Buffett Center Events

Spring 2012

Delivering Development: Globalization’s Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future
Edward Carr, University of South Carolina
Thursday, April 5 at 6pm | Buffett Center

Betwixt and Between: Transnationalism, Interracialism, and Mexican American Activists in Postwar Chicago
Mike Amezcua, Latino Studies
Friday, April 6 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Turkey after the Cold War
Bulent Gultekin, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, April 10 at 6pm | Harris 108

Qatar and the Gulf in the wake of the Arab Spring
Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv Univesity
Thursday, April 12 at 4pm | Buffett Center

Republicanism Without Borders: The United States and Spanish America in a Revolutionary Age, 1810-1830
Caitlin Fitz, History
Friday, April 13 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Giving Directly: A Radical New Way to Help the Poor in Africa
Paul Niehaus, UC San Diego / GiveDirectly.org
Monday, April 16 at 6pm | Buffett Center

“Wandering on the peripheries”: The Turkish novelistic hero as “Beautiful Soul”
Meltem Gurle, Bogazici University
Wednesday, April 18 at 6pm | Buffett Center

Heaven and Earth: A Journey Through Shari‘a Law
Sadakat Kadri, lawyer and journalist
Wednesday, April 25 at 6pm | Buffett Center

New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies Symposium 2
April 26-27 | Harris 108

Ghana's Democracy and Economic Development
Samia Nkrumah, chairperson, Ghana's Convention People's Party
Thursday, April 26 at 6pm | Hotel Orrington

Traitors, Dreamers and Statesmen: Military Rebellions and the Shaping of the Post-Revolutionary Mexican State, 1920-1929
Sarah Osten, LACS
Friday, Apr 27 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Comparatism as Radical Philology: Reflections from within Modern Turkish Literature
Nergis Ertürk, Pennsylvania State University
Friday, April 27 at 2pm | Crowe 1-135

The Middle East and North Africa at a Crossroads: Religion, Revolution and Reform
Marwan Muasher, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / former Foreign Minister of Jordan
Sunday, April 29 at 5pm | McCormick Tribune Forum

Monumentality, Monstrosity, and Counter-Memory: A Case Study from Turkey
Meltem Ahiska, Keyman Visiting Scholar
Thursday, May 3 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Representation and the Gender Balance of Parliament
Georgia Kernell, Political Science
Friday, May 4 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Careers in International Development
Barrett Prinz, One Acre Fund
Tuesday, May 8 at 6pm | Buffett Center

CGE Film Screening » Opening Our Eyes: Global Stories About the Power of One
Wednesday, May 9 at 6pm | Library Forum Room

Conference on The Apex of Influence—How Summit Meetings Build Multilateral Cooperation
May 10-11, 2012 | Wieboldt Hall 147 (Chicago)
[registration is required]

Two Skirts: Same-Sex Murder and the Law in 1930s China
Peter Carroll, History
Friday, May 11 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front
Myriam Denov, McGill University
Tuesday, May 15 at 6pm | Buffett Center

GiveWell: Real Change for your Dollar
Elie Hassenfeld, co-founder of Givewell.org
Thursday, May 17 at 6pm | Buffett Center

Turkish “Young Cinema” of late 1960's in the context of Third Cinema
Zeynep Cetin Erus, Radio/Television/Film
Friday, May 18 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Buffett Lecture » “A Leading Muslim of Aden”: Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks and the Construction of Community in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire
Scott Reese, Northern Arizona University
Monday, May 21 at 5pm | Harris 108

Formations of Literature in Turkey: From Ottoman Origins to Global Emergence
Firat Oruc, Comparative Literary Studies
Tuesday, May 22 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Buffett Center Year-End Celebration and Open House
Wednesday, May 23, 4pm-6pm | Buffett Center

Terrorism and the Law of Nations
Juliet Sorensen, Law
Friday, May 25 at 12pm | Buffett Center

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