News and Events for Summer 2009

• Dr. Harvey Klehr
  "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America"
  Public Event: presentation and book signing.
  
  Location: Barnes and Noble (Buckhead Location, 2900 Peachtree Rd.)
  Time: Thursday, June 25, 2009 (7:00pm- 9:00pm)




• Dr. Moshe Haspel
  Database Workshop
  Political Science Faculty & Graduate Students (first preference those who are affiliated with OUCP)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall, Room 120A
  Time: June 15-19, 2009 (9:30am- 11:00pm)




• Dr. Tom Clark
  "Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space"
  - a NSF Proposal
  Brown Bag Event
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall, Room 206 (Sociology Conference Room)
  Time: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 (2:00pm- 3:30pm)

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News and Events for Spring 2009

• Dr. Bernard Finel
  "Measuring Progress in the Struggle Against al Qaeda
  and Affiliated Groups"
  College Wide Event (Open to the Emory Community)
  
  Location: White Hall, Room 102
  Time: February 10, 2009 (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)




• Dr. Tod Lindberg
  "A Republic If We Can Keep It. "
  College Wide Event (Open to the Emory Community)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall, Room 106
  Time: Friday, February 20, 2009 (2:00-3:00pm)




• Dr. Tom Schneider
  "Self-Government Rightly Understood: Lincoln's Lyceum Speech"
  Brown Bag Event (Open to Political Science Faculty and Graduate Students)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall, Room 120A
  Time: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (11:30am- 1:00pm)




• Dr. Drew Linzer
  "The Left-Right Ideological Spectrum in Global Mass Opinion"
  Brown Bag Event (Open to Political Science Faculty and Graduate Students)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall, Room 120A
  Time: March 5, 2009 (11:30am- 1:00pm)




• Dr. Peter J. Ahrensdorf (Davidson College)
  With comments by Dr. Susan Collins (University of Houston)
  Topic: "Homer and the Foundation of Classical Political Philosophy."
  College Wide Event (All members of the Emory community are invited to attend)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall Room 321
  Time: Monday, March 16, 2009 (12:00pm - 1:30 pm)




• Dr. Michael Horowitz (University of Pennsylvania)
  Topic: "The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Conflict"
  Brown Bag Event (Open to Political Science Faculty and Graduate Students)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall Room 120A
  Time: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (11:30am - 1:00 pm)




• Dr. Jonathan Brent (Editorial Director Yale University Press)
  Topic: "Who was Joseph Stalin?
  Relvations from His Private Archive"
  Co-Sponsored by Political Science, Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments.
  Location: White Hall Room 102
  Time: Thursday, March 26, 2009 (4:00pm)




• Dr. Harvey Klehr
  Topic: "Uncovering Soviet Spies."
  Brown Bag Event (Open to Political Science Faculty and Graduate Students)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall Room 120A
  Time: Thursday, April 2, 2009 (11:30am)




• Dr. Darren Schreiber (University of California at San Diego)
  Topic: This is Your Brain on Politics
  Brown Bag Event (Open to Political Science Faculty and Graduate Students)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall Room 120A
  Time: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 (11:30am - 1:00 pm)
  
  Abstract: In political science, we have long had low levels of explanatory power with conventional models. Accounting for just a quarter of the variance is usually a tremendous accomplishment and often requires many independent variables and sophisticated statistical techniques. Two dogmas of the discipline, the behaviorist approach and rational choice theory, preclude biological explanations. In this talk, however, I will review a variety of results that show how some of the central phenomena of interest in the field can be accounted for using work based in genetics and neuroscience. I'll discuss work on race, political sophistication, voter turnout, and partisanship. And, I will show how we can use fMRI to predict your political party affiliation with shocking accuracy.




• Dr. Jason Reifler (Georgia State)
  Topic: "Opening the Partisan Mind? The effect of self-affirmation on political learning"
  Brown Bag Event (Open to Political Science Faculty and Graduate Students)
  
  Location: Tarbutton Hall, Room 120A
  Time: Thursday, April 16, 2009 (11:30am)




• Film: "Case for Israel: Democracy's Outpost"
  Question and Answer session being moderated by Doron Shultziner
  (Open to the entire Emory Community: Presented by Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America & Co-Sponsored by the Political Science Department)
  
  Location: White Hall 206
  Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 (7:30pm)




• Dr. Cynthia Enloe (Research Professor of International Development at Clark University)
  Co-Sponsored by the Department of Political Science
  
  Topic: "Can Feminist Interventions Re-Engerize Development Studies"
  
  Location: Jones Room at the Woodruff Library
  Time: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 (2:00-3:30 pm)