TCNJ’s Politics Forum
Unless otherwise noted, all talks are on Tuesdays or Fridays 12:30-1:30 pm.
The Politics Forum presents analytical and/or empirical research concerning political power, institutions, and choices. Students and faculty from diverse departments join to learn and comment on the presenter’s current research projects, which may be completed or just in beginning phases. Projects that cross disciplinary boundaries are particularly welcome. Contact Dr. Sarah Chartock with questions or if you are interested in presenting your work.
Spring 2023 Presentations
How Environmental Policy Can Promote Climate Resilience and Racial Justice with NJ Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette
March 24, 2023, 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in ED 113
Appointed by Governor Philip D. Murphy, Shawn M. LaTourette became New Jersey’s Commissioner of Environmental Protection on June 14, 2021. Since 2019, he has been responsible for running DEP’s operations while formulating policy and regulatory reforms to advance Governor Murphy’s environmental, climate change and clean energy priorities. Commissioner LaTourette has developed and led initiatives that prioritize environmental justice while facilitating greenhouse gas emissions reductions, climate change resilience and adaptation, renewable energy deployment, water infrastructure enhancement, brownfields redevelopment, community renewal, and natural resource conservation and restoration.
From K-Pop to K-Politics: A Tale of the Two Koreas, Politics, and International Relations with Dr. Hyun-Binn Cho, Assistant Professor, TCNJ Political Science
March 31, 2023, 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in SSB 223 and on Zoom
Fall 2022 Presentations
The Midterm Roundup with Professor Dan Bowen (TCNJ Political Science and Public Policy Program)
November 15, 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in ED 115 and on Zoom
Do you have questions about the 2022 election results? How will they impact important policy choices concerning abortion, voting rights, and the economy? What do they suggest for the 2024 elections? Dr. Bowen will offer an early assessment of election results. Take a break from cable news and bring your questions!
Is Justice Possible for the Atrocities in Ukraine? with Stephen J. Rapp, former U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes (2009-2015)
October 26, 2022, 10:30 am to noon in ED 115 and on Zoom
Former member of Congress and U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes Stephen J. Rapp has led teams prosecuting war crimes committed in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the countries of former Yugoslavia, and other countries violating human rights during war. Ambassador Rapp will discuss the potential of holding accountable those responsible for the barbarism in the Ukraine war.
From 2009 to 2015, Rapp was Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the US State Department. He was the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2009, where he led the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he headed the trial team that achieved the first convictions in history of leaders of the mass media for the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide.
Before becoming an international prosecutor, he was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa from 1993 to 2001. He received a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Drake University Law School.
Co-sponsored by TCNJ Department of Political Science Politics Forum, TCNJ International Studies Program, TCNJ Prelaw Program, and the Princeton-Trenton and Northern NJ chapters of the United Nations Association.
Celebrate Constitution Day with Politics Forum!
On Friday, September 16, at 12:30 pm, the Political Science Department’s Politics Forum is hosting this year’s Constitution Day Event entitled “Delving Into Dobbs: Understanding the End of Roe v. Wade”
Professors Tao Dumas (Political Science), Leigh-Anne Francis (AAS / WGSS), Jackie Cornell (WGSS), and Erin Ackerman (Library / Political Science) will analyze the 2022 Supreme Court decision Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization from their scholarly perspectives.
Location: Education Building, Room 113
When: Sep 16, 2022 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Politics Forum Constitution Day
Spring 2022 Presentations
Politics Forum hosts alma khasawnih, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies as she presents War: A Personal Story on April 29 at 12:30 pm on Zoom and in SSB 223.
In this talk, Dr. khasawnih disorients narratives of war away from hegemonic discourses that focus on national and international politics and economies. Through collective, familial, and personal histories, khasawnih reorients the discussion toward the lived experiences of those experiencing war as it shapes every aspect of life.
TCNJ Politics Forum and the International Studies Forum present Understanding the Russia-Ukraine Crisis on March 4, 2022 at 12:30 pm in Social Sciences Room 223 and on Zoom. TCNJ Political Science and International Studies faculty Dr. Nicholas Toloudis, Dr. Brian Potter, and Dr. Hyun-Binn Cho discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the political and international ramifications.
On March 8, 2022 at 12:30 pm via Zoom, Politics Forum hosts LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Ph.D. as she presents “White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19.”
