Asch
Center Research Seminar Speakers
Spring Semester 2006 January
10, 2006 Thomas Hill, Director of Iraq Program, Center for
International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University:
"Community-Level Peacebuilding in Iraq"
January 17, 2006
Bernardo Mariani, Saferworld International Arms Transfer Controls
Co-ordinator: "The Case for an International Arms Trade Treaty"
January
24, 2006 William Burk-White, Assistant Professor of Law, University of
Pennsylvania: "The Political Effects of International Criminal
Tribunals in Post-Conflict States: Illustrations From Bosnia and DR
Congo"
January 31, 2006 Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social
Psychology and Fellow, New College, University of Oxford: "New
Frontiers in Research on Intergroup Contact"
February 7, 2006
Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci
University, Istanbul, Turkey: "Insurgent Media in the New Iraq: An
Examination of How Insurgent Groups Communicate in Post-War Iraq and
Their Messages"
February 14, 2006 Rob Kurzban, Assistant
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania: "Laboratory
Evidence on Moralistic Aggression: Audience Effects"
February
21, 2006 Paul Robinson, Colin S. Diver Distinguished Professor of Law,
University of Pennsylvania: "Accommodating Shari'a and International
Norms in Drafting an Islamic Penal Code: Penn's Criminal Law
Research Group in the Maldives"
February 28, 2006 Renee Fox,
Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of
Pennsylvania: "Foundational Principles, Abiding Issues, and Changing
Circumstances: A Sociological Perspective on Humanitarian Action"
March
14, 2006 Cindy Storer, Senior Analyst in the Counterterrorism Center at
CIA: "The Ziggurat of Zealotry: the Architecture of Extremism"
March
21, 2006 Monroe Price, Visiting Professor of Communication and Director
of the Project for Global Communication Studies at Pennfs Annenberg
School for Communication: "Information Intervention, Conflict and the
Market for Loyalties"
March 28, 2006 Tristan Mabry, Ph.D.
Candidate in Political Science, University of Pennsylvania: "Muslim
Nation or Nation of Islam? The Mobilization of Sindhi Separatists"
April
4, 2006 Al-Hassan Conteh, President, University of Liberia: "Rebuilding
a State University in Post-Conflict Liberia: Challenges and
Opportunities"
April 11, 2006 Clark McCauley, Professor of
Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, and Director of the Solomon Asch Center:
"More Than Smart Bombs: The Psychology of Suicide Terrorism"
Fall Semester 2005 September
13, 2005 Brendan O'Leary, Director of the Solomon Asch Center and
Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania:
"1001 Hours of Negotiations In and Over Iraq"
September 20, 2005
Stuart J. Kaufman, Department of Political Science and International
Relations, University of Delaware: "Escaping The Symbolic Politics
Trap: Reconciliation Initiatives And Conflict Resolution In
Ethnic Wars"
September 27, 2005 Adam Cohen, Department of
Psychology, Philadelphia University: "Effects of Religious Group on
Moral Judgment and Forgiveness"
October 11, 2005 Ian Lustick,
Heyman Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania:
"Terror in the Homeland: Threat or Ploy?"
