Messengers of Genocide, Science of Well-Being, Targeted Sanctions, Cliodynamics

Coming up: Messengers of Genocide, Science of Well-Being, Targeted Sanctions, Cliodynamics

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October 23, 2018 Mershon Events

In This Issue Today! Mershon Events Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Mershon News Steven Lobell Other Events "A Granular Theory of Balancing" Other News 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.

Steven Lobell is professor of political science at University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Lobell is the Publications author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books including, most recently, Neoclassical Realist Kelly Atkinson Theory of International Politics (Oxford University Doctoral Student in Press, 2016) and The Political Economy of Political Science Regional Peacemaking (University of Michigan

Press, 2016). He is also the PI of Department of "Policy and Possibilities of Defense Minerva Research Initiative award on Humanitarian Development: "Power Projection, Deterrence Strategies, and Displaced Women and Peace-building Features of Escalation Dynamics in an Era of Challenging Near the UNHCR" Peers, Rogue States, and Terrorist and Insurgent Organizations." In this Refugee Survey Quarterly event, Lobell will present a finely tuned theory of balancing, arguing that October 4, 2018 states do balance effectively. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/lobells

Joyce Chen Thursday, October 25, 2018 Assistant Professor of Agricultural, Annette Becker Environmental, and "Messengers of the Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski and Development Economics Genocides" 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. "Moving to despair? Migration and well-being in Annette Becker is a professor at University of Pakistan" Paris-Nanterre and honorary member of the Institut World Development Universitaire de France. She is deputy director of January 2019 the International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre [Museum of the Great War]. She has published widely on World War I, its

Mohamed Helal commemoration, return of the soldiers, Assistant Professor of humanitarian aspect and trauma, and now focuses Law on the cultural aspects of the wars and links

between the two World Wars. She will discuss her "The Myth of U.N. latest book Messagers du désastre, Raphaël Collective Security" https://myemail.constantcontact.com/...e-of-Well-Being--Targeted-Sanctions--Cliodynamics.html?soid=1114205592858&aid=Ytq2bBHdCHw[8/1/2019 4:16:46 PM] Coming up: Messengers of Genocide, Science of Well-Being, Targeted Sanctions, Cliodynamics

Lemkin, Jan Karski et les génocides (Fayard, 2018), a history of the concept Emory International Law of genocide: the perpetrators, the victims, and the "messengers" who try to Review warn, to see, to speak. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/beckera April 23, 2018

Geoffrey Parker Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European Carol Graham History "Unequal Hopes, Lives, and Lifespans in the U.S.A.: Insights from the New Science of Well-Being" Imprudent King: A New Life 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. of Philip II, audiobook narrated by Nigel Patterson Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow Tantor Audiobooks at the Brookings Institution, College Park Professor October 19, 2018 at University of Maryland, and senior scientist at Gallup. Her most recent books include Happiness for All? Unequal Lives and Hopes in Pursuit of the American Dream (Princeton, 2017), The Pursuit of In the Media Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being (Brookings, 2011), and Happiness around the World: The Paul Beck Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Academy Professor of Millionaires (Oxford, 2009). At this event, Graham Political Science will discuss how well-being metrics can be used to identify and monitor trends in life satisfaction and "Dark Money and Politics" hope, and in desperation and misery. Read more and register at WOSU-FM All Sides go.osu.edu/grahamc October 12, 2018

"Get Out the Vote" Thursday, November 1, 2018 WOSU-FM All Sides October 8, 2018 Daniel Ahn "The Sword and the Shield: The Economic Impact of Targeted Sanctions and Adversarial Counter-Strategies" Bear Braumoeller Associate Professor of 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. Political Science Co-sponsored with Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics "The Science of Peace: Escalating Intensity" Daniel P. Ahn is a professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Arts and Sciences Ascent where he teaches graduate courses on energy October 2018 economics and conflict; senior adviser at the Rapidan Group; and adviser for the U.S. John Casterline government. He was previously the chief Robert T. Lazarus economist at the U.S. Department of State, where Professor in Population he advised the secretary and senior principals on a Studies wide range of international economic and security topics relevant to U.S. foreign policy, including "The African Century: global macroeconomic growth, financial stability, Studying the implications of economic sanctions, counter-terrorist financing, international trade, and population growth" energy security. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/ahnd Arts and Sciences Ascent October 2018 Friday, November 2, 2018

Skyler Cranmer Peter Turchin Carter Phillips and Sue "The Evolution of Complex Societies: Old Theories and New Henry Associate Data" Professor of Political 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. Science Peter Turchin is a scientist and an author who "The Science of Peace: wants to understand how human societies evolve, Suppressing Conflict"

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and why we see such a staggering degree of Arts and Sciences Ascent inequality in economic performance and October 2018 effectiveness of governance among nations. Turchin is the founder of a new transdisciplinary Lesley Ferris field of cliodynamics, which uses the tools of Arts and Humanities complexity science and cultural evolution to study Distinguished Professor the dynamics of historical empires and modern of Theatre nation-states. His most recent books are Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made "Theatre And Addressing Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth (Beresta Books, 2015), and Racism" Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History WOSU-FM All Sides (Beresta Books, 2016). Read more and register at go.osu.edu/turchinp October 15, 2018 Mershon News John Mueller Senior Research Scientist Mershon welcomes new peace studies coordinator "Nuclear Weapons Don't The Mershon Center for International Security Studies has a new peace Matter But Nuclear Hysteria studies coordinator on staff by way of Northern Ireland. Does" Foreign Affairs Teri Murphy was most recently deputy November/December 2018 executive director at Corrymeela Peace Center, Northern Ireland's oldest peace and Hollie Nyseth Brehm reconciliation organization. There she Assistant Professor of oversaw an analytic review of peacebuilding Sociology programming and developed a consensus- driven strategic plan; supervised 35 full-time "Resilience in the Aftermath staff and 25 volunteers; and managed a £1.5 of Genocide" million budget. Arts and Sciences Ascent October 2018 The experience positions her well for the peace studies coordinator role, which is split between the Mershon Center and the Randall Schweller International Studies Program. Teri Murphy Professor of Political Science For Mershon, Murphy will develop, plan, execute and supervise peace-related programming and educational activities, including conferences and speaker "How Trump Is Winning At panels; cultivate, expand and sustain collaborative partnerships with Foreign Policy" community organizations; and supervise peace-related student groups and Kera Think Podcast activities. Additionally, she will teach three undergraduate courses each year October 7, 2018 for the International Studies Program's Peace Studies minor.

