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  Cleaning Up China: The Role of Pollution of Liability Insurance

  Alecia Cassidy

  Dr. Alecia Cassidy joins us to discuss "Cleaning up China: The Role of Pollution Liability Insurance" on October 21st, 2024 in Croft's Joseph C. Bancroft Conference room at 6:00 pm. Dr. Cassidy is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies at the University of Alabama, with a Ph.D. in economics rom the University of Michigan. Her research spans environmental and energy economics, urban economics, and real estate economics.

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  From the End of History to the End of Democracy

  Joshua First, Gang Guo, Vivian Ibrahim, and Oliver Dinius

  Join us next Tuesday for the first installment of our 25th Anniversary Faculty Panel series! Hear from Dr. Joshua First, Dr. Gang Guo, Dr. Vivian Ibrahim, and Dr. Oliver Dinius for a discussion of "From the End of History to the End of Democracy." Tuesday, February 7, 5:30 p.m. in Croft 107!

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  Chinese Ethnopolitcs and State-Building in the 1950s: The Case of Muslim General Bai Chongxi

  Kelly Hammond

  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kelly Hammond to campus next week as she kicks off our Visiting Speaker Series for 2023! Dr. Hammond is an Associate Professor of East Asian History at the University of Arkansas, specializing in modern Chinese and Japanese history with her work focusing on Islam and politics in 20th-century East Asia. On Monday, Feb. 20 at 6 PM, she will be giving a talk in Croft 107 titled "Chinese Ethnopolitcs and State-building in the 1950s: the case of Muslim General Bai Chongxi." Crollars will be provided to those in attendance!

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  Borders in the 21st Century: Perspectives on the Russia/Kazakhstan Borderland

  Alexander C. Diener

  Please join us this Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. in the Joseph C Bancroft Conference Room for Dr. Alexander C. Diener's talk "Borders in the 21st Century: Perspectives on the Russia/Kazakhstan Borderland." Students can earn 300 Croft Dollars for attending!

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  America's Role in a Turbulent Middle East

  Waleed Hazbun

  Please join us on Tuesday, November 1st as we welcome Dr. Waleed Hazbun as a guest speaker! Dr. Hazbun, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the political science department at the University of Alabama, will give a talk on the current challenges facing both U.S. policymakers and citizens concerning the future role the U.S. should play in the Middle East. All students who attend will receive $300 Crollars (and we will have new merch dropping soon!!)

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  Going to Washington (Virtual)

  Laura Fornicola, Jessica Holst, Bob Lynch, McDaniel Wicker, and Tori Thoman

  Croft is hosting a virtual panel, Going to Washington for Croft students! Five alumni will share their experiences of working their way to DC. They will also speak to their current positions, what they do on a day-to-day basis, and what it’s really like working and living in DC. Most importantly, they will share the key steps in their trajectory from a freshman in Croft to their current position. We hope this panel will provide examples of the many avenues that you can take to make it to Washington, DC to pursue a career in the field you choose and give you an opportunity to connect with these alumni. After the panel, we will move into virtual breakout rooms. You can choose which alumna or alumnus you would like to hear from more and join their room. Alumni panelists: • Laura Fornicola | Class of 2003 | Senior International Programs Advisor for the NNSA US/UK Mutual Defense Agreement at Leidos • Jessica Holst | Class of 2007 | Deputy Country Representative for Office of Transition Initiatives at USAID: United States Agency for International Development • Bob Lynch | Class of 2008 | Senior Associate for Guidehouse National Security Sector • McDaniel Wicker | Class of 2009 | Vice President of Strategy for Babel Street • Tori Thoman | Class of 2013 | China Desk Officer, Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State Please register for the panel. This will provide you the link, reminders of the event, and allow you to submit questions prior to the event for the panelists.

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  Alumni Panel: Daniel Hedglin (2008), Susan Ragsdale Enchill (2014), Jeremy Mills (2002)

  Daniel Hedglin, Susan Ragsdale Enchill, and Jeremy Mills

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  As China Goes, So Goes the Planet (Virtual)

  Judith Shapiro

  Judith Shapiro, director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service at American University. What does it mean for the rest of us when "China Goes Green"? Is "ecological civilization" everything that it promises? In this talk, Prof. Judith Shapiro will explore a new age of coercive environmentalism in China and its implications for how a rising superpower wields its economic and political might overseas. This event is free and open to the public. All Croft students who attend will receive 300 Croft dollars. If you have questions, please email bstarnes@olemiss.edu or call (662) 915-1500.

