Upcoming Events

Determinants of Poverty Among Migrant Farmworker Families in the Central Valley

December 4, 2009
2:00pm
Armando Ibarra, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, UCI

Stand Together for Human Rights: The Week of the African Child

December 2, 2009
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Ntombiyenkosi Magubane and Njabulo Thusi, home based care workers for the Sizanani Outreach Programme in Nkandla, South Africa

Interconnected Knowledge Requires Symmetric Regression

November 19, 2009
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rein Taagepera, Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine

Careers in International Relations

November 19, 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President/Pacific Council on International Policy; Elizabeth Burrell, Program Director/ American Academy of Diplomacy; Laura Tarre - Development Associate/ Grameen Foundation

Grading President Obama

November 18, 2009
11:15am
Matthew Beckmann, UCI political science assistant professor

Social Sciences Hot Topics Debate: Health Care as a Constitutional Right?

November 12, 2009
7:00pm

The Institutional Change after Socialism

November 5, 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Leszek Balcerowicz, Warsaw School of Economics

International conference commemorates 20 year anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

November 5, 2009 - November 8, 2009
3:00pm - 11:30am

California Attorney General to discuss future of the state in public talk at UCI

October 29, 2009
2:00pm - 3:30pm
UC Irvine Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium
Edmund 'Jerry' Brown Jr., Attorney General and former two-term Governor of California

Iran after the June 12, 2009 Elections

October 28, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm

A Simulated Negotiation for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

October 28, 2009 - October 29, 2009
3:00pm - 5:30pm
Lead Negotiators: Professor Sapir Handelman(Israeli) and Professor MazenBadra(Palestinian)

Health Care Forum - Making Sense of the Health Care Debate

October 27, 2009
7:30pm - 9:00pm
C. Ronald Koons, Felicia G. Cohn, Senator Joseph Dunn, and Leslie Lindgren

Does Cheap Talk Matter: An Experimental Approach

October 22, 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Barbara Walter, Professor, UCSD

The Future of US Iran Relations

October 15, 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Reza Aslan, Assistant Professor, UC Riverside

Meet the Diplomats: Senior Diplomat, Azerbaijan and Principal, Tool Shed Group

October 6, 2009
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Elin Suleymanov and Jason Katz

Why Did the French Revolution (and others) Turn to Terror: How is Why!

May 21, 2009
3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology, Cornell University

Religion, Politics and the Press in the Age of Obama

May 9, 2009
11:45am - 1:00pm
Social Science Tower, Room 220 AB
Stephen Burgard

The State of the U.S. Economy

April 23, 2009
3:30pm
UCI University Club Dining Room
Alice M. Rivlin, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Economic Studies and Director, Greater Washington Research, Brookings

The Future of Democracy in Mexico and Latin America

April 8, 2009
4:00pm
Irvine Barclay Theatre
Vicente Fox, President of Mexico (2000-06)

The State and Federal Budget Processes, and How They Affect the Economy

March 11, 2009
5:30pm
UCI University Club Dining Room
Congressman Tom Campbell

American Politics and Presidential Campaigning

March 2, 2009
1:00pm
Humanities Instructional Building 100
Michael Dukakis, Former Governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee

Race and Equality in America

January 29, 2009
3:30pm
UC Irvine University Club Dining Room
Troy Duster, Professor, New York University and Past President, American Sociological Association, and Dianne Pinderhughes, Professor, University of Notre Dame and President, American Political Science Association

What Makes Covering Islam Difficult for American Journalists?

March 3, 2008
4:30pm
UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom D
Philip Bennett, Managing Editor, Washington Post

Covering Islam: A Challenge for American Journalism

March 3, 2008
2:00pm
UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom D
Philip Bennett, Managing Editor, Washington Post

Ordinary People and Democracy

February 26, 2008
3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Ron Inglehart, University of Michigan

Remarks on the Middle East Conflict, Israel and Palestine

May 3, 2007
10:30am
UCI Bren Events Center
Jimmy Carter, Former President

Human Rights and Ethical Globalization

April 19, 2007
4:00pm
Social Science Lecture Hall, Room 100
Mary Robinson, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Former President of Ireland

Oil, Democracy and War

January 18, 2007
3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Terry Lynn Karl, Stanford University

The Changing Landscape of Economic Inequality

November 6, 2006
4:00pm
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, 100 Academy, Irvine
Janet Yellen, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

The Anti-Globalization Critics: Why They Are Wrong

April 26, 2006
4:00pm
Social Science Lecture Hall 100
Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor of Economics, Columbia University

The Myth of Polarized America: Update

January 26, 2006
3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Morris P. Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

An Arab More than a Muslim Political Gap

January 27, 2005
3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Alfred Stepan

Institutions to Promote Fiscal Discipline

October 26, 2004
3:30pm
McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium, UCI
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C.

Leadership in the Global World

April 9, 2004
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Beckman Center, UC Irvine
José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain

Health Policy and Economic Security

October 24, 2003
2:00pm
UCI Student Center
Edward M. Kennedy, US Senator D-MA

Human Rights and Democracy

May 8, 2003
3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

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