Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall
Dr. Burton leads a workshop on opportunities including the State Department and foreign service, as well as other human rights-related activities and organizations.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Session: Human Rights, Global Citizenship, and the Workplace
Time: Wed, December 4, 3pm – 4pm
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall
Political Theory Colloquium: "Tocqueville for a Terrible Age"
Time: Tue, December 10, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1101 Morrill Hall
Link: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/event/gvpt-political-theory
Location: 1101 Morrill Hall
Link: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/event/gvpt-political-theory
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The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Time: Thu, December 5, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forum-world-through-arab-eyes-arab-public-opinion-and-reshaping-middle-east
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.
Professor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena. He has served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, which was mandated by the Wye River Agreements and has served as an advisor to the United States Department of State. He also served on the Iraq Study Group as a member of the Strategic Environment Working Group. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He has served on the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, which was appointed by the Department of State at the request of Congress, and he co-drafted the report of their findings, Changing Minds, Winning Peace. He has also co-drafted several Council on Foreign Relations reports on US public diplomacy, on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and on Persian Gulf security.
His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. His other publications include Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990); International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict, ed. with Milton Esman (1995); Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, ed. with Michael Barnett (2002), The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008, ed. (2010), The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011, co-authored with Dan Kurtzer, et al. (2012), The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East (2013) and numerous articles on international politics and Middle Eastern affairs. He has been a principal investigator in the annual Arab Public Opinion Survey, conducted since 2002 in six Arab countries.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Education for Employment Foundation, several academic advisory boards, and has served on the board of Human Rights Watch (and as Chair of Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East). He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Professor Telhami was given the Distinguished International Service Award by the University of Maryland in 2002 and the Excellence in Public Service Award by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents in 2006.
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forum-world-through-arab-eyes-arab-public-opinion-and-reshaping-middle-east
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.
Professor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena. He has served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, which was mandated by the Wye River Agreements and has served as an advisor to the United States Department of State. He also served on the Iraq Study Group as a member of the Strategic Environment Working Group. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He has served on the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, which was appointed by the Department of State at the request of Congress, and he co-drafted the report of their findings, Changing Minds, Winning Peace. He has also co-drafted several Council on Foreign Relations reports on US public diplomacy, on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and on Persian Gulf security.
His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. His other publications include Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990); International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict, ed. with Milton Esman (1995); Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, ed. with Michael Barnett (2002), The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008, ed. (2010), The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011, co-authored with Dan Kurtzer, et al. (2012), The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East (2013) and numerous articles on international politics and Middle Eastern affairs. He has been a principal investigator in the annual Arab Public Opinion Survey, conducted since 2002 in six Arab countries.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Education for Employment Foundation, several academic advisory boards, and has served on the board of Human Rights Watch (and as Chair of Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East). He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Professor Telhami was given the Distinguished International Service Award by the University of Maryland in 2002 and the Excellence in Public Service Award by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents in 2006.
Confronting Suburban Poverty in America
Time: Tue, December 3, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institute presents on Confronting Suburban Poverty in America.
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institute presents on Confronting Suburban Poverty in America.
Women's Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health: What Do We Know? What Can We Know?
Time: Mon, December 2, 12pm – 1pm
Location: 0124B Cole Student Activities Building
Link: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/new_e/event_1371836497186
About the Talk
This paper addresses some of the key issues that the UN post-2015 development agenda is looking at, as well as takes an independent long-term perspective on the reproductive health implications of the trend in rising levels of women's participation in the labor force globally. As more and more women become economically active we need to think about the ways in which this economic activity can be called economic 'empowerment' and the possibilities that such empowerment hold for changes in other aspects of their lives, their reproductive health status in particular. The matter is not as simple as we would like largely because both 'empowerment' and 'reproductive health' are catchall terms for a variety of things, not all of which might move in the same direction. This report thus tries to unpack terms like empowerment, economic empowerment, and reproductive health philosophically (only briefly), semantically and into their component parts and develops a conceptual and empirical framework to think about the potential interrelationships between these different aspects of economic empowerment and of reproductive health.