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  How Transnational Advocacy Networks Shape NGO Strategies on Climate Change in Europe

  Jennifer Hadden

  Jennifer Hadden will be speaking on "How Transnational Advocacy Networks Shape NGO Strategies on Climate Change in Europe" on Monday, February 3, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. The European climate movement has become increasingly diverse and contentious in the past decade, focusing less on insider advocacy strategies and more on public demonstrations around demands for climate justice. What explains this strategic shift? This talk will explore the origins of the contemporary climate movement, focusing on its relationship with a previous cycle of global justice activism. All Croft students who attend will receive 300 Croft dollars. Croft lectures are free and open to the public. For more information or if you require assistance relating to a disability, please contact Liz duPerier by email or at 662.915.1500.

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  The Border is Everywhere (Virtual)

  Catherine Shoichet

  As a senior writer covering immigration for CNN Digital, Catherine Shoichet focuses on telling stories that show the human impact of policies and politics, and much of her work has centered around people and places in Mississippi and other states in the region. In this lecture, she’ll share some of the key things these stories reveal and give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it was like to report them. Topics covered will include the factors fueling migration from Central America, the impact of immigration enforcement on communities, the hidden realities of life inside US immigrant detention centers and what it’s like to fly on a deportation flight. She’ll also discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is reshaping many facets of the immigration landscape, in Mississippi and beyond.

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  Democracy and Discontent in the Americas (Virtual)

  Liz Zechmeister

  Please join us for our second Croft Virtual Speaker Webinar on Tuesday, October 13, at 7 p.m. Central Time. Our speaker will be Dr. Liz Zechmeister of Vanderbilt University, who researches politics in Latin America and is the director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) Lab. She will be speaking about “Democracy and Discontent in the Americas.” Register for the webinar by following this [link]. As during the previous talk, we will be taking questions from the Q&A feature of the webinar, but we would also like to have a few people on camera to ask questions. If you are interested in doing this, let me know and send me the question you would like to ask.

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  Alumni Talk: Ben Bates (2013)

  Ben Bates

  Croft begins Spring 2019 with an Alumni Talk with Ben Bates, Croft graduate of 2013. The video conference will take place on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 3:00 pm in the Gerald M. Abdalla Boardroom (Croft 305). Ben is a second year resident in Internal Medicine Medicine Resident at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. In addition to medical residency, Ben is also pursuing a Master's in Clinical and Translational Science. The Alumni Talk is open to anyone interested. And all students who are interested in the healthcare field ("anything from direct patient work to global health to the field of healthcare epidemiology") are encouraged to attend!

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  Alumni Talk: Jesse Brewer (2010)

  Jessie Brewer

  Jessie Brewer, Croft graduate of 2010, will be hosting the Alumni Talk this week on Friday, April 5 at 3:00pm in the Gerald M. Abdalla Boardroom (Croft 305). Jessie is finishing her MS in Information Security Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University and will begin working as Information Assurance Engineer for Lockheed Martin's space division in CO this summer. Come talk with Jessie about her experiences in Croft and professional experiences since then!

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  What Slave-holders Think

  Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

  Dr. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego and University of Nottingham

  Four hundred years after the introduction of chattel slavery in British North America, and a century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery persists. Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick takes an inside look at contemporary slavery and asks: How do contemporary slaveholders rationalize the subjugation of other human beings, and how do they respond when their power is threatened? More than a billion dollars have been spent on contemporary antislavery efforts, yet the practice persists. Why? Unpacking what slaveholders think about emancipation is critical for scholars and policy makers who want to understand the broader context, especially as seen by the powerful. Insight into those moments when the powerful either double down or back off provides a sobering counterbalance to scholarship on popular struggle.

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  Improving Health Outcomes for the Bottom Billion

  Pascaline Dupas

  Many poor people around the world still do not benefit from essential health products. An estimated two-thirds of child deaths could be prevented with increased coverage of vaccines, point-of-use water treatment, iron fortification, and insecticide-treated bednets. In this lecture, Pascaline Dupas, Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University and co-chair of the Health Sector at MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) will examine the factors that limit the flow of products from the producer’s laboratory bench to the end users.