Peter Shane Murphy has been actively engaged in conflict intervention and peacebuilding Jacob E. Davis and in several international contexts for the past 25 years. Her primary research Jacob E. Davis II Chair in interests focus on the intersection between peace, human security, and Law development.

"Why Trump can't fire As a scholar-practitioner, Murphy conducts applied research in conflict- Powell for disagreement affected settings including Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Turkey/Syria, and over monetary policy" the MENA region. Her focus is on developing culturally adaptive and MarketWatch complexity sensitive policies and practices for relief, stabilization, October 11, 2018 development, and transitional processes. She has written several policy briefs related to Turkey's mediative influence and aid approach in the region. Thomas Wood Murphy has a Ph.D. in social psychology from University of Cape Town. Read Assistant Professor of more Political Science

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About Mershon Memo Robert Johnson "Go to Your Gawd Like a Soldier": Understanding the Experience Mershon Memo is a weekly of Wars in Afghanistan from Malalai to the Mujahideen" e-mail newsletter distributed 3:30 p.m., 168 Dulles Hall, 230 Annie and John Glenn Ave. by the Mershon Center for Sponsored by Department of History International Security Studies, part of the College This lecture will examine the experience of of Arts and Sciences at The war through four key themes: the Ohio State University. appropriation of memory, the trauma of war, the ambiguity of victory, and the soldier experience. It will offer insights into the Stay Connected political, cultural, economic, social, ideological, psychological, and geographical factors that characterized conflict in Afghanistan across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Robert Johnson is director of the Changing Character of War Research Centre at the University of Oxford. He is author of The Great War and the Middle East (2016) and The Afghan Way of War (2011), among other titles. For more information, contact Jennifer Siegel.

Friday, November 2, 2018

Integrating Philosophical and Economic Perspectives on Well- Being 165 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave. Mall Sponsored by Center for Ethics and Human Values

When economists and philosophers talk about human well-being, are they talking about the same thing? Can we make progress on challenges like environmental sustainability and other important policy questions without a shared understanding of what human well-being consists in? This conference aims to foster interdisciplinary understanding and collaboration between philosophers and economists who are interested in well-being. It should be of interest not only to philosophers and economists, but to anyone interested in human well-being. Main speakers include Daniel Hausman (Philosophy - Wisconsin) and John Weymark (Economics - Vanderbilt) Read more and register

Other News

'Origins' examines history of presidential scandals

Origins has published a new piece: " American Presidential Scandals" by Marc Horger.

Unprecedented. That word has been tossed around a lot since Donald Trump decided to run for president. Whether or not it has been overused, it certainly applies to the volume and scope of the scandals in which he has been embroiled since 2016. Presidential malfeasance is not new, but as historian Marc Horger traces, Trump's scandals have wrapped up all the different kinds of disrepute into

one tangled web to an extent that is, well, unprecedented.

About Origins: Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective is a monthly ad-free magazine that features top scholars on today's most pressing topics. Published by The Ohio State History Department, its authors include National Book Award winners and world-renowned scholars. You can also explore reviews of popular history books on the Origins website as well as the new monthly feature Milestones.

Slavic Center to show film on Velvet Revolution

The Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies will host a screening of the film " Listopad: A Memory of the Velvet Revolution" followed by a discussion with the film's producer, Jeffrey Brown on Thursday, November 15, from 7-9 p.m. in Room 14 of the Psychology Building.

Here is a synopsis of the film: "Petr, Jiri and Ondrej are an unlikely trio of friends. An artist, a hockey player and a music trader, the boys survive Communism by playing sports, drinking beer, chasing girls and listening to underground music. But they are bound together by their common desire for freedom and, on a cold, dark night in November, Petr, Jiri and Ondrej join the front lines of a student demonstration in the streets of Praha. Face-to- face with the riot police, the boys are forced into a momentous decision: stand up against the Communist regime or give in to a system that has silenced their families for generations."

Carmen Collection: 1968 and the OSU34

At The Ohio State University, a Black Student Union (BSU) was formed to address concerns of African American students. In April 1968, a meeting was scheduled with BSU members and university administrators to discuss discriminatory housing practices and the lack of black faculty and course content at the university. After a white driver ordered four BSU members off a campus bus for discussing issues of the day, the meeting became increasingly contentious and ultimately resulted in a takeover of the university administration building by what became known as the OSU34.

In this video, four participants share their stories of that day, the fallout and outcomes that followed, and their return to campus 50 years later to mark that momentous event. This incredible story is an early edition of the Carmen Collection, a series that highlights hidden Buckeye experiences, challenges and accomplishments that have helped to shape what the university is today. Part of Ohio State's upcoming sesquicentennial celebration, the Carmen Collection will debut in autumn 2019. See it at http://go.osu.edu/CarmenCollection1968

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