|
News
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. Click here for application instructions and frequently asked questions. Deadline for applications and all supporting documents is March 17, 2008 by 4:00 PM. Funding Opportunities with IGCC for University of California Graduate Students
More information about internships, fellowships, grants, and awards is available here. 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.
| 
|
|
"Toward an Integrated History of the Holocaust"
With Professor Saul Friedlander
UC Los Angeles Sunday, March 2, 2008
3:30 PM - Reception
4:30 PM - Lecture
Institute of The Americas, Weaver Center
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. Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Interim Events Coordinator, Jackie Tam (858) 822-5297 or iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu two weeks in advance. Sponsored by the Judaic Studies at UCSD, the 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.  Abstract: The growing importance of regions like Asia or the Middle East as well as global problems like climate change or terrorism has shifted American attention away from Europe. However, an analysis of the central problems of contemporary international politics suggests that the US-European relationship will, in fact, remain crucial for security, political and economic reasons. A renewed effort should be made by both sides to revitalize that relationship in the interest of world order.
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 Interim Events Coordinator, Jackie Tam (858) 822-5297 or iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu two weeks in advance. Sponsored by the American Council on Germany, the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), and European 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.
"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 iicastemp@ad.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 Interim Events Coordinator, Jackie Tam (858) 822-5297 or iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu two weeks in advance. Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), the Department of Sociology, and the Department of History. 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 Interim Events Coordinator, Jackie Tam (858) 822-5297 or iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu two weeks in advance. Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), California Western School of Law, American Branch of the International Law Association, and American Society of International Law-West. For questions regarding the event please contact events@cwsl.edu.
CPE at IR/PS, the Department of Economics, IICAS, and the WUN Presents: "Development without Developmental States conference: Latin America and Middle East/North Africa Compared"
Meals are not being provided although registration is required - please RSVP to iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu by Monday, April 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM. Friday, April 25-26, 2008
9:15 AM - 6:00 PM (Friday, April 25, 2008)
9:30 AM - Noon (Saturday, April 26, 2008)
Social Science Building (SSB) Room 104
Open to UCSD staff and students.
Abstract: Latin America and the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region share similar levels of education, health, and income; abundant natural resources, dependence on remittances, stubbornly high unemployment, and what could be termed "macho traditional" cultures. They also share states that lack the competence and autonomy to carry out developmental projects and a failure to close their income gaps with their northern neighbors. Amidst these commonalities are at least two striking differences: Latin America has managed to move from authoritarian to democratic polities, whereas MENA has kept citizens relatively free from the fear of crime. The conference will explore what can be learned from the similarities and differences between the two regions in four panels: economic growth success stories, provision of state services, civil society, and street crime. Directions and parking information are available here.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Interim Events Coordinator at (858) 822-5297 or iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Center on Pacific Economies (CPE) at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, the Department of Economics, the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the World University Network. For questions regarding the event please contact the Events Coordinator at iicas-events@ucsd.edu. |
|
|
