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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