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RIGS Lunch Group

To propose a lunch group (or evening salon), please identify a contact person and send a list of interested faculty, graduate students, and proposed activities to mroesler@uci.edu.

Current lunch groups:

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
HIB 246
12:00-2:00 p.m.

Presentation by Prof. Horacio Legras (Spanish & Portuguese):
"Sovereignty and Recognition. The Global Form of Social Power and the De-Provincialization of the Subaltern"

Please contact cbenamou@uci.edu for an electronic copy of the paper.

May 15th
HIB137
Brief presentation by Professor Rodrigo Lazo on a pilot course for interdisciplinary teaching on the Americas and faculty discussion.
March 30: Ann Hironaka. Book Chapter from Tokens of Power.
April 6: Kristen Shrorette. "Integration into the World-Economy and Development Prospects for Peripheral States: A Global Comparative Analysis."
April 13: Jasmine Kerrissey and Evan Schofer. "Union Membership and Civic Life"
April 20: NO MEETING due to 2nd Year Paper Talks.
April 27: Prof. Wai Kit Choi, CSULA. "The Ethics of Recognition and Mass Mobilization: From Chinese Communist Guerrillas to Anti-WTO Korean Farmers"
May 4: Karen Robinson: "Discipline, Choice and the Educated Person."
May 11: Prof. Feng Wang. "Expanding Production, Shrinking Reproduction: Understanding the Global Birth Dearth"
May 18: Scott Byrd. "Claims, Aims, and Climate Change: Global Climate Justice Movement and the UNFCCC Negotiations"
May 25: No Meeting: Memorial Day.
June 1: Mike Landis. Title TBA and Stefan Malizi. Title TBA.
June 8: Prof. Matthew Mahutga, UC Riverside. "Production Networks and the Organization of the Global Economy."
More information available at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/icsw/.
Jan 29th, Feb 5th, Feb 26th, and March 19th
SSPB 5226
12:30 pm

Our first readings are from the most recent APSR and are:

"The Impartiality of International Judges: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights"
ERIK VOETEN
American Political Science Review , Volume 102, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 417-433

"Judicial Behavior under Political Constraints: Evidence from the European Court of Justice"
CLIFFORD J. CARRUBBA, MATTHEW GABEL and CHARLES HANKLA
American Political Science Review , Volume 102, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 435-452
  • International Environmental Cooperation (organizer: Josh Gellers)



 

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