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Events
Upcoming Guest Lectures
Jytte Klausen's POL 160, The War on Global Terrorism, will host two special guest speakers in November. Nasser Weddady (Nov 21) is spokesman for the American Islamic Congress, a human rights organization, and will give a talk entitled "American Muslims in the Global War Against Terrorism." Mitch Silber (Nov 30) is the director of intelligence at the NYPD and has a book coming out on "homegrown" al-Qaeda-aligned terrorism. His lecture is entitled "Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security." Both lectures are open to the public and will take place in Lown Auditorium, 002, at 3:30pm.
Proseminar
Revised Schedule - Fall 2011
Tim McCarty
"Toward a Political Theory of Taxation"
(practice job talk)
Olin Sang 207
Friday, October 14
Eugene Kogan
"Coercion, Inducements and Nuclear Proliferation: U.S.-South Korea, 1975-6"
(draft dissertation chapter)
Olin Sang 112
Friday, November 11
Jonathan Snow
"Signaling for Coercion in the 2006 War in Lebanon"
(draft dissertation chapter)
Olin Sang 207
Friday, November 18
Ofir Abu
"Between Repression and Mobilization: Explaining Local Variation in Arab-Jewish Violence in Contemporary Israel"
(draft dissertation chapter)
Olin Sang 112
Prof. Klausen: "After 'Londonistan': European Muslim Politics Today"
November 16, 2010
A Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Special Event
Harvard University
Blasphemy, Censorship, and Scholarship
‘The Cartoons That Shook the World’ Then Shook Academe
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Widespread rioting broke out in the Muslim world in 2006 in connection with publication of a page of editorial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. Brandeis political scientist Jytte Klausen’s new book, "The Cartoons that Shook the World," reveals the dark politics behind the riots, and Yale University Press’s removal of the cartoons from the book reveals serious differences over free speech in the academy.
Presenters included:
Jytte Klausen, Professor of Comparative Politics, author, specialist on Muslims and the West
Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Assistant Professor of Classical Islam
Eileen McNamara, Professor of the Practice of Journalism
Charles A. Radin, Director of Global Communications and Operations (moderator)