Events 2022-2023
Career Panel
Francesca Iofredda ‘10, David Leathers ‘15, Sam Fraser ‘19, and Kyle Fendorf ‘21 are CMC alumni working in interesting and important areas in the think tank and nonprofit sectors. In this one hour panel they will speak about their careers and answer student questions. For more information please click on the title or picture!
Location: Kravis 321
“Traditional/Local” Knowledge and Contemporary Societies: Existing Solutions from the Global South to the Climate Crisis
Madhulika Banerjee is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi and a fellow at the New Institute, Hamburg, Germany. Madhulika has a strong research interest in the politics of knowledge and its role in shaping the discourse and practice of development, with a particular focus on the Global South. She is currently working on a manuscript with the title “Politics of Knowledge in Development: An Analytical Framework”. She has authored various publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. She has also been a visiting researcher both at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.
In her talk, Professor Banerjee argues that traditional/ local/ indigenous knowledge presents already available solutions best in terms of resilience, but also in terms of adaptation to the current climate crisis.
Location: Davidson Lecture Hall
China's Party State Capitalism
Lingling Wei is the chief China correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and co-author of Superpower Showdown. She will talk about how Xi Jinping is reshaping and ring-fencing China's economy amid heightened competition with the U.S. This event will be held at the CMC Athenaeum and it is co-sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at CMC.
Location: CMC Athenaeum
Whose Modernity? Liberal Institutions and the Lost Rights of Women
Carissa Tudor is a postdoctoral fellow in International & Public Affairs at the Watson Institute at Brown University. She will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, starting in the fall of 2023. Her research interests span historical and comparative political economy and gender and political development with a regional focus in Europe. She studies how long-term institutional and economic changes, such as state-building, democratization, and economic development, shape and are shaped by gender relations, family structures, and women’s rights.
In her talk Carissa notes we are often told that women were first able to participate in politics and meaningfully engage in economics in the 1900s, facing complete public exclusion before then. While this context was far from a paragon of gender (or any other kind of) egalitarianism, political rights reflected the complex ways in which nuanced hierarchies structured social relations. Counterintuitively, it was democratization that led to women’s political exclusion. Democratization facilitated women’s exclusion in two ways. It weakened the ties between economic activities and political rights, and it institutionalized simplistic ideas over complex lived realities. This work forces us to rethink political development and gender, perhaps making recent regressions in women’s rights less surprising, if no less distressing.
Location: Kravis 321
Careers in International Organizations Panel
Sami Murphy ‘21, Jessie Ainslie ‘19, and Emily Heneghan Kasoma ‘01 are CMC alumna working in interesting and important areas in the IOs sector. In this one hour panel they will speak about their careers and answer student questions. For more info please click on the photo or title!
Location: Kravis 321
Globalization, R.I.P.?
Daniel William Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He argues that there is reason to believe that globalization is being challenged in a way that none of us have seen in our lifetimes. Professor Drezner will deliver the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies' 2022-23 Arthur Adams Family Distinguished Lecture on International Affairs.
Location: CMC Athenaeum
How Democracies Die
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram is an attorney-at-law and social activist, works with NGOs on developing a civic society and protecting the rule of law and systemic changes in the justice system. She is the co-founder of the Justice Defense Committee and Free Courts that monitor and archive political pressure on judges and lawyers, giving them legal aid. The winner of the “Golden Paragraph” in the category of the best lawyer in Poland, in 2016 she received the Pro Bono Lawyer of Year Award, she was also included in the Forbes ranking of “The most influential women in Poland” for 2020. In 2021 she was a fellow at Yale University as part of The Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program.
This event was sponsored by The EU Center at Scripps College, the Keck Center for International and Strategic studies at CMC, and the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at CMC.
Location: Kravis 321
Study Abroad Panel
Sophie Mars ‘23, Nisha Singh ‘23, Sonja Woolley ‘24, and Jorlen Garcia ’24 will be sharing their study abroad experiences and answer questions from CMC students. Kristen Mallory, Director of CMC’s Center for Global Education will also provide information and answer student questions.
Location: Kravis 321
Saturday Salon on Great Power Politics and the War in Ukraine
Hilary Appel (Director of the Keck Center), Andrei Tsygankov, Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University, and Igor Logvinenko, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College reexamine great power politics with a focus on the war in Ukraine, Russia, and NATO. This event, organized by the Keck Center and the Open Academy, comprises a discussion on campus followed by dinner at Professor Appel’s home.
Location: Kravis 321 & Prof. Appel’s Home
Anti-Lockdown Protests in China
Join the Keck Center for a Hot Topic talk with Professor Minxin Pei!
Location: Davidson Lecture Hall (Adams Hall)
Keck Center Conference on Russia's War on Ukraine
The Keck Conference on Russia’s war on Ukraine is a full day event where experts and academics will share their expertise on several panels and during a lunch at the Athenaeum.
Location: Founders Room, Bauer Center & CMC Athenaeum
The Revolution Will be a Remix: Continuity and Change in Post Post-Revolutionary Iran
Join the Keck Center for a Hot Topic talk with Professor Shervin Malekzadeh!
Location: Davidson Lecture Hall (Adams Hall)
Militarization of Law Enforcement in Latin America
Join the Keck Center for a Hot Topic talk with Professor Jessica Zarkin!
Location: Kravis 161
Fascism Reborn: Fratelli d'Italia and the Italian Neo 1946-2022 Fascist Community
Join the Keck Center for a Hot Topic talk with Professor Brian Griffith!
Location: Kravis 321
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia
Conventional wisdom treats Russian politics as either an extension of Vladimir Putin's worldview or Russia's unique history, but in Weak Strongman, Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University, emphasizes Russia's similarities to other autocracies and highlights the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy. Balancing personal anecdotes from his 30 years of researching Russia and cutting-edge social science, Weak Strongman offers the best evidence available about how Russia actually works, why Russia invaded Ukraine, and what the future holds for US-Russian relations.
China’s Unusual Rise: How China Builds and Exercises Military Power, 1995-2020
How do rising countries like China build influence in a world dominated by more established powers? Whereas most experts assume that China has sought to emulate the U.S., Oriana Skylar Mastro, Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, argues that China has become powerful mainly through doing things differently. Beijing has exploited U.S. blind spots, maneuvered in areas of uncertainty, and engaged in what she calls “entrepreneurial” foreign policy. These findings have significant implications for understanding China's unique strategic approach—a necessary pursuit if the U.S. is to successfully engage in great power competition.
US Foreign Policy and the War in Ukraine
Professor Hilary Appel and Jennifer Taw hosted a Ukraine Social Engagement Fair
What Has Made Taiwan a Flash Point in US-China Relations?
Professor Minxin Pei
Freeberg Forum, Kravis LC62
