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SUMMARY:Ukraine Moving Towards Peace?
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URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/ukraine-moving-towards-peace/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan: The Focus on the Intention of Citizenship Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first co-sponsored event of the Fall 2025 Semester \nPolitical Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan:\nThe Focus on the Intention of Citizenship Acquisition\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Public Policy Workshop and IRelevant – are collaborating with the Ralph Institute for International Studies and the International Migration Studies Program to sponsor a presentation by Prof. Hirohisa Takensohita\, who is visiting from the Department of Political Science at Keio University in Tokyo\, Japan. \nHe will speak on\, “Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan: The Focus on the Intention of Citizenship Acquisition\,” on Monday next week 9/8 at 4.15pm. The event will be in person in the Ralph Bunche Institute suite and remote. \nProf. Michael Sharpe will moderate the conversation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, September 8th\, 4:15 p.m. (ET) \nRalph Bunche Institute\n365 Fifth Ave\, Room 5203\nNew York\, NY 10016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCopyright © 2025 Ralph Bunche Institute\, All rights reserved.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/political-incorporation-of-immigrants-in-japan-the-focus-on-the-intention-of-citizenship-acquisition/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Contemporary China: Demystifying Economic and Social Changes
DESCRIPTION:A panel of experts helps us understand the complex realities of China today. \n\n\n\n\nElebash Recital Hall \nFrom the perspective of the West\, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist\, an adversary or a vital economic partner\, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? A panel of experts demystifies the vast economic and societal changes that have transformed China in recent decades. They discuss China’s remarkable strides toward eradicating poverty and the simultaneous growing inequality that has produced a new billionaire class; the decline in the birthrate despite the end of the One Child Policy; and how increased access to technology\, with the limitations of censorship\, is affecting the social landscape. \nFeaturing Yong Cai\, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill; Qin Gao\, professor of social policy and social work at Columbia University; Rongbin Han\, professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia; and Branko Milanovic\, research professor at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality\, CUNY Graduate Center\, author of Capitalism\, Alone and Visions of Inequality. Moderated by John Torpey\, professor of sociology and history and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. \nPresented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality\, the China at CUNY Initiative\, and the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. \nA video of this event will be posted a few days later on our YouTube Channel. \nPlease contact Jimmy Cok at jcok@gc.cuny.edu in advance for CART services or any additional accessibility requests or concerns for in-person events.​ This event will be livestreamed\, and closed captions will be provided. \nReview our Building Entry Policy for in-person events
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/contemporary-china-demystifying-economic-and-social-changes/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:“State of Democracy in India: Challenges and Prospects”
DESCRIPTION:The Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science (CUNY Graduate Center)\nThe Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies (CUNY Graduate Center)\nThe Hannah Arendt Center (Bard College) \n  \n“State of Democracy in India: Challenges and Prospects”\n  \nGuest Speaker: Yogendra Yadav (Political Activist) \nTuesday\, May 6\, 2025 \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n5th Floor (Room 5203) – Ralph Bunche Institute \nCUNY Graduate Center \n365 5th Avenue \nNew York\, NY 10016 \n  \n4:00pm-6:00pm (Reception to follow)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/state-of-democracy-in-india-challenges-and-prospects/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Odious Debt and the Making of Latin America: A 400-Year History of Moral Bankruptcy
DESCRIPTION:Edward Jones Corredera \nSenior Research Fellow \nMax Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law \nBio: Edward Jones Corredera is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Lecturer at the UNED. He is the author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy\, International Law\, and the Making of Latin America (OUP 2024). He completed his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge in 2020 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/odious-debt-and-the-making-of-latin-america-a-400-year-history-of-moral-bankruptcy/
LOCATION:Graduate Center History Lounge\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances
DESCRIPTION:Books are under attack in the United States. PEN America counted 10\,000 books banned in public schools\, with public libraries close behind.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProtesting that culture of censorship and suppression\, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity (Graduate Center—City University of New York)\, in cooperation with Marion Kaplan\, Professor Emerita of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (NYU) and Raz Segal\, Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide (Stockton University)\, is hosting a year-long virtual series\, “In Praise of Books.” We celebrate new scholarship by emerging as well as established scholars\, prizing their creativity and rigor. \nPlease join us for the third of the series:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 19 February 2025.\n12:00-1:00 PM (EST) Virtual \n“Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Alexandra Délano Alonso will engage authors Yael Siman and Matthew Hone in a conversation about their new book\, Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances. Amid the extreme violence that plagues Mexico\, enforced disappearances have surged\, exacerbated by systemic macro-criminality and widespread impunity. Families of the disappeared face nearly insurmountable challenges. Yet a robust movement has emerged\, led predominantly by courageous relatives—primarily mothers—who have become victim-activists. Prof Alexandra Délano Alonso\, Professor of Politics and Global Studies (The New School)\, and Profs Yael Siman (Iberoamericana University) and Matthew Hone (Stockton University) will discuss grassroots struggles for justice and the many forms of resistance these families have developed. \nChair: Center Director\, Debórah Dwork\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/victim-activists-in-mexico-social-and-political-mobilization-amid-extreme-violence-and-disappearances/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:RBI Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:This Event Was Cancelled. Please apologize for the inconvenience \nFriday\, December 13\, 5:00 p.m. (ET)\nGC Room 5203
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/rbi-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Incas\, Aliens\, and Anarchists
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Spafford (Victoria University of Wellington)\nIncas\, Aliens\, and Anarchists\nTuesday\, December 3 @ 6:30pm (ET)
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/incas-aliens-and-anarchists/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241030T183000
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SUMMARY:“Weimar and Us: Lessons for Today from Interwar Germany\, Part III:  National Socialism and the Decline of the Weimar Republic” Sheri Berman in Conversation with John Torpey
DESCRIPTION:TIME CHANGE: Our event will begin at 7 pm tonight (originally 6:30 pm) due to major delays in northeast corridor Amtrak trains. We apologize for the inconvenience. \nA major national election looms and the leader who years earlier had encouraged an insurrection is campaigning to a devoted audience. Politically tinged trials unfold in the courts\, and political violence appears to be spreading amidst armed protests and assassination attempts. The above could describe Weimar Germany in the 1920s\, but also characterizes the United States of America in 2024. This series seeks insights from the history of the Weimar Republic that might illuminate our current social and political climate—a fraught era for the American republic just as Weimar was for Germany. \nIn the third and final event of this series\, join political scientist Sheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University) and sociologist John Torpey (The Graduate Center) for a conversation about \nNational Socialism and the Decline of the Weimar Republic \nDate and Location: \nWednesday\, October 30\, 2024\n6:30 PM-8 PM\, The Skylight Room\, 9th Floor\nThe Graduate Center\, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue) \nPlease RSVP by clicking the button below. \nSheri Berman is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College\, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications\, including the New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, and VOX. She currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy\, Dissent and Political Science Quarterly. Her most recent book\, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day\, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. \nJohn Torpey is professor of sociology and history and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. He is the author or editor of a number of books\, including Intellectuals\, Socialism\, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy (1995); The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance\, Citizenship\, and the State (2000; 2nd ed. 2018); Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (edited with Jane Caplan; Princeton: Princeton UP\, 2001); Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (2004); Old Europe\, New Europe\, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (2005)\, Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (2006); The Post-Secular in Question (2012); Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison (with Christian Joppke\, 2013); Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World (edited with David Jacobson\, 2017); and The Three Axial Ages: Moral\, Material\, Mental. He is on the editorial board of Theory and Society and edits a series for Temple University Press titled “Politics\, History\, and Social Change.” \nThis event is presented by the European Union Studies Center of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies\, co-sponsored by the DAAD Alumni Association USA and supported by the “Germany on Campus” program of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/weimar-and-us-lessons-for-today-from-interwar-germany-part-iii-national-socialism-and-the-decline-of-the-weimar-republic-sheri-berman-in-conversation-with-john-torpey/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="European Union Studies Center":MAILTO:msovner@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:"New European democracies embraced the international supervision of human rights and expanded the West".