There is a documented partisan divide in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with Republicans reporting lower rates of social distancing behavior relative to Democrats. Dr. Stephens-Dougan hypothesizes, however, that the partisan response to COVID-19 is driven in part by information about racial disparities in mortality rates from the disease. Previous research indicates that White Republicans are more likely to express negative attitudes about African Americans, whereas White Democrats are more likely to express positive attitudes about African Americans. Dr. Stephens-Dougan argues that this difference in racial attitudes between the two parties might affect the partisan response to a disease that disproportionately affects Black people. The results of two survey experiments, including a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of approximately 600 White Americans, indicate that strong and moderate White Republicans were less supportive of efforts to slow the spread of the pandemic when exposed to information about the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans. Conversely, White Americans who did not identify as strong and moderate Republicans in some instances became more supportive of efforts to slow the spread of the pandemic.
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, earned her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include racial attitudes, black politics and public opinion. Her book Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Time-Sharing in Experimental Social Sciences Research Grant, as well as grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Center for the Study of Public Policy in Diverse Societies.
Fall 2021 Presentations
On October 22, 2021 at 12:30 pm on Zoom, Dr. Yamil Velez, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, presents “The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment During WWII” (with Maya Sen and Mayya Komisarchik).
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well studied in the comparative context, but less is known about the effects of explicitly racist state activity in liberal democracies such as the United States. The authors investigate this question by looking at an important event in American history—the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. They find that Japanese Americans who were interned or had family who were interned are significantly less politically engaged and that these patterns of disengagement increase with internment length. Their findings contribute to a growing literature documenting the demobilizing effects of ethnically targeted detention and expand our understanding of these forces within the U.S.
Dr. Velez completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Stony Brook University and holds B.A.s in Political Science and Psychology from Florida State University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection between racial and ethnic politics, political psychology, and political geography, with a focus on immigration. Prior to coming to Columbia, he was an Assistant Professor at George Washington University and Wesleyan University.
On October 15, 2021 at 12:30 pm, Politics Forum hosts Tanu Kumar, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at William and Mary College, as she presents “Housing as welfare: how subsidized homes redistribute wealth and create local-level interest groups in urban India” on Zoom.
Urbanization is accompanied by the challenge of providing residents of growing cities, particularly the poor, with housing. How do large and widespread policy initiatives to do so affect citizens? Dr. Kumar studies a policy implemented in Mumbai, India, and finds that it makes beneficiaries substantially wealthier and better educated. At the same time, she finds that beneficiaries are more active than non-beneficiaries in local politics and have a vested interest in protecting the value of their housing. Dr. Kumar argues that housing, like many other better studied welfare programs, is a powerful redistributive tool that can also create active interest groups at the local level.
Tanu Kumar earned her PhD in political science at the University of California at Berkeley in 2020. Her scholarship focuses on urban politics and political behavior, mainly in India. She seeks to understand the effects of policies aimed at managing rapid urban growth with a particular concern with how policy shapes, and is shaped by, the behavior of citizens and local-level officials.. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at William and Mary College. She will begin a tenure track appointment in the Division of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University in fall 2022.
Celebrate Constitution Day with Politics Forum!
On Constitution Day, on September 17, 2021 at 12:30 pm, Andrew J. B. Fagal, Ph.D., Associate Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson and Craig Hollander, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the TCNJ History Department will present “’A Terror to Others’: Thomas Jefferson, the Constitution, and the Suppression of the Slave Trade Before 1808” on Zoom.
In 1787, the framers of the Constitution struck a bargain to prevent the new federal government from abolishing the transatlantic slave trade until 1808. However, in the two decades following the adoption of the Constitution, there were a number of attempts to limit American participation in the traffic. The Jefferson administration seemed especially willing to push the limits of the Constitutional ban in order to suppress the slave trade. But the administration’s legal and political actions backfired, triggering a massive resurgence of the slave trade to the United States.
Andrew J. B. Fagal is an associate editor with The Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University. He has served as an editor since 2014 and has participated in compiling volumes No. 42, onward. A political historian, he completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Craig Hollander graduated from Columbia University in 2004. He then received his Ph.D. in 19th-century U.S. history from The Johns Hopkins University in 2013. University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the TCNJ faculty, Professor Hollander was the Behrman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Princeton University. His dissertation, titled “Against a Sea of Troubles: Slave Trade Suppressionism During the Early Republic”, won both the 2014 C. Vann Woodward Prize from the Southern Historical Association and the 2014 SHEAR Dissertation Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Politics Forums presents Danielle A. Harms, Diplomat in Residence for NY Metro (NY, NJ & PA), U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Talent Management, as she discusses Careers, Internships, and Fellowships with the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday September 14, 2021 from 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm on Zoom.