Location: 0124B Cole Student Activities Building
Link: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/new_e/event_1371836497186
About the Talk
This paper addresses some of the key issues that the UN post-2015 development agenda is looking at, as well as takes an independent long-term perspective on the reproductive health implications of the trend in rising levels of women's participation in the labor force globally. As more and more women become economically active we need to think about the ways in which this economic activity can be called economic 'empowerment' and the possibilities that such empowerment hold for changes in other aspects of their lives, their reproductive health status in particular. The matter is not as simple as we would like largely because both 'empowerment' and 'reproductive health' are catchall terms for a variety of things, not all of which might move in the same direction. This report thus tries to unpack terms like empowerment, economic empowerment, and reproductive health philosophically (only briefly), semantically and into their component parts and develops a conceptual and empirical framework to think about the potential interrelationships between these different aspects of economic empowerment and of reproductive health.
About the Speaker
Alaka Basu is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation in Washington DC, on leave from Cornell University, where she is a Professor of Development Sociology. She is a social demographer and has published widely in the areas of reproductive health and family planning, gender and development, child health and mortality, and the context and politics of population policy. She has served on the governing boards of the Population Association of America (PAA), the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the Population Council in New York.
She was also the chair of the IUSSP Scientific Committee on Anthropological Demography and a member of the Committees on Reproductive Health and on Population Projections of the National Research Council at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She also served for six years as the Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University. She has also taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi and at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Visit Professor Basu's webpage
Alaka Basu is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation in Washington DC, on leave from Cornell University, where she is a Professor of Development Sociology. She is a social demographer and has published widely in the areas of reproductive health and family planning, gender and development, child health and mortality, and the context and politics of population policy. She has served on the governing boards of the Population Association of America (PAA), the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the Population Council in New York.
She was also the chair of the IUSSP Scientific Committee on Anthropological Demography and a member of the Committees on Reproductive Health and on Population Projections of the National Research Council at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She also served for six years as the Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University. She has also taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi and at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Visit Professor Basu's webpage
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
NIH Panel: Employer Networking Sessions
Time: Thur, November 21, 2013,12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: 3100 Hornbake Library - University Career Center & The President's Promise
RSVP!
The National Institutes of Health will be at the University of Maryland to talk to students about various administrative and scientific student and recent graduate opportunities. You will get to hear from current student interns/recent graduates, scientists and administrative staff who currently work at the NIH. In addition, you will get to network with them after the panel session. Bring your questions and come ready to learn about all the employment/research opportunities that the National Institutes of Health has to offer you.
Appropriate Attire:
Minimum attire for ALL sessions with employers present is business casual unless otherwise specified.
RSVP for this event: Click here
Location: 3100 Hornbake Library - University Career Center & The President's Promise
RSVP!
The National Institutes of Health will be at the University of Maryland to talk to students about various administrative and scientific student and recent graduate opportunities. You will get to hear from current student interns/recent graduates, scientists and administrative staff who currently work at the NIH. In addition, you will get to network with them after the panel session. Bring your questions and come ready to learn about all the employment/research opportunities that the National Institutes of Health has to offer you.
Appropriate Attire:
Minimum attire for ALL sessions with employers present is business casual unless otherwise specified.
RSVP for this event: Click here
The Palestinian Issue - Is it the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Time: Mon, November 25, 7pm
Location: 1120 Susquehanna
Location: 1120 Susquehanna
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Screening! Into Poverty: Living on One
Time: Mon, November 25, 7pm – 9pm
Location: Stamp Student Union, Prince George's Room
Location: Stamp Student Union, Prince George's Room
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
College Park Sustainability Jam
Time: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 5:30 PM - Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM (EST)
Location: Executive Meeting Space, 2333 Van Munching Hall
Sign Up
Center for Social Value Creation, with support from the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, will host the second annual College Park Sustainability Jam - a weekend long engagement aimed at creating new, real-world ideas to promote and advance sustainability.
Using the principles of Design Thinking the "College Park Sustainability Jam" is part of a global Jam movement that connects "Jammers" from all backgrounds, levels of experience, and parts of the world. The purpose of the Jam is to learn about design thinking, build new ideas, explore our understanding of sustainability, meet cool people, work hard, and HAVE FUN! The end result is a set of "workable prototypes" that will be uploaded to an international shared database (protected by a creative commons license) and published to the world.
The event will run 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday.
