MiddleMen and Networks
Presents
"Economic, Social, and Cultural Foundations of the Global Economy"
November 3rd - November 5th, 2006
Seuss Room, Geisel Library
This Conference is co-sponsored by the All-UC Economic History Group, the All-UC World History Group, UCSD's IICAS, CILAS, the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Deptment of History, and Mandeville Special Collections.
------------------------------------------------------------------2006-07 IICAS European Studies  Program
Presents
"Nazi Camps and Prisons: Towards a Comparative History of Confinement in
the Third Reich"
Nikolaus Wachsmann
Birkbeck College, University of London
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Galbraith Room, HSS, 4th Floor
Sponsored by the European Studies Program at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), History Studies and Judiac Studies.
Contact: Frank Biess at fbiess@ucsd.edu
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------------------------------------------------------------------ "UCSD International Education Week"
November 10 - November 17, 2006
IEW is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. The week is dedicated to enhancing international awareness across UCSD campus as well as to reinforcing the importance of the exchange of students and scholars across borders.
Initiated in 2000 by the US Department of State and the Department of Education, International Education Week emphasizes the importance of increasing student knowledge and awareness of the world's cultures, peoples and languages, and affirms the critical role that international education and exchange programs play in fostering world peace.
Contact: Dulce Dorado at ddorado@ucsd.edu
For more information visit their website at http://iew.ucsd.edu/index.html
------------------------------------------------------------------IGCC Grant Workshop
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
12:00 - 1:00 PM
ERC 115
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
Each year, IGCC provides over $500,000 in graduate fellowships, faculty grants, and public policy internship support. Since 1988, IGCC has funded over 170 faculty grants through its annual competitions. Find out more about IGCC's Faculty Grants and Graduate Student funding opportunities. This workshop is intended to help applicants learn how to successfully apply for IGCC funding opportunities. Please RSVP to iicas-events@ucsd.edu by November 13, 2006 if you wish to attend.
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------------------------------------------------------------------2006-07 IICAS International Law Series
Presents
"Civil War and the High Level Panel Report"
 Andrew Mack
University of British Columbia
Thursday, November 30, 2006
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Andrew Mack is the Director of the Human Security Centre at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. Prior to establishing the Human Security Centre, he was a Visiting Professor at the Program on Humanitarian Policy at Harvard University (2001). He spent two and a half years as the Director of Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations from 1998 - 2001.
Professor Mack previously held the Chair in International Relations at the Institute of Advanced Study at the Australian National University (1991-1998), was the Director of the ANU's Peace Research Centre (1985-91) and Senior Research Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (1984-85).
He has held research and teaching positions at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) the London School of Economics, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, University of California at Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego, the University of Hawaii, Fudan University in Shanghai and the International University of Japan. His pre-academic career included six years in the Royal Air Force (engineer and pilot); two and a half years in Antarctica as meteorologist and Deputy Base Commander; a year as a diamond prospector in Sierra Leone and two years with the BBC's World Service producing the current affairs program 'The World Today'.
Professor Mack has written and edited some eleven monographs and books and his 50 plus scholarly articles have appeared in a wide range of journals including: World Politics, The Washington Quarterly, British Journal of International Studies, World Policy, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Politics, Security Dialogue, Arms Control, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs and Pacific Review. He has also published widely in the mainstream print media including the International Herald Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsday, Yomiuri Shimbun, The Australian, The Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Corriere Della Sierra, the Far Eastern Economic Review, The Japan Times, New Scientist, The Bulletin, The New Zealand Herald, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, The Nation and the South China Morning Post.
Professor Mack has received research grants from the MacArthur, Ford, Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the United Nations University, the Social Science Research Council (UK) and the governments of Australia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.
Sponsored by California-Western School of Law and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
Contact: iicas-events@ucsd.edu
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