Seminars / Reading Group
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PACS Seminar Series
The Spring 2024 PACS seminar series will meet in person in Uris G-08 from 12:00 PM-1:15 PM on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted. Authors will lead a discussion of their works by delivering a formal talk followed by a Q&A.
Readings for the seminars can be accessed here (Cornell Net ID required).
Fall 2024
August 29
Is International Law Relevant to Today’s Wars?
Panelists: Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School; Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, Cornell University; Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University; David Cortright, University of Notre Dame. Moderator: Jens Ohlin, Dean of the Cornell Law School
August 29
Kathryn Sikkink and Averell Schmidt, Harvard Kennedy School
Peace through Law?
September 5
Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto
Tracking Digital Surveillance and Repression: Insights from the Research of the Citizen Lab
September 12
Guy Ziv, American University’s School of International Service (SIS)
Netanyahu vs. The Generals: The Civil-Military Rift in Contemporary Israel
September 19
Keith Gessen, Columbia Journalism School
Thinking about the Russia-Ukraine War
September 26
Reid Pauly, Brown University
The Assurance Dilemma in International Coercion
October 3
Benjamin Wilson, Harvard University
Strange Stability: Metaphors, Money, and the History of Arms Control
October 10
Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation
October 17
Marcus Board, Howard University
Invisible Weapons: When Uncontentious Politics Undermine Democracy
October 24
Kaitlin Findlay, Cornell University
A Humanitarian Vision Lost: North American Practices of Forced Displacement, Detention, and Humanitarian Oversight in the 1940s
October 31
James Patton Rogers, Cornell University
Killing Precisely: A History of Drones and Precision Warfare
November 7
Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University
A “Nuclear Umbrella” for Ukraine?
November 21
Ambassador Herman J. Cohen
Russia and China in Africa; Contrasting Approaches with the U.S.
***Online only, Register***
December 5
Peace Puzzle Hackathon Presentations
A list of our previous seminars can be found here.