This network of Brown faculty and students and other colleagues in the Providence area meet to engage in discussion about the issues confronting the countries of the African continent and methods employed to analyze these issues. This series has provided young scholars with an important opportunity to present their doctoral research.

This lecture series is supported by:

Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund
Marshall Woods Lectureship Fund of Fine Arts
Politics, Culture & Identity Program
Cogut Center
Brown University Graduate Student Council
CFAR, BRUNAP
Sarah Doyle Women's Center
The Wayland Collegium, Department of Modern Culture & Media
Department of Latin American Studies
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Department of Theater, Speech and Dance
Department of Anthropology

For more information, visit: WatsonInstitute.org/AAA

Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires Since 1848.

This interdisciplinary and international research project (2003-2007) explored the origins and manifestations of ethnic violence in the borderlands region of East-Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. The Project was centered at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in collaboration with several other institutions in the United States and Europe.

The Brown Legal Studies Seminar (BLSS) is an interdisciplinary colloquium series, featuring cutting-edge research on law and legal institutions, from a wide range of vantage points across the social sciences and humanities. Sessions are open to the entire Brown community, but we particularly welcome faculty and graduate students, from all fields. BLSS is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Watson Institute for International Studies.

*Food provided with RSVP 

RSVP to Ellen_White@brown.edu.

For more information on the Brown Legal Studies Seminars, see http://www.watsoninstitute.org/blss/.

Brown's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies sponsors this series and related conferences for Latin American Studies. Annually, the Center draws on international scholars to present research on wide-ranging topics related to the politics, culture, and identity of Central and South American and Caribbean countries.

Administered by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, the annual Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture aims to increase understanding of global issues related to Korean and Far Eastern History and Culture. Previous lecturers have included Ambassador Christopher Hill, Professor Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Professor Hagen Koo, Ambassador In-ho Lee, Professor Chung-in Moon, Mr. George Soros, and Professor Young-Kwan Yoon.

CINEBRASIL FILM SCHEDULE

All films will be shown in MacMillan Hall, Room 117 with the exception of Tropa de Elite which will be shown at the Metcalf Auditorium at the RISD Chace Center.

All films are in Portuguese with English subtitles with the exception of Bang Bang (Portuguese only). 

The shorts Dossiê Rê Bordosa (Monique Kovacic), Animadores (João Cabral), Tira os óculos e recolhe o homem (André Sampaio) and Booker Pittman (Rodrigo Grota) will also be screened as part of this fabulous program.

For more details PLEASE visit our website after Tuesday, February 24th

www.watsoninstitute.org/clas/cinebrasil.cfm  

Hope to see you ALL at CineBRASIL at Brown 2009

The Colloquium on Comparative Research is a cross-disciplinary program based at the Watson Institute for International Studies (WIIS) and tied to the Graduate Program in Development at Brown University.  It draws on a core group of faculty in the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology at Brown University, as well as WIIS researchers, whose scholarship falls broadly in the area of development.  

The Colloquium meets biweekly on Wednesdays from 5:00pm - 6:30pm.  Presentations normally last about 40 minutes, followed by questions and discussion.  Following are the confirmed dates for the 2010 Spring Semester:

February 10:  Timothy Patrick Moran, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, SUNY

February 24: Deborah Thomas, Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology Graduate Group, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

March 10: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan 

March 24: Lauren Morris MacLean, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University

April 21: James Ron, Norman Paterson School for International Affairs, Carleton University

April 28:  Lisa Wedeen, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago 

Commencement Forums are a series of academic colloquia by faculty, alumni, and distinguished guests that take place during Brown University Commencement.

sponsored by the Brown University Faculty Lectures

The combination of viewing international business as a partner in environmental protection and embracing market mechanisms for solving environmental problems places transnational corporations at the center of debates over managing global environmental commons. This lecture series will explore trends both in the consolidation of corporate power in the international environmental governance and in opportunities for resistance.
There will be five lectures on the series. The first lecture will provide a comprehensive overview of the nature and evolution of corporate power in national and international political arenas. Subsequent speakers in the series will focus on the interactions between transnational corporations and social movements in specific international environmental issue areas including climate change, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), HIV/AIDS, and the environmental consequences of international trade.

