Michael K. Busch

Calendar Update: Ruth Collier at CUNY Graduate Center

If you're interested in things Latin American, make sure to check this lecture out.  Prof. Collier is professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, currently in residence at the CUNY Graduate Center.  She and her husband, David Collier (Chair of the Political Science Department at Berkeley) have established themselves as heavyweights in the field of institutionalist studies generally, and Latin American studies more particularly. 

Professor Collier received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. Her fields of interest are Comparative Politics, Latin America, and Labor Politics.  Her current research interests are democratization and regime change, and Mexican politics. Collier’s publications include Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975 (UC: 1982), Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (co-authored, Princeton: 1991), The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (IIS, UC:1992), and Paths Toward Democracy: Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (1999, Cambridge).

“Shifting Interest Regimes

of the Working

Classes in Latin America”

Ruth Collier

Professor of Political Science,

University of California,

Berkeley

Tuesday, April 25^th

2:30PM

Thesis Room

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Gary Sick at CUNY GC

Here's a great opportunity to hear from someone who possesses a great deal of experience with regard to Iran.  Professor Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. Mr. Sick is a captain (ret.) in the U.S. Navy, with service in the Persian Gulf, North Africa and the Mediterranean. He was the deputy director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, where he was responsible for programs relating to U.S. foreign policy. He is also a member of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and chairman of the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East.

The Ph.D & M.A Program in Political Science 

Presents:

Gary Sick

Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University

Former Director of the Middle East Institute

Iran and the United States: Conflict in Search of a Relationship

The Dankwart Rustow Commemorative Lectures

Thursday

May 4, 2006

6:30-8:00 p.m.

Segal Theater

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

NYU Roundtable: War on Iran?

NYU has taken the lead in addressing the emerging crisis concerning Iran and its nuclear program.  This week it's holding a round-table discussion at the Kevorkian Building on a possible war on Iran.  Details below:

WAR ON IRAN?

A round-table with:  Ervand Abrahamian (on the history of US hawkish policy on Iran), Paul Auster and Siri Hustedt (on the politics of insanity), Shirin Neshat (on a possible war on the people of Iran), Molly Nolan (on domestic implications of increased militarization), Michael Massing (on impending war with Iran, given what we now know about Iraq), Sami Zubaida (on the broader implications of a war on Iran), and Shiva Balaghi (on being Iranian in America).

Monday, April 17, 2006  4:00-6:00

The Kevorkian Building (50 Washington Square South)

Teach-in on the Future of Iran

On Wednesday, April 26th, a community teach-in will be conducted at Judson Memorial Church on the future of American-Iran relations.  Entitled "Stopping the War Before It Starts: What We Need to Know to Resist," the panel will include CUNY Grad Center Professor Ervand Abrahamian, NYU Professor Timothy Mitchell, and Middle East Report editor Kaveh Ehsani, and will be moderated by a classmate of mine, Leili Kashani.  A description of the event as advertised reads:

Three years into the war on Iraq the same rumors and stereotypes are being deployed, only this time, with multilateral support -and against Iranians.  The U.S., which remains the only country to have ever used an atomic weapon against a civilian population and today has 890 permanent military bases in 130 countries, continues to talk about imminent threats to its security. 

Why aren't we mobilizing against deeper sanctions and a war on Iran?  What do we need to do to organize more effectively?  How can we do things differently this time?

Join us for this important conversation, designed to provide critical analysis about the crisis: understanding the conflict within the history of the U.S. empire, putting the nuclear issue in its proper regional context, examining the role of Israel and the ongoing wars and resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, and seeking opportunities for solidarity with progressive political movements in Iran and with anti-war forces throughout the world.

The event is being co-sponsored by Middle East Report, the NYU Persian Cultural Society, NYU Students for Justice in Palestine, and Youth Solidarity Summer.  For directions to Judson Memorial Church, visit their website.  For more info on the event, contact actionwednesday@gmail.com.