Maryland Crossroads 2013: College Park Tour Stop
When: Tue, November 19, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: Stamp Grand Ballroom Lounge 1209, Stamp Student Union
Link/RSVP
Dominion Resources is proposing a massive industrial plan to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) out of tiny Cove Point, Maryland. The plan would radically expand violent “fracking” for gas across our region. And it's one of the worst things our state could do for global warming.In recent months an environmental threat has descended upon our state that is so huge – so negatively transformative – that it requires an unprecedented response. Which is why we're crisscrossing Maryland from the mountains to the sea to sound the alarm this November.
Where: Stamp Grand Ballroom Lounge 1209, Stamp Student Union
Link/RSVP
Join us in College Park as part of a nine-stop tour across Maryland to say, "Clean Energy, Not Cove Point!"
Dominion Resources is proposing a massive industrial plan to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) out of tiny Cove Point, Maryland. The plan would radically expand violent “fracking” for gas across our region. And it's one of the worst things our state could do for global warming.In recent months an environmental threat has descended upon our state that is so huge – so negatively transformative – that it requires an unprecedented response. Which is why we're crisscrossing Maryland from the mountains to the sea to sound the alarm this November.
At the Crossroads tour you’ll learn what you can do to stop this pollution disaster – and to demand the things we DO want: solar and wind power. There will be speakers, music, mind-blowing photos and a call to action that will get you out of your chair!
RSVP to join the Maryland Crossroads 2013 tour stop in College Park.
Making a Great First Impression at Your Internship
Time: Thu, November 21, 10am – 11am
Place: 2407 Marie mount Hall
Place: 2407 Marie mount Hall
Join the office staff as we relay tips, hints, and personal experiences about starting off your internship right with a positive first impression.
The RiftLand Project: Modeling Droughts and Displacement Among Traditional People in East Africa
Time: Thu, November 21, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Presented by Timothy Gulden, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University
Timothy
Gulden is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center for Social
Complexity in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason
University. His research focuses on modeling complex systems in the
context of empirical data. He holds a PhD from the University of
Maryland School of Public Policy where he explored agent-based modeling
as a tool for policy analysis. He has been a research scholar at CISSM, a
visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and
Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex
Systems Summer School. During the 1990’s he was the technical director
of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York. His interests
include the quantitative study of conflict dynamics, modeling adaptation
to a changing climate, understanding the human and economic flows
driving changes in the global urban system, and the development of novel
urban metrics based on nighttime lights.
Timothy
Gulden is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center for Social
Complexity in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason
University. His research focuses on modeling complex systems in the
context of empirical data. He holds a PhD from the University of
Maryland School of Public Policy where he explored agent-based modeling
as a tool for policy analysis. He has been a research scholar at CISSM, a
visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and
Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex
Systems Summer School. During the 1990’s he was the technical director
of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York. His interests
include the quantitative study of conflict dynamics, modeling adaptation
to a changing climate, understanding the human and economic flows
driving changes in the global urban system, and the development of novel
urban metrics based on nighttime lights.Regional Developments and their Impact on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Time: Wed, November 20, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1107 Stamp Student Union
RSVP: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/palestine
Location: 1107 Stamp Student Union
RSVP: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/palestine
Monday, November 18, 2013
Ownership, Financial Frictions and Investment Behavior: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms
Time: Tue, November 19, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/policy-forum-ownership-financial-frictions-and-investment-behavior-evidence-chinese
Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research
Time: Tue, November 19, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
Link: http://www.bioscienceday.umd.edu/schedule-events/keynote-address
Dr. Francis Collins
Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
Link: http://www.bioscienceday.umd.edu/schedule-events/keynote-address
Dr. Francis Collins
Director, National Institutes of Health
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In that role he oversees the work of the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world, spanning the spectrum from basic to clinical research.
Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. He served as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH from 1993-2008.
Before coming to the NIH, Dr. Collins was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Michigan. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2007, and received the National Medal of Science in 2009.
Friday, November 15, 2013
International Internships Panel: Student Perspectives
Time: Mon, November 18, 12pm – 1pm
Location: University Career Center & The President's Promise (3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing)
Location: University Career Center & The President's Promise (3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing)
RSVP: http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_RSVP.cfm?event_id=4512
University Career Center & The President's Promise Events Calendar
International Internships Panel: Student Perspectives
Event Details:
Interested in interning abroad? Curious to learn more about the options that exist? Hear from a panel of current UMD students who have gained valuable experience through internships in other countries.