October 25 Donald
Levine, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago: "Harmony in
Cyprus: How Aiki Practice Connected Arabs, Israelis, and Other
Conflicting Ethnies"
November 1, 2005 Jonathan Hyman,
Photographer and Documentarian: "A New Americana: The 9/11 Murals and
Depictions of the World Trade Center Towers"
November 8, 2005
Don Ellis, Department of Communications, University of Hartford:
"E-Deliberation: Online Argument Between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians"
November
15, 2005 Tina Kempin, Visiting Scholar, Solomon Asch Center: "Utilizing
the Power of the Law: Minority Rights and Ethnic Conflict Resolution
Within the UN System"
November 29, 2005 Manos Karagiannis,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Solomon Asch Center: "Hizb ut-Tahrir
al-Islami: The Challenge of Non-Violent Radical Islam"
December
6, 2005 Paul Kaiser, Associate Director, African Studies Center,
University of Pennsylvania: "Attempts to Prevent Violent Conflict in
Zanzibar -- An Assessment of the October 30th Elections"
Spring Semester 2005 January
11, 2005 Lawrence W. Sherman, Greenfield Professor of Human Relations,
Chair and Professor of Criminology, Director, Fels Institute of
Government & Jerry Lee Center of Criminology: "Ethnicity and
Reconciliation: Randomized Trials of Crime Victims Meeting with Their
Criminals"
January 18, 2005 Marc Ross, Kenan Professor of
Political Science at Bryn Mawr College: "Cultural Contestation:
Slavery, the Civil War and the Politics of Racial Representation in the
American Symbolic Landscape"
January 25, 2005 Brendan OfLeary,
Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director, Solomon Asch Center
at Penn: "Looking Back at the IRA"
February 1, 2005 George
Bonnano, Department of Psychology, Teacher's College, Columbia
University: "Adult Resilience to Loss and Trauma"
February 8,
2005 Christian Leuprecht, Department of Political Studies, Queenfs
University, Canada: "The Illusion of the Rainbow: Comparative Evidence
on Strategies for the Regulation of Inter-communal Relations on
Mauritius and Fiji"
February 15, 2005 Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania: "Teaching Iraq"
February
22, 2005 K. Tudor Silva, Professor of Sociology at the University of
Peradeniya in Sri Lanka: "Globalization and Tsunami: Opportunities and
Challenges for Shaping the Future of Sri Lanka"
March 15, 2005
Ruth Ben-Artzi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Browne Center for International
Politics at Penn: "Defiant Soldiers: Causes and Consequences of Refusal
to Serve in Israel's Defense Forces"
March 22, 2005 Lee Smithey,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College: "Inside Out:
Transforming Conflict in Northern Ireland within Communities and
Traditions"
March 29, 2005 Sumathy Sivamohan, Professor of
English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: "Middle Passage:
Migration and Displacement of Tamil Women of the Diaspora"
April
5, 2005 Shane O'Neill, Director, School of Politics and International
Studies at Queen's University Belfast and Visiting Scholar, Solomon
Asch Center: "A Critical Theory of Ethnopolitical Conflict"
April
12, 2005 Stefan Klusemann, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Micro-Situational Antecedents of Violent
Atrocity"
April 19, 2005 Julie Chalfin, Asch Center Postdoctoral
Fellow and Psychosocial Research Fellow at Save the Children,
Washington, DC: "Monitoring Psychosocial Needs in Crisis Situations:
Lessons Learned in Darfur"
Fall Semester 2004 September
14, 2004 Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science and
Director, Solomon Asch Center at Penn: "The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq"
September
21, 2004 Larry Hollingworth, Humanitarian Programs Director and
Visiting Professor of the Institute of International Humanitarian
Affairs at Fordham University: "New Challenges in Humanitarian Aid: A
Perspective on United Nations Work in Iraq, Chechnya and the Balkans"
September
28, 2004 Randall Collins, Professor of Sociology, University of
Pennsylvania: "How and When Does Carousing Lead to Violence?"
October
5, 2004 Ali B. Ali-Dinar, African Studies Center, University of
Pennsylvania: "Towards Understanding the 'Genocide' in Darfur-Sudan"
October
12, 2004 Britt Cartrite, Postdoctoral Fellow, Solomon Asch Center: "The
Clash of (Scottish) Civilizations: Local Culture and National Identity"
October
19, 2004 Arancha Garcia del Soto, Director of Refugee Initiatives &
Lina Cherfas, Research Specialist, Solomon Asch Center: "Exhumating
Memories: Researching the Impact of Exhumations in Rural Areas of Peru
and Guatemala"
November 2, 2004 Rudhramoorthy Cheran, Department
of Sociology and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University: "Multiple
Homes and Parallel Civil Societies: Refugee Diasporasand
Transnationalism"
November 9, 2004 Paula Sabloff, Senior
Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor: "Do Mongols and
Kazakhs Think Differently about Democracy and Market Economy?"
