Today (Thurs): Talk on International Refugee Law-Iran: Emrah Yildiz

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~~~~ “Alignments of International Refugee Law, Political
Liberalism and Sexuality on the Road: Iranian Asylum Seekers through the
United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Turkey” a lecture by
Emrah Yildiz Thursday, April 18th, 4:15-6pm Fisk 116 Emrah YILDIZ is a
Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at
Harvard University. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology and German Studies and
an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Wesleyan University. Following field
research on immigrant and diasporic youth cultures and cultural industries
in Berlin as a DAAD Research Fellow at the Institute for European
Ethnology during the 2005-2006 academic year, Emrah returned to Wesleyan
to write his MA thesis titled “Post-migrant Sounds: Hip-Hop and
Creative Industries of Otherhood in WorldCity Berlin.” His current
research interests include historiography and ethnography of borderlands,
anthropology of Islam and pilgrimage, political economy and contraband
commerce as well as studies of gender and sexuality in the Middle East His
ongoing dissertation research is supported by the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, and Die Zeit Stiftung Bucerius Fellowship in
Migration Studies. For more information, contact: J. Kehaulani Kauanui
(x3768) jkauanui@wesleyan.edu
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Ben Van Heuvelen, talk today: Oil, war, and the future of Iraq

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You are invited to a talk


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“Oil, war, and the future of Iraq”

 

Ben Van Heuvelen

 

Wednesday April 17, 2013

 

12.00-1.00    PAC 001

 
Ben Van Heuvelen is the managing editor of the Iraq Oil Report. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and Salon. He writes about Iraq, oil, and the geopolitics of energy; American foreign policy, politics and culture; and religion. He was formerly a research fellow at the New America Foundation.

Talk today: Lehoucq on Civil War in Central America

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THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
Invites you to a Public Lecture

 

“The Causes and Consequences of Civil War in Central America“


Fabrice Lehoucq
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

 

Thursday, April 11, 2013

4:15 p.m.     PAC 002

 

 

Professor Fabrice Lehoucq will speak today, Thursday, April 11, 2013, on “Causes and Consequences of Civil War in Central America.” The talk is at 4:15 PM in Public Affairs Center 002. It is co-sponsored by the Government Department and the Latin American Studies Program.

Dr. Fabrice Lehoucq, associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, holds a PhD from Duke University. From 2001 to 2007 he taught at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics) in Mexico City. In 2000-2001 he taught at Wesleyan. He is currently a visiting fellow at Kellogg Institute of International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Lehoucq is the author of The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica  (with Ivan Molnar)  (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has been a consultant for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, the Carter Center, the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World Bank.

 

Co-sponsored by Government and Latin American Studies Program

Scheduling with Students: youcanbook.me

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Update via Jack Dougherty:

Updated on February 26, 2015: The friendly folks at YouCanBook.Me tell me that the “On Duty” feature (which displays my office hours, as described below) now requires a paid premium-level subscription OR a free non-profit account. Users who log in with an .edu email address automatically qualify for a free non-profit account, or you can request one by visiting their Non-Profit help page. Also, for more up-to–date instructions, see also YouCanBook.Me’s own tutorial on using the “On Duty” (aka “office hours”) feature.

 

I have used a number of different websites over the years to streamline appointment scheduling with students. Unfortunately, whenever I find something that seems to work (Tungle.me or “Google Appointments”) they end up going out of business.

So, my current implementation involves yet another niche website that I hope will last a bit longer. It also involves a set of instructions which, though lengthy, provide for a very effective synchronization with my Google Calendar.

Here is the service: http://youcanbook.me/

Here are the instructions: http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/12/16/youcanbookme/

And here is my current implementation (this is active so don’t set-up an appointment with me unless you need to!): http://michaelbnelson.youcanbook.me/

The ICC’s impacts

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There is an interesting discussion at the Monkey Cage on the impacts of the ICC. This should interest some of my International Law and Africa in World Politics students.

“How is the ICC supposed to work?” (James Fearon)

To me it looks like a well-intentioned but not fully thought out institutional experiment that will tend to be used primarily as a way to make rich countries feel better about cases whether they aren’t willing to intervene, while the institution itself sometimes has consequences that contradict its avowed purpose.

“The ICC, Deterrence, and Amnesty” (Erik Voeten)

My own tentative view is that the ICC likely has little meaningful effect on deterring or encouraging the worst forms of human rights abuses but may have a marginally positive effect at reducing abuses in countries where “mid-level” human rights abuses occur; not unlike the international human rights regime more generally.