Student panelists include:
- Mackenzie Burnett, UK Parliament, United Kingdom
- Courtni Berry, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Tanzania
- Carrie Hildebrandt, House of Grace & Center for Democracy and Community, Israel
- Alexander Pryor, International Student Conferences, Inc, South Korea
- Nyana Quashie, Maryland Social Entrepreneur Corps, Nicaragua
Lunch provided!
RSVP for this event: Click here
For additional information about this event:
contact Erica Ely at eely@umd.edu
contact Erica Ely at eely@umd.edu
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
November Talk Story event featuring Dr. Mae Ngai
Time: Sun, November 17, 2013, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Chinese Community Church, 500 I Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Link: http://www.1882project.org/events/talkstory-event-meet-the-author-etc/
Location: Chinese Community Church, 500 I Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Link: http://www.1882project.org/events/talkstory-event-meet-the-author-etc/
Please join us for the November Talk Story event featuring Dr. Mae Ngai as she discusses her book, The Lucky Ones. Her research explores the story of the Tape family, led by Joseph and Mary Tape, during the post-Gold Rush era in San Francisco. They lived and prospered between the continuing Chinese immigrant community and the emerging Chinese American middle class. Their daughter was central to the 1885 Tape v. Hurley case that dealt with school segregation.
November’s Talk Story Event gives you the opportunity to meet the author of this absorbing book and learn about the Tape family and their transition from Chinese to Chinese American.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
A New Kind of DC Internship: A Discussion with No Labels
Time: Wed, November 13, 7pm
- 8pm
Location: 2206 Jimenez Building
No Labels will be here to discuss their organization, their goal, and their internship program in an event hosted by the College Democrats, but is bipartisan in nature.
No Labels is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering bipartisanship in the United States Congress. No Labels has organized the "Problem Solvers Coalition," a group of 87 members of Congress, from both parties, who meet regularly with their colleagues from across the aisle to build trust and start negotiating to solve problems.
No Labels' internship program is unlike a typical Washington, D.C. internship. As described by their website, "Fetching coffee or making copies is not in the job description."
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/422752961180838/?previousaction=join&source=1
Location: 2206 Jimenez Building
No Labels will be here to discuss their organization, their goal, and their internship program in an event hosted by the College Democrats, but is bipartisan in nature.
No Labels is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering bipartisanship in the United States Congress. No Labels has organized the "Problem Solvers Coalition," a group of 87 members of Congress, from both parties, who meet regularly with their colleagues from across the aisle to build trust and start negotiating to solve problems.
No Labels' internship program is unlike a typical Washington, D.C. internship. As described by their website, "Fetching coffee or making copies is not in the job description."
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/422752961180838/?previousaction=join&source=1
International Internships Panel: Student Perspectives
Time: Mon, November 18, 12pm – 1pm
Location: University Career Center & The President's Promise (3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing)
Location: University Career Center & The President's Promise (3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing)
University Career Center & The President's Promise Presents
International Internships Panel: Student Perspectives
Event Details:
Interested in interning abroad? Curious to learn more about the options that exist? Hear from a panel of current UMD students who have gained valuable experience through internships in other countries.
Student panelists include:
- Mackenzie Burnett, UK Parliament, United Kingdom
- Courtni Berry, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Tanzania
- Carrie Hildebrandt, House of Grace & Center for Democracy and Community, Israel
- Alexander Pryor, International Student Conferences, Inc, South Korea
- Nyana Quashie, Maryland Social Entrepreneur Corps, Nicaragua
Lunch provided!
Financing College for Students in Crisis: A Case for Provisional Independence
Time: Thur, November 14, 2013 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: 122 Cannon House Office Building
Location: 122 Cannon House Office Building
Featured Speaker
– Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
Each
year, millions of students apply for assistance from the federal government to
help finance their college educations. Included among these students are those
who face severe crises within their homes. Ranging from abandonment to abuse,
these students face severe parental conflict that often renders them unable to
rely on their families for support – financial or otherwise – as they pursue
their educational aspirations. As a result, they are forced to become
“independent,” in fact, even if not under law.