November
16, 2004 Vida Bajc, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Understanding Security in Public Events:
The Case of Public Rituals in Jerusalem"November 23, 2004 Ian Lustick,
Heyman Professor of Political Science at Penn and Associate Director of
the Solomon Asch Center: "Unilateral Withdrawal from Gaza: A Good Idea
Because It Will Fail"
November 30, 2004 Diana Mutz, Stouffer
Professor of Political Science and Communication and Director of the
Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the University of
Pennsylvania: "Hearing the Other Side: Effects of Television on the
Perceived Legitimacy of Oppositional Views"
December 7, 2004
Clark McCauley, Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College and
Director, Solomon Asch Center at Penn: "Prescription for Riot: Horowitz
and Varshney"
Spring Semester 2004 January
13, 2004 Richard Koenigsberg, Director, Library of Social Science:
"Dying and Killing for Nations: The Psychology Of War And Genocide"
January
13, 2004 Cath Bryne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Solomon Asch Center: "They
Said They Would Bring Us the Bones: Interviews with Victims of Human
Rights Violations"
January 13, 2004 Renee Fox, Annenberg
Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of
Pennsylvania: "Ethical Issues in Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of
HIV/AIDS in South Africa"
February 3, 2004 Britt Cartrite,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Solomon Asch Center: "Erupting Volcanoes, Crashing
Meteors, or Global Warming?: Competing Conceptions of Ethnopolitical
Mobilization"
February 10, 2004 Tomas Radil, Czech Academy of
Sciences and Monell Center at the University of Pennsylvania: "Ethical
Philosophy of the Holocaust: Exploring Collective Guilt, Individual
Punishment, and the Reconciliation Dividend"
February 17, 2004
Marc Ross, Kenan Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College:
"Museums, Monuments and Memorials in Post-Apartheid South African
Peacebuilding"
February 24, 2004 Sophia Moskalenko, Ph.D.
Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania: "What
CAN your country do for you? Terror Management Theory, Perception of
Control, and Group Identification"
March 2, 2004 Nancy DiTomaso,
Professor of Organization Management at Rutgers University: "The
American Non-dilemma: Why There is No Moral Dilemma Among White
Americans about the Existence of Racial Inequality"
March 16, 2004 David Sloan Wilson, Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University-SUNY: "American Prosociality"
March
23, 2004 Juris Draguns, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Penn State
University: "Ethnopolitical Relations in the Baltic States in Light of
Sociopsychological Research: Identity, Stereotypes, and Empathy"
March
30, 2004 Neil Boothby, Professor of Population and Family Health,
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University: "Mozambique's War
of the Spirits: What Has Become of Renamo's Child Soldiers?"
April
6, 2004 Tom Tyler, Professor of Psychology, New York University:
"Managing Social Change: Motivation and Organizational Design"
April
13, 2004 Marc Sageman, MD, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Al Qaeda and the War of Ideas"
April
20, 2004 Greta Uehling, Solomon Asch Center Postdoctoral Fellow, UNHCR
Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, Geneva: "The Ethics and Politics
Of Research in Humanitarian Contexts"
Fall Semester 2003 September
9, 2003 Paul Rozin, Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of
the Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania: "The Framing of
Atrocities"
September 16, 2003 Clark McCauley, Professor of
Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, and Director of the Solomon Asch Center,
University of Pennsylvania: "Genocide: Typology and Psychology"
September
23, 2003 Subrata Banerjee, Visiting Professor and Senior Adviser,
Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh,
India: "Kashmir: In the Context of the Indian National Question"
September
30, 2003 Brendan O'Leary, Professor of Political Science and Director
of the Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania: "Multi-national
Federalism, Federacy, Power-Sharing and the Kurds of Iraq"
October
7, 2003 Lee Cassanelli, Director of the African Studies Center and
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania: "The Role of African
Emigre Communities in Homeland Development and Peacemaking: Examples
from the Horn of Africa"
October 14, 2003 Bob Vitalis, Director
of the Middle East Center and Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania: "The Origins of the New York-Saudi Arabia
Conflict: The Year Bin Ladin Was Born"
October 21, 2003 Oren
Yiftachel, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben
Gurion University, Israel: "The Making of 'Ethnocracy': Land Policies
and Ethnic Conflict in Israel/Palestine"
October 28, 2003 Walker
Connor, Visiting Professor of Political Science and Distinguished
Scholar-in-Residence, Middlebury College, Vermont: "Some Ruminations on
the Nation and Its Myth"
November 4, 2003 Alistair Ager,
Professor, Centre for International Health Studies, Queen Margaret
University College, UK: "Humanitarian Response to Conflict: A
Psychosocial Perspective"
November 11, 2003 Alan Keenan, Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies, Bryn Mawr College:
"Building a Democratic Middle-Ground: The Politics of Human Rights and
Organized 'Civil Society' in Sri Lanka's Peace Process"
November
18, 2003 Ian Lustick, Professor of Political Science and Associate
Director of the Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania: "The
Geneva Initiative and the Israeli-Palestinian Debacle"
November
25, 2003 Marilyn Brewer, Professor of Psychology, Ohio State
University: "Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate: Two Sides of the Same Coin
or Different Currencies?"
