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"Creating a Culture of Thrift: The Transnational History of Japan's
Encouragement of Saving"
Monday, April 10
Sheldon Garon, Professor at Princeton University
4:00-5:00 p.m. IR/PS Classroom 3201
No RSVP required
Sheldon Garon studies modern and contemporary Japan, with research
interests in relationships between state and society, the links between culture and popular economic behavior, and locating Japan within a global or transnational history of ideas and institutions. In his current book project, Garon continues to study the impact of state-directed moral suasion on popular behavior. Professor Garon has taught survey courses on modern Japan and East Asia, as well as seminars on fascism, gender, aerial bombardment of cities, and comparative political economy.
CCIS April Seminars
Tuesday, April 4: 3:00-5:00 PM
CCIS-IICAS-ISP conference room, ERC 115
"Ethincizing Immigrants: How Migrant Ethnicity Affects Economic Integration Outcomes In Europe and the United States"
Amelie Constant, Deputy Director of the Migration Program, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Full Professor of Economics, University of Bonn, and Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Tuesday, April 18: 3:00-5:00 PM
CCIS-IICAS-ISP conference room, ERC 115
"Silent Death and the Moral State: Making Borders and Sovereignt at Europe's Southern Maritime Edges"
Maurizio Albahari, Visiting Research Fellow, CCIS; Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of California-Irvine
Commentator: Eiko Thielemann, Guest Scholar, CCIS; Assistant Professor of European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
2006 Student Essay Contest
"The Indispensable Partnership?
How can the transatlantic relationship meet the global challenges of the 21st century?"
Essays must be received by 5:00 PM EST on April 17, 2006. For more information, please visit their website.
International Parliamentary Internship Program (IPP)
This program is intended for college graduates with an interest in politics giving them the opportunity to learn about the parliamentary system of government in Germany. For further information, including application forms and guidelines, please visit their website.
Canadian research grant opportunities
Research Grant Program assists individual scholars or teams of scholars in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality with a focus on Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. Applications due: September 30, 2006.
Graduate Student Fellowship Program offers doctoral students an opportunity to conduct part of their dissertation research in Canada. The program is intended for students whose dissertations are related in substantial part to the study of Canada. Applications due: October 31, 2006.
Faculty Enrichment (Course Development) Program provides faculty members an opportunity to develop or update a course with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load. Applications due: October 31, 2006.
Conference Grant Program supports conferences that address important and timely issues about Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. It is designed to assist an institution in holding a conference and publishing the resulting papers and proceedings in a scholarly fashion. Applications due: June 30, 2006.
Library Support Program
International Research Linkages Grant
"Funding for US Study" directory
IIE has launched a new online search engine www.FundingUSstudy.org for students and advisers worldwide. There are already over 200 funding programs listed, searchable by country, field of study, host location, and sponsoring organization. | 
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Middle East Studies Symposium :
"Critical Elections in Palestine and Israel"
IICAS and Middle East Studies will host a panel discussion on Monday, April 10, 2006 from 3:00 - 5:00 PM in the Weaver Center at the Institute of the Americas. The discussion will revolve around the recent elections in Palestine and Israel and feature Dr. Nancy Gallagher and Dr. Salim Yaqub of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Dr. Gershon Shafir of the University of California, San Diego. This event is free and open to the public - no RSVP required.
Nancy Gallagher is a Professor of History, chair of the Middle East Studies Program, co-director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and president of the Association for Women in Middle East Studies. She studies the politics of humanitarian intervention in Israel-Palestine, which she visited in 2002, 2004, and 2005.
Gershon Shafir is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author several books, among them Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (1989) and Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, co-authored (with Yoav Peled), which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East in 2002. His current projects include "Torturing Democracies: The Curious Debate Over the 'Israeli Model,'" and "The Miscarriage of Peace: Israeli-Egyptian-US Relations During the Cold War."
Salim Yaqub received his Ph.D. in American history from Yale University in 1999. He is now an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, at Santa Barbara, where he specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations, with a particular focus on U.S. involvement in the Middle East since 1945. He is the author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). He is currently writing a book on U.S.-Arab relations in the 1970s.
Dr. William Chandler, Interim IICAS Director, will moderate the symposium. For directions to the Weaver Center at the Institute of the Americas, please visit their website.