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  How Much Change? The Saudi Arabia of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman

  F. Gregory Gause III

  Since his father came to power in 2015, Muhammad bin Salman has been the driving force in Saudi Arabian politics. How much has the Crown Prince changed Saudi Arabia, and how much can he change it?

  F. Gregory Gause OOO is the John H. Lindsey '44 Chair, Professor of International Affairs and Head of the International Affairs Department at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

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  Where Have You Hidden the Cholera?

  Rowan Moore Gerety

  Rowan Moore Gerety, a reporter and author from New York, will speak out about the root causes of the mistrust and violence faced by efforts to stop the spread of cholera in Mozambique, which are part of a larger pattern of violent resistance to public health campaigns around the world. The talk will be based on the chapter "Where have you hidden the cholera?" in Gerety's book Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique.

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  History in Images: The Making of The Gate of Heavenly Peace

  Carmelita Hinton

  Director Carma Hinton will show excerpts from her film, The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995), as well as out-takes from the film. She will discuss her decisions on what to include and exclude in telling the story of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest movement, and how these decisions affected her presentation of the events covered by the film. She will also address the different problems that the historian encounters when presenting history in images as opposed to in words: the potential and limitation of each medium and what information each might privilege or obscure. All Croft lectures are free & open to the public.

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  Alumnae Talk: Laura Fornicola (2003) and Laura Wait (2002)

  Laura Fornicola and Laura Wait

  Croft Alumnae, Laura Congleton Fornicola ('03) and Laura Leford Wait ('02) will speak at the Croft Institute on Friday, September 28th at 3:00pm in Croft 107. Laura Fornicola will discuss her current role as Senior International Program Analyst for the US/UK Mutual Defense Agreement at Leidos. Laura Wait will likewise elaborate on her current position as Branch Advisor for the Domestic Violence Unit at the District of Columbia Superior Court. Both alumnae will explain how their time in Croft influenced their career paths and led them to their current positions.

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  The U-2 Incident: A Son's Search for the Truth

  Francis Gary Powers Jr.

  Join us as we hear Francis Gary Powers, Jr. discuss his father's downed U-2 spy plane and time in Soviet captivity.

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  Putin's Health Programs in Historical Perspective

  Tricia Starks

  On March 1, 2018, President Vladimir Putin of Russia shook the world with a thundering announcement of new, aggressive nuclear capabilities and visuals highlighting intended targets in the United States. Overshadowed in this show of chest-beating bravado was an extended discussion in his speech of the status of health and welfare in the country. Noting that in 2000 the average life expectancy for all had been just 65 and for men it had fallen below 60, Putin highlighted that in the last several years it had been pushed up to 73 years and he expected that by the end of the decade it would rise to over 80. Achievements came through aggressive programs in recent years to reduce the two main killers of Russian males in the prime of life — alcohol and tobacco. These concerns over premature deaths, their origins, and programs to address them did not emerge just with Putin. This talk will investigate the history of Russian demographic problems but also the course of political, social, and cultural interaction with concerns over increasingly poor health outcomes to show the long-history of anxiety over Russian male health. Beginning with demographic concerns outlined in the 1960s, this talk traces the roots of Russian anxiety over male health and the implications of this for society, politics, and diplomacy in the coming years. Tricia Starks is associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas and author of The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State and the forthcoming Smoking under the Stars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia. She has coedited, with Matthew P. Romaniello two volumes — one on tobacco history and the other on sensory studies — and is currently completing a history of tobacco and public health in the Soviet Union.

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  Surplus Memories? Remediating the Cold War in Web 2.0 South Korea

  We Jung Yi

  How have Cold War icons morphed in the contemporary digital landscape? To examine the dynamics of cultural memory amid expanding technological networks, this talk looks at a South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) that features North Korean spies—a well-worn trope for the long-divided nation. In tracing how the country’s older aesthetics are remediated in the Web 2.0 era, this talk historicizes the sensibility of surplus that connects the webtoon and its major consumers, namely, the millennial generation growing up with mobile communication. Feeling that their lives are rendered useless under neoliberal governance, the precarious youth of this generation empathetically relate to tales of survival, especially about those whose lives have been easily discarded in a society that restricts crossing boundaries of various types from the geopolitical to the socioeconomic.

