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Digitally Enabled Collective Action in the Global South

Event Start: January 22, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 22, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Steve Livingston, Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs, George Washington University

Dean Chen Publishes Book on Taiwan Policy

Dean Chen has just published his first book, U.S. Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity (FirstForumPress, a Division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012), based on his dissertation.  The publisher's description of the book is as follows:

Dean E. Mann, 1927-2014

Emeritus Professor Dean E. Mann passed away on April 21, 2014 at the age of 84. Born July 22, 1927 in Ogden, Utah, Dean Mann received his Ph.D. in 1958 from the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in American Politics and was an early pioneer in the field of Environmental Politics.

Internal Affairs: The Structure of Transnational Human Rights Campaigns

Event Start: December 07, 2012 12:00 AM

Event End: December 07, 2012 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824 (Lane Rm)

Speaker:
Wendy Wong

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Communication, Consumption, and Civil Society: Media and Politics at the Checkout Line

Event Start: April 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Event End: April 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Event Location: McCune Room

Speaker:
Prof. Dhavan Shah, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Graduate Student Forums:Info Session on IQMR and Forum on Dissertation

Event Start: October 25, 2013 07:00 PM

Event End: October 25, 2013 07:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 15, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: May 15, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speakers:
Travis Seifman (History) - Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions

Magarita Safronova (Political Science) - Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan

Sponsored by the IHC's Identity Studies RFG.

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Graduate Students Receive Best Paper Award

Jessica Feezel (Ph.D. 2009), Meredith Conroy (Ph.D., 2010), and Mario Guerrero (Ph.D. candidate) received a best-paper award at the APSA Annual Meeting, 2010. Their paper, "Facebook is . . . Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation," won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.