University of California, Irvine
Department of Political Science
Professor Wayne Sandholtz publishes book on changing international laws of war.
In Prohibiting Plunder: How Norms Change, political science professor, Wayne Sandholtz tells the colorful history of wartime looting, which was once the accepted right of victors but today is prohibited by international treaties.
Through first hand accounts and official documents from wars dating back to Napoleon, Sandholtz eloquently demonstrates how international norms change over time, with episodes as recent as the 2003 looting of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.
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Professor Etel Solingen publishes "Nuclear Logics."
Etel Solingen, political science professor, examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them in her new book Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia & the Middle East, "a valuable and timely contribution" to the discussion of nuclear proliferation according to UN weapon's inspector Hans Blix.
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Congratulations to graduating political science major, Yvette Shirinian, who has been awarded a 2008-2009 Coro Foundation Fellowship. Ms. Shirinian will hold her Coro Fellowship in the Los Angeles area.
An honors student in political science (with a minor in conflict resolution), Ms. Shirinian has studied abroad, interned abroad for the Fairtrade Foundation in London, interned for Senator Feinstein in Los Angeles, and interned as well in both Washington, D.C. and New York City. On campus, she has been involved in Global Connect, is a member of the Dean's Ambassadors Council as well as the Mock Trial Team, and she is founder and president of the Darfur Action Committee at UCI.
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Congratulations to Madeline Baer, fourth year political science graduate student, who has received the Don Owen Water Science and Policy Fellowship for Spring 2008. The award is given by the School of Social Ecology and the Urban Water Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. The endowment provides fellowship support for outstanding graduate students in pursuit of their doctorate.
For more information on the Don Owen Water Science and Policy Fellowship:
http://www.uwrc.uci.edu/students-UWRC/UCI-Don-Owen-Fellowship.php
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UCI's Mock Trial team finishes strong in national competition
Coming off their second place finish in February's regional championships, UC Irvine's senior Mock Trial team headed to St. Paul, Minnesota on April 4 to take part in the association's National Championship Tournament. One of only 64 qualifying teams, the trip marked the first ever national appearance by the UCI team which was started just three short years ago.
Facing fierce competition from rival teams across the nation, the team from UCI didn't disappoint. When the weekend tournament's war of words came to a close, UCI walked away with a 12th place finish, beating out teams from Stanford, Duke and other prestigious universities.
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Congratulations to Professor Kristen Monroe on receiving the Academic Senate's 2008-2009 "Distinguished Faculty Award for Research."
This award has been given by the Academic Senate since 1976. Two other members of the department are previous recipients of this award—David Easton (1997) and Bernard Grofman (2005-2006).
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Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Rein Taagepera who has been named the 2008 recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
The Skytte Foundation is located at Uppsala University in Sweden. The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, of 500,000 Swedish crowns (approximately $75,000 US Dollars) is given annually to the scholar who in the view of the Foundation has made the most valuable contribution to political science.
Additional information about the prize and a list of past winners, who include Theda Skocpol, Robert Putnam, Sidney Verba, Jean Blondel, Brian Barry, Hanna Pitkin, Arend Lijphart, Robert Dahl and others, can be found at http://athena.statsvet.uu.se/prize/
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Conflict resolution
Cecelia Lynch, associate professor of political science, Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, and fall 2007 recipient of the first faculty Living Our Values Award, often goes the extra mile in pursuit of knowledge.
To write a book on the role of religious ethics in international relations, she spent a year studying at The University of Chicago Divinity School. To deepen her understanding of Islamic texts, she took classes in Arabic at UCLA. To research religion and social movements, she traveled to Kenya, Cameroon and the Middle East to interview members of humanitarian organizations.
"What better way is there to look at the roots of activism than to talk to the people who believe they’re trying to make the world a better place?”
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Congratulations to Titus Chen, sixth year political science graduate student, who was awarded a $35,000 Hayward R. Alker Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Southern California's Center for International Studies. Awarded to only two students nationwide the fellowship will support Chen's research on relations between the U.S. and China with a focus on the recent spike in the number of U.S. based NGOs working within China to train lawyers and judges.
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Are we entering a new period of democratic dominance?