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  Tackling the North Korea Problem: Nukes, Human Rights, and Sanctions

  William Brown, Scott Snyder, and Troy Stangarone

  As we search for a tenure-track professor of Korean Studies, the Croft Institute is honored to host three speakers from the Korea Economic Institute of America for a panel discussion about American policy towards North Korea. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). William Brown is a Senior Advisor to the East Asia and North Korea Mission Managers at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Scott Snyder is Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he had served as an Adjunct Fellow from 2008 to 2011. Troy Stangarone is the Senior Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade at Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). He oversees KEI’s trade and economic related initiatives, as well as the Institute’s relations with Capitol Hill and the Washington, DC trade community.

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  African Soccer Players, Labor Strategies and Emigration across the Portuguese Colonial Empire

  Todd Cleveland

  When the great soccer player Eusébio left the field following Portugal’s 2-1 defeat to England in the 1966 World Cup semifinals, he was awash in tears, fiercely clutching his red and green jersey – the national colors of Portugal. Yet, Eusébio was neither born nor grew up in the Iberian nation; instead, a Mozambican, he was one of the many Africans who made their way from Portugal’s colonial territories to the metropole from the late 1940s until the conclusion of the colonial period in 1975 in order to ply their athletic skills. Like Eusébio, many of these African players performed spectacularly on the field, significantly elevating the play of their respective club teams and vaulting the Portuguese national team to unprecedented levels, even as Portugal brutally suppressed a series of nationalist insurgencies in its African territories. This paper examines the experiences of these African soccer players as they attempted to negotiate this politically-charged environment and strove to consolidate their post-athletic futures. I argue that despite the otherwise extraordinary nature of these individuals’ lives, their experiences suggest strong continuities with, and affinities to, well-established African labor strategies, including seeking occupational advice from more senior employees (i.e. fellow players) and engaging in secondary migration in order to improve working and living conditions. Indeed, while many players initially sought to pursue their social improvement objectives on the field, many others subsequently parlayed the ability to travel to Portugal to commence (or continue) their studies and/or to secure long-term employment; both pursuits were intended to safeguard these athletes’ futures beyond the end of their playing days. This paper also contends that the process of cultural assimilation that helped players adjust to their new surroundings commenced in the urban, “colonized spaces” of Africa and, thus, well before they arrived in Portugal. Ultimately, these players’ experiences illuminate the cosmetic and limited nature of the Portuguese dictatorship’s (1926-74) labor and social reforms – even when applied to the nation’s highest-profile wage-earners – but also some of the ways that Africans could creatively, if carefully, exploit opportunities generated by shifts in the social, occupational and political landscape in the waning decades of the Portuguese empire. Todd Cleveland is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Croft lectures are free and open to the public.

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  Kadyrov on Instagram: Mediating (Chechen) Authority in a Web 2.0 World

  Michael Gorham

  Social media are frequently celebrated for their democratic, decentralized architecture, a means for everyday citizens to express themselves without the regular media filters of more centralized markets. What happens when they become the go-to mode of communication and public relations for political leaders of a more authoritarian bent? The foray into Instagram by Ramzan Kadyrov, the ex-warlord and charismatic leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, offers a compelling case study for examining just this. Through a detailed analysis of the multimedia project, “Kadyrov on Instagram” provides insight into the protean profile of authority it projects, its contribution to Kadyrov’s growing reputation of one of Russia’s most powerful politicians, and the broader implications of this trend on the potential of new media for promoting civic discourse in Russian politics.

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  Representing High Profile Cases

  Nancy Hollander

  The Croft Institute is proud to welcome Nancy Hollander to the Croft Institute for International Studies. Ms. Hollander has been named one of America's top fifty women litigators by the National Law Journal as well as a Best Lawyer of the Year for Criminal Defense in 2016. Ms. Hollander has been a member of the firm Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward P.A. since 1980 and a partner since 1983. Her practice is largely devoted to representing individuals and organizations accused of crimes, including those involving national security issues. She has also been counsel in numerous civil cases, forfeitures and administrative hearings, and has argued and won a case involving religious freedom in the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Hollander also served as a consultant to the defense in a high profile terrorism case in Ireland and has assisted counsel in other international cases. She currently represents two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and is lead appellate counsel for Chelsea Manning in the military appellate courts. Ms. Hollander received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law, where she graduated Cum Laude and Magna Cum Laude respectively. Croft lectures are free and open to the public.

