Past Lectures

Convergence of Human Capitol Shares Across Cities (presented in the Moot Court Room, School of Law - IUB, February 15, 2006)

Jens Südekum is Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany. His research interests center on international trade, economic geography, public sector economics, and labor economics. During his stay with the Institute, September 12-26, Südekum will collaborate with his sponsor, Gerhard Glomm, Economics, IUB, on a research project entitled ‘Cohesion Policies of the European Union’ and will consult with colleagues in Economics, Geography, West European Studies, and the School of Business at IUB and IUPUI.  

Europe and the United States: A German Perspective (presented in the Moot Court Room, School of Law - IUB, February 15, 2006)

The Future of the European Union (presented at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs - IUB, February 22, 2006)

Joachim Krause is Professor of International Relations at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany and Director of the Institute for Security Policy. His primary research expertise lies in the fields of national security and international affairs.  He received his degrees in Political Science and Law from the University of Hamburg (M.A.), Free University in Berlin (Ph.D.), and Bonn University (venia legendi/habilitation).  He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Research Institute of the German Society of Foreign Affairs and of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the world's most important think tank dealing with security affairs.  Between 1993 and 2001, Krause was Deputy Director of the Research Institute of the German Society of Foreign Relations, which moved from Bonn to Berlin after German unification.  In 1986-87, he was Resident Fellow at the Institute for East-West-Security Studies in New York; in 1988-89, a member of the German delegation to the Conference on Disarmament; and in 1991, a consultant to the United Nations Special Commission.  In 2002-2003, he held the Steven Muller Chair of German Studies at the Bologna Center of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University .  Joachim Krause was a Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute February 11th to 25th, 2006.  

Gender and Feminism in African Development Discourse (presented Thursday, October 27, 2005 in Woodburn Hall 004 - IUB)

SIMI AFONJA is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She is one of the pioneers of African feminism and of Gender and Women's Studies in Nigeria. During her three week visit, October 20-November 12, Afonja collaborated with her primary sponsor, Gracia Clark (gclark@indiana.edu), African Studies Program and Anthropology, IUB, on a project concerning Ghanaian women's concepts of positive leadership in community-based civil society organizations. She also consulted with colleagues in Sociology, Gender Studies, and Economics at IUB and IUPUI.

Coming to Terms with Sectarian Strife in Renaissance France (presented Thursday, September 8, 2005 in Ballantine Hall 005 - IUB)

MARK GREENGRASS, Professor of Early-Modern History and Executive Director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, U.K., is a distinguished scholar in the history of early-modern Europe - in particular religious pluralism in sixteenth/seventeenth-century France. He also works in the history of ideas in their early-modern social and political context and in the application of information technologies to humanities research. His recent work includes an online edition of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/foxe/) and a recently-completedbook entitled Governing Passions: Pacification and Reformation in the Kingdom of France, 1576-1585. During his two-week stay, September 4-17, 2005, he collaborated with colleagues in Comparative Literature, History, English and Religious Studies.

Montesquieu, Constant and Tocqueville on the Nature of Despotism (presented Friday, April 8, 2005, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 513 North Park - IUB)

JEREMY JENNINGS is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, U.K., and an established scholar in the area of nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual French history and European political philosophy. Among other subjects, he has written extensively on French syndicalism and on Georges Sorel and is currently collaborating with Aurelian Craiutu , IUB Professor of Political Science, on the translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's letters to American friends after 1840. Professor Jennings was a Fellow of the Institute from March 19 until April 10, 2005.

Judicial Independence in Contemporary Italy (presented Thursday, September 2, 2004, Moot Court Room, IUB School of Law)

GIOVANNI KESSLER is a constitutional lawyer and a member of the Italian Parliament. He is also Vice-President of the Italian Euro-Mediterranean Association and, since 2002, a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption. Between 1986 and 1994, Kessler served as Public Prosecutor at the court of Trento and, in 1995-6, as Prosecutor at the Anti-Mafia Department in Sicily. Since 2001 he has served as a member of the Italian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). In 2003, he was OSCE Special Coordinator for the parliamentary elections in Armenia and for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan. In January 2004, he participated in the International Election Monitoring Mission during the presidential elections in Georgia and in November 2004, he headed the OSCE monitoring delegation in the U.S. He is also author of the report on organized crime, corruption, human trafficking, arms, and drugs in South Eastern Europe at the Fourth Parliamentary Conference on the Stability Pact held in Brussels in May, 2004. Kessler was a Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute from August 29 until September 4, 2004

Terrorism: The International Response of the Courts (presented Tuesday, September 21, 2004, Moot Court Room, IUB School of Law)

JUSTICE MICHAEL KIRBY , a Branigin Lecturer of the Institute, has served on the High Court of Australia since 1996. He has been a judge since 1975, serving on the Federal Court of Australia and as President of the Courts of Appeal of New South Wales and the Solomon Islands. In the 1990s, he served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Human Rights in Cambodia and on many other UN bodies. Justice Kirby is currently a member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organisation, and the Global Panel on Human Rights of UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS).