pm,
University Park Campus MARC Pavilion
Wednesday March 14
Matthew Sparke, University of Washington
“The World is Not Flat: From Bad Geographies of
Globalization to Mountains Beyond Mountains”
6:30 pm, University Park Campus MARC Pavilion
Associate Sponsors: The Center for Transnational and
Comparative Studies, FIU
Thursday-Friday March 29-30
“Image Politics: China’s
Engagement with the Global South”
A Mini-Conference
This conference brings together a group of nationally recognized scholars to
explore the way China’s rapidly deepening engagement with developing countries
in many parts of the world is related to the image that China projects and
desires for itself. Management of image politics is central to Chinese diplomacy
in the twenty-first century and it has important consequences for China’s
relations with Taiwan and the U.S for the management of global resource and
environmental problems, for human rights, and for evolving institutions of
global governance.~Thursday
March 29~
Keynote Address: TBA
6:30 pm, University Park Campus MARC Pavilion
Associate Sponsors: The Institute for Asian Studies, FIU and The Taiwan Economic
and Cultural Office of Miami
~Friday March 30~
All Day Workshop Session
Participants to be Announced.
9 am-5 pm, University Park Campus Green Library 220
Associate Sponsors: The Institute for Asian Studies, FIU and The Taiwan Economic
and Cultural Office of Miami
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