The State Department seeks to recruit a highly-qualified and diverse workforce for a variety of positions within the United States and abroad. Students from a wide variety of majors can find an exciting fellowship or career helping people from the all over the world. Whatever your major, you may have an important role to fulfill with the U.S. State Department. Join us to learn more about opportunities with the U.S. Department of State.
Danielle Harms is the current Diplomat-in-Residence for the NY Metro (NJ. NY, PA) area. She joined the Foreign Service in March 2003 and is a public Diplomacy Foreign Service Generalist. Her domestic assignments include service as the Senior Advisor to the Office of Eastern European Affairs covering Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, the Senior Israel Desk Officer in the Office of Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, and the Public Diplomacy Desk Officer for 10 countries in central Europe. Ms. Harms is an honors graduate of both American University’s School of International Service and the Washington College of Law. Her language experience includes Swedish, Dari, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, French, and Finnish.
Opportunities include:
Positions
(see https://careers.state.gov/learn/what-we-do/opportunities-overview/)
Foreign Service Officer
Foreign Service Specialists (Administration, IT, Engineering, English language instruction, others)
Consular Fellows
Domestic Civil Service (HR, Legal, Administration, Management, Legal, others)
Fellowships
Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program
Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship (FAIT)
Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program
Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship
The Council of American Ambassadors Fellowship
Internships
Pathways Internship Programs
U.S. Department of State Student Internship Program
U.S. Foreign Service Internship Program
Spring 2021 Presentation
Politics Forum hosts Dr. Mona El-Ghobashy, Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU, as she discusses her new book Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation on March 12, 2021 at 12:30 pm on Zoom.
Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt’s 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos, military communiqués, open letters, constitutional contentions, protest slogans, parliamentary debates, and court decisions. Now a decade after the 2011 Arab uprisings, Mona El-Ghobashy rethinks how we study revolutions, looking past causes and consequences to train our sights on the collisions of revolutionary politics. She moves beyond the simple judgments that once celebrated Egypt’s revolution as an awe-inspiring irruption of people power or now label it a tragic failure.
Mona El-Ghobashy is a clinical assistant professor at New York University. She is a scholar of Egyptian politics whose research focuses on law and politics, varieties of protest, and limited elections in contemporary Egypt. Her work brings out the dynamics of political contestation before and after the 2011 uprising. Her teaching extends beyond Egypt to compare politics across authoritarian and democratic regimes, the politics of protest and social movements, and the interplay between political history and theory.
Fall 2020 Presentations
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? The Incremental Advancement of and Persistent Threats to Voting Rights in The United States with Dr. Tao Dumas, (Assistant Professor of Political Science, TCNJ)
Celebrate Constitution Day with the first Politics Forum of the Fall 2020 semester. Dr. Tao Dumas will present “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? The Incremental Advancement of and Persistent Threats to Voting Rights in The United States” on September 17, 2020 for the TCNJ Politics Forum.
If you missed the presentation, watch here:
Voting Links mentioned in the presentation and Q&A session:
TCNJ Votes: https://vote.tcnj.edu/
Register to vote in NJ: https://nj.gov/state/elections/voter-registration.shtml
How to vote in NJ: https://nj.gov/state/elections/vote-how-to.shtml
Volunteer as a poll worker: https://nj.gov/state/elections/pollworker.shtml
Spread the Vote: https://www.spreadthevote.org/
Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund: https://laldef.org/
“Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy” with Dr. Domingo Morel (Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark)
Co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department
Dr. Morel will discuss his new book, Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy (Oxford University Press), which examines the factors that contribute to state takeovers as well as the effects and political implications of takeovers on racialized communities, the communities most often affected by them.
Dr. Morel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. He is also an affiliate member of Global Urban Studies and the Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Newark. His research program and teaching portfolio focus on racial and ethnic politics, urban politics, education politics and public policy. Specifically, his research explores the ways state policies help expand or diminish political inequality among historically marginalized populations.