New research by UC Irvine political science professor Bernard Grofman suggests shifts in political party control over the U.S. House, Senate and Presidency occur roughly every 14 years.
The study, published in the February issue of the American Political Science Review, found that cycles of support for the Republican or Democratic parties, and the shifts in party control that accompany them, occur more frequently than previously thought.
For the complete news item: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1731
Further information is also available at http://www.apsanet.org/content_50847.cfm.
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Congratulations to Saba Ozyurt, sixth year political science graduate student, who has received a $10,000 UC Irvine Frances Benton Fellowship and a $24,000 UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Visiting Research Fellowship that will take her to the San Diego campus for the 2008-2009 academic year.
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A team of UC Irvine researchers has received an $828,000 grant from the California Postsecondary Education Commission for a project aimed at improving English and arts education in kindergarten through second grade classrooms. Spanning a four year period, the project will involve 180 teachers and impact more than 7,000 students in the San Diego Unified School District. Lead researchers Liane Brouillette, educational leadership associate professor, and Kristen Monroe, political science professor and director of the Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, will develop curriculum and, beginning fall 2008, provide professional development training for K-2 educators on how to incorporate art into classroom lessons as a way to strengthen students' English language skills.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1693
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Daniel Brunstetter on receiving an Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation "Scholar in Residency" fellowship to spend the Winter Quarter 2009 researching and writing at the Chateau de Bretesche in the French countryside.
Brunstetter in one of just two scholars selected annually for this research opportunity which aims to give faculty a home base for completing research and writing for scholarly publications.
Brunstetter's project, entitled "The Enlightenment Strikes Back! Clarifying France’s Policy of Integration" explores the Enlightenment roots of France's new social policy aimed at integrating immigrants to gauge the prospects of its success and the potential threats it may pose to the values of the Fifth Republic. The project compliments his overall research agenda on perceptions of Otherness from the origins of Modernity in the sixteenth century, through the French Enlightenment, to contemporary times.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1687
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Congratulations to Bernard Grofman, professor and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will be the inaugural Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair. Established in November 2007 with a $1 million anonymous donation, the Endowed Chair honors former UC President and UC Irvine Chancellor, Jack W. Peltason.
The news comes on the heels of Grofman's recent appointment as the new director of the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), a UCI center with more than 40 participating faculty members.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1675
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Congratulations to Cecelia M. Lynch, associate professor and director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, and Chetan Chowdhry, political science and environmental analysis and design undergraduate, are among the recently announced recipients of the Chancellor's Fall 2007 Living Our Values award. The biannual award recognizes individuals and teams who exemplify the core values of UC Irvine - respect, intellectual curiosity, integrity, commitment, empathy, appreciation and fun. With newly expanded guidelines this fall to include faculty and students among its recipients, Lynch and Chowdhry have become the first faculty member and student to receive the award.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1637
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Study finds personal contact key to bringing out low-income and minority voters.
On Election Day in California, face-to-face canvassing of low-income and minority communities dramatically increases voter turnout within these historically low voter participant populations, according to a new study released by The James Irvine Foundation. Researchers including Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Chicano/Latino studies and political science associate professor, found other personal contact outreach methods - including live phone calls - to be much more effective at turning out the vote than direct mail, recorded phone messages, and other commonly used voter mobilization tactics.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1612
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Sharing their story
For the past two summers, Daniel Wehrenfennig, a fourth year political science Ph.D. candidate and fellow of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, has embarked on a mission - a mission that has repeatedly led him and a small film crew deep into the heart of the African country of Malawi.
For the full story, please visit
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1607.
For more information on Wehrenfennig's
film project, please visit
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~cpb/Malawi.html.
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Women in Politics
Education funding and healthcare reform are two of the hot-button issues currently sparking debate between presidential candidates gearing up for the 2008 elections. These often-termed "women friendly" issues are a driving force behind the research of political science graduate student Becki Scola who examines the under-representation of women in state legislatures and the causes of its variance across the United States, a topic which combines her undergraduate interest in women's studies with her passion for political science.
For the complete news item: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1571.
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Cecelia M. Lynch and Professor Etel Solingen, whose research was honored at annual the American Political Science Association's (APSA) annual meeting.
The work of Cecelia Lynch was discussed via a panel on her book, Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (M.E. Sharpe).