December 2, 2003 Barbara von
Schlegell, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of
Pennsylvania: "Another Side of Islam: Why Are We the Strangers Here?"
12/5
Gerald Steinberg, Professor of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University,
Israel: "The Myth of Ripeness in Conflict Resolution and the Failure of
the Oslo Process."
Spring Semester 2003 January
10, 2003 Yaacov Shamir, Professor of Communication, Hebrew University:
"Hostile Neighbors, Hostile World: Israeli and Palestinian Views on
Terrorism and Democracy"
January 14, 2003 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney,
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
"Aesthetics in Nationalism and Patriotism: The Making of the Kamikaze"
January
21, 2003 Michael Karayanni, Fulbright Scholar, University of
Pennsylvania Law School: "The Individual, the Religious Community, and
the State: Applications of Multiculturalism in Israel"
January
28, 2003 Igor Kopytoff, Professor of Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania: "Expanding Conflict to Resolve Conflict in Southwestern
Congo"
February 4, 2003 Paul Rozin, Professor of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania, and Clark McCauley, Professor of
Psychology, Bryn Mawr College: "Negativity Dominance, Peace Education,
and Conflict Resolution"
February 11, 2003 Chris Giannou, MD,
Chief Surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross: "War
Medicine in the Middle East: Protection and Medical Assistance to
Victims of Conflict"
February 25, 2003 Brendan O'Leary,
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center,
University of Pennsylvania: "Consociational Theory: Refinements and a
Defense"
March 4, 2003 Lawrence Davidson, Professor of Middle
East History, West Chester University: "Orwell and Kafka in
Israel/Palestine--Observations on Perceptions and Reality based on a
Recent Trip to the Region"
March 18, 2003 Randall Collins,
Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania: "Rituals of
Solidarity and Security, and Processes of Mass Hysteria, in the Wake of
Terrorist Attack"
March 25, 2003 Vincent Price, Associate
Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania: "Deliberation and its Influence: The Electronic Dialogue
Project"
April 1, 2003 Dominic Bryan, Director and Lecturer in
Social Anthropology, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University
Belfast: "Ethnicity and the Irish Border: Rituals of Protestantism and
Orangeism"
April 8, 2003 Julie Mostov, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Drexel University: "From Gender to Nation"
April
15, 2003 Stephen Del Rosso, Senior Program Officer for International
Peace and Security, Carnegie Corporation of New York:
"Self-Determination in an Age of Globalization: Opening up Brubaker's
'Triadic Nexus' of Nationalism in Estonia and Beyond"
April 22,
2003 Jon Drummond, Major, United States Air Force, and Department of
Psychology, Princeton University: "Tolerating Atrocity: Making
Combatancy Attributions About Noncombatants and Withdrawing Moral
Condemnation of Perpetrators"
Fall Semester 2002 September
10, 2002 Brendan O'Leary, Professor of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania , and Director of the Solomon Asch Center: "Partition"
September
17, 2002 Gameela Samarasinghe, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Psychology,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Visiting Scholar, Solomon Asch
Center: "Community Interventions vs. Counseling in the Context of
Ongoing Conflict in Sri Lanka"
September 24, 2002 Ifat Maoz,
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew
University, and Visiting Scholar, Solomon Asch Center: "Evaluating
Planned Encounters between Jews and Palestinians in Israel as Models of
Intergroup Interaction"
October 1, 2002 Amal Jamal, Assistant
Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, and
Visiting Scholar, Solomon Asch Center: "Citizenship as Opposition:
Minority Strategies for Equality in Ethnonational States"
October
8, 2002 Moshe Maoz, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies,
Hebrew University: "Islam, Islamic Militants, and Arab-Israeli
Relations"
October 22, 2002 Fernando Chang-Muy, Adjunct
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania: "Refugees in the U.S.:
Race, Nationality, and Political Opinion as Grounds for Obtaining