If you missed the presentation, watch here:
October 30 at 12:30 pm: Can Strategic Silence Inoculate Black Communities from Race-Based Disinformation? with Mutale Nkonde (CEO AI for the People)
Mutale Nkonde is the founder and CEO of AI For the People, a nonprofit communications firm who mission is to use art and culture to challenge tech neutrality narratives. Nkonde holds fellowships at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University and the Institute of Advanced Study at Notre Dame. She is a member of the TikTok Content Advisory Council, a key constituent 3C UN Roundtable for AI, and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
November 10 at 12:30 pm: “Making Sense of the 2020 Presidential Election” with Dr. Daniel Bowen (Associate Professor of Political Science at TCNJ)
November 17 at 12:30 pm: Education, Democracy, and Racial Justice During the COVID-19 Period with Dr. Jonathan Collins (Assistant Professor of Education, Brown University)
COVID-19 has brought about unique challenges for the politics of education. With the sudden emergence of the pandemic, American institutions have had to make major decisions around the opening and operation of schools and how to properly engage parents and stakeholders along the way. The pandemic also emerges during a time of immense racial tension. Dr. Collins will explore the extent to which democratic innovation helps us better understand the politics of education during such a unique moment. Using a series of original survey experiments, he finds evidence that exposing members of the public to school board decision-making processes that feature democratic innovation in the form of stakeholder participation and public deliberation increases trust in school boards as well as intentions of future participation. However, Dr. Collins also finds evidence that factors related to national politics and racial politics play an important role in how Americans are responding to key questions about education politics and policy during the COVID-19 period. The results, as a whole, speak to the importance of expanding democratic innovation, while schools around the US navigate such a difficult and uncertain time.
Previous Politics Forum presentations
The Department of Political Science Politics Forum hosts Dr. Jesse Crosson as he presents “Progress or Principle? Partisan Competition, Bill Sponsorship, and Position-Taking in Congress” on Friday, February 21, 2020 from 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in Social Sciences Building 223.
Dr. Jesse Crosson is a Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and Assistant Professor (on leave) at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. He earned his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science. His research deals with public policy and the institutional underpinnings of policy stability and policy change. His particular interests are in how legislative parties and electoral competition, interest group activity, and legislative professionalism influence how, when, and why public policy changes. Dr. Crosson will present “Progress or Principle? Partisan Competition, Bill Sponsorship, and Position-Taking in Congress.”
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The Department of Political Science Politics Forum hosts Dr. Jeffrey Selinger, Associate Professor of Government, Bowdoin College, as he presents “Who’s Afraid of Party Polarization?” on Friday, February 28, 2020 from 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in SSB 223.
Dr. Jeffrey Selinger is an Associate Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2008. He specializes in the study of American politics, with particular interests in American political development, political parties, public policy, and the presidency.
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The Economic, Social and Health Impacts of Pineapple Production in Costa Rica
Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 • 5:00 pm • Education Building 212
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Constitution Day Panel
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 10:00-10:50 am in Business Building 204
As part of The College’s celebration of Constitution Day, the Political Science Department is hosting a panel discussion about the constitutional system of separation of powers in modern American politics and various constitutional questions that have arisen during the Trump administration. Come hear the views of Professors Bowen, Dumas, and Garlick commenting on the health of the U.S. Constitution.
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“Sex and Superpower Rivalry: Women’s Rights and the Cold War Competition at the United Nations, 1968-1990”
Presented by Dr. Kristen Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania
Friday September 27, 2019, 12:30 pm in SSB 223
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“Drawing For Change: Promoting Human Rights With The Pen” presented by Liza Donnelly
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM in Education Building 115 United Nations Day
Best known for her work in The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly is a cartoonist and writer who uses humor to approach issues of social justice. She has worked on global women’s human rights and has a UN-sponsored project called “Cartooning for Peace” that brings together cartoonists from different countries (many without press freedoms) commenting on social and political issues. (lizadonnelly.com).
The event is free and open to the public. Visitor parking is available in Lots 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Co-sponsored by the School of Arts and Communication;the School of Humanities and Social Science, the Princeton-Trenton Chapter of the United Nations Association, and the departments of: Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Communication Studies; Journalism & Professional Writing; International Studies; and Political Science; and the WILL Program.
October 24 is United Nations Day! Find out more about your local chapter of the United Nations Association at unausa.org.
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“You’ll Never Walk Alone: School Crossing Guards and Labor Feminism in Postwar America”
Presented by Dr. Francis Ryan, Professor of History at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations
Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in SSB 223.