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Leonardo Castilho is a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in New York. After working for NGOs in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro\, Leonardo joined the UN in 2005 and has since worked for OHCHR and UNFPA in various positions in New York\, Geneva\, and in different countries in Latin America. He began his university studies on Law and International Relations at PUC-Rio\, obtained master’s degrees from Sciences-Po Paris and Oxford University\, and later obtained a PhD degree on International Relations / Political Science from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. Leonardo was recently a Fellow of the Berlin/Potsdam KFG Research Group International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/new-european-democracies-embraced-the-international-supervision-of-human-rights-and-expanded-the-west/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Human Rights Hub":MAILTO:iirtifa@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241022T183000
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SUMMARY:Sexual Agency and Sexual Justice as Feminist Resistance: From Self-Reflexivity to Coalition Building
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Clark Miller (Penn State University)\nSexual Agency and Sexual Justice as Feminist Resistance:\nFrom Self-Reflexivity to Coalition Building\nTuesday\, October 22 @ 6:30pm (ET)
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/sexual-agency-and-sexual-justice-as-feminist-resistance-from-self-reflexivity-to-coalition-building-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T160000
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SUMMARY:Who Has Human Rights? Liberal Consensus\, Left Critique\, and Far-Right Authoritarian Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)\nWho Has Human Rights? Liberal Consensus\, Left Critique\, and Far-Right Authoritarian Crisis\nWednesday\, October 19 @ 4:15pm (ET)\nMinorities and Philosophy Annual Lecture\, co-sponsored with the Philosophy Department Colloquium
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/who-has-human-rights-liberal-consensus-left-critique-and-far-right-authoritarian-crisis/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241017T180000
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SUMMARY:First US Amb. to Ukraine at the GC
DESCRIPTION:** While the formal event will begin at 6pm\, please note that we have organized a reception for students commencing at 5.30pm so that they can meet and chat with Dr. Popadiuk. We encourage you to attend and meet a distinguished alumnus of our program.  \nRoman Popadiuk is a retired member of the career Senior Foreign Service and was the first US ambassador to independent Ukraine. He was Executive Director of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation and is President of the Diplomacy Center Foundation. \nJanet Elise Johnson is Endowed Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center\, CUNY. \nCosponsored by the Ralph Bunche Institute and IRrelevant. \nRSVP Here
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/first-us-amb-to-ukraine-at-the-gc/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:"Weimar and Us: Lessons for Today from Interwar Germany—Part II: Political Economy and Crisis of 'The System'" David Abraham in Conversation with Benjamin Hett
DESCRIPTION:A major national election looms and the leader who years earlier had encouraged an insurrection is campaigning to a devoted audience. Politically tinged trials unfold in the courts\, and political violence appears to be spreading amidst armed protests and assassination attempts. The above could describe Weimar Germany in the 1920s\, but also characterizes the United States of America in 2024. This series seeks insights from the history of the Weimar Republic that might illuminate our current social and political climate—a fraught era for the American republic just as Weimar was for Germany. \nIn the second of three events\, join legal scholar David Abraham (Professor Emeritus\, University of Miami) and Benjamin Hett (The Graduate Center and Hunter College) for a conversation about \nPolitical Economy and the Crisis of “The System” \nDate and Location: \nWednesday\, October 16\, 2024\n6:30 PM-8 PM\, Room 9205\, 9th Floor\nThe Graduate Center\, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue) \nPlease RSVP by clicking the button below. \nDavid Abraham is professor emeritus of law at the University of Miami School of Law specializing in property\, immigration\, and citizenship law\, citizenship and identity\, and law and the transition to capitalism. A historian by training\, he received a BA\, an MA\, and a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. He received a JD in 1989 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. After teaching for many years in the history department at Princeton University\, he served as law clerk to Judge Leonard Garth of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and as an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He joined the Miami faculty in 1991. Abraham has published widely on issues of politics and economics in Weimar Germany and is the author of The Collapse of the Weimar Republic\, which examined the conditions and fate of a social democratic\, class-compromise effort to establish a viable welfare state. Abraham has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and the American Academy in Berlin as well as a guest Professor in Jena and Leipzig.  He has also received Alexander von Humboldt and DAAD Research Fellowships.  And although never a political scientist\, he won the APSA’s Best Book Chapter prize a few years ago. \nBorn in Rochester NY\, Benjamin Carter Hett earned a J.D. at the University of Toronto (1990) and practiced litigation in Canada for four years before earning a Ph.D. in history at Harvard (2001). He has taught at Harvard College and the Harvard Law School and\, since 2003\, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center\, City University of New York. He is the author of The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (Henry Holt\, 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Vine Award for History and named one of the year’s best books by The Times of London and the Daily Telegraph\, and The Nazi Menace: Hitler\, Churchill\, Roosevelt\, Stalin\, and the Road to War (Henry Holt\, 2020) named an editors’ choice by the New York Times Book Review.  His other books include Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery (Oxford\, 2014)\, winner of the 2015 Hans Rosenberg Prize\, and Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand (Oxford\, 2008)\, which won the 2007 Fraenkel Prize and was made into a documentary film and a television drama for the BBC. Hett has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. \nThis event is presented by the European Union Studies Center of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies\, co-sponsored by the DAAD Alumni Association USA and supported by the “Germany on Campus” program of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/weimar-and-us-lessons-for-today-from-interwar-germany-part-ii-political-economy-david-abraham-in-conversation-with-benjamin-hett/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Room 9205\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:"Weimar and Us: Lessons for Today from Interwar Germany—Part I: The Military\, Political Violence\, and Defense of the Republic" Isabel Hull in Conversation with Steven Remy
