Programming Schedule

U.S. Militarization

Friday, February 15, 2019

Keynote Lecture
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Speaker: Rosa Brooks
4:30–6 p.m. | Norman C. Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center

Cosponsored by the Law and Society Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics

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International Law & Constitutional Dimensions

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Public Lecture
Is the International Legal Order at Risk?
Speaker: Scott Shapiro
4:30–6 p.m. | Norman C. Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center

Cosponsored by the Law and Society Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics

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Militarizing the Middle East & South Asia

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Lecture and Book Signing
Trump, the Iran deal and the Risk of War
Speaker: Trita Parsi
4:30–6:30 p.m. | Norman C. Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center

 Lecture followed by book signing of Trita Parsi’s Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy

Cosponsored by the MENA Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics

Friday, March 1, 2019

Lunch Talk
US-Pakistan Alignment: Building Organizational Strength on Strategic Loss
Speaker: Ayesha Siddiqa
Noon–1:30 p.m. | King Building Room 106

 Lunch will be provided

Cosponsored by the MENA Program, the Department of Economics, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics

Public Lecture
The Generals: Shifting the Lanes in U.S. Foreign Policy Making
Speaker: Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
7:30–9 p.m. | Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall

Cosponsored by the MENA Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics

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Militarizing East Asia

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Panel
Militarization and Demilitarization on the Korean Peninsula
Speaker: Kathleen Stephens

Martial Rhetoric, Martial Practices, and Martial Landscapes in the People's Republic of China
Speaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power
Speaker: Sheila A. Smith

4:30–6 p.m. | Norman C. Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center

Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics

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Militarizing Latin America

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Panel
Militarization and its Consequences Latin America
Speaker: Francine Jácome

The Role of Gangs and Repressive Security Policies in Forced Migration
Speaker: Sonja Wolf

A Chinese Garden in America’s Backyard? Latin America Amidst the Stirrings of a New Cold War
Speaker: Ambassador Jorge Heine

4:30–6 p.m. | Norman C. Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center

Cosponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Politics