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Our seminar series is designed to provide a broad and in-depth look at international affairs, and to bring the state-of-the-art research to USC. CIS Video Archive Current Events | Events Archive Spring 201202.07.12 Time: 12:30 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: NAEEM INAYATULLAH, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Ithaca College Topic: EVENT CANCELLED -- "Capitalism, First and Last" Series: ABSTRACT: Despite the presence of International Political Economy (IPE), our field (International Relations) betrays an inadequate appreciation of capitalism. IPE is dominated either by a rationalist framework that assumes an individualist ontology. Or, by a thin eclecticism that aims to bridge realism, neo-classical economics, and elements of Marxism. In my reading, IR/IPE does not take seriously the simultaneous origins of the system of states and a global capitalist division of labor. Further, by limiting itself to technical concerns, IR/IPE ignores questions about capitalism’s social foundations thus allowing us to take capitalism for granted. As a result, our field promotes the status quo, stifles potential debate, and disables critical consciousness. My talk will try to substantiate these provocations by combining theoretical analysis with an autobiographical narrative. I hope to pose ethical questions that foreground capitalism’s capacity to generate great wealth and great poverty. Discussant: Organized by Ann Tickner, Professor of International Relations, USC 02.14.12 Time: 2 - 3:30 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: A. COOPER DRURY, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia; Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy Analysis Topic: "Trends in the International Relations Subfield: A View from the Journal Foreign Policy Analysis" Series: Publishing Editor series organized by Scott Wilbur, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC 02.22.12 Time: 10:30 am - 12 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: SHANNON GIBSON, Lecturer of International Relations, USC Topic: "The Politics of Global Climate Change" Series: OECD Development Dialogue series organized by Daniel Paly, USC student ambassador to the OECD 02.23.12 Time: 12:30 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: LEONARD SCHOPPA, Associate Chair and Professor of Politics, University of Virginia Topic: “Japan’s Declining Population: Clearly a Problem, But What’s the Solution?” Series: Organized by Scott Wilbur, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC Abstract: Japan’s population is on track to shrink by over 30 million between 2000 and 2050, even as the number of residents over 65 continues to grow. This “aging society – declining fertility” problem has been a national obsession for at least two decades, prompting a variety of policy responses, but none of them has succeeded in budging a trajectory that appears headed for fiscal disaster. In this lecture, I review the policy responses, examining why efforts to boost the number of babies, bring more women into the workforce, reduce the costs of caring for the old, and (tentative) proposals to increase immigration have all failed to bear fruit. Discussant: Saori Katada, Associate Professor of International Relations, USC 02.27.12 Time: 12:30 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: JEFF DAYTON-JOHNSON, Associate Professor of International Trade and Development, Monterey Institute of International Studies Topic: “The Latin American Decade” Series: OECD Development Dialogue series organized by Daniel Paly, USC student ambassador to the OECD 02.29.12 Time: 12:30 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: RICHARD PRICE, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia Topic: "Moral Mission Accomplished? Assessing the Landmine Ban" Series: Organized by Ann Tickner, Professor of International Relations, USC ABSTRACT: At the time of its conclusion and since, the Landmines Convention of 1997 has often been cited as a successful initiative of transnational ethical activism, one that can also serve as an innovative model for other would-be initiatives to inject ethical concerns into world politics. Assessments of its significance and forecasts of its likely impact have varied from sceptical dismissal to cautious optimism to enthusiastic praise. This paper takes off from some of those projections and examines the empirical evidence to date in order to take stock of this contemporary effort to establish a new global moral norm dealing with what should be the relatively hard kind of case involving security policy. We find high levels of compliance among States Parties, with few substantive violations of core treaty rules. We also find that non-parties have been substantially influenced by the Convention, and have in many cases accommodated themselves to its primary obligations. These findings have implications for assessing the viability of global moral advocacy campaigns including those that are not supported by great powers in world politics, and indeed suggest that global ethical standards may be effectively promoted even through non-hegemonic processes. Discussant: Christina Gray, Political Science and International Relations Phd graduate, USC 03.20.12 Time: 12 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: (Tentative lineup: Peter Knaack, Mariano Bertucci, Hong Pang) Topic: “International Studies Association Conference – Student Practice Presentations” 03.21.12 Time: 12 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: (Tentative lineup: Nicolas De Zamaroczy, Simon Radford, Kate Svyatets) Topic: “International Studies Association Conference – Student Practice Presentations” 03.27.12 Time: 12:30 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: MICHAEL BEHIELS, Professor of Canadian Political & Constitutional History, University of Ottawa Topic: Topic TBA (Canadian Studies Series) 04.05.12 Time: 12 am Location: Location and Time TBA Speaker: CATHERINE MAVRIKAKIS, French-Canadian author and Professor of French Literature, University of Montreal Topic: Topic TBA (literature on AIDS) Series: Organized and co-sponsored by the USC Francophone Resource Center 04.05.12 Time: 12 pm Location: Location and Time TBA Speaker: SHAUN BRESLIN, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick Topic: “China's response to the Global Crisis” 04.11.12 Time: 12:30 - 2 pm Location: SOS B-40 Speaker: DANIEL LYNCH, Associate Professor of International Relations, USC Topic: "Chinese Images of the Future: Economics and Politics" 04.24.12 Time: 12 am - 1:30 pm Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Forum Room Speaker: KELLEY LEE, Associate Dean of Research and Director of Global Health, London School of Tropical Medicine Topic: "A Struggle for Relevance: The Future of the WHO" Series: 2011-2012 GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURES SERIES sponsored by the USC Institute for Global Health and the USC Center for International Studies
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