The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies sponsors and facilitates collaborative interdisciplinary scholarship on crucial problems facing the world. Our activities promote dialogue on international affairs enriching the educational program at Northwestern. Working with a variety of organizations and communities we contribute to preparing exemplary global citizens.
Human Rights Talks » “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor
Geoffrey Robinson, University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 10 at 4pm - Buffett Center Conference Rm.
Faculty & Fellows Colloquium » Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment in India
Lori Beaman, Economics
Friday, February 12 at 12pm - Buffett Center Conference Rm.
Haiti in Need: A Reporter’s Perspective on the Earthquake and its Aftermath
Peter Slevin, Washington Post
Tuesday, February 16 at 7pm - Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St., Evanston
Faculty & Fellows Colloquium » The Sociology of Nationalism: A View From the Ottoman Balkans
Dean Kostantaras, History
Friday, February 19 at 12pm - Buffett Center Conference Rm.
Cancelled
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies » Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local
Caglar Keyder, SUNY-Binghamton & Bogazici University, Istanbul
Mughal Gazetteers, Central Asian Observatories, French Maps, British Instruments: The Emergence of Cartography in South Asia and Britain, 1760-1830
Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Wednesday, February 24 at 3pm - Buffett Center Conference Rm.
Stage Fright: Musical Contests and Religious Differences in Turkey (1923-1938)
John O'Connell, Cardiff University
Thursday, February 25 at 4pm – Music Building #109, 711 Elgin Rd., Evanston
co-sponsored with the Musicology Colloquium
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Featured Spring Speakers
Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
John L. Esposito, editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam and The Oxford History of Islam and author of Unholy War, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam.
Roxana Saberi, Iranian-American journalist and Medill alumna, who was imprisoned in Iran in 2009.
Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in economics and specialist in development.
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Ambassador Richard S. Williamson to Give Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture
As the 20th Century came to a close, mass atrocities and ethnic killing seemed to take place at a quickening pace. The Cambodian Killing Fields. Rwanda. Bosnia. Kosovo. Now Congo and Darfur. How should America act? What is our “responsibility to protect”? And how can America act with the international community to give meaning to the pledge: Never Again?
Ambassador Richard S. Williamson, Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies, will deliver the lecture “In The Face Of Mass Murder and Atrocities: What should America Do?” on Tuesday, March 9, at 4pm, in the Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Pl., Evanston, Illinois.
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Working Group co-directors Jonathan Caverley
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New Security Studies Working Group Focusing on Causes, Conduct and Consequences of Violent Conflict
The Buffett Center has launched a new Working Group on Security Studies that seeks to build an interdisciplinary community, at Northwestern and beyond, interested in research on the causes, conduct and consequences of violent conflict—be it civil war, terrorism or interstate competition. Research on the security consequences of international institutions, climate change, religious fundamentalism, and competition for energy is also most welcome.
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