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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 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"
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