"Experts predict that recent critical elections in Palestine and Israel will result in a prolonged period of uncertainty as new leadership in the Israeli and Palestinian governments wrangle with the United States over a host of issues: unilateral withdrawal, recognition of Israel's right to exist, resistance and terrorism, financial aid, long term cease fire. Our panelists will examine the significance of these conflicting policy options in light of the recent elections."
"The Last Millennium of Chinese History - Transitions from Culture to Nation" with Dr. Frederic Wakeman
 The IICAS 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series is proud to present : "The Last Millennium of Chinese History -- Transitions from Culture to Nation" featuring Dr. Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Haas Professor of Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the series of three lectures, Professor Wakeman asks what would happen to the conventional notion of a confident continuity in China's Confucian culture if we focused more on the traumatic impact of the Mongol and Manchu conquests. He suggests a history that pays more attention to ethnic identity, xenophobia, and insecurity about China's cultural identity - a history with broad implications for the China now emerging on the world scene.
"China's Longue Durée and the Mongol Occupation"
April 17, 2006, 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Reception to follow)
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
"Ming Nativism and the Local Turn"
April 19, 2006, 4:00 - 6:00 PM,
Fung Auditorium, Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, UCSD
"Qing Culturalism and Manchu Identity"
April 21, 2006, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
All events are free and open to the public - no RSVP required. For directions to the Weaver Center at the Institute of the Americas, please visit their website. For directions to Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall's Fung Auditorium, please visit their website. This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Department of History, Division of Arts & Humanities, and the Chinese Studies Program at UCSD.
The Project on International Affairs lecture series continues
This April, the department of Political Science and IICAS will host four lectures in the PIA lecture series. All of the lectures are free and open to the public - no RSVP required. The Social Sciences Building is map building number 490 and located on RIMAC walk.
 "International Trade in the Provision of Transnational Collective Goods" with Dr. Eiko Thielemann
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 3:00 PM
Social Sciences Buildling room 107
Abstract
"Under provision in the supply of transnational collective goods is a central problem of international governance and well documented in areas such as collective defense or climate control. But why do some states accept what appear to be disproportionate and inequitable burdens in the provision of transnational collective goods? Traditional burdens-sharing models emphasize free-riding opportunities of small countries at the expense of larger ones. An alternative model suggests that countries specialize according to their comparative advantage as to the type and level of contribution states make to transnational collective goods. The implications for attempts to regulate burden-sharing at the international level are clear: any imposition of quotas on one particular contribution dimension will constitute a restriction on trade and is likely to lead to inefficiencies in the provision of collective goods. This paper analyses to what extent this model can be applied to the case of forced migration where states can contribute to refugee protection in several ways: proactively, through peace-keeping/making or reactively, by providing protection for displaced persons. It shows how some prominent international burden-sharing regimes aim at equalizing particular dimensions of states' contributions to transnational collective goods. By doing so, they curtail opportunities for specialization and consolidate the sub-optimal provision of such goods."
"The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy" with Dr. Jeffrey Friedan of Harvard University
Dr. Friedan will speak on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 3:00 PM in Social Sciences Building room 104. For more information about Dr. Friedan, please visit his website.
"Preventative War and U.S. Foreign Policy" with Dr. Marc Trachtenberg of UCLA
Dr. Trachtenberg will speak on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 3:30 PM in Social Science Building room 102. For more information about Dr. Trachtenberg's topic and CV, please visit his website.
"Pattern of Compliance with the Laws of War" with Dr. James Morrow of the University of Michigan
 Friday, April 28, 2006 at 3:00 PM
Social Science Building room 101
Abstract
"The laws of war seek to regulate conduct during wartime. The record of compliance with these treaties is mixed. I explain compliance as the result of publicly accepted and so legally binding agreements that create incentives for the parties to enforce those agreements through reciprocity. Legal obligation created through ratification of the relevant treaty by both warring parties restrains violations and strengthens reciprocity. The effect of joint ratification is stronger for democracies, which is consistent with arguments that democracies are law-bound states. There is a hierarchy of average compliance across issues which matches the scope for violations by individuals on each issue, with greater scope for such violations corresponding to lower levels of compliance." For more biographical information about Dr. Morrow, please visit his website.
"Language, Migration and Citizenship: Multilingual practices in a Primary Health Care Site in Catalonia"
Melissa G. Moyer of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will present a colloquium in the Workshop on Language Ideology and Change in Multilingual Communities series. The colloquium will be held Friday, April 21, 2006 at 2:30 PM in the Anthropology Conference Room, Social Science Building room 105. A reception will follow at 4:00 PM in the Spiro Library of the Anthropology Department, SSB 269. This colloquium is open and free to the public - no RSVP required.
