Events & Lectures
                 
DATE   TIME   EVENT   LOCATION
(click on underlined events for more details)
May 6- 7   3:00pm   Conference on "Colonial Experiences   104 White Hall
2005       and Colonial Legacies: Comparing    
        Eastern Europe and Sub- Saharan Africa"    
             Friday,  May 6 3:00pm - 4:30pm    
             Saturday, May 7 9:00am - 4:15pm    
             
             
        Past Events    
April 25   2:30pm   Cornell Law School   Room 279
2005       Ellen Lutz (Cultural Survival)   Myron Taylor Hall
        TBD    
             
             
April 25   10:00am   Workshop on Transnational Contention   360 Uris Hall
2005       Ellen Lutz (Cultural Survival)    
        "Accountability in the Context of Multifaceted Transitions    
        in the New Millennium"    
             
             
April 13   4:30pm   Italian Studies Colloquium   201
2005 Donatella Della Porta (GRACE and European Union AD White House
              Institute)    
        "Protest Policing in Italy: After 9-11 and the Genoa    
        G-8"    
             
             
April 12   4:30pm   Luigi Einaudi Lecture Series   Guerlac Room
2005 Donatella Della Porta (GRACE and European Union AD White House
              Institute)    
        "Europeanization from Below? Social Movements and    
        the European Union"    
             
April 11   4:30pm   Workshop on Transnational Contention   110 White Hall
2005       Jackie Smith (State University of New York at Stony    
             Brook, Visiting Scholar 2004-2005, Institute on )    
             Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster    
             University)    
        "Social Movements and Multilateralism: Moving from the    
        20th to the 21st Century"    
             
             
April 11   10:00am   Workshop on Transnational Contention   360 Uris Hall
2005       Donatella Della Porta (GRACE and European Union    
              Institute)    
        "Making the Polis: Social Forums and Democracy in the    
        Global Justice Movement"    
             
March 14   10:00am   Workshop on Transnational Contention   360 Uris Hall
2005       Graham Saul (Friends of the Earth Canada)    
         "Global NGO Federations: The Case of Friends of the    
        Earth Canada"    
             
February 28   10:00am   Workshop on Transnational Contention   360 Uris Hall
2005       Elizabeth Bernstein (International Campaign to Ban    
             Landmines)    
        "How the International Campaign to Ban Landmines    
        Achieved a Treaty:- ' a powerful force that establishes the    
        moral norm'-Banning Landmines"    
             
October 23   8:30am   Tri-Campus Workshop on Transnational Contention   Cornell University
2004           104 White Hall
             
             
October 18   12:15pm   IES Brown Bag Luncheon   Cornell University
2004       Jens Rydgren (University of Stockholm, Sociology)   153 Uris Hall
        "Is Radical Right-wing Populism Contagious? Explaining    
        the Emergence of a New Party Family in Western Europe    
             
October 15   12:00pm   "Triggering Protest in Rural China: Opportunities and   Cornell University
2004 Perceptions" 153 Uris Hall
        Kevin O'Brien, Professor of Political Science, University    
        of California, Berkeley    
             
May 7,8       Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political   Carlton University
2004       Economy   Ottawa (Canada)
        "Governance in the 21st Century: Coercion, Consent,    
         Contestation"    
        CALL FOR PAPERS! DEADLINE: JAN. 31, 2004
(click here for details)
   
             
May 5   4:30pm   Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series   Cornell University
2004       Mellon Sawyer Conclusions and Prospects   201 A.D. White House
        speakers: Davydd J. Greenwood, Goldwin Smith Professor    
           of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European    
           Studies at Cornell University    
       

              Dominic Boyer, Assistant Professor in the

   
        Department of Anthropology at Cornell University    
             
April 28   4:30pm   Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series   Cornell University
2004       "University Transformation in the Europe of Knowledge"   201 A.D. White House
        speaker: Tim May, Director, Centre for Sustainable Urban    
           and Regional Futures, University of Salford, U.K.    
April 24 9:00am Workshop on Nationalism, Secession and Inter-Ethnic Cornell University
2004       Cooperation and Conflict   104 White Hall
    9:00am-10:30am   Panel I:     
        Chair:  Matthew Evangelista, Department of Government, Cornell University    
       

Valerie Bunce, Department of Government, Cornell University. “Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict:  Explaining Variations in Regional Preferences.”

   
        David Laitin, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. “Insurgencies and Their Goals: Secession Versus Capture of the Center.”    
        Discussant:  Mark Beissinger, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin    
    10:45am-12:15pm  

Panel II: 

   
        Chair:  Philip Roeder, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego    
       

Gardner Bovingdon, Department of Central Eurasion Studies, Indiana University. "The force of example, the example of force: Kosovo, Chechnya, and China's Secessionist Threats."

   
       

Jason Lyall and Kevin Strompf, Department of Government, Cornell University.  “Military Cultures and Ethnic Separatism in Postcommunist Europe and Southeast Asia.”

   
       

Discussant:  Chip Gagnon, Department of Politics, Ithaca College.

   
    12:15-1:30pm   LUNCH:     
    1:30-3:00pm   Panel III:     
        Chair:  Mark Beissinger, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin.    
        Devashree Gupta and Karrie Koesel, Department of Government, Cornell University. “The Rise of the Extremist Right: A Geographically Bounded Explanation.”    
       

Alexander Sergounin, Department of Government, Cornell University and International Relations Department, Nizhnii Novgorod (Russian Federation).  “Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation.”

   
       

Discussant:  Philip Roeder, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

   
    3:15-5:15pm   Panel IV:     
        Chair:  Loren Ryter, Department of Government, Cornell University    
       

Erin Jenne, Central European University, Budapest. “Ethnic Bargaining Across Borders: A Comparison of Minority Demands in Kosovo and Vojvodina.”

   
       

Sydney Van Morgan, SUNY-Oswego. “Ethnic Corporatism in Wales, Galicia & Nigeria.”

   
        Steven Wilkinson, Department of Political Science, Duke University.    
April 21   4:30pm   Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series   Cornell University
2004       "The Babel of Europe?"   201 A.D. White House
        speaker: Philip Schlesinger, University of Stirling, Scotland    
April 14   4:30pm   Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series   Cornell University
2004       "Southerners May be Beautiful: French Media and the   201 A.D. White House
           Mediterranean"    
        speaker: Jean-Louis Fabiani, EHESS Paris    
             
April 9-11       Conference on Transnational Labor Contention   Cornell University
2004       Click here for complete program schedule   G-08 Uris Hall
         (click after speaker's name for paper  )    
    April 9   4:30pm-6:30pm   Contentious Politics and Labor Transnationalism    
        Chair: Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University    
        Giovanni Arrighi, Johns Hopkins University    
        Michael Hanagan, Vassar College (paper)    
    April 10   8:45am-10:45am   Labor with/against unions and INGO's    
        Chair: Harry Katz, Cornell University    
        Discussant: Margaret Levi, University of Washington    
        Peter Turnbull, Cardiff University (paper, figures)    
        Brian McWilliams, Former President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union    
        Antonina Gentile, Johns Hopkins University    
    10:45am-11:00am   coffee break    
    11:00am-1:00pm   Labor with/against capital and the state