DESCRIPTION:A major national election looms and the leader who years earlier had encouraged an insurrection is campaigning to a devoted audience. Politically tinged trials unfold in the courts\, and political violence appears to be spreading amidst armed protests and assassination attempts. The above could describe Weimar Germany in the 1920s\, but also characterizes the United States of America in 2024. This series seeks insights from the history of the Weimar Republic that might illuminate our current social and political climate—a fraught era for the American republic just as Weimar was for Germany. \nIn the first of three events\, join historians Isabel Hull (John Stambaugh Professor of History Emerita\, Cornell University) and Steven Remy (History\, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center) for a conversation about \nThe Military\, Political Violence\, and Defense of the Republic \nDate and Location: \nWednesday\, October 9\, 2024\n6:30 PM – 8:00 PM\, The Skylight Room\, 9th Floor\nThe Graduate Center\, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue) \nPlease RSVP by clicking the button below.\n \nIsabel V. Hull (Ph.D. Yale 1978) is John Stambaugh Professor of History Emerita at Cornell University. Her research has ranged broadly in German history from the early modern to the modern period\, and from governance\, the history of sexuality\, military culture\, to international law. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law in the First World War (Ithaca\, NY: Cornell University Press\, 2014) won the American Society of International Law book prize in 2016. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Hull was awarded the Max Weber Stiftung-Historisches Kolleg Prize for lifetime achievement in German history and studies in 2013. She is currently writing a book on the international law governing when states could legitimately go to war (jus ad bellum) in Europe just before 1914. \nSteven Remy has taught modern European history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center since 2002. He teaches courses in modern European and German history\, Nazi Germany\, the politics and culture of memory in 20th-century Europe\, colonial wars\, and historical methodology. Steven Remy is a scholar of modern German history. The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University (Harvard\, 2003)\, examined the responses of scholars to National Socialism. The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy (Harvard\, 2017) deals with debates over war crimes trials in the U.S. and Germany. His most recent book is War Crimes: Law\, Politics\, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World (Taylor & Francis\, 2023). \nThis event is presented by the European Union Studies Center of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies\, co-sponsored by the DAAD Alumni Association USA and supported by the “Germany on Campus” program of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/weimar-and-us-lessons-for-today-from-interwar-germany-part-i-the-military-political-violence-and-defense-of-the-republic-isabel-hull-in-conversation-with-steven-remy/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="European Union Studies Center":MAILTO:msovner@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:"From the global South to the human rights stage: A study of global frame resonance using a comparative case of Women\, Life\, Freedom and Bloody November in Iran."
DESCRIPTION:Danial Vahabli is a sociology PhD student at Stony Brook University and the Graduate Fellow of Institute for Advanced Computational Science. His research uses both computational methods and qualitative methods to study the intersection of culture\, globalization\, and resistance. His dissertation project focuses on international media representations of domestic protests with insights from social movement studies\, world society theory\, and media studies. He is also interested in protest art and its role in everyday acts of resistance. \n\n\n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/from-the-global-south-to-the-human-rights-stage-a-study-of-global-frame-resonance-using-a-comparative-case-of-women-life-freedom-and-bloody-november-in-iran/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Human Rights Hub":MAILTO:iirtifa@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240926T130000
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SUMMARY:"A Conversation about Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq"
DESCRIPTION:“A Conversation about Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq” \nProtesting that culture of censorship and suppression\, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity (Graduate Center—City University of New York)\, in cooperation with Marion Kaplan\, Professor Emerita of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (NYU) and Raz Segal\, Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide (Stockton University)\, will host a year-long virtual series\, “In Praise of Books.” We celebrate new scholarship by emerging as well as established scholars\, prizing their creativity and rigor. \n\nPlease join us for the fall series:\nThursday 26 September 2024. 12:00-1:00 PM (EDT) Virtual\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE VIA ZOOM
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/a-conversation-about-being-human-political-modernity-and-hospitality-in-kurdistan-iraq/
LOCATION:NY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of the Holocaust Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity":MAILTO:info@chgcah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240919T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240919T143000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:Is the UN Still Relevant in Resolving Major Wars?
