October 2

Clark Gibson

Professor of Political Science
University of California, San Diego

"Explaining the African Vote: The Role of Government Performance and Ethnicity in the 2007 Kenyan Elections"

12:00 pm - C-104/105 - Hesburgh Center

Roundtable/State of Relations between the US and Central America

4:15 pm - Hesburgh Center

October 6

Gwynne Dyer

Journalist and Author

"After Iraq"

Video

7:00 pm - Hesburgh Center

Cosponsored by the Kroc Institute

October 7

Andrzej Cieslik

Visiting Associate Professor, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

"The EU, the US and the MENA countries: Prospects and Consequences of Trade Liberalization"

12:30pm - C-103 Hesburgh Center

October 8

Dr. Linda Whiteford

University of South Florida

"The Structural Violence of Humanitarianism"

4:15 pm - C100 Hesburgh Center, Auditorium

October 9

Josiah Blackmore

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Toronto

"Frons Africae: Portugal and Early Expansionist Encounters in Africa"

4:15 pm - Hesburgh Center

Cosponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)

Jamie Williamson

Legal Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC)

Bernard Barrett

U.S. spokesperson for the ICRC

"Humanity in the Midst of War: The Work of the Red Cross"

October 9-11

Graduate Student Conference "The Common Good In Transition and Translation"

Hesburgh Center

http://www.nd.edu/~nanovic/commongood.html

October 13

Teacher Discussion Group - Student Presentations

4:15 pm - Hesburgh Center

October 15

Mary Ellen O'Connell

Book Signing
"The Power of International Law for Peace"

7:00 pm - Hammes Bookstore

October 17-18

Conference - "European Identities? Regionalism, Nationalism, and Religion"

London Centre, University of Notre Dame

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Institute for
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and Kellogg

October 27

Professor Laurence Kominz

Portland State University

Book Signing

Mishima on Stage: The Black Lizard and Other Plays

Monday, October 27
5:30pm
116 Debartolo Hall

Mishima Yukio was Japan's foremost playwright in the two decades following WWII. He wrote in a multiplicity of genres: tragedy, melodrama, romantic comedy, shingeki, kabuki, and modern noh. Kominz focuses on four plays in his anthology of newly translated works, exploring how Mishima's characters use disguise and deception as their strategy to achieve every sort of goal--the overturning of unequal power relationships between men and women, romantic betrayal and the fulfillment of romantic love, thievery and the apprehension of criminal masterminds. The presentation will include video clips from plays in the anthology."

Cosponsored by Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters, Center for Asian Studies, Undergraduate Studies Office Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.

October 28

Leslie Schwindt Bayer

Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Missouri
and Kellogg Visiting Fellow

"Women in Latin American Legislatures."

12:30 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

October 30

Beyond Voting: The Right to Political Participation in the Twenty-First Century

Panelists

Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Robert Fishman
Professor of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Julia King
Citizen Activist, Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)

Lisa A. Plencer
President, League of Women Voters, South Bend Area

Moderator

Jackie Smith
Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

C100 Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Cosponsored by Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos Celebration and dedication of ofrenda (altar)

7:00 pm - The Snite Museum

Cosponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Snite Museum of Art, the Institute for Latino Studies, Campus Ministry, and Multi-Cultural Student Programs and Service

October 31

Africa Working Group Lecture

Diane Stinton
Director of the Theology Graduate Program, Daystar University, Nairobi

"Glimpses of Hope from the Grassroots: African Refugee Women Living Out Reconciliation in Nairobi"

1:00 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

The African Working Group is sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies

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