A Global Currents Lecture Discussion with:
Sarah Bush Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Political ScienceTemple University
Tuesday March 31, 2015, 12:15 p.m.Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom ACase Western Reserve University
When U.S. government democracy assistance was launched three decades ago, it fostered real change, as in Poland and Chile, by supporting dissidents. Since...
Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University
March 2nd, 2015, 4:30 pmTinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A
Scholars have longed distinguished between normal political protest and what can be termed “high-risk activism,” best exemplified in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The International Solidarity Movement consciously invoked the precedent of Mississippi Freedom...
Clark 302
5:45 – 6:00: Introduction, setting up powerpoints
6:00 – 6:20: Bowen He - Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China after Reform Advisor: Paul Schroeder
6:20 – 6:40: Kassie Stewart - Getting Back to Grassroots? Advisor: Paul Schroeder
6:40 – 7:00: Robert Zimmermann - Possible Solutions to the Western Sahara Conflict Advisor: Pete Moore
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