Events

Christine Leuenberger 

Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Where: College of Law, RM 201

lunch provided!

Dr. Leuenberger is currently working on the social impact of the West Bank Barrier and on the history and sociology of the human sciences in the Middle East.

Mark Sedra  

Date: Tuesday, April 10
Time: Noon
Place: 100 Eggers Hall (political science conference rm  

Mr. Sedra directs all of CIGI’s Security Sector Governance Projects, which produce field-based research and analysis on numerous ongoing war-to-peace transitions, including those in Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, Southern Sudan and Timor-Leste. In addition to his work at CIGI, Mark is a research scholar in the University of Waterloo’s department of political science and a faculty member at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
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A Panel Discussion of the Challenges and Prospects for Sustained Security Force Assistance to Afghanistan 

Date: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Time: Noon
Location: 060 Eggers Hall (Global Collaboratory) 

Broadcast live: 
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/live2  

This panel of distinguished subject-matter experts will reflect on their recent experiences working as embedded advisors to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and discuss what is necessary to salvage and regain the trust necessary for any long term strategic partnership and sustained security assistance beyond the projected end of combat operations in 2013.

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Uri Gopher

DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012
TIME: NOON
PLACE: COL 401  

Uri Gopher has been working since 1998 to promote Arab-Jewish relations in Israel, focusing on the formation and implementation of public policy that promotes civic equality, inclusion and governmental accountability. Since 2009, Uri has directed the Arab Society-Police Relations Initiative at The Abraham Fund, conducted in cooperation with Israel Police, which seeks to promote community-based policing and reform in policing as they relate to the Arab citizens of Israel.

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Matt Evans

DATE: tuesday, MARCH 27, 2012
TIME: NOON
PLACE: RM 060, GLOBAL COLLABORATORY  

Matt Evans is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. He has published books and articles on Government and Public Policy in the Middle East. He is also co-editor of an anthology entitled Reform and Democracy in Local Government of Countries in Transformation (2007). His research interest include electoral competition, political communication, regional planning and the environment.
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Col. Geoffrey Stevens, Army War College Fellow at INSCT

date: february 16, 2012
time: noon
place: Maxwell 204

pizza will be served  

 

A Video-Teleconference with U.S. Army Brigade Leaders and Afghan Prosecutors

DATE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
TIME: 8:00-9:30AM
WHERE: EGGERS HALL, RM 060 (GLOBAL COLLABORATORY)

Podcast available!

Professor David Crane (College of Law/INSCT) will moderate a video-teleconference with key leaders and JAG officers from the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Fort Drum, NY) and Afghan prosecutors from the Zharay District of Kandahar Province.
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Sharon Weiner 

Date: thursday, march 22, 2012
Time: 12:30pm
Place: rm 341, eggers hall 

Sharon Weiner is an Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University. Her research focuses on organizational interests and national security policy.
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ADM Eric Olson 

Date: wednesday, March 21, 2012
time: 11am
place: 209 eggers hall, paia conference rm  

Admiral Eric Olson, USN, was the 8th Commander, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). ADM Olson is the first Navy SEAL ever to be appointed to the grade of a three-star and four-star admiral as well as the first naval officer to be USSOCOM's combatant commander.
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Nahshon Perez 

date: February 28, 2012
time: noon
place: rm 060, global collaboratory 

Prof. Nahshon Perez is a Schusterman Visiting Professor at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University. He teaches classes on the history of Zionism, the politics and society of the state of Israel, and the Zionist Ideology. Perez's two academic fields are: contemporary Israel and political theory.
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William Miles  

Date: February 8, 2012
time: noon
place: Rm 060, Global Collaboratory 

William Miles is a professor of political science and former Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. His nine books include Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim, which was a 2007 National Jewish Book Award finalist.

 Falkenrath & Steinberg  

Date: december 6, 2011
time: noon
place: 220 eggers hall 

Dr. Richard Falkenrath, a Principal with The Chertoff Group, and Dean James B. Steinberg, an internationally recognized expert in public affairs and foreign policy, most recently serving as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State will engage in a dialogue moderated by Prof. William C. Banks, INSCT Director.
 

Pedro Medrano Rojas  

Date: December 6, 2011
time: 12:30pm
place: Hendricks Chapel 

Pedro Medrano Rojas was appointed Director of the World Food Programme’s New York Office in July 2009. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Medrano was the WFP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Profs. Banks, Criddle & Kfir  

date: wed, 16 nov, 2011
time: noon
place: rm 204, college of law 

 A faculty panel will discuss the legal implications of U.S. drone strike that killed American citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki on Sept 30, 2011.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion 

Date: November 10, 2011
time: 5:30pm-8:00pm
place: Rm 275, McNaughton Hall, Law Bld

Better This World follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) from political neophytes to accused domestic terrorists with a particular focus on the relationship they develop with a radical activist mentor in the six months leading up to their arrests. 

Drinks and snacks will be provided 

William Studeman 

date: November 15, 2011
time: Noon
place: eggers 060, global collaboratory  

William Studeman is a retired Admiral of the United States Navy and former Deputy Director of the CIA, with two extended periods as Acting Director of the CIA.

Iqbal Azizi - Afghan Governor, Laghman Province 

date: november 9, 2011
time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
place: 060 Eggers Hall, Global Collaboratory 

INSCT welcomes Afghan Governor Iqbal Azizi of Laghman Province and Mr. Miguel Sapp (S.U. College of Law '88; MPA '89), Director of the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team for a discussion on the evolving nature of U.S. and Afghan
partnerships.

 Podcast now available, click here!!  

Date: October 25, 2011
time: 5:15pm
place: Auditorium 001, Life Sciences Complex, 106 College Place, Syracuse University. 

As part of the Launch event for the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (Syracuse University), a panel discussion will be held.

Date: October 26, 2011
Time: 6:00pm
Place: Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 220 North St, Buffalo, New York 

A panel discussion featuring Robert Murrett, David Costello and Chris Hearn with a display of historical memorabilia from the collection of Chris Hearn. 

with Prof. Hromadzic  

date: October 24, 2011
time: 2:15pm
place: Maxwell 402
  
Building on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork at the school, Professor Hromadzic will demonstrate how a careful cartographic delineation of school's space has brought a particular school into being where certain features of belonging, such as interethnic student body, became “unmappable.”