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  Alumna Talk: Amy Mahoney

  Amy Mahoney

  Croft alumna Amy Mahoney will speak at the Croft Institute on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, at 7 p.m. She will elaborate more on her current role as the Head of the Counter-Trafficking and Protection Unit with the International Office for Migration (IOM) in Washington, D.C. She will also discuss her experience with the Croft Institute and how it has prepared her for her current position.

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  Genocide and Justice in Guatemala

  Elizabeth Oglesby

  In 2013, former General José Efraín Ríos Mont, Guatemala's de facto head of state from 1982-1983, was arrested in Guatemala City and charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. This was an international precedent: it marked one of the first times a national court had arrested, indicted and shown intent to prosecute one of its own former heads of state for genocide. Ríos Mont was initially found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, but his conviction quickly overturned and the retrial remains at an impasse. The passions raised both against Ríos Mont and in his defense reveal the fault lines in Guatemalan society and the difficulty of dealing with a past interpreted by different people in very different ways. Based on years of experience in Guatemala, Elizabeth Oglesby will offer an account of state violence in Guatemala and the long march through the justice institutions toward accountability for mass atrocity. This talk focuses on what is at stake in prosecuting genocide: the role of transnational justice activism within diverse socio-legal landscapes shaped by networks of power; the complexities of collective memories of violence; and the persistence of conflict within "post-war" societies. Elizabeth Oglesby is Associate Professor of Geography and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. She has worked in Guatemala since 1986, conducting research on the aftermath of counterinsurgency in Maya regions, and on post-war politics and development. From 1997-1999, she was a researcher with the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (Truth Commission), and in April 2013 she was an expert witness in the genocide trial of former General Efraín Ríos Montt. She is co-editor of The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2011), as well as numerous articles on Latin American development politics, historical memory, and transitional justice.

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  Alumni Panel

  Ryan Bullock, Mia Gutierrez, and Kennedy Horton

  The Croft Institute is proud to welcome three of its graduates for the second annual Croft Alumni Panel, which will be held on Monday, September 30, in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room. The three panelists will be Ryan Bullock, Mia Gutierrez, and Kennedy Horton. Ryan Bullock (B.A. 2006) began to work for Pillar Panama, a resort development company in Central America, right out of college. He got his J.D. at Boston University in 2011 now is the Vice President of Strategic Development for New Pacific Group in Panama and president of his own company, Pan American Solidarity, S.A. Mia Gutierrez (B.A. 2007) began her professional career as a financial officer for the Academy for Educational Development, a non-profit organization. She stayed with the organization through its acquisition by FHI360 and became the senior finance and operations officer. She is now the Director of Finance and Operations for Conservation International. Kennedy Horton (B.A. 2009) got his MBA at the University of Mississippi after finishing at Croft. He interned for Rebel Sports Marketing and worked for Liberty National Life Insurance and Southern Shopper while completing that degree. He is now a Financial Analyst at Fedex and co-owner of Front Porch Art, a small Memphis-based art market.

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  Multiculturalism and Post-Electoral Mobilization in Indigenous Latin America: Oaxaca, Mexico in Comparative Perspective

  Todd Eisenstadt

  Dr. Todd Eisenstadt, Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University, will be speaking at the Croft Institute on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). Dr. Eisenstadt is an expert on politics, elections, identity, and indigenous movements in Mexico and is the former director of numerous USAID grants in Mexico and has helped train hundreds of stakeholders in judicial reform implementation, electoral observation and other government processes there.

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  Middle Eastern Urban Life and Questions of Violence: Dissecting Public Unrest in 20th Century Kirkuk

  Nelida Fuccaro

  Dr. Nelida Fuccaro, who is currently leading a research project on the history of urban public violence in the modern Middle East, will give the first lecture in this year's Croft Visiting Speaker Series on Tuesday, October 15. Dr. Fuccaro will focus on Kirkuk, the historical center of Iraq's oil industry and the current site of fierce struggles between the Kurdish regional government and Baghdad over the control of oil revenue.

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  The Man Who Changed China: Deng Xiaopeng

  Ezra Vogel

  Dr. Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Monday, November 4, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Professor Ezra Vogel, a world-renowned expert in East Asian Studies who has written extensively on Japan and China, will be visiting the Croft Institute on Monday, November 4. He will be speaking on Deng Xiaoping, the leader of China from the late seventies to early nineties. Under Deng Xiaoping's leadership, China was transformed from a poor country, which had just endured a famine that caused as many as 40 million deaths and a Cultural Revolution that divided the country like a civil war, to a modern country on the way to becoming one of the greatest powers in the world.