A separately held panel highlighted the work of Etel Solingen. The panel focused on Solingen's contribution to furthering our understanding of issues of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and East Asia.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1565
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Congratulations to Professor Russell Dalton, who has been elected president of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Section on Political Organizations and Parties (POP).
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1558
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Deborah Avant, the new face of International Studies at UC Irvine
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Congratulations to UC Irvine political science alumni Vasudhsiri Torch Sathienmars,
class of '06, Scott Dominic Seekatz, class of '07, and Aida Macedo De Partida, class
of '07, who have each been selected for 11 month appointments to the
California Capital Fellows Program.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1545
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A recently released study ranks UC Irvine's Department of Political Science
17th in the nation - a ranking which differs greatly from their 35th placement by the
popular U.S. News and World Report. The disparity, researchers say, rests with the
objectivity of measurement methods employed by each.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1520
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Congratulations to Professor Kristen Monroe, who has been elected President of the International Society of Political Psychology, the world's largest international society devoted to the study of political psychology.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1470
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Congratulations to Professor Russell Dalton who has been selected to receive a UCI Emeriti Association Faculty Mentorship Award for 2007.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1461
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Congratulations to our 2006-07 end of the year Political Science award winners, political science doctoral students Amy C. Alexander on receiving the Easton Award for Outstanding Qualifying Paper; Saba Ozyurt and Daniel Wehrenfennig on receiving the Eckstein Scholar Award for Outstanding Student Advanced to Candidacy, and to undergraduate students Garric Nahapetian on receiving the Eckstein Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis and Renee Manorat on receiving the Pi Omnicron Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha Founders Award.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1435
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Congratulations to our 2006-07 end of the year Social Sciences' Order of Merit award winners, political science doctoral students Amy C. Alexander on receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student Service award and Kathy H. Rim on receiving the A. Kimball Romney Award Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in the School of Social Sciences.
Congratulations also to the following undergraduate Political Science majors: Garric Nahapetian (Sr.) on receiving the Social Sciences Outstanding Honors Thesis, to Xenia Tashlitsky (Jr.) and Shahrooz Shahandehpour (Jr.) on receiving the David and Kristin Rosten Dean's Scholarship; to Rosa Noyola (Sr.) on receiving the Frank Lynch Transfer Scholarship; and to Valerie Dao (Jr.) on receiving the Alumni Excellence Scholarship.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1442
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Congratulations to political science doctoral student Amy Alexander who received a University of California, Berkeley Institute of European Studies Predissertation Fellowship to fund her travel to Europe in support of her research, "Gender Differences in Legislative Attitudes and Behaviors: Testing Theory and Evidence Across Several Western Democracies."
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1428
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Congratulations to political science doctoral student Becki Scola named the co-recipient of the 2007 Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award from the Division of Undergraduate Education.
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http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1405
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Congratulations to Shahrzad Radbod, third-year political science major and biological sciences and philosophy minor, who was selected as the 2007 recipient of the Elena B. and William R. Schonfeld Scholarship.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1411
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Congratulations to Kapil Dandamudi, political science major, who has received the UCI Excellent Upper-Division Academic Writing Award for his paper titled "Public Opinion on the Environment," evaluated by political science professor Katherine Tate. Honoring both the student writer and the instructor, this award carries a $100 prize for its recipients.
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Congratulations to political science majors Matthew Seamon, the 2007 Nicholas Aeberhard Memorial Award winner (for the outstanding freshman at UCI) and Valerie Dao the 2007 Dan and Jean Aldrich, Jr. Scholarship winner (for UCI's outstanding junior).
For the complete news item:
Seamon - http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1387
Dao - http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1396
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Congratulations to Professor Alison Brysk who was has been named the recipient of the 2007-2008 "Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research" by the UC Academic Senate.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1357
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Recently released study ranks eight UCI political science professors in top 400: Using citation counts over the course of a scholar's lifetime of research as a measure of impact and contribution to political science, a recently released study ranks eight UCI political science professors in the top 400 in their field. Long-time UCI professors Russell Dalton, David Easton, Bernard Grofman, Helen Ingram, Dorothy Solinger, Rein Taagepera, and Martin Wattenberg are joined by UCI newcomer, Martha Feldman who was at the University of Michigan at the time this study was conducted, to round out this group of highly ranked political science faculty.