The Development Studies Colloquium aims to bring together academics and practitioners to share their expertise on different aspects of development, such as bottom-of-the-pyramid market strategies, rapid urbanization, the impact of institutional corruption, and many other issues. This colloquium is unique in that it engages scholars as well as development practitioners in discussing topics of shared interest, bridging the gap between the two sides that, regrettably, so often exists in academia. Students, particularly those of the Development Studies program, will hear from and ask questions to both experts in theory and practice concurrently, which is an uncommon opportunity on campus.

This series brings to campus leading public intellectuals to engage faculty and students in discussion on compelling global issues. These intellectuals play an important role in bridging the gap between the academy and the public on topics such as war, ethnic conflict, self-determination, and the global economy.

The European Politics Seminar Series considers, through occasional lectures and workshops, the political, social, and economic issues confronting Europe. It will survey and compare policy responses among different states, problems of European integration, as well as relations between Europe and other parts of the world. The seminar series builds on the previous work of the Future of Germany Seminar Series.

This series addresses issues of world politics from an ethical perspective. It is part of the Institute’s new initiative to develop a research and education project on global ethics with three interrelated foci: human rights, global economics, and coercion.

To download a PDF of the Spring 2003 series, see http://www.watsoninstitute.org/events/globalethics.pdf.

Spring 2004: Critical Issues in Global Security: Reappraising Theory and Practice

Download the Spring 2004 Global Security Seminar Series flyer in PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

The Illicit Flows Speaker Series features a range of scholarly approaches, including anthropologists, historians, and political scientists, examining how "illicitness" shapes the flows of people, goods, money and information outside legal, officially sanctioned channels of travel and commerce, not simply mapping of such flows but exploring the social, economic, security and cultural realms that surround them. This series is jointly sponsored by the Global Security and Politics, Culture and Identity Programs.

Speakers:
9/19/06 Mary Roldan, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University

10/17/06 Johan Lindquist, Postdoctoral Fellow, Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies 

11/28/06 Julie Chu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wellesley College 

2/6/07  Daniel Jordan Smith, Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University

3/20/07  Mine Eder, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

4/26/07  Fawwaz Traboulsi, Columbia University

‘Beyond Terror: Innovating Global Security for the 21st Century’

Global security – in the broad sense of how we understand, manage, and ameliorate an endangered world – is the most pressing challenge of the 21st century. The issue of security has recently been transformed by new global forces, with transnational terrorism often put at the top of the list. However, the U.S.-led “Global War on Terror” has not only skewed perceptions of threat and vulnerability but also undermined long-term strategic planning and multilateral efforts that are needed to curtail terrorism. Now more than ever there is an urgent policy as well as public need to assess the actual risks of terrorism against other current and potential global issues that have suffered neglect since 9/11. Innovating global security requires getting beyond terror as the determinant of security policy and as the dominant concept of security studies.

The lecture series will bring participants with diverse approaches to the Watson Institute to help reframe one of the most critical debates facing us today: What makes us feel safe? Unsafe?

Our strategy is fourfold: to reconceptualize security; to investigate the processes of securitization; to expand the levels of analysis from national and international security to include broader concerns of human, network, and global security; and to interrelate a wider range of threats and vulnerabilities, including but not limited to: organized warfare among states and sub-state actors; transnational and global terrorism; ethnic, communal and religious conflict; states at risk; resource conflicts; transnational crime; environmental degradation; pandemics; weapons proliferation; and information warfare. 

The lecture series is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Joint Sem­i­nar on South Asian Pol­i­tics 

Co-sponsored by the Wat­son Insti­tute for International Studies at Brown Uni­ver­sity, the Weath­er­head Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Affairs at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity and the MIT Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Studies.

The eco­nomic and strate­gic rel­e­vance of South Asia has enor­mously grown in recent years. While India’s eco­nomic story and South Asia’s strug­gle with ter­ror are often noted, there is a great deal more to the region, which is of intel­lec­tual relevance.