Refuge"
October 29, 2002 Arancha Garcia del Soto, Director of
Refugee Initiatives, Solomon Asch Center: "Refugee Programs: An
Evaluation Following the European Union System"
November 5, 2002
Usha Menon, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Drexel
University: "Exploring Hindu Women's "Militancy": Revisiting the 1990s"
November
12, 2002 Amra Hadzimuhamedovic, Architecture Faculty,University of
Sarajevo: "Religious Apartheid or Religious Pluralism: The Struggle
Over the Heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina"
November 26, 2002 Marc
Sageman, MD, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology, University of
Pennsylvania: "Escape from Alienation: Drifting into al-Qaeda"
December
3, 2002 Harvey Rubin, Professor of Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania, and Director of the Institute for Strategic Threat
Analysis and Response: "The Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and
Response: Update and Plans"
Spring Semester 2002 January
15, 2002 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology, UCLA: "The Interactive
Nature of Sex and Race Discrimination: A Social Dominance Perspective"
January
22, 2002 James Gibson Professor of Government, Washington University:
"Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation? Testing the Causal Assumptions of
the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process"
January 29,
2002 Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania: "Afghanistan Today: Historical and Cultural Factors"
February
5, 2002 Sonia Roccas, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Open
University of Israel: "Guilt by Association: Feelings of Collective
Guilt among Israeli Students"
February 12, 2002 Doug Massey,
Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania: "The Costs of
Self-Deception: U.S. Immigration Policy 1986-2000"
February 19,
2002 Randall Collins, Professor of Sociology, University of
Pennsylvania: "A Micro-Sociological Theory of Violent Interaction"
February
26, 2002 Francisco Gil-White, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania: "What You Think You Know About the War in
Yugoslavia"
March 5, 2002 Clark McCauley, Professor of
Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, and Director, Solomon Asch Center:
"Group Dynamics and Intergroup Conflicts"
March 19, 2002 Steven Rubenstein, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ohio University: "Colonialism and Ethnogenesis"
March
26, 2002 Kate Bezrukova, Visiting Sholar, Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania: "Exploring Ethnic Faultlines, Coalitions,
and Conflict: The Moderating Effects of Group Identity and Leadership"
April
2, 2002 Barbie Zelizer, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for
Communication, University of Pennsylvania: "Images from the Past and
September 11"
April 9, 2002 Colette van Laar, Departments of
Psychology and Education, Leiden University, Netherlands: "Social and
Personal Identity Concerns in Stereotype Threat"
April 16, 2002
Shana Levin, Assistant Professor of Political Psychology, Claremont
McKenna College: "In Search of a Viable Common Ingroup Identity: A
Social Dominance Perspective"
April 23, 2002 Marc Schaller,
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia:
"Danger, Disease, and Prejudice"
May 3, 2002 David Bargal, Professor, School of Social Work, Hebrew University: "Political Leadership and Reconciliation"
May 7, 2002 David Cook, Ph.D., Rice University: "Apocalyptic-Messianic Aspects of Conflict for Muslim Radicals"
Fall Semester 2001 September
11, 2001 Ian Lustick, Professor of Political Science and Associate
Director of the Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania: "The
Meanings of Catastrophe, Historical Knowledge, and the Return of
Exiles: The Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews"
October 2,
2001 Brendan O'Leary, Visiting Professor, Department of Political
Science, University of Pennsylvania: "The Belfast Agreement: Results
and Prospects"
October 9, 2001 Ibtisam Ibrahim, Visiting
Scholar, Solomon Asch Center: "Israel's Ethnic Project Towards Its
Palestinian Minority: The Case of the City of Shafa-amr in Western
Galilee"
October 18, 2001 Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom: "The Challenges of Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Two States...or One Grave?"