Professors Easton, Grofman, and Dalton were further ranked among the top 100 most cited political science faculty currently teaching in Ph.D. programs in the U.S., while Professors Feldman and Taagepera were among the top 200.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1327
For further information, please visit www.apsanet.org.
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Congratulations to Professor Alison Brysk who was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant during the 2006-07 academic year.
For the complete news item:
http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1551
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1259
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Congratulations to Dr. DeSipio's political science doctoral student, Stephen Nuno, on his UC Mexus Fellowship Award for the "California Statewide Election Exit Poll 2006" project. The total funding for this project is $12,000 with the project period from 7/1/06 until 6/30/08.
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Congratulations to political science doctoral student Becki Scola on receiving the American Political Science Association’s 2006 Women's Caucus Alice Paul Award for the Best Dissertation Prospectus on women and politics. The title of her dissertation prospectus is: "Double Disadvantage or Intersecting Advantage? Representation, Institutional Structures, and Women of Color State Legislators." Becki's award will be presented at the meeting of the Women's Caucus in Philadelphia during the upcoming Annual Meetings of the APSA.
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Congratulations to Professor Lisa Garcia Bedolla for receiving the American Political Science Association’s 2006 Ralph Bunche Award for her book, Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity and Politics in Los Angeles.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1258
For more information on her book: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10209.html
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The School of Social Sciences Dinner Club 2007-2008 invites you to attend:
Title: Why Can't We Reform Immigration?
with Louis DeSipio, Chair and Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, and Professor of Political Science
Department's: Chicano-Latino Studies, Political Science
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:00 p.m.
Library Room, University Club
801 East Peltason Drive
Irvine, California 92697
Details: Despite massive public protests and considerable Congressional efforts over the past two years to reform U.S. immigration policy, the outcome has been one of stalemate and frustration on the part of the American public. Is immigration reform possible in the current political climate? What forms could it take? Join Professor Louis DeSipio as he analyzes proposals for immigration reform and assesses how the 2006 immigrant protests and a populist backlash in response to these protests reduced the opportunities for finding a middle ground that would allow for comprehensive policy reform.
DeSipio is the Chair of the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies and Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and Political Science. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin and prior to coming to UC Irvine, he taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He has published widely on Latino political behavior, immigrant incorporation, and immigrant transnational engagement. He is the author of Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate and co-author of Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy.
The cost for this event is $40. Please RSVP with Kathleen McDonald, 949-824-1659 or kmcdonal@uci.edu.
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Event: UC Irvine professor Kristen Monroe, to discusses how ordinary people can combat genocide in the 21st century
Details: Kristen Monroe, UC Irvine political science professor and award-winning author on altruism and moral choice, will showcase her extensive video interviews with genocide supporters, witnesses to genocide and those who risked their lives to save others at a dinner talk hosted by the UC Irvine Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, of which she is the director.
Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
6 p.m.
University Club Library,
801 E. Peltason, UC Irvine (Bldg. 801 on campus map)
Reservations required
Contact: Sandra Cushman, 949.824.3344 or scushman@uci.edu
For more information on this event:
http://today.uci.edu/news/media_advisory_detail.asp?key=416
For more information on the UC Irvine Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality:
http://www.ethicscenter.uci.edu/index.htm
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Title: Hot Topic Debates 2008: Domestic Issues
Sponsored by: The School of Social Sciences and the Dean's Ambassadors Council
Date/Time/Place: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
HIB 100
Faculty Participants:
Pamela Kelley, Co-Director of the Law Forum & Political Science Lecturer
Mark Petracca, Chair and Professor of Political Science
William Schonfeld, Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Sciences & Professor
of Political Science
Charles Tony Smith, Professor of Political Science
Charles Tony Smith and Pam Kelley, debating 'Equal Protection and the Democratic Delegates at stake in Florida and Michigan'.
Mark Petracca and William Schonfeld, debating 'Building a Fence Between the Mexican and US Border'.
Moderated by: Calvin Morrill, Professor of Sociology & Former Department
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Title: "Managing the Greenhouse Problem"
with Dr. Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.
Office: The UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality in co-sponsorship with Departments of Political Science, Economics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, and International Studies Program, Center for Global Peace and Conflicts, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science.
