The Ohio State University Search Ohio State January 7, 2013 In this issue Events: Coming up at the Mershon Center Previous events available for viewing News: Mershon research grant applications due January 14 Midwest Slavic Conference 2013 deadline nears 'Origins' looks at legacy of Morrill Land Grant Act Coming up at the Mershon Center Thursday, January 10, 2013 Page Fortna Choosing Terror: Rebels' Use of Terrorism in Civil Wars 3 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave. Page Fortna is professor of political science at Columbia University and a member of the Staltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Her research focuses on the durability of peace in the aftermath of both civil and interstate wars, war termination, and terrorism. She is author of two books: Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents Choices after Civil War (Princeton, 2008), and Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace (Princeton, 2004), as well as articles that have appeared in World Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and Annual Review of Political Science. She is currently working on a book project on terrorism in civil wars. Read more and register View this message in a web browser Unsubscribe Friday, January 25, 2013 David Andrew Singer The Family Channel: Migrant Remittances and Government Finance 3 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave. David Andrew Singer is associate professor of political science at MIT. He studies international political economy, with a focus on international financial regulation, the influence of global capital flows on government policy making, international institutions and governance, and the political economy of central banking. He is author of Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System (Cornell, 2007) as well as articles in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and other journals. Read more and register Monday, January 28, 2013 Jack Goldsmith National Security Checks and Balances Noon, Barrister Club, 25 W. 11th Ave. Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, cybersecurity, international law, internet law, foreign relations law, and conflict of laws. He is author of Power and
Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 (Norton & Co., 2012), The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgement Inside the Bush Administration (Norton & Co., 2007), and co-author with Eric Posner of The Limits of International Law (Oxford, 2005). Previously, Goldsmith served as assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel and special counsel to the Department of Defense. Read more and register Other events Thursday, January 17, 2013 Raj Patel Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System 3 p.m., Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center Today 1 billion people are starving and 1.5 billion people are overweight. The United States has the most overweight people of any country on Earth, as well as 48 million people who are "food insecure." How did this come about, and what can be done to stop it? Presenting some of the findings from his recently updated book, Raj Patel tells stories from around the world food system. This event is part of the 2013 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Read more Thursday, January 24, 2013 J. Stephen Morrison At What Cost?: U.S. Leadership in Global Health in an Era of Austerity 11:30 a.m., WOSU@COSI, 333 W. Broad St. 1:30 p.m., Panel discussion Sponsored by Columbus Council on World Affairs J. Stephen Morrison is senior vice president and director of the Center on Global Health Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The health policy center seeks to advance a long-term strategic U.S. approach to global health, cultivate new global health champions, enrich our understanding of the security and foreign policy dimensions of global health, and link Washington-based work to emerging policy expertise in key developing and middle income countries. Morrison writes widely, testifies often before Congress, has directed several high-level task forces and commissions, and is a frequent contributor in major media on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance. Read more and register Previous events available for viewing
Jeffrey Legro spoke on September 28, 2012, at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Legro speaks on grand strategy in new international order Watch a streaming video of Jeffrey Legro, Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, speaking on "Supernexus: The Power of Position in the New Global Architecture." Legro is author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Cornell, 2005) and Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II (Cornell, 1995). Full Archive Visit the Event Recordings page for the full list of streaming videos from previous events sponsored by the Mershon Center. Note: Streaming videos recorded before Fall 2010 require RealPlayer. If you do not have RealPlayer, you can download it free. Mershon News Mershon research grant applications due January 14 Each year, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies holds a competition for Ohio State University faculty and students to apply for grant funds to support research in international security. Faculty and student grants may be used for a variety of research-related purposes including travel, seminars, conferences, interviews, experiments, surveys, library costs, and more. All faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate applications will be judged in the same competition pool. Applications from both faculty and students must be for projects that relate to one or more of the Mershon Center's three areas of focus: The use of force and diplomacy. The ideas, identities and decisional processes that affect security. The institutions that manage violent conflict. We will also consider projects related to Ohio State's global gateways in China, India
and Brazil, as well as policy issues in biosecurity and cybersecurity. Due to the transition of Ohio State to the semester system, we have had to move up the deadline for receiving research grant applications. The new deadline is Monday, January 14, 2013. For more information, please see the Mershon Center website. Midwest Slavic Conference 2013 deadline nears The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) are proud to announce the 2013 Midwest Slavic Conference, to be held at The Ohio State University on April 5-7, 2013. Conference organizers invite proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all disciplines related to Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The conference will open with a keynote address by Brian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan) and a reception on April 5, followed by two days of panels. Saturday, April 6, will feature a luncheon lecture by Irene Delic (Ohio State). If you would like to participate, please send a one-paragraph abstract (in PDF format) and brief CV to csees@osu.edu by January 16, 2013. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit presentations. Limited funding will be available to subsidize student lodging. Application Deadline: January 16 Notification of Acceptance: February 4 Panels Announced: March 4 CV and Paper Submission Deadline: March 22 The Midwest Slavic Association would also like to announce Between Shots, a series of focused panels within the Midwest Slavic Conference dedicated to film and visual culture in this region. It highlights film and animation,photography and multimedia art, graphic narrative and graphic design. Each year Between Shots also offers a screening of a film from Central/Southeastern Europe, with a corresponding panel discussion. Selected panels will be sponsored by the OSU Polish Studies Initiative and other cooperating cultural foundations, therefore limited support for travel and lodging may be available to participants in these sessions. Anyone interested in participating in the Between Shots series should include that information in the email with his/her abstract and CV. For more information on the 2013 Midwest Slavic Conference or any of the events taking place April 5-7, please contact Jordan Peters at csees@osu.edu. 'Origins' looks at legacy of Morrill Land Grant Act Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective is pleased to announce this month's issue, featuring "Merchants of Death: The International Traffic in Arms" by Jonathan Grant. In May 2012, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a partnership to offer online courses, free to anyone anywhere in the world. There is a historical resonance in MIT s involvement in the MOOC (massive open on-line courses) movement. MIT is a land-grant university, and the announcement came during the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Land Grant Act which created the land-grants. Arguably the greatest democratization of higher education in history, the Morrill Act stressed that higher education should be practical and that it should be accessible. This month historian David Staley looks back over the 150-year history of this experiment in state-funded, democratic higher education. The article can be found at go.osu.edu/highered. Origins is a free, non-commercial publication from the Public History Initiative and
ehistory in Ohio State University's History Department. Each month, an academic expert analyzes a particular current issue -- political, cultural, or social -- in a larger, deeper historical context. In addition to the analysis provided in each month's feature, Origins also includes podcasts, images, maps, graphics, timelines, and other material to complement the article. Origins can be found at http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/. The podcast is found at http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/podcasts.cfm. You can also follow Origins on Twitter: OriginsOSU About Mershon Memo Mershon Memo is a weekly e-mail newsletter distributed by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. You have received this newsletter because you have been identified as a party to whom these mailings may be of interest. If you would like to unsubscribe, please e-mail becker.271@osu.edu. 1501 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-1681 Fax: (614) 292-2407 View this message in a web browser Unsubscribe Designed by Creative Services