Seminars / Reading Group

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PACS Seminar Series

The Spring 2025 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).

Spring 2025

January 30
Muhib Rahman, Cornell University
Military Insubordination and International Coercion

February 6
Vincent Intondi, PACS Domestic Affiliate Scholar; Myrriah Gomez, University of New Mexico; Mary Mitchell, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark; Magdalena Stawkowski, University of South Carolina; Hirokazu Miyazaki, Northwestern University
Nuclear Colonialism and its Discontents
**Virtual Panel Discussion**

February 13
Zoltan Barany, University of Texas at Austin 
States without Armies: Why They Exist and How They Survive

February 20
Ruth Lawlor, Cornell University
Beyond 1945: The Wars that Ended and the Ones that Didn’t

February 27
Helen Kinsella, University of Minnesota
Beyond Mere Inconvenience: Civilian Casualties and Civilian Harm

March 6
Sabrina Karim, Cornell University; Kanisha D. Bond, Binghamton University (SUNY); Summer Lindsey, Rutgers University
Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women's Status Affects Political Violence
**Book Launch**

March 13
Paul Lushenko, The George Washington University
What Makes a Drone Strike Legitimate in the Eyes of the American Public?

March 27
Colonel Rob Haertsch, Australian Army; Lt Colonel Frank Hartnett, US Air Force; Lt Colonel Christiana Crawford, Marine Reservist
Security and Alliances: U.S. Presence in a Changing World

April 10
Kate Epstein, Rutgers University
Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State

April 17
Emma DeSouza, journalist and peace activist
From Local Voices to Global Impact: The Power of Civic Engagement in Peacebuilding

April 24
Camila Bustos, Pace University 
Climate Change and Internal Displacement in Colombia: Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold

May 1
Anatoly Levshin, Harvard University
Bounding War: the Institutional Logic of Prohibitions on Militarized Bargaining