Thursday Lunch Seminars

 

 

 

On Thursday, May 9, Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a Member in the School, will give a presentation on "Securitizing Human Rights:  Lawfare and the Assault on Rights Work in Israel/Palestine."

The following week, Sara Farris of the University of Cambridge, also a Member, will give a presentation on "Femonationalism and the Regular Army of Labor Called Migrant Women."

 


 

The Luncheon Seminar meets each week on Thursdays from 12 Noon-2:00 p.m.  We assemble at Noon in the Dilworth Room after going through the lunch line.  The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m., with the discussion ending promptly at 2:00 p.m.  Attendees, as in the past, include the Faculty, Members, Visitors and Research Assistants of the School of Social Science, those Members of the School of Historical Studies with related interests, and colleagues from the wider academic community.  If there are any questions regarding the Seminar, please contact Donne Petito at 609.734.8250 or donne@ias.edu. We look forward to seeing you. 


Seminar Schedule

2012-2013

October 4 Jessica Goldberg       February 7 Caroline Thomas
Re-considering Risk and the 'Maghribī Traders': Agency Relations, Contract Enforcement, and the Economy of the Eleventh-century Islamic Mediterranean       Authority and Free Speech
October 11 Jens Großer       February 14 Jens Meierhenrich
The Curse of Uninformed Voting: An Experimental Study       The Presentation of Law in Everyday Life
October 18 Karin Knorr Cetina       February 21 Alev Çınar
The Largest Financial Market: Architecture and Sociology       Locating Political Theory: Globalized Intellectual Traditions Merge with Islamic Thought in Turkey
October 25 Ruben Enikolopov       February 28 David Eng
Cross-border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia       Reparations and the Human
          March 7 Patchen Markell
          The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt
November 8 Laurence Ralph       March 14 Deva Woodly
The Injury of Nostalgia or, The Stories a Gang Tells About Itself       A Tale of Two Movements: How Changing Discourse Changed Politics on Marriage Equality and the Living Wage 
November 15 Randall Curren       March 21 Everett Zhang
Education, Justice and Well-being       The "Great Savior" was Dead: The Beginning of the Change in the Structures of Feeling in China
November 29 Moon-Kie Jung       April 4 Michael Ralph
The Racial Constitution of the U.S. Empire-State       The Question of Liability: Debt, Force, and Accountability in Senegal
December 6 Alexander Hirsch       April 11 Marco Battaglini
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship       Cheap Talk with Multiple Audiences: an Experimental Analysis
December 13 Didier Fassin       April 18 Vincent Dubois
The Moral World of Law Enforcement       A Coercive Turn in French Welfare? The Paradox of Legal Rigor in Anti-Fraud Policy
January 17 V. Bhaskar       April 25 John M. de Figueiredo
The Demographic Transition and the Position of Women:
A Marriage Market Perspective
      Government Careers and Human Capital:  Preliminary Findings from Public Sector Personnel Records
January 24 Eric Chaney       May 2 Nicola Perugini
The Long Term Effects of Exploitation and Ethnic Cleansing: Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos       Settler appropriations in Palestine/Israel
January 31 Lucas Bessire       May 9 Neve Gordon
Towards an Anthropology of Actually Existing Alterity in the Gran Chaco       Securitizing Human Rights:  Lawfare and the Assault on Rights Work in Israel/Palestine
          May 16 Sara Farris
        Femonationalism and the Regular Army of Labor Called Migrant Women

Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included on this site. Please refer to the descriptions above for exact topic of talk.