Coming up at the Mershon Center
Monday, October 18, 2010
Nicholas Lambert
Self-Interest and the Politics of Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and British Economic Warfare in 1914
Noon, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
 Nicholas Lambert is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Whitehall) and visiting fellow at Australian National University. His first book, Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, won the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for Military History. His forthcoming book is Taming Armageddon: Economic Warfare Planning and Practice, 1906-1916 (Harvard University Press, 2011). It offers a new account of British naval and grand strategic planning before World War I; major insights into globalization and the transformation of the world financial and commercial systems, and their implications for international law; and a highly original account of Woodrow Wilson's diplomacy. Read more and register
Monday, October 18, 2010
CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
6:30 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Presentation by Cathy Barbash
8 p.m. Webcast featuring Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman Jr.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
 China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections is a national day of programming designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss these issues with leading experts.
The National Committee is pleased to present this program, which will feature a webcast by Jon M. Huntsman Jr., U.S. ambassador to China.
The webcast will be moderated by Stephen A. Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Preceding the webcast will be a presentation by Cathy Barbash of Barbash Arts Consulting Services on "From One to Many: The Evolution of U.S.-China Cultural Exchanges from Single to Multi-Stream Practice." Read more and register
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Craig Calhoun
The Public Sphere and the Populist Imaginary
5:30 p.m., 180 Hagerty Hall, 1770 College Road
 Craig Calhoun has been president of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) since 1999. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and founding director of its Institute for Public Knowledge.
His most recent books include Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream (Routledge, 2007) and Cosmopolitanism and Belonging (Routledge, 2009).
Throughout his career, Calhoun has been involved in projects bringing social science to bear on issues of public concern. Most famously, he provided an award-winning sociological analysis of the student revolt in Tiananmen Square, in his most popular work to date, Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, 1994). Read more and register
Friday, October 22, 2010
Gary E. Payton
Space As a Congested and Contested Area
Noon, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
 Gary E. Payton served as deputy under secretary of the Air Force for space programs in Washington, D.C., until his retirement in July. He provided guidance, direction and oversight for the formulation, review and execution of military space programs. This included oversight of all space and space-related acquisition plans, strategies and assessments for research, development, test, evaluation and space-related industrial base issues.
In this talk, Payton will provide background for the recent Space Posture Review, a legislatively-mandated review of U.S. national security space policy and objectives, conducted jointly by the secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence. Read more and register
Thursday, October 28, 2010
John Ferejohn
The Countermajoritarian Opportunity
3:30 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
 John Ferejohn is professor emeritus of political science at Stanford University, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, and Charles Seligson Professor of Law at New York University. His interests focus on political institutions, political behavior, theory of social choice, formal theories of politics, public law, comparative constitutions, legislative studies, and philosophy of social science. He has written on political institutions and behavior, including social choice theory, electoral processes, and theories of legislatures and of legislation. At this event, Ferejohn will discuss a paper he presented at a conference on Rational Choice and Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. Read more and register
Friday, October 29, 2010
James Caron
Taliban and Participative Small Media in Pashtun Society, 1920-2010
Noon, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
 James Caron is lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests include modern South Asia and Afghanistan; alternative historiography through popular arts; nationalism, public spheres, and circulation technologies; and Pashto language and literature. Caron has done fieldwork on Pashtun identity, nationalism, and social history in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan. He is an honorary member of the advisory board at Baacha Khan Research Centre in Peshawar, Pakistan. Read more and register
Other events
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Charity: Water
12 p.m. and 4 p.m.
U.S. Bank Conference Theatre, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
Almost 1 billion people on the planet don‘t have access to clean, safe drinking water. Come learn about one of the most important environmental issues facing our world, the lack of clean water. Charity: Water is a service-learning collaboration supported by the Office of International Affairs, Office of Outreach & Engagement, Medical Center‘s Health Sciences Center for Global Health, FABE, International Program for Water Management in Agriculture, and Upper Arlington Schools. This presentation is FREE and open to all. To help build a well or learn more, visit http://mycharitywater.org/osu-ua.
Friday, October 22, 2010
john powell
The Need to Change the Way We Talk, Think and Act on Race
11:30 a.m., Hale Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Ave.
Sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs
john powell will examine the need for transformative change in the way we talk about, think about, and act on race in order to restore democratic ideals and create a society that is fair and just for all people at the second annual Authors and Conversation Soul Food Luncheon Series. powell is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law. He is executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. He also holds the Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. To make reservations call: 292-0074 or email Wanda White at white.4@osu.edu.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Artemy Troitsky
5:30 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
Sponsored by the Center for Slavic and East European Studies
Artemy Troitsky is well known Russian rock-journalist, music critic, actor and broadcaster. In addition to hosting a popular weekly radio show, Echo of Moscow, Troitsky runs a concert event agency and a record label. Described as “the leading Soviet rock critic,” Troitsky is the author of several books, including Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia, Tusovka: Who's Who in the New Soviet Rock Culture, and most recently Let Me Take You Down to the World of Pop. In 1980, Troitsky organized a rock festival in the Soviet Union, considered the “Soviet Woodstock.” Currently he teaches in the Journalism Department at Moscow State University. For more information, please contact the Slavic Center at csees@osu.edu or (614) 292-8770.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Donna Brazile
3:30 p.m., Archie M. Griffin Ballroom, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
Sponsored by the John Glenn School of Public Affairs
The John Glenn School of Public Affairs invites you to attend the Barbara K. Fergus
Women in Leadership Lecture series. Political strategist Donna Brazile is a university professor, author of the best-selling book Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, a columnist, a political contributor on CNN and ABC as well as "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" and the Democratic National Committee's vice chair of Voter Registration and Participation. In 2000, Brazile made history when she served as campaign manager for Vice President Al Gore, becoming the first African-American woman to manage a presidential campaign. Read more and register
Previous events available for viewing
Jonathan Landay, senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, spoke to about 300 faculty and students about "It’s The Region, Stupid: The Real Dangers of U.S. Failure in Afghanistan-Pakistan" on February 25, 2010.
Landay speaks on Afghanistan-Pakistan region
Watch a streaming video of Jonathan Landay, senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, explaining the geopolitical background to the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the broader region.
Full Archive
Visit the Event Recordings page for the full list of streaming videos from previous events sponsored by the Mershon Center. Note: Streaming videos recorded before Fall 2010 require RealPlayer. If you do not have RealPlayer, you can download it free.
Mershon News
International Human Rights Exchange offers courses
The International Human Rights Exchange (IHRE) is the world's only full-semester, multidisciplinary program in human rights. The program is housed at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is a joint venture with Bard College.
Each year -- starting in July and ending in November -- students and faculty from Africa and North America come together to participate in a deep and multifaceted intellectual engagement in human rights. In addition to a required core course, students choose from 12 or more electives exploring human rights from the perspective of a variety of academic disciplines.
IHRE also opens up possibilities for substantive participation in human rights work. Students enrolled in the Engagement with Human Rights course intern with an NGO working on contemporary rights in post-apartheid South Africa. Students also explore human rights challenges in rural South Africa through a Community Human Rights Workshop, visit the Apartheid Museum and other relevant sites, and attend guest lectures from human rights experts from South Africa and around the world.
The application deadline is March 1, 2011.
For more information on the International Human Rights Exchange, visit http://www.ihre.org.
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