IICAS Upcoming Events

IICAS is pleased to support interdisciplinary research, discussion and information exchange on international, comparative, and cross regional topics through the continuation of the IICAS speaker series in International Law, European Studies, Project on International Affairs, Middle East Studies, and South Asia Studies. For 2011-12, IICAS also presents the Thyssen Lecture Series: The History of German Colonialism and Imperialism.


Jan. 26, 2012
David Victor, UC San Diego
"Is America Irrelevant? The Global Effort to Manage Climate Change"
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107. The 2011-2012 International Law Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), at UC San Diego, and the International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law (CWSL). Register, receive updates for this event. More.

Jan. 26, 2012
"The Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring"
7:00 PM, Literature Building, Room 155 (de Certeau). Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Literature, UCSD Middle East Program, and IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series. Register, receive updates for this event. More.

Feb. 2, 2012
Megumi Naoi, UC San Diego
"Framing Business Interests: How Campaigns Shape Firms’ Positions on Preferential Trade Agreements"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107. The International Relations Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. Register, receive updates for this event. More.

Feb. 9, 2012
Mike Tomz, Stanford University
"An Experimental Investigation of the Democratic Peace"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107. The International Relations Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. More.

Feb. 13, 2012
Thoralf Klein, Loughborough University
"A Forerunner of German Colonialism? Karl F.A. Gutzlaff and the Project of Transnational Imperialism in China, 1827-1851"
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine. Commentator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine. The Thyssen Lecture Series is hosted by the History Department at UC Irvine, and IICAS at UC San Diego, and sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation. Register, receive updates for this event. More.

Feb. 16, 2012
Yotam Margalit, Columbia University
Save the Date!  PIA/ILAR International Relations Speaker Series
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107. The International Relations Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. Register, receive updates for this event. More.

Feb. 21, 2012
**CANCELLED**
Hermann-Josef Hiery, Universitat Bayreuth
"German Colonialism in the South Pacific and the Indigenous Response"
Commentator: Ulrike Strasser, UC Irvine. The Thyssen Lecture Series is hosted by IICAS at UC San Diego, and the History Department at UC Irvine, and sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation. More.

Feb. 23, 2012
David Hunter, American University Washington College of Law
"International Climate Law in a Post-Kyoto Era"
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM, California Western School of Law, Room LH1. The 2011-2012 International Law Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by IICAS, at UC San Diego, and the International Legal Studies Program, at California Western School of Law.Register, receive updates for this event. More.