News IICAS Speakers hosted on KPBS' "These Days":
Tom Fudge, of the KPBS radio show "These Days", interviewed three of IICAS' guest speakers. On Monday, January 8, KPBS representative Mr. Fudge spoke with IICAS America and the World Series speaker Ambassador Tom Vraalsen on finding peace in Sudan. The interview is available for listening online here. On Thursday, November 29, Mr. Fudge spoke with America in the World Lecture Series speaker Dr. Michael Levi on understanding nuclear terrorism. The interview is available for listening online here.
On Thursday, November 8, KPBS representative Mr. Fudge spoke with IICAS Middle East Studies guest Mr. Anthony Shadid on the Sunni-Shiite conflict. The interview is available for listening online here. 2008 Human Rights Fellowship Application: The Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley is pleased to announce the annual competition for student fellowships with human rights organizations. The $3,500 stipend award will enable students to carry out clearly defined fieldwork, domestically or internationally, with human rights organizations related to a student's area of study. More information about the fellowship and the application guidelines are available here.
If you are interested in applying for this exciting funding opportunity, you are also invited to attend an informational session on Friday, February 15th, at 12:00 PM in the Eleanor Roosevelt College Administrative Building Conference Room (ERC Rm. 115).
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IICAS South Asian Studies Presents: "Multisectoral Responses to Gender Based Violence in Urban India"
With Dr. Suneeta Krishnan
Research Triangle Institute Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by February 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM. Wednesday, February 6, 2008
5:30 PM - Reception
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Lecture
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107
This event is free and open to the public.  Abstract: The influence of gender inequities on women's reproductive health, including women's susceptibility to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is undisputed. However, despite a growing body of research on the effect of gender-based power on women's reproductive health, critical gaps remain, including the need for empirical data linking gender-based power at the level of the individual, couple, community and society to HIV/STI susceptibility. This presentation focuses on insights gained from a longitudinal study of 750 young married women in Bangalore, India on spousal violence, a key aspect of gender-based power. Spousal violence is likely to increase women's susceptibility to HIV by enhancing the risk of transmission through exposure to sexual trauma; limiting women's ability to negotiate sex and condom use; being associated with HIV risk behaviours among men and women; and posing a barrier to HIV testing and disclosure. We elucidate the social and economic factors that shape women's experience of spousal violence and describe their implications for preventing and promoting earlier detection of violence. Finally, we outline a multi-sectoral response, including eliciting behavior change with young men; mobilizing communities; and promoting appropriate State/institutional involvement.
Biography:Dr. Suneeta Krishnan, PhD is a social epidemiologist with Research Triangle Institute (RTI International). Her research focuses on the relationships between social inequalities, particularly gender inequality, and reproductive health in India. Dr. Krishnan's research program has three main goals: 1) understanding the causes of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other adverse reproductive health outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies among women in India; 2) developing and evaluating policy and programmatic strategies for the prevention of these outcomes; and 3) promoting the ethical conduct of reproductive health related research and programs. Dr. Krishnan is also Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley and Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management's Center for Public Policy (IIMB-CPP). She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2005. 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 UCSD's Women's Center, the Department of Critical Gender Studies, and the South Asian Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS). For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu
Project on International Affairs Lecture Series Presents: "The Credibility of International Commitments"
With Professor Michael Tomz
Stanford University
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107
This event is free and open to the public.  Biography: Michael Tomz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His interests include international relations, political economy, public opinion, and statistical methods. Michael holds an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Michael is the author of Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2007). He has also published in various journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and Political Analysis. His current research on the credibility of international commitments is supported by a five-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. He is also engaged in NSF-funded research about spatial models of voting.
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 Scheffer
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.  Abstract: American exceptionalism may have a place in international politics, but this concept has run its course in the sphere of international criminal justice. The rule of law debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo have been the death-knell of exceptionalism in the war crimes business. No nation should ignore its duty to bring war criminals to justice or otherwise shield its own leaders or soldiers from charges of atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) is here to stay. Any claim that the US may have to the moral high ground in foreign policy will be difficult to sustain without U.S. participation in the ICC. The United States needs the ICC to help restore its global credibility, discipline its own decision-making, and strengthen judicial intervention against atrocity crimes. We need a strategy for cooperation with the ICC and ultimate ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC.
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 California Western School of Law, 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 Intervention and Humanitarian Crisis"
With Gillian Sorensen
United Nations Foundation
Monday, February 25, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
ERC Great Hall
This event is free and open to the public. 
Biography: From 1997 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 International Affairs Group (IAG), the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), the United Nations Association San Diego (UNASD), 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
"Toward an Integrated History of the Holocaust"
With Professor Saul Friedlander
UC Los AngelesSunday, March 2, 2008
8:00 PM - Lecture
Weaver Center
Institute of the Americas
This event is free and open to the public.  Biography: Professor Friedlander is the 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies. In 1999 Professor Friedlander was awarded the Macarthur Grant. His publications include Nazi Germany and the Jews When Memory Comes.
Directions and parking information are available here. Sponsored by Judaic Studies at UCSD, Geisel Library, the Department of History, the Department of Literature, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS). For questions regarding the event please contact Dorothy Wagner at dwagoner@ucsd.edu.
America and the World 2007-2008 Lecture Series Presents:
"Does Europe still Matter? The State of US-European Relations"
With Professor Karl Kaiser
Harvard University Thursday, March 6, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public.  Biography: Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and the Ralph I. Straus Fellow, in a joint appointment with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble and Oxford and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He was a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors.
He serves on the Board of FOREIGN POLICY, INTERNATIONALE POLITIK, the Asian-Pacific Review, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 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 tbe American Council on Germany, the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), European Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), 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.
"Distrust and Trust in the Aftermath of Violence: An Ethnography of Two Communes in Cambodia's Southwest"
With Professor Eve Zucker
UC Irvine Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu. Wednesday, March 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
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
International Law Series Presents:
"Outsourcing War and Peace"
With Professor Laura Dickinson
University of Connecticut Thursday, March 27, 2008
12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Moot Court Room
California Western School of Law
This event is free and open to the public.  Biography: Laura A. Dickinson is a Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she has taught since 2001. During 2006-2007, Professor Dickinson was a Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, she subsequently 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. In addition, she served as a law clerk to Justices Harry A. Balckmun and Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, and to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Her work on transitional justice, legal responses to terror, foreign affairs privatization, and the relationship between international and domestic law has appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the Southern California Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review, and the Yale Journal of International Law, and in books published by Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, and Transnational Publishers. She is currently at work on a book, entitled Outsourcing War and Peace, that focuses on the increasing privatization of military functions, foreign aid, and diplomacy, the impact of such privatization on the efficacy of international human rights law, and the possibility that alternative mechanisms (such as contract, tort, and trust) could be used to help ensure accountability of private actors working abroad under government contracts.
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 California Western School of Law, 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 mailto: events@cwsl.edu . |
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