Con­sider some of the “big” ques­tions of pol­i­tics, polit­i­cal econ­omy and secu­rity, on which the South Asian region in gen­eral, and India in par­tic­u­lar, offer engag­ing perspectives:

(1) His­tor­i­cally speak­ing, uni­ver­sal fran­chise democ­racy came to the West after the indus­trial rev­o­lu­tion had been com­pleted. In India, uni­ver­sal fran­chise was born at a time when the coun­try was over­whelm­ingly agrar­ian and man­u­fac­tur­ing con­sti­tuted a mere 2–3% of GDP. What can we sur­mise about the simul­ta­ne­ous pur­suit of eco­nomic trans­for­ma­tion and demo­c­ra­tic deep­en­ing from India’s expe­ri­ence? India-China com­par­isons are directly rel­e­vant here. More gen­er­ally, as Africa and other Asian coun­tries con­tem­plate eco­nomic future, is democ­racy to be viewed as a polit­i­cal frame­work within which eco­nomic devel­op­ment ought to be pursued?

(2) His­tor­i­cally, man­u­fac­tur­ing has always led an eco­nomic rev­o­lu­tion. It is as true of Europe and the US as of East Asia. In India, high-tech ser­vices, pri­mar­ily export-based, have led the boom, and are now wrestling with an inter­na­tional eco­nomic down­turn. What are the larger lessons of a services-led eco­nomic transformation?

(3) India’s democ­racy has func­tioned amidst one of the most hier­ar­chi­cal social orders the world has wit­nessed: viz., caste sys­tem. Has the equal­ity prin­ci­ple of democ­racy under­mined the caste sys­tem, or have caste inequal­i­ties changed the script of Indian democ­racy, forc­ing it to dif­fer sig­nif­i­cantly from the West­ern demo­c­ra­tic experience? 

(4) Seri­ous regional dis­par­i­ties mark vir­tu­ally the entire region. In India, com­pared to the north­ern and east­ern states, the south­ern and west­ern states have not only boomed eco­nom­i­cally, but their human devel­op­ment per­for­mance has been markedly supe­rior. In Pak­istan, Pun­jab con­tin­ues to be far ahead of the other regions. How does one explain such vari­a­tions? Are there larger social sci­ence the­o­ries at stake? Can newer the­o­ries be developed?

(5) The shadow of secu­rity over pol­i­tics and eco­nom­ics is now dark and deep. Why has ter­ror­ism taken such roots in Pak­istan? What is it about the polity or soci­ety of Pak­istan that has pro­vided a home to ter­ror­ism? Given how ter­ror­ism works, can it spread to India in a sig­nif­i­cant way?

(6) The secu­rity sit­u­a­tion in Afghanistan is now the cen­ter of inter­na­tional atten­tion. How does one under­stand the secu­rity prob­lems of Afghanistan? Why is estab­lish­ing order such a mon­u­men­tal task in Afghanistan and also a tall task in Pakistan?

(7) Secu­rity has a so-called softer side. Human rights of some minor­ity groups have been com­pro­mised for the sake of “nation-building” all over the region. This is true even in India, which has func­tioned as a democ­racy for over six decades. With far greater inten­sity, the same issues crop up in Sri Lanka, once the most vig­or­ous democ­racy in the devel­op­ing world. Why have South Asian democ­ra­cies found it hard to develop more robust human rights regimes? Is it a South Asian prob­lem, or a more generic prob­lem of democ­ra­cies faced with insurgencies?

(8) In a related vein, rag­ing debates over the rule of law have taken place all over South Asia. In India, the debate has also cov­ered the role of pub­lic inter­est lit­i­ga­tion. Why have South Asian soci­eties strug­gled so hard to estab­lish a reli­able legal regime? Is it sim­ply a func­tion of low incomes and unsta­ble secu­rity envi­ron­ments? Or, do cul­tural and soci­o­log­i­cal norms seri­ously clash with the rule of law? Do we have the­o­ries that tell us how rule of law got insti­tu­tion­al­ized in the richer coun­tries? Can those the­o­ries be used for under­stand­ing South Asia?