DESCRIPTION:Is the UN Still Relevant in Resolving Major Wars?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe seminar we are organizing explores the potential of various UN interventions in resolving major wars based on historical precedents\, especially regarding the Russia-Ukraine and Hamas-Israel wars\, as well as the role the ICC and ICJ might play in these conflicts. \nThursday 19 September 2024. 8:30 AM (EDT) Virtual\n\nPLEASE RSVP BELOW BEFORE TUESDAY 17.\n\nLunch and snacks will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER 19 SEPT | Is the UN Still Relevant
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/is-the-un-still-relevant-in-resolving-major-wars/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240917T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240917T203000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
CREATED:20240903T161031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T161049Z
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SUMMARY:The Global Dimensions of America's New Racial Politics
DESCRIPTION:CGEP Colloquia \nRogers Smith (University of Pennsylvania)\nThe Global Dimensions of America’s New Racial Politics\nTuesday\, September 17 @ 6:30pm (ET) \n  \n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-global-dimensions-of-americas-new-racial-politics/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240901T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240930T233000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers\nDeadline: Sep 30 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe CUNY Human Rights Workshop (HRW) is an interdisciplinary\, scholarly forum that fosters discussion and debate on emerging scholarship and policy work relating to human rights issues\, broadly defined. The workshop is open to faculty and graduate students (within and beyond CUNY) as well as human rights practitioners. \nThe HRW invites submissions to present at our monthly session at The CUNY Graduate Center. (Zoom sessions are also possible for those who cannot present in person). We invite paper proposals for works in progress\, works in pre-publication\, and recently published articles to be considered. Please submit your paper proposal here. Proposals should include a title\, an abstract of no more than 300 words\, and a one-page CV. We encourage applicants to submit their proposals before 30 September 2024. \nFor questions and inquiries\, please email Professor Danielle Zach: dzach@gradcenter.cuny.edu
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/call-for-papers/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
ORGANIZER;CN="Human Rights Hub":MAILTO:iirtifa@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240508T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240508T203000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:The U.S.-European Relationship in a Time of Populism and War - A Talk by Karen Donfried
DESCRIPTION:Can the traditionally strong relationship between the U.S. and Europe weather the storms on the horizon? Get an in-depth\, insider’s view at this crucial time from Karen Donfried\, who helped shape policy in the region as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs under President Biden. Donfried will provide valuable insight on this complex relationship\, helping us to understand the Biden administration’s posture toward Europe\, the high stakes of supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia\, the role of populism in contemporary transatlantic relations\, European concerns about a possible second Trump presidency\, regulation of AI in Europe and the U.S.\, and more. Before serving as Secretary of State Blinken’s top adviser on Europe and Eurasia\, she was also a special assistant to President Obama and senior director for European affairs on the National Security Council at the White House. Donfried is a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. \nThis event is the annual Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture. \nPresented with the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and the European Union Studies Center. \nA video of this event will be posted a few days later on our YouTube Channel. \nPlease contact Jimmy Cok at jcok@gc.cuny.edu in advance for CART services or any additional accessibility requests or concerns for in-person events.​ This event will be livestreamed\, and closed captions will be provided.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-u-s-european-relationship-in-a-time-of-populism-and-war-a-talk-by-karen-donfried/
LOCATION:Segal Theater\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="European Union Studies Center":MAILTO:msovner@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:OUT OF THE FRAME: CRISES IN SUDAN AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
DESCRIPTION:The historical record is marked by events\, people\, and communities that remain just out of the frame. They are there\, clearly visible\, but no one pays attention to them. And we should. \nThe Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity (Graduate Center—City University of New York)\, in cooperation with Marion Kaplan\, Professor Emerita of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (NYU) and Raz Segal\, Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide (Stockton University)\, offers a year-long virtual series\, Out of the Frame\, to center topics long overlooked. Please join us for the last of the series: \nWednesday 17 April 2024. 