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  From Mundane to Magnificent: Chinese Ceramics at Home and Abroad

  Virginia Bower

  In conjunction with the Silk Road Exhibit at the University Museum, the Croft Institute and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College have invited Professor Virginia Bower of Princeton University to speak about "Chinese Ceramics at Home and Abroad."

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  Working with USAID

  Jessica Bryant

  Jessica Bryant, (B.A. 2007), will speak in Croft 107 at 6:00 p.m. about her work with USAID. Jessica spent the last year working in Eastern Afghanistan as a Field Program Manager for the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI). Join us for this informational talk. Dinner will be served and Croft dollars awarded. RSVP to Dr. Schenck.

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  Voices from Bolivia: Experiences in Community Justice

  Kate Centellas and Miguel Centellas

  Thanks to the hard work of Dr. Kate Centellas and Dr. Miguel Centellas, we are pleased that Ole Miss will be hosting a group of visiting Bolivian community justice scholars and activists on Tuesday, January 24th. Community justice in Bolivia is a legal system whereby indigenous communities control the definition, prosecution, and punishment of crimes. The Bolivian constitution recognizes community justice as just as legitimate and lawful as the traditional (Western) legal system. Furthermore, the model of justice in many indigenous communities tends to be community based, not an individualistic one. The people visiting campus are scholars enrolled in a community justice program at UMSA, the largest Bolivian university, as well as activists and political figures in their (generally rural) home communities.

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  Croft Faculty Panel on Inequality

  Kate Centellas, Oliver Dinius, Gang Guo, and Jeffrey Jackson

  As part of the Spring Speakers Series on Inequality, four Croft and affiliated professors will present their own work on the subject at a panel discussion to be held on Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). The panelists will be Dr. Kate Centellas (Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology), Dr. Oliver Dinius (Croft Associate Professor of History), Dr. Gang Guo (Croft Associate Professor of Political Science), and Dr. Jeffrey Jackson (Associate Professor of Sociology). Like the rest of the series, this event is free and open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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  When China Rules the World: Perspectives From Taiwan

  John F. Copper

  With China rapidly rising as a world economic and military power and the U.S. possibly in decline the question must be asked: "When will China replace the U.S. as the world's paramount power?" Or will this actually happen? Dr. Copper will explore the economic, military, and political trends and consider the implications of possibility with a focus on Taiwan, as its future lies in the hands of the U.S. If the U.S. declines, Taiwan's future is with China not separate from it. If, on the other hand, the U.S. constructs a balance of power system in Asia to cope with the rise of China, Taiwan will almost certainly play an important role. Dr. John F. Copper is the Stanley J. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has written extensively on Asia and international affairs and has testified several times before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Sub-Committee on Asia and Pacific Affairs. Dr. Copper was a member of the Board of Governors of the East-West Center (and appointment made by the White House and the Secretary of State) from 1983 to 1989. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Chinese Studies and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Asian Affairs.

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  Global South Roundtable

  Kirsten Dellinger, Jeffrey Jackson, Annette Trefzer, Kathryn McKee, and Barbara Combs

  The Croft Institute is proud to host a roundtable discussion on the "Global South" on Tuesday, October 30 at 6:00 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). Dr. Kirsten Dellinger, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Sociology, Dr. Jeffrey Jackson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Dr. Kathryn McGee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Associate Professor of English, and Dr. Annette Trefzer, Associate Professor of English, will discuss various aspects of the "Global South", from the globalization of the American South to the role and status of the "south of the world": sub-Saharan Africa, southern Europe, South America, and the southern hemisphere in general. The roundtable will be chaired by Dr. Barbara Combs, Assistant Professor Sociology. Three-hundred Croft dollars will awarded to Croft students who attend.

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  Nationalism, Separatism, and Democracy

  Charles King

  As part of our visiting speaker series, Dr. Charles King of Georgetown University will be on campus on Tuesday, November 13. He will be speaking on "Nationalism, Separatism, and Democracy," an analysis of the way in which nationalism is reshaping itself in the current era, focusing more on values than on ethnic allegiances. with examples from Quebec, Eastern Europe, Scotland, and elsewhere. Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. He lectures widely on international affairs, social violence, and ethnic politics, and has worked with major broadcast media such as CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, the History Channel, and MTV. He previously served as chairman of the faculty of Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

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  Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?

