September 9: “Second Thoughts on Iraq,” James McAllister, Political Science; and Bill Darrow, Religion.
September 16: “Are Women Taking Over the Farm in China?” Alan de Brauw, Economics.
September 23: Three Student Presentations
“’Goats in Trees’ Applying Developmental Economics to Women’s Cooperatives in Southern Morocco,” Elizabeth Kaplan ’04; “Homophobia within the Bolivian Gay Community,” Eliza Segell ’04; and “Grassroots Human Services in Southern Ecuador,” Daniel Murnane ’04.
September 30: Viewing and discussion of the recent Frontline Documentary “The Rock Star and the Mullahs,” a portrait of Pakistan’s most famous rock star’s encounter with recent efforts by Islamists to ban his music.
October 7: “Dialogue in an Age of Terror,” Marc Lynch, Political Science
October 21: “Agricultural Subsidies, the WTO, and the Developing World,” Douglas Gollin, Economics.
October 28: “’Coming for to Carry Me Home…’ Commuters, Organized Crime, and Popular Transportation in Nairobi Kenya,” Kenda Mutongi, History.
November 4: Three Student Presentations
“Nomrog Bridge: a Political and Ecological Investigation” Ria Berns, ’04; “Indigenous Leadership in Ecuador” Inti Montenegro-Dewit,’04; “Visualizing Ghana: The Sign Writer and Contemporary Urban Culture in Accra” Mary Lydecker ‘04
November 11: “Human Resources and Development,” by Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania.
November 18: “The Makers of Discord, the Authors of Peace: The Paraguayan War as Tropical Inferno,” Jennifer French, Romance Languages.
February 10: “Social Psychological Aspects of Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation,” Arie Nadler, Tel Aviv University.
February 17: “Living Behind the Wall or Whither the Two-State Solution?,” by Diana Buttu, legal advisor, Negotiations Affairs Department, Palestine Liberation Organization
February 24: “Transformations in Georgia: Report from Tiblisi,” with Williams students who did their WSP in Tblisi under the leadership of John Hope. Facilitated by Taylor Stephenson.
March 2: “Should the World be Trying to Clear all Landmines?,” by John Gibson, Economics.
March 9: “Food as Weapon,” by Darel Paul, Political Science.
April 6: “Education and the New Media in Public Life: Middle Eastern and Transnational Perspectives,” by Dale Eickelman, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College.
April 13: “Shinsaku (Newly Created) Noh: Innovation or Tradition?,” by Shinko Kagaya, Asian Studies.
April 20: “What’s at Stake in the ‘headscarf debate?’—Headscarves and Islam in Germany and Europe Today,” Heiko Henkel, Anthropology.
April 27: “Sowing the Seeds of Reform: Strategies for Legal Education Reform,” by Elizabeth Andersen, executive director, Central European and Eurasian Legal Education Initiative, American Bar Association.
May 4: “What Don’t We Know about the History of the Oil Industry?,” Karen Merrill, History and Ted Lehmann, Political Science.
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