12:00-1:00 PM (EDT) Virtual\n“Out of the Frame: Crises in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo” \nThe ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan have witnessed mass killings of civilians\, internal displacement\, and the destruction of infrastructure. Yet the humanitarian crises in two of Africa’s largest countries remain outside the international spotlight. \nThis roundtable discussion features human rights activist/scholars Fred Bauma and Nisrin Elamin. Executive Secretary of Ebuteli\, a Kinshasa-based research institute\, Mr Bauma is a member of Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA)\, a key pro-democracy movement in the DRC; he is a leading exponent of non-violent politics in Africa today. Prof Elamin (University of Toronto) investigates the connections between land\, race\, belonging and empire-making in Sudan and the broader Sahel region. She uses land and struggles over land as a lens through which to examine state surveillance of Sahelian migration. Chair: Prof Zachariah Mampilly\, Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs\, Baruch College.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/out-of-the-frame-crises-in-sudan-and-the-democratic-republic-of-congo/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of the Holocaust Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity":MAILTO:info@chgcah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240409T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:ABOUT THAT TERM "GENOCIDE"
DESCRIPTION:A new series hosted by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity\, and sponsored by CUNY’s new Anti-Hate Initiative\, and co-sponsored by the BRES Collaboration Hub. \n“Genocide” has become a keyword for our time\, deployed by victim groups and their advocates in Asia\, Africa\, the Americas\, and Europe. While a powerful cry for help and attention as “the crime of crimes\,” do “genocide” allegations perform the work intended by their claimants? And what of patently self-serving and vexatious usages of the term? This roundtable will plumb the attractions and functions of claims of “genocide” in conflicts today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for the second of the series: \nTuesday 9 April 2024      4:00-5:15 pm (EDT) \nVIRTUAL\n“About That Term ‘Genocide‘”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZachariah Mampilly holds the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at Baruch College—CUNY. He is the author of Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change. Zoé Samudzi serves as the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at Clark University. She is the coauthor (with William Anderson) of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. Professor of international relations at Georgia State University\, Jelena Subotic’s most recent book is Yellow Star\, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. \nChair/moderator A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at City College of New York. He is the author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/about-that-term-genocide/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of the Holocaust Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity":MAILTO:info@chgcah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240311T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240311T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
CREATED:20240228T015522Z
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SUMMARY:The Vicissitudes of Anti-Jewishness: CUNY-Based Research on Antisemitism
DESCRIPTION:Join this conversation with a panel of experts on Jewish studies sponsored by the CUNY Anti-Hate Initiative and the Ralph Bunche Institute. \nRSVP in person below\, or via Zoom here \n  \nREGISTER HERE VIA ZOOM
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-vicissitudes-of-anti-jewishness-cuny-based-research-on-antisemitism/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240205T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:On Display: Instagram\, The Self and The City
DESCRIPTION:Two billion people around the world use Instagram\, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform. Despite Instagram’s reputation for shallowness\, the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas. Who are we? What do we want to show of ourselves? What do we aspire to be? \nOn Display is a book about how people remake their worlds through social media. John D. Boy and Justus Uitermark provide an encompassing account of how a platform that is unfailingly polished and ruthlessly judgmental shapes us and our environments. They examine how personalities\, relations\, social movements\, urban subcultures\, and city streets change as they are represented on Instagram. Interviews and ethnographic vignettes render an intimate account of the desires and anxieties that animate the platform. Just as importantly\, Boy and Uitermark reveal how Instagram is implicated in social inequalities. \nWhile previous accounts have argued that social media promote polarization\, On Display shows that this is not the case for Instagram where users belong to large and diverse networks\, compelling them to take many\, often contradictory expectations into account. This means users shy away from producing statements or images that may cause offense as a way to preserve their public image and their social connections. Drawing on sociological theory\, long-term qualitative inquiry in Amsterdam\, and computational analyses\, Boy and Uitermark argue that grasping the power of Instagram—and other social media platforms—requires seeing them not as digital networks of communication and sharing\, but as a stage for the expression and affirmation of social status. \nMy bio: John D. Boy is a tenured assistant professor of sociology at Leiden University in the Netherlands\, where he coordinates the d12n Research Cluster. His research employs a wide range of research methods\, including participant observation\, computational techniques\, and interviews\, and contributes to interdisciplinary social-scientific literature on the interface between digital technologies and social life spanning sociology\, anthropology\, urban studies\, and media studies. He is the co-author\, with Justus Uitermark\, on On Display: Instagram\, the Self\, and the City (OUP\, 2024). After several years of studying a commercial platform\, he recently began research on how critical technologists imagine the future of digital infrastructure. He is affiliated with Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology as well as the Center for BOLD Cities at the Leiden–Delft–Erasmus (LDE) interuniversity consortium. Prior to joining Leiden University\, John was a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the University of Amsterdam\, and he received his PhD in sociology (with a certificate in women’s studies) from the City University of New York in 2015.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/on-display-instagram-the-self-and-the-city/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240124T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240124T143000
