Buffett Center Events | 2012-2013

Spring 2013

Ephesus: Ancient Metropolis, Modern Excavation Enterprise, Tourist Attraction
Sabine Ladstätter, Austrian Archaeological Institute
Wednesday, April 10 at 5pm | Harris 108

GlobeMed Summit » The Student Momentum: The Unique Position of Students as Agents of Change
keynote by Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace laureate
April 11-13 | Evanston

Political Power & Economic Power in Foreign Policy
Henry Bienen, president emeritus, Northwestern
Friday, April 12 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Global Engagement Summit
April 17-21 | Evanston

Legal Education in Ethiopia: Expansion; Challenges; Potential for Collaboration
Thomas Geraghty, Law
Friday, April 19 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Drivers of Turkish Growth Prospects
Erdem Başçı, Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
Monday, April 22 at 4pm | Guild Lounge

Migration Policy as if Development Mattered: What's Right, What's Possible?
Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development
Tuesday, April 23 at 6pm | Buffett Center

Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Thursday, April 25 at 12pm | Scott #212

Judiciary Rising: Multi-level Governance and Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom
Erin Delaney, Law
Friday, April 26 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Early Modern Slavery and the Assembling of Race Governance in Colonial Quito
Sherwin Bryant, African American Studies & History
Friday, May 3 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Technology for Conflict Prevention: Cyprus, Iraq, Libya, and Sudan
Helena Puig Larrauri, Standby Task Force
Tuesday, May 7 at 6pm | Buffett Center

Why Vietnam? Explaining the War
Fred Logevall, Cornell University
Thursday, May 9 at 4pm | University Hall #201

Global Media: A Vast Wasteland
James Schwoch, Communication
Friday, May 10 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Buffett Lecture » Internationalization of the Mind, Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Future of Higher Education
Jean-Marc Coicaud, Rutgers University
Monday, May 13 at 4pm | Guild Lounge

Livelihood Renewal: The Challenge of Rural Central America
Jose Trinidad Sanchez, Red Comal
Thursday, May 16 at 6pm | Buffett Center

"The Wisdom of the Peoples" - African Decolonization, Global Governance, and Cold War Constructions of Traditional Medicine
Helen Tilley, History
Friday, May 17 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Keyman Lecture » From Brussels to Shanghai: Turkey's Changing Global Ambitions
Soli Özel, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Tuesday, May 21 at 5pm | Harris 108

Conference » A Half-Decade of Crisis: Governing the Global Economy in the New Hard Times
keynote by Janice Eberly, Kellogg, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, US Department of the Treasury
Friday, May 24 | Harris 108

Measuring Development Effectiveness: Why is it so hard to get it right?
Jodi Nelson, Gates Foundation
Friday, May 24 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Buffett Center Year-End Celebration & Open House
Tuesday, May 28, 4pm-6pm | Buffett Center

No Place But Home: Karen Burmese Refugees and the Early Warming Signs of Repatriation
Jack Doppelt, Medill
Friday, May 31 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Winter 2013

Insincere Commitments: Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States and Citizen Activism
Heather Smith-Cannoy, Lewis & Clark College
Tuesday, January 15 at 5pm | Buffett Center

Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR) on Peacekeeping
January 17-20, 2013

Catherine II the Empress/ario: Winning a historical battle on the Operatic Stage
Inna Naroditskaya, Music
Friday, January 18 at 12pm | Buffett Center

The Buddhas of Mes Aynak
Brent Huffman, Medill
Friday, January 25 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Rich Farm Subsidies and the Poor
Daniel Sumner, University of California-Davis
Tuesday, February 5 at 6pm | Buffett Center

United We Act, Divided We Halt: The Effect of Policy Incongruence on Coalition Foreign Policy Behavior
Sibel Oktay, Buffett Center
Friday, February 8 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Crisis Mapping & Digital Humanitarians: How the New Information Age Is Reshaping Humanitarian Response
Jennifer Chan, Feinberg
Friday, February 15 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine Harden, author and journalist
Thursday, February 21 at 6pm | Buffett Center

The Iron Law of Oligarchy Online: Organizational Democracy in Peer Production Communities
Aaron Shaw, Communication
Friday, February 22 at 12pm | Buffett Center

What Happens to Law in a Refugee Camp?
Elizabeth Holzer, University of Connecticut
Monday, February 25 at 4pm | PAS Conference Room

How to Hide an Empire: The United States and its Overseas Territories, 1867-1946
Daniel Immerwahr, History
Friday, March 1 at 12pm | Buffett Center

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore
Wednesday, March 6 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Forty Rules of Love
Turkish musicians Sertab Erener and Demir Demirkan
Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm | McCormick Tribune Forum

The Puzzle of High Child Malnutrition Rates in South Asia
Seema Jayachandran, Economics
Friday, March 8 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Social Entrepreneurship: Gauging the Pulse of a New Development Concept for the 21st Century
Jerry Hildebrand, University of the Pacific
Tuesday, March 12 at 6pm | Buffett Center

A Rightful Share: The Politics of Distribution Beyond Gift and Market
James Ferguson, Stanford University
Monday, March 18 at 3pm | Harris 108

Fall 2012

Islam and the Arab Awakening: A Panel Discussion
Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University
Wednesday, September 12 at 12pm | Scott Hall, Ripton Room

Buffett Center Open House
Tuesday, October 2, 4pm to 6pm

Criminalization: A Comparative Study
Joshua Kleinfeld, Law
Friday, October 5 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Beyond 2015: Targeting Institutional Human Rights Violations
Thomas Pogge, Yale
Thursday, October 11 at 6pm | Scott Hall #212

October 12 Faculty & Fellows Colloquium is cancelled

Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) founder and president

Tuesday, October 16 at 6pm | Harris 107

The Peace of Westphalia, Immanuel Kant and the Historiography of Religion
Maria Birnbaum, Buffett Center
Friday, October 19 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks
Jenny White, Boston University
Tuesday, October 23 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Race Makers, Ethnolinguistic Experts, and Global Diversity in American Advertising
Shalini Shankar, Anthropology / Asian American Studies
Friday, October 26 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Violence, Law, and Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia
Jordan Gans-Morse, Political Science
Friday, November 2 at 12pm | Buffett Center

Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise
Martha Honey, director, Center for Responsible Travel
Thursday, November 8 at 6pm | Buffett Center

Sending the Bonapartes Home: A Case Study in Provenance and Cultural Restitution
Jason Nargis and Sara Stigberg, Library
Friday, November 9 at 12pm | Buffett Center

The Penalties for Piracy
Eugene Kontorovich, Law
Friday, November 16 at 12pm | Buffett Center