(9) South Asia as a region has been one of the orig­i­nal homes of the NGO move­ment in the world. Some of the world’s most respected non-governmental orga­ni­za­tions have been work­ing in Bangladesh, Pak­istan, Sri Lanka and India. What can we learn about what kinds of NGOs suc­ceed and what types fail? Is the learn­ing region-specific, or is it portable? 

(10) India’s demo­c­ra­tic longevity has coex­isted with sub­stan­tial party frac­tion­al­iza­tion. Over the last twenty years, Delhi has been ruled by coali­tion gov­ern­ments. Such coali­tions have nor­mally marked poli­ties that have pro­por­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tion, not first-past-the-post sys­tems, which tend to pro­duce fewer par­ties in power. How do we under­stand India’s party fractionalization?

The list above is not exhaus­tive, but these are some of the issues that this annual sem­i­nar series, con­cen­trat­ing on con­tem­po­rary South Asian pol­i­tics and polit­i­cal econ­omy, will inves­ti­gate. Some ses­sions of the sem­i­nar will be entirely aca­d­e­mic, but other ses­sions will con­cep­tu­al­ized as a Haber­masian pub­lic sphere, where aca­d­e­mics alone do not monop­o­lize dis­course. Rather, pub­lic fig­ures — from pol­i­tics, busi­ness, jour­nal­ism, secu­rity and NGO sec­tor– and aca­d­e­mic researchers and stu­dents will engage in a sus­tained con­ver­sa­tion. Knowl­edge, inevitably, has many facets.

This sem­i­nar is a joint effort of, and is funded by, three insti­tu­tions of the Boston-Providence area: the Wat­son Insti­tute at Brown, the Weath­er­head Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Affairs at Har­vard and the MIT Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Stud­ies. It will be co-directed by fac­ulty work­ing on dif­fer­ent aspects of South Asian pol­i­tics and polit­i­cal econ­omy in each of these uni­ver­si­ties. The loca­tion of the sem­i­nar will alter­nate between Brown, Har­vard and MIT. Eleven meet­ings are planned for the 2009/2010 aca­d­e­mic year. A detailed pro­gram for the series can be found below.

Orga­niz­ing committee:

Chair:
Ashutosh Varsh­ney (Brown)

Co-Directors:
Patrick Heller (Brown)
Pre­rna Singh (Har­vard)
Vipin Narang (MIT)

“Lectures on Globalization and Inequality” will bring major academics and practitioners to speak at Brown on one of the defining issues of our time, as part of the Watson Institute’s new Globalization and Inequality Initiative.

The Globalization and Inequality Initiative deals with the new realities of a world growing ever closer together through trade, finance, information, and transportation networks. While the dynamics of global integration create many new opportunities for nations, businesses, and individuals, not everyone benefits. The fact is that because of emerging or persistent inequalities, many groups and even entire nations are not seeing their quality of life improve as a result of globalization. This, in turn, is generating new political, institutional, and security problems that require attention and action.

The inaugural Lecture on Globalization and Inequality is “Inequality in Latin America: A Presidential Dialogue,” featuring former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Escobar. Both are Brown professors at large, based at the Watson Institute. Moderating the discussion will be Watson Institute Director Barbara Stallings.

This lecture and film series accompanies an advanced history seminar of the same title, and brings visiting scholars, writers and film-makers to campus throughout the semester to critically examine the making of national and cultural boundaries of postcolonial South Asia - but with the goal to substantially rethink them. With a historical attention to the Watson Institute’s broad thematic of ‘inequality’, this series examines the inequalities cast by rural poverty, environment, religion, caste and ethnicity and the remarkable contestations of people in the region that have challenged state power, and have thus shaped South Asia’s postcolonial histories. 

The series is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, the History Department, South Asian Studies, and the Watson Institute for International Studies.

The Occupation-Liberation-Collaboration Film Series is a cinematic exploration of the interconnected themes of occupation, liberation, and collaboration – and of how films from different national, political, and artistic traditions represent the messy realities of conflict and its aftermath.

The series is drawing on Brown faculty to identify and discuss the work filmmakers from outside the US who offer alternative perspectives on the three vital themes. The series will include the work of directors from China, Bosnia, India, Japan, and Senegal and discussions will be led by faculty associates of Watson’s Politics, Culture, and Identity Program.