Abstract
The movement of populations across national boundaries is coming to be one of the main challenges that nation-states face from within their boundaries. In this era of globalization, migration no longer can be understood as a one-time displacement. The connectedness of today's societies brought about by the development of communication technologies, cheaper and easier communications makes contact with a country of origin easier for migrants. States are forced to deal with the diversity in language, culture and identity in democratic ways. This study looks at how, within nation-states, citizenship is regulated by the type of access granted migrants to public resources such as health. Language becomes a key element in the negotiation of citizens' rights. A study of a health care clinic in the Catalan-Spanish bilingual city of Barcelona are sites that show the way migrants are challenging nationalist ideologies on language and citizenship. The interest in the study of a specific nation-state such as Spain is that its political organization in federal-like autonomous regions recognizes historical and territorial based linguistic minorities gives a chance to examine how the challenges posed by the arrival of migrants from developing countries plays out in this particular context. The research is based on a two-year ethnographic study carried out by the author between 2002-2003 at a primary health care clinic in a multicultural neighborhood of Barcelona. The practices of both health care providers and immigrants mainly from South East Asia (Pakistan and India) and Northern Africa (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria) are analyzed. The findings discuss the contradictions between actual everyday practices of multilingualism and the language/health policies of state and regional sociopolitical entities.
"Indigenous Peoples between Mexican and American Constitutions (19th Century)"
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 4:00 pm
deCerteau Room, room number 3155
Literature Building
Professor Bartolomé Clavero is one of the leading experts on indigenous peoples' rights in Latin American constitutionalism and constitutional history. He is the Legal History Chair at the University of Seville, Spain, where he currently teaches and researches on issues of cross-cultural comparative constitutionalism. During the last 15 years Clavero has concentrated mostly on issues related to the indigenous rights in Latin America. In that capacity, he has been appointed on various occasions by the European Union or the United Nations as member of commissions to oversee elections in Guatemala and Peru. Professor Clavero's lecture will be based in part on his latest book, Freedom's Law and Indigenous Rights: From Europe's Economy to the Constitutionalism of the Americas, Robbins Collection Publications, University of California at Berkeley, 2005. He is currently preparing a new book of wider scope on cross-cultural constitutional history, which focuses on the evolution of indigenous peoples' legal status in the Americas. For directions to the Literature building, please click here.
"Europeanization and the emergence of a European society"
Friday, April 14, 2006 12:00 PM
Social Sciences Building room 101
Professor Diez was a faculty member at UCSD for over a decade. After becoming a full professor here, he returned to his native country, Spain, where he is a "catedratico" at the University of Barcelona. He is currently a visiting professor at Cornell. Professor Diez has published two major books, one on Spanish peripheral nationalism with Cornell and another on European collective identities, with Princeton.
European Studies Lunch Seminar-"Comparing Media Systems: Media and Politics in Europe"
On Thursday, April 13, 2006, Dan Hallin of UCSD's Department of Communication will give a lunch seminar. It will be held in the CCIS-IICAS-ISP conference room (ERC 115) from 12:00 - 1:30 PM. Lunch will be provided - please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Friday, April 7, 2006 at 4:00 PM.
Hallin's research concerns political communication and the role of the news media in democratic politics. He has written on the media and war, the shrinking "soundbite" in television coverage of elections, the rise and fall of journalistic professionalism in the United States, and media and democracy in Mexico. His new book with Paolo Mancini, Comparing Media Systems, a comparative analysis of the relation between media and political systems in Western Europe and North America, has won the Goldsmith Book award from the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard and the National
Communication Association's Diamond Anniversary Book Award.
Middle East Studies Lunch Seminar
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, Dr. Rahimi Babak will give a Middle East Studies lunch seminar titled "Sectarianism and Democracy in Post-Baathist Iraq". It will be held from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in the CCIS-IICAS-ISP conference room (ERC 115). If you wish to attend, please email mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 4:00 PM
Babak Rahimi, who earned his Bachelor of Arts at UCSD, received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Rahimi has also studied at the University of Nottingham and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature, Program for the Study of Religion, University of California, San Diego and also a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, where he conducts research on the relationship between religion and politics in post-Baathist Iraq. He has published numerous articles, including Thesis Eleven and Iranian studies. | |
