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$100,000 Matching Gift Pledged to Support UC San Diego's Series of Public Talks on Religion and Society
To read the article regarding this anonymous donation to the Burke Lectureship affiliated with the UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, click here!
Worldwide University Network's 2007 - 2008 Virtual Seminar Series
San Diego Supercomputer Center; Room 100 Auditorium
Various dates
San Diego start time: 9:00 A.M.
The Contemporary China Center is a collaborative framework to support a global community of faculty and graduate students working together across centers of excellence around the world. It is based on, but not exclusive to, the Worldwide Universities Network and has as its partners in China the Universities of Nanjing, Zhejiang and Sichuan.
This year's Virtual seminar series concerns such topics as the rural-urban boundary in China and Chinese Administrative Law in Comparative Perspective. More information is available on the seminar dates and topics online.
Contact Reyna Stallings for more information at (858) 822-7523 or at rstallings@ucsd.edu |
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"Distrust and Trust in the Aftermath of Violence: an ethnography of two communes in Cambodia's southwest"
With Professor Evelyn Zucker
UC Irvine
Monday, January 28, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 105
This event is free and open to the public.
Abstract: Beginning with the premise that trust is a necessary feature of sociality and an expression of a given moral order, I look at what constitutes trust and distrust for the Khmer people I lived and worked with whose villages became Khmer Rouge bases and battlefields from 1970 - 1998. I ask how might trust have been conceived before the Khmer Rouge revolution and what happened to it during the revolution. How did the Khmer Rouge build up a pervasive distrust between people and familiar relations in their efforts to secure loyalty for themselves? I also examine the residue of distrust that survives in the present in some of its expressions, in accusations of sorcery, adultery, AIDS, and self-interest. I ask how are villagers forming trusting relations again?
Drawing on anthropological and sociological theories of trust and distrust, the paper discusses how villagers are contending with the residue of distrust that is the legacy of Khmer Rouge ideological policies and practice and the 30 years of war, while at the same time seeking to rebuild their lives together in the present in a radically changing social and economic context.
Biography: Eve Zucker recently received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Since 1994 she lived and worked in Cambodia on three occasions for a total of 39 months, 13 of which were spent living in an upland Khmer village in southwestern Cambodia where she conducted her doctorial research concerning memory and the remaking of moral order in the aftermath of violence. In the past she had worked as a research intern for the Cambodia Genocide Program at Yale University and she has also participated in various Cambodian higher education projects while in Cambodia. Dr. Zucker is currently a Visiting Scholar in UCSD's Department of Anthropology and a lecturer in anthropology at UC Irvine.
Directions and parking information are available here.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu
The America in the World 2007-2008 Lecture Series Presents:
"Conflict and Health in Iraq: A Man-made disaster"
With Professor Wael Al-Delaimy
UC San Diego
January 2008 (Date and venue TBD)
Rescheduled from November
This event is free and open to the public.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), which is an organized research unit part of the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu
The Project on International Affairs presents:
Michael Tomz
Stanford University
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
This event is free and open to the public.
Directions and parking information are available here.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu
International Law Series Presents:
"The End of Exceptionalism in War Crimes"
With Ambassador David Sheffer
Northwestern University Law School
Thursday, February 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Room 3201
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: David Scheffer is the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches international criminal law and international human rights law. He is a former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and was deeply engaged in the creation of and U.S. support for the international criminal tribunals during the Clinton Administration. Amb. Scheffer led the U.S. delegation during the U.N. negotiations on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the United States on December 31, 2000. During the first term of the Clinton Administration, he served as senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, and on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council. He has published extensively on international law and politics and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars. Amb. Scheffer is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association.
Directions and parking information are available here.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by Cal-West, American Branch of the International Law Association, American Society of International Law-West, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
"International Law and Humanitarian Crisis"
With Gillian Sorensen
United Nations Foundation
Monday, February 25, 2008
7:00 - 8:30 PM
ERC Great Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: From l997 to 2003, Ms. Gillian Sorensen served as Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations on appointment by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She was responsible for outreach to non-governmental organizations and was the contact point for the Secretary-General with parliamentarians, the academic world, religious leaders and other groups committed to peace, justice, development and human rights.
Prior to that, Mrs. Sorensen served from 1993 to 1996 as Special Adviser for Public Policy on appointment by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali where her duties included directing the UN's global Fiftieth Anniversary observances in l995. She led the planning of conferences, debates, documentaries, concerts and exhibits; the preparation of books and curricular materials, and the coordination of the UN50 Summit at in which l80 Presidents and Prime Ministers participated. She is an experienced public speaker and often represented the World Organization in this country and abroad.
Mrs. Sorensen earlier served for over 12 years (1978-1990) on appointment by Mayor Edward I. Koch as New York City Commissioner for the United Nations and Consular Corps, head of the City's liaison with the world's largest diplomatic community. Her responsibilities included matters related to diplomatic security and immunity, housing and education, and other cultural and business contacts between the host city and over 30,000 diplomats. She secured Federal reimbursement to New York for the costs of diplomatic protection, which continues to this day. During this time, she was described as 'the diplomat's diplomat" by the New York Times.
Gillian Sorensen is a graduate of Smith College and studied at the Sorbonne. In the fall of 2002, on leave from the UN, she was a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government (Institute of Politics) at Harvard University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy. Previously, she served as a Board Member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on appointment by the President of the United States. In addition to her public service, she has been active in politics and was a delegate to three national Presidential conventions. She is married to Theodore C. Sorensen, writer and attorney.
Directions and parking information are available here.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and the International Affairs Group (IAG).
For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu
International Law Series presents:
"Outsourcing War and Peace"
With Professor Laura Dickinson
University of Connecticut
Thursday, March 27, 2008
12:10 - 1:15 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room, Cal West
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: Laura Dickinson is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. During 2006-2007, Dickinson was a visiting research scholar and visiting professor in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University. She also has served as a senior policy adviser to Harold Hongju Koh, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor at the U.S. Department of State, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun and Stephen Breyer. Her work on transitional justice, legal responses to terror, foreign affairs privatization, and the relationship between international and domestic law is widely published. She is currently at work on a book, entitled Outsourcing War and Peace, which focuses on foreign aid and the increasing privatization of military functions.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by Cal-West, American Branch of the International Law Association, American Society of International Law-West, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact events@cwsl.edu. |
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