FALL EVENTS open to the Brown University community
Election 2016 Seminar Series
Part I: Election 2016: Impact At Home and Abroad
It’s often said outside of the U.S. that the American presidential election is the most important election for everyone outside of the US. This year is different. The Republican Party was unable to get a mainstream Republican through its primary process, with the result that Donald Trump is now the GOP candidate. The Democratic Party has in turn nominated a candidate with some of the highest negatives ever. Trump promises trade protection and migrant exclusion. Clinton promises college expansion and economic inclusion. But are these the policies America, and the world, needs? And what impact, at home and abroad, will the election of either of these candidates have both locally and globally. Professors Wendy Schiller and Mark Blyth discuss these issues in this forum.
Thursday, September 22, 2016, 12:00-1:30
Read the Brown Daily Herald event review.
Part II: Election 2016: What Happened and Why
The result is in - but does it really matter and for whom does it matter? Will the U.S. president-elect be able to address the problems faced by the voters that put them in charge, or will we be here again in four years time. Join Professors Wendy Schiller and Mark Blyth to discuss what happened and why, and perhaps, what happens next.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 4:00-5:30
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Undergraduates: Wondering What to Take Second Semester?
Meet with current students and Professor Wendy Schiller to discuss which courses are right for you for the second semester.
Faunce House 12:00-1:00
Memorial Room 225
October 26, 2016
Department of Political Science 2016-17 Speaker Series
Professor Javier Hidalgo
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
12:00pm
Joukowsky Forum
Watson Institute
Title of Talk: After Open Borders
Dr. Javier Hidalgo is a political theorist from the University of Richmond whose teaching and research interests center on ethics and international affairs, especially the ethical and public policy questions relating to immigration. He teaches courses such as Leadership and the Humanities, Justice & Civil Society, and advanced courses on leadership in international contexts.
A Fulbright Scholar, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from Reed College and a master's and doctorate from the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University. He was a visiting scholar at Brown University prior to joining the Jepson School
Professor Pablo Pinto
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
4:00pm
Lownes Room
John Hay Library
Pablo M. Pinto is the Kenneth Lay Chair in Political Science and a Research Associate of the Center for Public Policy of the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston. Pinto's areas of expertise are international and comparative political economy. His research analyzes the causes and consequences of the globalization of production. He is the author of Partisan Investment in the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press) and co-author of Politics and FDI (Michigan University Press). His research has been published or is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, Economics & Politics, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, the Review of International Political Economy, edited volumes and other outlets.
Pinto holds an M.A. from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, and a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego. He also received a law degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Prior to joining the University of Houston Pinto was a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He has taught at the Escuela Nacional de Gobierno in his native Argentina, and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he founded and directed the Department for Asia Pacific Studies. Pinto also worked as the Chief Counsel for Toyota Argentina.
Currently Pinto serves on the Transitional Executive Committee of the Hobby School of Public Affairs, and is an Advocate for the Center for Advancing UH Faculty Success. Pinto is a non-resident fellow of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, a non-resident scholar of the Baker Institute's Latin American Initiative and a Lecturer in the Master of Global Affairs at Rice University.
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