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W. Reed Gusciora, Esq: “Challenges of Urban Centers and the Role of Millennials to Make a Change”
The Department of Political Science presents W. Reed Gusciora, Esq, Mayor of Trenton and Department adjunct faculty member.
EVENT DETAILS:
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Library Auditorium
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
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Dr. Maureen Craig: “Beyond Majority-Minority: Presumed Alliances and Intergroup Relations in the 21st century”
The Department of Psychology presents Dr. Maureen Craig, Professor of Psychology at NYU. The Departments of Political Science and African American Studies are co-sponsoring this talk on her research, which examines how the salience of national demographic trends toward greater diversity may affect future intergroup dynamics and coalitions. To learn more about Dr. Craig’s work, please visit the following link: https://wp.nyu.edu/craiglab/.
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Dr. Brian Arbour: “How the Media Calls Elections”
The Department of Political Science presents a talk by Dr. Brian Arbour. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He also received a BA from Pomona College and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. His field of research is focused on political communication and campaign strategy in congressional elections. To learn more about Brian Arbour, please visit his website: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/brian-arbour.
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Dr. Jack Santucci: “What History Can Tell Us about Current Prospects for Ranked-Choice and Proportional Voting”
The Department of Political Science presents a talk by Dr. Jack Santucci, Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel University. His research on election reform has appeared in major subfield journals, earning coverage by the Washington Post, Portland Press-Herald, Amarillo Globe-News, and other outlets. To learn more about Dr. Santucci, please visit his website.
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RBG: Documentary Screening
The Department of Political Science, the Pre-Law Advisory Committee, and the Pre-Law Society are co-hosting a screening of RBG, the 2018 documentary film about the life and work of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Academy Award nominated documentary film chronicles Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s remarkable career that led to her current celebrity status as the “Notorious RBG.” The film not only explores Ginsburg’s role on the Court, but it also delves into her early career where she overcame numerous obstacles as a pioneering woman in the legal profession. The movie also reveals Ginsburg’s work as a gender equality advocate and her pathway to becoming the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court. There will be a modest reception, with food, after the film.
EVENT DETAILS:
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Library Auditorium
1:30 PM
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Dr. Alex Garlick: “How Lobbyists Set the Agenda in American State Legislatures”
The Department of Political Science presents a talk by Department faculty member Dr. Alex Garlick.
EVENT DETAILS:
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Social Sciences Building, Room 223
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
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Steve Sherwood: “Helping Andean Farmers Adapt to Climate Change.”
Steve was the Andes Regional Director at World Neighbors. He also has held positions at the International Potato Center (CIP) and the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD). He is the co-founder of a number of agroecology and grassroots development initiatives, including Ecuador’s Colectivo Agroecológico ( www.quericoes.org ) and Groundswell International ( www.groundswellinternational.org ).
EVENT DETAILS:
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Education Building, Room 115
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Steve Sherwood: “Movements in the Food Revolution”
Steve’s present academic work that addresses the rising of uncertainties associated with modernization in agriculture and food. Steve’s work examines people’s self-organized, self-harmful organization, mass pesticide poisoning, the erosion of seed systems and genetic diversity, overweight/obesity, as well as the proliferation of Non-Communicable Disease. Steve and his wife, Myriam Paredes, own Granja Urkuwayku, a family-run organic farm and CSA in Ecuador, where they are activists in a number of national and regional food movements.
EVENT DETAILS:
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Education Building, Room 115
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“When do Agents Deliver the Vote? A Vote-Popularity Function in Electoral Manipulation,” by Dr. Brandon Park (TCNJ Political Science).
October 9, 2018 12:30 in SSB 223
When will authoritarians or party leaders attempt to manipulate an election? Using a sample of over 400 elections, Dr. Park offers an explanation.
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November 6, 2018 12:30 in SSB 223: “The Lidice Massacre and Global Responses to Genocide”
by Dr. Cynthia Paces (TCNJ History).
Scholars have long discussed how national memory shapes identity. Dr. Cynthia Paces instead will develop a concept of “international memory,” asking why certain acts of violence resonate globally. Using the Lidice Massacre of WWII as a case study, Dr. Paces examines global response to genocide.
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Dr. Daniel Bowen’s Midterm Election Roundup (TCNJ Political Science).
November 13, 2018 12:30 in SSB 223
Election results can be mysterious. Come hear TCNJ’s elections expert Dr. Daniel Bowen explains the results..