October
23, 2001 Marc Ross, Professor of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College:
"The Politics of Cultural Performance and Memory in Ethnic Conflict"
October
30, 2001 Martin Hebert, Peace and Conflict Studies, Haverford College:
"Beyond the Community: The rise of a National Pan-Indigenous movement
in Mexico"
November 6, 2001 Robert Vitalis, Associate Professor
of Political Science and Director of Middle East Center, University of
Pennsylvania, and Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Director of Middle East
Center, University of Pennsylvania: "September 11th: Problematizing
Cause and Effect"
November 13, 2001 Robert Kurzban, Department of Anthropology, UCLA: "Domain-Specific Cognition and Racial Discrimination"
November
20, 2001 Milada Anna Vachudova, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: "Promoting Ethnic
Tolerance and Democratic Reform in the Balkans: International
Incentives and Domestic Actors"
November 27, 2001 Roy Eidelson,
Executive Director, Solomon Asch Center: "Individual Core Beliefs and
Collective Worldviews: Some Preliminary Research Findings"
December
4, 2001 Andrew Ward, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore
College: "A Social Psychological Perspective on Conflict and
Negotiation"
December 11, 2001 Ann Lesch, Professor of Political
Science, Villanova University: "National Identity Dilemmas in the
Sudan: The Difficulty of Constructing Civic Nationalism"
Spring Semester 2001 January
16, 2001 Arthur Waldron, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania: "Thoughts on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and
Violence from a Historian of China"
January 23, 2001
Rose Kadende-Kaiser, Ph.D., Asch Center Visiting Scholar: "The Paradox:
Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in Burundi"
January 30,
2001 Elijah Anderson, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Violence and the Inner City Poor"
February
6, 2001 Brian Spooner, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Fundamentalism and Terrorism"
February
13, 2001 Ian Lustick, Ph.D., Professor of Political
Science, University of Pennsylvania: "United States Foreign Policy and
Prospects for Resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process"
February
20, 2001 Daniel Baraz, Ph.D., Mellon Foundation Humanities
Fellow, University of Pennsylvania: "Early Ethnic Stereotypes of
Cruelty: Medieval and Early Modern Imagery of Cruelty and Violence"
February
27, 2001 Carolyn Makinson, Ph.D., Program Director, Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation: "Issues and Interventions in the Refugee Field:
How Can Universities Help?"
March 6, 2001 Paul
Kaiser, Ph.D., Associate Director, African Studies Center, University
of Pennsylvania: "From 'Imagined Community' to Multicultural Mozaic:
The 'Politics of Difference' in Tanzania"
March 20,
2001 Renee Fox, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology (Emerita),
University of Pennsylvania: "Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the
World: A Report from the Field of a Study of Medical Humanitarianism
and Human Rights Witnessing in Action"
March 27,
2001 Igor Kopytoff, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology,
University of Pennsylvania: "How To Become an African Ethnic Group in
the Twentieth Century: A Case Study"
April 3, 2001
Paul Bolton, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Center for Refugee Studies,
Johns Hopkins University: "Cross-cultural Assessment of Mental Health:
When Back-Translation is Not Enough"
April 10, 2001
Adam Cohen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Solomon Asch Center, University
of Pennsylvania: "Religion and the Morality of Mentality"
April
17, 2001 Barbara Smith, Ph.D., Vice President of Overseas
Programs for the International Rescue Committee: "Refugees in Crisis:
The Role of Mental Health Programs"
April 24, 2001
Al-Hassan Conteh, Ph.D., Asch Center Research Fellow: "Some
Propositions on Liberian Civil War and its Aftermath as Issues for the
Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict"
Fall Semester, 2000 September
12, 2000 Edna Foa, Ph.D., Director of the Center for the
Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania Medical
Center: "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and its Treatment"
September
19, 2000 Gerard Prunier, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Paris, and Senior Researcher in Modern and Contemporary
History, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: "Ethnopolitical
Conflict in Kivu: The Heart of the Congolese War"
September 26,
2000 K. Etty Jehn, Ph.D., Professor of Management, Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania: "Ethnic Faultlines and Escalating
Conflict Situations"
October 3, 2000 Sonia Roccas,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Open University of Israel and
Asch Center Visiting Scholar: "Identity Complexity"
October 10,
2000 Francisco Gil-White, Asch Center Visiting Scholar:
"Developing a Proper Methodology for Studying Ethnic Cognition"
October 17, 2000 Seminar Group Discussion: "The Middle East Crisis"
October
24, 2000 Allen Feldman, Ph.D., Program in the Anthropology
of Everyday Life at the Institute for the Studies of the Humanities in
Ljubljana, Slovenia: "Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission
and the Demonic Economies of Violence and Memory"
October 31,
2000 Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Annenberg
School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania: "How Nationalism
Works at a Religious Level"
November 7, 2000 Cynthia
Enloe, Ph.D., Professor of Government and International Relations,
Clark University: "Gendering Our Curiosity about Ethnic Conflict"
November 14, 2000 Seminar Group Discussion: "Issues of Identity"
November
21, 2000 Robert Wright, Visiting Professor, Department of
Psychology, University of Pennsylvania: "Information Technology, Social
Cohesion, and Social Conflict"
November 28, 2000
John Mueller, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University:
"The Banality of 'Ethnic War': Hate and the Propensity for Violence"
December 5, 2000 Robert Kaplan, Journalist and Author: "Order and Chaos in the Year 2010"
Spring Semester 2000 January
18, 2000 Ian Lustick, Ph.D., Professor of Political
Science, University of Pennsylvania: "What is a Meme and What Might It
Mean for Ethnopolitical Conflict?"