Come
hear a fascinating conversation surrounding this rarely discussed problem.
Panelists will include college students and financial aid administrators.
Refreshments
will be served.
Space is
limited. Please RSVP directly to Selene Ceja at selene.ceja@coenet.us.
Thank you.
After Marriage: Defining LGBTQ Equality for the Millennial Generation
Time: Wed, November 13, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Public Policy Atrium
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/after-marriage-defining-lgbtq-equality-millennial-generation
Location: Public Policy Atrium
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/after-marriage-defining-lgbtq-equality-millennial-generation
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Understanding Racial Evil- Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the 20th Century
Time: Thu, November 14, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Communism
and Fascism represent revolutionary projects, inherently and
irredeemably hostile to liberal values. Both have used manipulative
methods to arouse, to galvanize mass movements committed to an
apocalyptic break with an execrated status quo. Both are secular
religions obsessed with transcending the existing human condition in
favor an anthropological revolution. Both are millenarianisms announcing
the advent of the New Man. A comparison between Communism and Fascism
helps us understand better the nature, goals, and consequences of such
movements. They should be regarded as parts of an unfinished century of
revolutionary hubris.
Vladimir
Tismaneanu is a Professor of Politics at the University of Maryland,
College Park, and author of numerous books, including Stalinism for All Seasons: A History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press,), Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press), and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free
Press). In 2006 he chaired the Presidential Commission for the Analysis
of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. His new book is The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century. Published by University of California Press in 2012, the book was reviewed in Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education, Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Review of Books.
About the speaker
Vladimir
Tismaneanu is a Professor of Politics at the University of Maryland,
College Park, and author of numerous books, including Stalinism for All Seasons: A History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press,), Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press), and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free
Press). In 2006 he chaired the Presidential Commission for the Analysis
of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. His new book is The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century. Published by University of California Press in 2012, the book was reviewed in Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education, Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Review of Books.Professional Development Workshop: Student Internship Panel
Time: Thu, November 14, 12pm – 1pm
Location: 1207 Van Munching Hall
This event is put on by the School of Public Policy career services program and is intended for graduate students. However, it should and can still be a valuable experience for students seeking internships in public service like you!
Location: 1207 Van Munching Hall
This event is put on by the School of Public Policy career services program and is intended for graduate students. However, it should and can still be a valuable experience for students seeking internships in public service like you!
This event will feature four current MSPP students who have
completed or are currently participating in a variety of internships. This is a
great opportunity for MSPP students to learn from fellow classmates about
different internship opportunities and experiences as well as hear about the
numerous positive effects associated with internships, especially as they
related to an education at MSPP and future career opportunities. The
participating panelists are:
- Amanda McCrum- She is a second year Energy & Environmental Policy MSPP student. She has held internships at the International Energy Agency’s Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, Sierra Club Maryland, and American Council On Renewable Energy. She plans to use these experiences, in addition to the MSPP education to launch a career with a clean energy nonprofit next spring.
- Vitaliy Shpak-He is a Fulbright Fellow at MSPP focusing on security issues, political transition, and international development in the former Soviet states in Eastern Europe. Previously, Vitaliy worked for the Parliament of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education. Over the summer, he interned at the Eurasian Foundation, a leader in the development of open, just and progressive societies.
- Sara Gallagher- She is a second year student specializing in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. Sara is currently the Philanthropy Fellow for the Calvert Foundation where she works with the Strategic Initiatives team and Innovation Lab on the development of new impact investing portfolios. Last year she worked as a Philanthropy Fellow for The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region on a number of communications and branding initiatives.
- Katherine Vaughn- She is a MBA/MPP student specializing in International Development. In the past, she has worked for the American Language Center in Morocco, John Snow International and the American Diabetes Association. In her current capacity, she is interning for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. Government’s development finance institution focused on mobilizing private capital to help solve critical development challenges.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
The Ins and Outs of Non-Profit Work
Time: Tue, November 12, 2pm – 3pm
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall
Our own Starsky will utilize his experience working in numerous non-profits to give students more interested service through non-profits and NGOs an understanding of what to expect in that sector.
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall
Our own Starsky will utilize his experience working in numerous non-profits to give students more interested service through non-profits and NGOs an understanding of what to expect in that sector.
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