“Each film deals with the impact of externally-motivated conflict on local loyalties and livelihoods, said Watson Institute Associate Professor (Research) Keith Brown, who conceived the series. “The works often include central characters caught in situations where choices are not simple and clear-cut – there is no ‘right’ answer – yet where they struggle nonetheless to identify and pursue the best course of action.”

The series was born of a reflection on the meaning of the three words in the United States, and how it could be enriched by perspectives from elsewhere. Americans are not succeeding in grappling conceptually with the ambiguities and contingencies of occupation, liberation, and collaboration, and this is evident in US films ranging from Casablanca to Schindler’s List.

“Over the course of the series, we hope to create an ongoing conversation around the themes of occupation, liberation and collaboration across different time periods and geographical contexts, which might help us collectively understand their dynamics in the present, and perhaps provide the seeds of more systematic, comparative research.” 

The film series is presented by the Politics, Culture and Identity and Global Security programs at the Watson Institute.

This is a listing of events involving Watson Institute faculty that are taking place off campus.

A joint initiative of the Watson Institute and Brown’s Economics Department, the series features leading analysts working on critical themes in international political economy.

Co-sponsored by the Watson Institute and Brown's Division of Engineering, the Social Entrepreneurship Seminar Series features the work of individuals and organizations working at the intersection of the non-profit and for-profit sectors in providing solutions to challenges of social and economic development.

This series is presented with the support of the Development Studies Program, the South Asia Studies Program, the Watson Institute and the Office of International Affairs.

The Ogden Lectures were established in memory of Stephen A. Ogden Jr., a member of the Brown Class of 1960, who died in 1963 from injuries he suffered in a car accident. His family established the lecture series in 1965 as a tribute to his interest in international relations. Previous Ogden lecturers have included former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Queen Noor of Jordan, former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, media mogul Ted Turner and former Sen. John Glenn, among others.

Watson Institute study groups are meant to provide students with the opportunity to engage with policy practitioners on pressing international issues related to their experience in the field. These sessions are informal (not for credit) and discussion-oriented.

“The European Union in a Moment of Crisis,” October 28-29, is a two-day exploration of the EU at this pivotal moment in its history – analyzing its institutional, financial, and foreign policy issues. Four separate panels will feature two of Europe’s leading political figures: past European Commission President Romano Prodi (the former Italian prime minister who is now a Brown professor at large) and former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (a Watson Institute visiting professor). As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, they will analyze the sweeping changes that continue to reshape Europe. 

Moderating the panels will be Watson Institute Director Michael Kennedy and Institute Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth. 

• Wednesday, October 28, noon-1:30pm – “EU Enlargement and European Identity from Ankara to Lisbon,” featuring Romano Prodi and Alfred Gusenbauer, moderated by Michael Kennedy 

• Wednesday, October 28, 4-5:30pm – “Global Financial Crisis, National Responses, and the EU,” featuring Romano Prodi and Alfred Gusenbauer, moderated by Mark Blyth 

• Thursday, October 29, noon-1:30pm – “Norms, Nations, Power, and EU Foreign Policy,” featuring Romano Prodi and Alfred Gusenbauer, moderated by Michael Kennedy 

• Thursday, October 29, 7pm-8:30pm – “What Is the EU's Future?” In this culminating event, building on the previous three, Mark Blyth will propose that “the EU's future is past,” with response from Romano Prodi and Alfred Gusenbauer, followed by open questions from the floor.

Hannah Arendt Seminars
Partnering with the Pembroke Center and the Cogut Center, the Watson Institute for International Studies co-hosts The Hannah Arendt Seminars. This multi-semester series of events celebrates the work of renowned German philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt and honors the centennial of her birth. The series brings noted scholars from within and outside Brown together for lectures, workshops, film screenings, and other events to explore issues pertaining to the humanities, the study of women and gender, and international studies. 

For more information see http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/events/Hannah.html. 

