Fall 2008 Symposia

The State of Democracy
Sponsored by: The Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations and Human Rights at Grinnell College.

All events take place in JRC 101.

Tuesday, October 28

4:15 pm Hans Apel, former member of the Bundestag and former German Finance Minister and Minister of Defense. " The European Union: Divided and Without a Solid Democratic Structure"

8:00 pm B. Ramesh Babu, Adjunct Professor School of Public Policy, ICFAI Univeristy, Hyderabad, India; formerly Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Professor of Civics and Politics, University of Bombay "Paradigm Shift in U.S.-India Relations: Estranged Democracies to Strategic Engagement"

Wednesday, October 29

4:15 pm Michael Bratton, Professor of Political Science and African Studies at Michigan State University and the founding director of Afrobarometer. "The State of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Public Opinion Perspective"

8:00 pm Carlos de la Torre, Chair of Political Studies at FLASCO-Ecuador "Latin American Populism: The Foe or the Essence of Democracy"

Thursday, October 30
11:00 am (Scholars' Convocation), Thomas Melia, Deputy Executive Director of Freedom House and Adjunct Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown Univeristy. "Democracy Promotion in a Time of Transition"

4:15 pm Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director for Research at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies "Mevedev's Challenges in Governing Putin's Russia: What the Next U.S. President Should Know."

8:00 pm Marina Ottaway, Director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Democracy in the Middle East: What Can It Be Built On?"

Spring 2009 Symposia

Global Pharmaceuticals Symposium
February 3 - 5


Conservatives in Conservation
April 14 - 16