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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:20240917T183000
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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:20240919T083000
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T200000
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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
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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: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: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:20241022T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T015415
CREATED:20240903T161258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T161258Z
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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:20241024T183000
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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:20241030T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T015415
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241203T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241203T203000
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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:20241213T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T015415
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250219T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250219T130000
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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: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:“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: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: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:Ukraine Moving Towards Peace?
DESCRIPTION:{DATE} \n{TITLE} \n{HOST} \nRSVP HERE
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
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
DESCRIPTION:Join for a conversation between Laura Field and Richard Wolin on the intellectual descent from mid-century conservatism to Trumpism—one tracing its historical gestation\, the other its ideological mutation—and as a warning that the U.S. now faces a radical\, post-conservative right driven more by myth and ressentiment than by any genuine political philosophy.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/furious-minds-the-making-of-the-maga-new-right/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 8301\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Event: The Information State
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Jacob Siegel and Eli Karetny\n\n\nDate: March 16\, 2026 \nTime: 6:00PM \nPlace: Skylight Room\, Graduate Center CUNY 365 Fifth Ave\, New York. \n  \nWe’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? \nThe Information State is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel charts how the technological infrastructure built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Commercial Internet applications now double as military-grade surveillance and influence tools. Government tech partnerships established after 2001 in response to the global war on terror took on a life of their own and now target Americans. \nInstead of competing for voters’ support\, the information state uses censorship\, mass surveillance\, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality. Government officials requested that social media companies boost stories about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to Russia\, while censoring those about Hunter Biden’s laptops\, the origins of the COVID-19 virus\, and the war in Ukraine. \nAn alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. Laws signed by President Obama as he left office fused together the media\, NGOs\, the national security complex\, and big tech companies into an unelected ruling party. In short\, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information State is an urgent\, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? \nThe Information State is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel charts how the technological infrastructure built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Commercial Internet applications now double as military-grade surveillance and influence tools. Government tech partnerships established after 2001 in response to the global war on terror took on a life of their own and now target Americans. \nInstead of competing for voters’ support\, the information state uses censorship\, mass surveillance\, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality. Government officials requested that social media companies boost stories about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to Russia\, while censoring those about Hunter Biden’s laptops\, the origins of the COVID-19 virus\, and the war in Ukraine. \nAn alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. Laws signed by President Obama as he left office fused together the media\, NGOs\, the national security complex\, and big tech companies into an unelected ruling party. In short\, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information State is an urgent\, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/book-event-the-information-state/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Origins and Future of the United Nations
DESCRIPTION:Moderator\nJohn Torpey\, Director \nRalph Bunche Institute for International Studies \nPresenters\nLukas Haynes\, RBI Visiting Scholar\, discussing Peace Through Power: \nFDR’s Military Leaders and the Pragmatism of the UN Charter \nTapio Kanninen\, RBI Senior Fellow\, discussing Revitalizing the United Nations: \nMaking and Keeping the Peace \nCommentators\nRichard Gowan\, International Crisis Group \nStephen Schlesinger\, World Policy Institute (ret.) \nDate and time\nMonday\, April 20\, 2026 5-6:30pm \nWine and Cheese Reception to Follow \nPlace\nRalph Bunche Institute for International Studies\, Room 5203 \nCUNY Graduate Center \n365 Fifth Avenue \nNew York\, NY 10016
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-origins-and-future-of-the-united-nations/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Reality of UFOs/UAP
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by journalist Leslie Kean who has been investigating and reporting on the subject for over 25 years. Q&A moderated by RBI Acting Director\, Eli Karetny. \nRSVP for The Reality of UFOs/UAP - May 6. 6PM\n\n\n\n\n\nLeslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals\, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. She has been covering UFOs/UAP for the mainstream since 2000. Kean and reporter Ralph Blumenthal have contributed articles to The New York Times on UFOs/UAPs for eight years\, beginning with a game-changing front page story about a secret Pentagon UFO program in 2017\, written with Helene Cooper. Kean’s over two decades of reporting on UFOs was profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. Kean and Blumenthal broke the story of whistleblower David Grusch in The Debrief in 2023\, which led to an open Congressional hearing. Kean also helped produce two seasons of the NatGeo documentary series “UFOs: Investigating the Unknown” (2025) streaming on Hulu. \n\n\n\nKean is also the author of Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program and was Ezra Klein’s NY
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-reality-of-ufos-uap/
LOCATION:Proshansky Auditorium\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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