February 1, 2000
Robert Vitalis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania: "From Theories of Race Development to
Ethnopolitical Conflict"
February 8, 2000 Lawrence
Sherman, Ph.D., Director, Fels Center of Government, University of
Pennsylvania: "Apologies for Crime: A Randomized Experiment"
February
15, 2000 John Darley, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology,
Princeton University: "How Repressive Regimes Empower Resistance"
February
22, 2000 Jeanne Marecek, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology,
Swarthmore College: "Poisoned Relationships: Honor, Anger, Revenge, and
Sri Lanka's Epidemic of Suicide"
February 29, 2000
Usha Menon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Drexel
University: "Towards Understanding Militancy amongst Hindu Women"
March
7, 2000 Andrew March, Marshall Fellowship Recipient,
University of Pennsylvania: "Revenge and Violence in Post-War Kosovo"
March
21, 2000 Doug Massey, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Black English and Housing Discrimination
in Philadelphia"
March 28, 2000 Stephen Steinberg,
Ph.D., Executive Director, and William Boltz, Ph.D., Associate
Director, Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community:
"Building Community through Public Discourse: An Update on the Work of
the Penn National Commission"
April 4, 2000 Harold
Schiffman, Ph.D., Professor of Language Learning, University of
Pennsylvania: "What is Language Policy and Where Does It Reside?"
April
11, 2000 David Rousseau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Political Science, University of Pennsylvania: "Identity and Threat in
International Relations: An Experimental Analysis"
April 18,
2000 Miguel Centeno, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology,
Princeton University: "Differences in Political Violence Between Latin
America and Europe"
April 25, 2000 Alan Fiske,
Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, UCLA: "Basic Structures Motivating
Conflict, Cooperation, and Constraint"
Fall semester, 1999 September
28, 1999 Andrew Ward, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Psychology, Swarthmore College: "Psychological Barriers to Conflict
Resolution"
October 5, 1999 Roy Eidelson, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania:
"Communal Group Core Beliefs and Their Role in Ethnopolitical Conflict"
October
12, 1999 Ifat Maoz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Psychology, Hebrew University, Israel: "Jewish-Arab Encounters in
Israel"
October 19, 1999 Laurence Piper, Ph.D.,
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University: "The Rise and Fall
of Zulu Nationalism in South African Politics, 1994 to 1999"
November
2, 1999 Keith Oppenheim, Department of Anthropology,
University of Pennsylvania: "Ethnopolitical Conflict: The Ethiopian
Experience."
November 9, 1999 Clark McCauley, Ph.D.,
Professor of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College and University of
Pennsylvania: "The Exposure Index: A Measure of Intergroup Contact"
November
16, 1999 Roy Baumeister, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology,
Case Western University: "Bad is Stronger Than Good"
November 23, 1999 George Zeo, Department of Psychology, Temple University: "Perspectives on Kosovo"
November
30, 1999 S. K. Menon, Solomon Asch Center Fellow: "The
Institutional Framework for Conflict Resolution in India"
December
7, 1999 Melanie Green, Ph.D., Department of Psychology,
Ohio State University: "Virtual Worlds, Real Impact: How Narratives
Affect Beliefs"
December 14, 1999 Julie Exline, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Case Western University: "Forgiveness" |