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SUMMARY:Democracy in Guatemala: The Challenges Facing President Arévalo
DESCRIPTION:Elected in August 2023\, Bernardo Arevalo will be sworn this month as president of Guatemala amid rumors that coupmongers could stop him from taking office. Why is Arevalo facing such opposition and what will be his challenges if he takes power? Join us in a conversation with Guatemalan journalist Claudia Méndez Arriaza; Daniel Haering Keenan\, leader of the Anticorruption Project; Thelma Aldana\, former attorney general of Guatemala; and Andrea Ixchíu Hernández\, journalist\, filmmaker and land protector.\n\nDate: January 24\, at 1-2:30pm
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/democracy-in-guatemala-the-challenges-facing-president-arevalo/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231205T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T142443
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SUMMARY:Within and against: tech workers\, migration and labor alliances in Berlin
DESCRIPTION:Tech companies have seen a rise of labor disputes in the last decade. The struggles of gig workers (delivery\, ride-hailing) and warehouse workers have been most visible in this regard. However\, labor struggles have also been taken up by white collar workers in tech. Conflicts on payment\, sexual harassment and corporate responsibility have led to mobilizations and unionization of office workers in tech companies. White-collar organizers in tech have also called for cross-class alliances in the industry\, although the feasibility of such alliances has remained unclear. \nValentin Niebler describes how tech worker organizing has unfolded in Berlin in the last years. It also discusses to what extent cross-status organizing has become viable in this case. The research is based on an ethnography of a grassroots collective of organized tech workers\, as well as interviews with tech workers\, gig workers and union organizers in the city. I argue that tech worker organizing in Berlin revolves around three interrelated conflict lines: (1) the challenges of recent arrival and migration\, (2) the difficulties of utilizing German labor law in the startup context\, and (3) frustration with German trade unions. These conflict lines\, he argues\, are also shared by many low-paid gig workers in the city and have made cooperation between tech workers and gig workers possible. \nValentin Niebler is a visiting scholar in the Sociology Program\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, and a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Migration Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research is focused on conflicts and regulation in the tech industry. \nThis talk is moderated by John Torpey.  Sharon Zukin will serve as discussant. \nPlease RSVP for in person below or here for Zoom. \nREGISTER HERE VIA ZOOM
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/within-and-against-tech-workers-migration-and-labor-alliances-in-berlin/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Cost of Free Land: Jews\, Lakota\, and an American Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:The second in the “Out of the Frame” series hosted by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity. Growing up\, Rebecca Clarren knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family’s origins. Her great-great-grandparents\, the Sinykins\, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century\, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. The Sinykins became an American immigrant success story. What no one mentioned was that their land\, the foundation for much of their wealth\, had once been reserved for the seven bands of the Lakota. Taken by the United States government\, it was splintered and handed for free to white settlers. Wayne L. Ducheneaux II\, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the Executive Director of the Native Governance Center\, will discuss these intertwined histories with award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren; together they will explore the personal and national consequences of this legacy of violence and dispossession. \n  \n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-cost-of-free-land-jews-lakota-and-an-american-inheritance/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of the Holocaust Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity":MAILTO:info@chgcah.org
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SUMMARY:First Student/Adjunct Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register here:
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/first-student-adjunct-workshop/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:Better Together: Shared Agency vs. Strategic Interaction
DESCRIPTION:This semester\, the Center will host five colloquia in addition to three Social and Political Philosophy Workshop sessions — please mark your calendars! \nMatt Rachar (Douglas College)Better Together: Shared Agency vs. Strategic InteractionTuesday\, November 7 @ 6:30pm (ET)\, Room TBA
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/better-together-shared-agency-vs-strategic-interaction/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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