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"International Business and Environmental Conservation"
On Monday, March 6, 2006 at 7:00 PM in the Great Hall, Zach Rabinor, an IR/PS graduate, will give a talk. Rabinor is the President of Journey Mexico, a specialty eco and adventure tourism company that focuses on more than solely economic success. For over a decade, Rabinor worked for international tour operators, conservation and development non-profits such as Wildcoast and the Surfrider Foundation, and as a consultant with various government agencies. In his talk, he will address the unique challenges of successfully conducting international business and aligning environmental, conservation, community development incentives, and the unique collaboration that is needed from the private, public and civil sectors.
International Affairs Group (IAG) is an organization administered under UCSD International House and led by Shannon Eliot, an International House resident and a UCSD student of Political Science. Meetings take place every Monday at 7:00 PM, weeks 2-10 in the International House Great Hall. For more information, please visit the website or contact the IAG Intern via email.
"The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" with Dr. Alyssa Sepinwall
The next European Studies lunch seminar will be held Tuesday, March 7, 12:00-1:30 PM in ERC 115 (CCIS-IICAS-ISP conference room). Our guest speaker will be Alyssa Sepinwall, Associate Professor of European history at California State University, San Marcos. Her new book, The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism, has just been released, and she will talk about the connections of her work to recent events in France. A short biography is directly below. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Melissa La Bouff at mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 4:00 PM.
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is Associate Professor of History at California State University San Marcos, where she has been on the faculty since 1999. She earned her B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Stanford University (1998), where she studied with Keith Michael Baker. Before coming to CSUSM, she was Lucius N. Littauer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005, her book The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism was published by the University of California Press. Other recent essays include chapters in Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture (U. Penn., 2004); The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (Duke, 2003); and Rétablissement de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises: Aux origines de Haïti (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003), as well as in the Revue des études juives and the volume The Haitian Revolution: 200 Years After (JCB Library). After winning the President's Award for Innovation in Teaching at CSUSM in 2004 and serving as Chair of the Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, she is currently enjoying a well-deserved sabbatical. Her current research includes projects on the Haitian Revolution and the memory of slavery in France, on Atlantic Revolutions, and on an eighteenth-century woman scientist in France, Marie LeMasson-LeGolft. She currently serves as secretary of the Western Society for French History.
"Friends again? U.S.-German relations under a new Chancellor" with Dr. Jan Ross
The San Diego Eric M. Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany and European Studies program at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at the University of California, San Diego cordially welcomes a discussion with Jan Ross, Staff Writer for Die Zeit. Entitled "Friends again? U.S.-German relations under a new Chancellor," the discussion will be held Wednesday, March 8, 2006 from 12:00-1:30 pm at the UCSD Faculty Club. A short biography is immediately below. If you wish to attend, please RSVP to Melissa La Bouff at mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Friday, March 3, 2006 at 4:00 PM.
Dr. Jan Ross is a rising young star among Germany's talented essayists on politics and foreign policy. He has been a staff writer at Die Zeit since 1998. He covers the more ideological aspects of politics and the political aspects of culture - especially the politico-intellectual debates Germans are fond of (such as the "Historikerstreit"). He has written two books: Die neuen Staatsfeinde on German domestic policy and its roots, and Der Papst on Pope John Paul II. Before joining Die Zeit, Dr. Ross was a staff writer for the Berliner Zeitung (1997-98) and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1991-1996). He studied Classics and Philosophy in Hamburg and Tübingen.
"Reversing language shift and the future of linguistic diversity: where ideology and theory meet"
The Workshop on Language Ideology and Change in  Multilingual Communities series will continue with a colloquium by Dr. Suzanne Romaine of Oxford University. The colloquium will occur Friday, March 10, 2006 at 2:30 PM in the Social Sciences Building Room 107 (SSB 107). A reception will follow at 4:00 PM in the Spiro Library of the Anthropology Department, SSB 269. The colloquium is open, free to the public, and Dr. Romaine's abstract is listed below.
"Over the last few decades or so, a growing variety of books, scholarly articles and media reports have predicted an alarming decline in the number of languages. The prospect of the loss of linguistic diversity on such a large scale has prompted scholars such as Fishman and others to propose programs of intervention to 'reverse language shift' (RLS). Most RLS theories and efforts are byproducts of European indigenous minority problems, and the ideological bias of Fishman's model of RLS (reversing language shift) privileges intergenerational transmission in the context of stable diglossia. My talk examines the utility of this framework as an appropriate model for the stabilization of endangered languages or for their eventual revitalization as fully functioning native languages. I will argue for the need to question the assumptions and theoretical perspectives underlying terms such as 'reversing language shift' and 'language revitalization' and to reconceptualize what it means for a language to be maintained and survive without intergenerational mother tongue transmission. As an increasing number of communities around the world face the impending loss of their languages, it is imperative to clarify these issues not just for theory's sake, but in the interest of providing sound advice."
"The German Grand Coalition: Foreign and Domestic Challenges" with Dieter Dettke
Dieter Dekke will be giving a lunch seminar on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in ERC 115 (CCIS-IICAS-ISP conference room). Lunch will be provided so if you wish to attend, please RSVP to Melissa La Bouff by Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 4:00 PM.
Dekke is currently the US Representative and Executive Director of the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany's oldest political foundation. Dekke has a wide array of experience, ranging from authoring and editing a German news service "America Alert" to advising the State Minister of the German Foreign Office on European integration, international security, and German foreign policy. He has lectured frequently both in Europe and the United States on transatlantic relations, German-American security issues and European-American economic relations; he is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and was Staff Director at the office of State Minister in the German Foreign Office. Dekke studied political science and law at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin in Germany and Strasbourg, France. Dekke was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle and received Academic Degrees Diplom-Politologe from Free University of Berlin.
Project in International Affairs lecture series continues
 The Project in International Affairs lecture series at UCSD continues this March with two lectures. Dr. James Fearon of Stanford University will give a lecture titled "Self-Enforcing Democracy" from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM on Monday, March 20, 2006 in Social Science Building 104 (SSB 104).
James Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research has focused on democracy and international disputes, explanations for interstate wars, and most recently, the causes of civil and especially ethnic violence. He is presently working on a book manuscript (with David Laitin) on civil war since 1945. Representative publications include "Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States" (International Security, Spring 2004), "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War," (APSR, February 2003), and "Rationalist Explanations for War" (International Organization, Summer 1995). Fearon was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2002.
The next lecture is with Dr. Andrew Kydd of Harvard University giving a lecture titled "Strategies of Terrorism" on Friday, March 24, 2006 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in Social Science Building room 104 (SSB 104). His abstract detailing his findings is listed below.
"In order to have an effective anti-terrorism policy, we need to understand the strategic logic of terrorism, what goals terrorists are trying to achieve and how terrorism is employed to achieve them. We argue that there are five primary strategies of terrorism: attrition, intimidation, provocation, spoiling, and outbidding. Each has its own objective and strategic logic. Responses to one strategy may be inappropriate for other strategies, but in some cases terrorists are pursuing a combination of strategies, and the response must also work well against this combination."
Upcoming PIA talks
Eiko Thielemann, April 4 from 3:00 - 4:30 PM in SSB 104
Jeffrey Friedan, April 17, 3:00 - 4:30 PM in SSB 104
Mark Trachtenberg, April 26, TBA
James Morrow, April 28, TBA |