  Nora Lustig

  The Croft Institute welcomes its second speaker in the 2012 Spring Speaker Series, Dr. Nora Lustig. Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University, will present "Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?" at 7:00 p.m. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

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  Obstacles to a Harmonious Society in China: Poverty, Inequality and Economic Imbalance

  Carl Riskin

  The Croft Institute welcomes its first speaker in the 2012 Spring Speaker Series, Dr. Carl Riskin. Dr. Riskin, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York, and Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, will present "Obstacles to a Harmonious Society in China: Poverty, Inequality and Economic Imbalance" at 7:00 p.m. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

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  Croft Graduates in the Private Sector

  Kendall Shiffler, Vaughan Leatherman Stewart, and Patrick Woodyard

  A panel of Croft Alumni will talk about their experience working in the private sector on Thursday, September 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). Three alumni, Kendall Shiffler (B.A. 2007) and Vaughan Leatherman Stewart (B.A. 2008), and Patrick Woodyard (B.A. 2010) are scheduled to present how their Croft education prepared them to work in the private sector, how they found their jobs, and what kind of work they do. Before graduating from Croft, Vaughan interned with Dunavant Enterprises in Memphis. She is currently the Canada Sales Administration Manager for Orgill, Inc. a Memphis-based hardware and home improvement wholesaler. Kendall worked as an Economic Development Analyst for the City of Dallas before beginning her current job as the Marketing Communications Director for PegasusAblon, a Dallas real estate development and acquisition company. After graduating, Patrick interned with Sinergia, a micro-finance project in Trujillo, Peru that works to financially empower women and families in impoverished communities. After his experience there he founded Nisolo, a start-up business whose whose goal is to offer cobblers from Trujillo access to markets in the US. All Croft students are encouraged to attend. If you are wondering about what the future holds for you, come and hear how these young women found success after Croft!

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  Immigration, Integration, and the New Germany

  Hans-Ulrich von Schroeter

  Dr. Hans-Ulrich von Schroeter, the Deputy Director of the German Information Center USA, an agency of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, will be giving a lecture entitled, "Immigration, Integration, and the New Germany" on Tuesday, March 6 at 6 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107). The event, sponsored by the Croft Institute for International Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, is free and open to the public.

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  Peacemakers: How to End an African Civil War Without Firing a Gun

  Andrea Bartoli

  Featured Speaker: Andrea Bartoli, Director of the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University

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  Making Regions for Geopolitical Action: The European Union and the Mediterranean

  Alun Jones

  Alun Jones is Professor of Geography and Head of the Schoolof Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin (UCD) having held senior positions at University College London and the University of Leicester, and visiting posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bonn. Professor Jones is a political geographer and author of numerous books and international peer-reviewed papers on European Union governance, Europeanization and the Mediterranean, and rural transformations in France and Germany. He has been the recipient of the Robert Schuman scholarship, the Edward Heath Award of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, and has been made Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. Professor Jones' recent research focuses on the discourses surrounding EU engagements with the Mediterranean in the context of theoretical debates on Europeanization.

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  Foreign Journalist Panel Discussion: Views of the U.S. Presidential Election from Abroad

  Curtis Wilkie, Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Geoff Elliott, Derk Jan Eppink, and Yoichi Kato

  • Curtis Wilkie, moderator. Associate Professor, University of Mississippi Department of Journalism
  • Anirudh Bhattacharyya. Senior editor, Network18 (India)
  • Geoff Elliott. Washington correspondent, The Australian (Australia)
  • Derk Jan Eppink. Correspondent, Knack (Belgium),; Columnist, Elsevier (Netherlands)
  • Yoichi Kato. Bureau Chief, American General Bureau of the Asahi Shimbum (Japan)

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  Fall 2007 Visiting Speaker Series

  Andrew Herod, Jan Bardsley, and Donald N. Clark

  Speakers include:

  • Andrew Herod, University of Georgia. Fighting Communism through Urban Planning: The AFL-CIO's Housing Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1960s
  • Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Princess, Geisha, Beauty Queen: Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan
  • Donald N. Clark, Trinity University. The Two Koreas: Lessons from the Past, Hope for the Future

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  Europe and the United States: Where Do We Go From Here?

  Hans Arnold

  Lecture by Dr. Hans Arnold, former German Ambassador