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Dr. Alex Garlick (TCNJ) presents “Interest Group Lobbying and Agenda Setting in American Legislatures”
DATE- Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
TIME – 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm EST
VENUE- TCNJ Campus, Social Sciences Building 223
SPONSOR(S)- Politics Forum (Department of Political Science)
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Dr. Dan Bowen (TCNJ) presents “Losing Your Soul to Gain the Presidency? Evangelicals, Identity, and Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election”
DATE- Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
TIME – 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm EST
VENUE- TCNJ Campus, Social Sciences Building 223
SPONSOR(S)- Politics Forum (Department of Political Science)
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Alex Weisiger (TCNJ) presents “Neverending Wars? Getting to Peace in Regions of Violence”
DATE- Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
TIME – 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm EST
VENUE- TCNJ Campus, Social Sciences Building 223
SPONSOR(S)- Politics Forum (Department of Political Science)
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Tao Dumas (TCNJ) presents “If at First You Don’t Succeed: Linking trial verdicts, appeals, and reversals”
DATE- Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
TIME – 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm EST
VENUE- TCNJ Campus, Social Sciences Building 223
SPONSOR(S)- Politics Forum (Department of Political Science)
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Professor John Kastellec (Princeton University) presents “From Genteel Pluralism to Hyper-Pluralism: Interest Groups and Supreme Court Nominations, 1930-2017”
DATE – Friday, March 02, 2018
TIME – 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm EST
VENUE- TCNJ Campus, Social Sciences Building 223
SPONSOR(S)- Politics Forum (Department of Political Science)
DESCRIPTION
The last century witnessed a staggering rise in the number of interest groups active in American politics. While this fact is well known, there is no comprehensive study of the number of groups, the identity of groups, the timing of their births, their mobilization decisions, and their tactical choices, beginning before the transformation and continuing to the present day. Professor Kastellec and his collaborators use Supreme Court nominations to conduct precisely such an analysis. Analyzing new data on the 52 nominations from 1930 to 2017, they document a transformation from relatively genteel pluralism to street-fighting hyper-pluralism.
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“Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar”
November 3rd, 2017, SSB 223 @ 12:30
Neha Vora, Lafayette College, Associate Professor of Anthropology
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“The Cost of Doing Politics? Analyzing Violence and Harassment against Female Politicians”
October 27th, 2017, SSB 223 @ 12:30
Mona Krook, Rutgers University, Professor of Political Science and
“Fugitive Slave Escape on the Louisiana–Texas Borderlands, 1804–1806”
Mekala Audain, TCNJ, Assistant Professor of History
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Syrian Refugee Rights Lecture: “What is The Syrian Refugee Crisis?”
April 12, 2017
Education Building 115 from 5pm-7pm.
This event will be presented by: Professor Rech, Professor Lowi and Professor Borghes
This lecture is sponsored by : Amnesty International
Amnesty International _ Syrian Refugee Crisis Lecture flyer
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Darwin Day Lecture
“How Science in the Public School Classroom Is Under Attack (And Why It Matters)”
Presented by Dr. Donald Lovett, Department of Biology
1:30-2:30 p.m., Feb 8, 2017
Science Complex P-101
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“Global Warming: Seeing Through the Nonsense; Getting Beyond the Hopelessness.”
Tuesday January 31, 2017 at 12:30 in SSB 223
Michael Aucott (TCNJ Chemistry Department)
Slideshow of Professor Aucott’s talk
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“The Civil Property Rights Movement: Black Politics Reframed, Reconsidered”
Friday February 17 12:30-2:00, Education Building 115 .
Nathan Connolly (Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University).
Co-sponsored with the Departments of History and African-American Studies.
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“Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Desirable but is it Possible?”
Friday March 3 12:30-1:30 in the Library Auditorium.
Ambassador (Ret.) Daniel C Kurtzer (Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs).
Sponsored by The School of Humanities of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and International Studies Program.
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“Trump’s Populism: Lessons from Latin America.”
Tuesday, March 28th, 12:30 p.m., Library Auditorium.
Carlos de la Torre (International Studies at the University of Kentucky)
Co-sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium.
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“The Progressive Sustainability in the Proceeds : The Introduction of American Agronomy and Cooking in Philippines Public Schools, 1902-1920.”
Friday April 7 12:30-1:50, Education Building 115.
René Alexander Orquiza (Department of History, Providence College).
Co-sponsored with the Department of History.