This series of four panel discussions, jointly sponsored by the Watson Institute and the Middle East Studies concentration, will explore political developments in the resilient authoritarian regimes in the Middle East following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the moves toward establishing democracy in Iraq. The Bush administration has suggested that Saddam’s demise would have a demonstrative effect, emboldening democratic forces elsewhere in the region to challenge incumbent authoritarian rulers, and encouraging these rulers, through either fear or persuasion, to relinquish the reins of power. Yet given the U.S.’s long history of tolerating, if not supporting, the repressive regimes in the region, many democracy activists there are skeptical that this new emphasis on democracy is sincere, and some western analysts have worried that even a genuine policy shift could have the unintended backlash effect of strengthening the existing regimes. Each panel will draw together experts on various countries of the region, including the Arab heartland, the Arab Gulf, Iran and Central Asia, and North Africa, to assess in which direction the political winds seem to be blowing.

A lecture series funded by "The Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund" and "The Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts."

Social Entrepreneurs
Innovating Private-Sector Provision of Public Goods

The goal of the lecture series is to bring to the Brown University campus social entrepreneurs, that is leading individuals who are pioneering innovative solutions to providing the basic needs which the private, public, and civil society sectors individually have failed to provide.  The provision of public goods--like environmental protection, education, health care, and other basic social services--has always been a challenge.  Basic economic theory suggests that it is in the nature of public goods to be under-provided by the market.  Thus their provision becomes the responsibility of governments.  However, public agencies have shown variable  commitment and capacity to providing basic needs.  Into this vacuum have stepped social entrepreneurs and innovators. Pioneering hybrid organizational forms such as for-profit philanthropy, social entrepreneurs are leading the charge in doing well by doing good.


Fall Speakers:

Michael Fairbanks, co-founder of S.E.VEN, for Social Equity Ventures; a Cambridge, MA-based not-for-profit alliance with the Templeton Foundation

Doug Guthrie, Professor of Sociology and a Joint Appointment with the Department of Management and Organization (Stern School of Business), New York University 


Spring Speakers:

Amy Davidsen, Director of Environmental Affairs, JPMorganChase

Sandy Herz, Senior Advancement Officer, The Skoll Foundation

The Peter Green Lectures on the Modern Middle East are funded by a gift from Peter B. Green AM '80 P '99 '01, former trustee of the University.  Green is chairman of Greenaap Consultants Ltd., the Dublin-based investment vehicle that manages the assets of Green and his family.

 

 

Strait Talk is a non-partisan, youth-focused peacebuilding and dialogue promotion program that works to transform an 80 year-old international conflict through connecting the right people in the right way. Our program promotes peace and constructive dialogue in the Taiwan Strait by effectively connecting, educating, and empowering emerging leaders from the three communities involved in this conflict: mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States.

The War, Peace and Media Series delivers the latest in global-interest media—award-winning documentaries, Hollywood films, television docu-dramas, online videos and other works exploring the complex global relationships of environment, economics, identity and security. Many of the scheduled films turn the camera back on the media itself to examine its increasingly powerful role in international affairs. Directors will personally screen many of the films, including Stephen Marshall, Battleground: 21 Days on the Empire’s Edge; Chris Paine, Who Killed the Electric Car?; Alex Gibney, Enron; Hubert Sauper, Darwin’s Nightmare; and Pasqua Vorgia, World War Virtual. The series’ coordinators will also be on hand to lead discussions, including Politics, Culture, and Identity Program Director Keith Brown, International Relations Program Director Melani Cammett, Global Security Program Director James Der Derian, Simone Pulver, assistant professor (research) in the Global Environment Program, and Eugene Jarecki, filmmaker.

Presented by the War, Peace and the Media Screening Series. This series is jointly sponsored by the Global Media Project and the International Relations Program at the Watson Institute for International Studies.

Welcome to this exciting year of major public lectures, art, academic conferences, media, and other explorations of India’s dramatic rise on the global stage. The Year of India will advance understanding of India’s people, culture, economy, and politics – and their growing impact around the world. Across campus and beyond, 2009-2010 is a time to celebrate India’s imprint on Brown and deepen Brown’s embrace of India. 

For more information see www.brown.edu/india.