Date/Time/Place: Friday, March 7, 2008
12:15 - 2:00 p.m.
SSPB 5250
Event Web Site: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/dinnerclub/
Light Luncheon Will Be Served ~ Please RSVP by March 3, 2008 to
Sandy Cushman scushman@uci.edu or 949-824-3344
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2007-08 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series
Title: "Managing Nuclear Proliferation"
with Dr. Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.
Office: Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, March 6, 2008
7:00-8:30 p.m.
UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium
Details: Thomas C. Schelling is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. In 2005, he shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert Aumann of the University of Jerusalem for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."
This event is free and open to the public.
For further information, please contact the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality at 949-824-3344.
Event Web Site: http://www.ethicscenter.uci.edu/
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2007-2008 ECKSTEIN LECTURE
Title: "The Role of Ordinary People in Democratization"
presented by Ronald F. Inglehart, Professor, University of Michigan
Department's: Center for the Study of Democracy, The Department of Political
Science
Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Social Sciences Plaza A, Room 1100
Details: Professor Inglehart is one of the world's leading experts on democratization
and on the relationship between political values and political culture and the
functioning of democratic societies. His ongoing research focuses on cultural change
and its consequences. For over a quarter century he has been coordinating a survey
of mass values and attitudes, the World Values Survey, that now takes place in more
than fifty countries and will soon be expanded to encompass more than 80 countries
containing over 85% of the world's population. This data base reveals astonishingly
strong linkages between the values and beliefs of mass publics and the presence or
absence of democratic institutions. His findings support the thesis that political
culture plays a crucial role in the emergence and survival of democracy. Inglehart's
work shows how the emergence of economically advanced welfare states leads to
gradual value changes in which mass publics give an increasingly high priority of
autonomy and self-expression in a sphere of life, including politics. As these things
happen, it becomes increasingly difficult and costly to repress demands for political
liberalization. These cultural changes are also transforming people's motivation to
work, sexual and religious norms, and many other key aspects of modern society.
This event is free and open to the public.
For further information, please call 949-824-2904.
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Title: "A Primer on the 2008 Presidential Primaries"
with Ed Rollins, Campaign Director to President Ronald Reagan, National Campaign
Chair and Senior Advisor to Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee
Department's: Center for the Study of Democracy, The Department of Political
Science
Date/Time/Place: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Social Sciences Plaza A, Room 1100
Details: Ed Rollins, former campaign director to President Ronald Reagan and
current national campaign chair and senior advisor to Presidential hopeful Mike
Huckabee, will discuss his experiences in presidential politics with students, faculty,
staff and community members at UC Irvine. In his talk, "A Primer on the Presidential
Primaries," Rollins will comment on his successful campaign strategy that helped
propel former President Reagan into the White House, a move he is hoping to
reiterate in 2008 for Huckabee. A nationally renowned Republican campaign
consultant and advisor, Rollins has had a hand in every Presidential election since
1984.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
For further information, please contact Carole Nightengale, cnighten@uci.edu or
949-824-2904.
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Title: "Muslims and Local Governance in London"
with Susan E. Clarke, Professor, Director of Center to Advance Research and
Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS), University of Colorado at Boulder
Department's: The Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, and
Department of Planning, Policy and Design, School of Social Ecology
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, January 31, 2008
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Social Ecology I, Room 112
Details: Professor Clarke's research and teaching interests center on public policy
and urban politics and policy, particularly issues of globalization and local democracy.
Her publications include The Work of Cities (with Gary Gaile: Minnesota, 1998) on
local economic development strategies, a co-authored book on Multiethnic Moments:
The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2006) and
numerous journal articles. Her research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Canadian
government, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National League of Cities, and
others. She is Editor (with Michael Pagano and Gary Gaile) of Urban Affairs Review,
currently the top-ranked urban journal in Europe and the U.S. Clarke served as
Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs (2002-2003) and Interim Associate
Dean of the Graduate School (2001-2002) at Boulder.
For further informatioin, please contact Victoria Basolo, 949-824-3521 or
basolo@uci.edu.
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UCI University Club Forum presents:
Title: "Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East."
with Etel Solingen, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
Date/Time/Place: