Brandeis Politics Events, News, and Seminars
2007-2008
Three New Faculty Join the Department
Kerry Chase
Professor Chase holds a PhD in political science from UCLA. He specializes in international political economy. His first book was on Trading Blocs: States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy (Michigan, 2005). He is currently preparing a book on Theater of Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and Competition in the Global Entertainment Industry. Professor Chase won the 2003 Undergraduate Initiative in Teaching award at Tufts for “excellence in teaching and advising.” He will teach courses on the international political economy, international trade, and globalization. He will be teaching in the IGS program as well as the Politics Department.
Jill Greenlee
Professor Greenlee holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was on The Political Dynamics of Parenthood. Professor Greenlee was recognized as an “Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor” at Berkeley, where she took over responsibility for teaching the Political Science Department’s introductory course in American Politics. She will be teaching courses on women in politics, on research methods, and political psychology, as well as our Introduction to American Politics.
Mingus Mapps
Professor Mapps holds the PhD in political science from Cornell University, where he wrote a dissertation on reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. His current research focuses on The Politics of State Legislative Elections and issues of race, redistricting, and minority representation. Professor Mapps will teach courses in Politics and AAAS on urban politics, and race in American politics. Both his Politics courses and his AAAS courses count toward the Politics major, in the American politics subfield.
2006-2007
Research Circle on Cultural Pluralism and Democracy and The Department of Politics present
Baroness Falkner of Margravine
"A View From the House of Lords:
A Liberal Democrat Comments on Multiculturalism"
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
4:30 p.m.
Olin Sang 201
Kishwer Falkner was appointed as the first Muslim woman to the House of Lords in 2004. In the Lords, she has served on the Joint Committee on Human Rights; the European Union Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and International Development; and on the Joint Committee on the Legal Services Bill. In 2005, she was appointed to the Prime Minister's Taskforce on Tackling Muslim Extremism. She has served as Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Home Affairs and is Spokesman on Communities and Local Government. In September 2006, Kishwer was awarded a Fellowship at Harvard University's Institute of Politics (John F. Kennedy School of Government), where she has concentrated on US Foreign Policy and Democracy in the Islamic world.
Light refreshments provided.
Research Circle on Cultural Pluralism and Democracy and The Department of Politics present
Deborah Schildkraut
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
"Identity choices and perceptions of discrimination: How "becoming American" affects trust and obligation"
February 1, 2007
4:30 p.m.
Olin Sang 207
Prof. Schildkraut received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author of Press 'One' for English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2005). She has published articles in Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics.
Light refreshments provided.
Gordon Center for Public Policy presents
Seminar: "No Child Left Behind: Bush's Centrist Policymaking"
November 1, 2006
Rick Hess, American Enterprise Institute (for Liberal Democracy and the Politics of Policy-Making).
The Department of Politics, The Research Circle on Democracy and Cultural Pluralism & History of Ideas Program invite you to the third Joshua Greenberg '92 Memorial Lecture.
Jeremy Waldron
University Professor, NYU School of Law
"Law, Culture, and Basic Equality"
October 4, 2006
4:00 p.m.
Levin Ross 1 & 2
Professor Waldron is the author of God, Locke and Equality (2002), Law and Disagreement (1999) and several other books, as well as numerous law review articles and essays, including One Law for All? The Logic of Cultural Accommodation [2002]. Before moving to NYU, he was University Professor at Columbia University. Light refreshments.
Gordon Center for Public Policy presents
Seminar: "Hurricane Katrina:
Breaking Down Federal-State Relations in Disaster Planning"
September 29, 2006
Kristina Ford, Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Kerry Fosher, Master Exercise Planner, Department of Homeland Security; Emergency Coordinator, Research Associate, Dartmouth Medical School, and Capt. Bernard Mullin, Chief, Waltham Fire Department, Director of Emergency Management, Waltham.
2005 - 2006
The Research Circle on Cultural Pluralism and Democracy and The Department of Politics Presents a Florence Levy Kay Fellow, Brandeis University Department of Politics & AAAS
Mingus Mapps
"The New Politics of Welfare:
How Welfare Reform Changed Public Opinion on Poverty Programs and the Poor"
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
12:00 p.m.
Olin Sang 207
Dr. Mapps received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Department of Government in 2004. He is on leave from Bowdoin College, Department of Government and Legal Studies and the Africana Studies Program. Light refreshments provided.
First in the Brandeis Meet the Author series
Meet the Author: Jytte Klausen
Author and Brandeis Associate Professor of Politics
The Challenge of Islam: Politics and Religion in Western Europe
January 24, 2006
Born of extraordinary access and unusual cooperation, The Islamic Challenge created a stir in governmental organizations in the United States and abroad. In the course of her research, Klausen spoke to more than 300 of Europe's leading Muslims.
Klausen will talk about her controversial research findings and sign copies of her book at 4:00pm in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium. The event is free and open to the public.
Current Meet the Author Series
The Research Circle on Cultural Pluralism and Democracy and The Department of Politics Presents Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Martha Minow
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
"Schooling Difference: Accommodations for Minorities in American Schools"
January 24, 2006
For more information, see the Research Circle web page.
Seminar: "Off Center:
The Republican Revolution and the Bush Administration's Tax Cuts"
December 12, 2005
Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley (for Liberal Democracy and the Politics of Policy-Making).
Seminar:
December 5, 2005
Herman Schwartz, Politics Department, University of Virginia. Author of States vs. Markets: Globalization and the International Economy. Palgrave, 2000
Seminar:
November 21, 2005
Vivien A. Schmidt, Department of International Relations, Boston University. Author of The Futures of European Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2002.
