PAST EVENTS ON CAMPUS

2009-10 Academic Year

• Public debate on "Should We Love the Bomb? A Debate on Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia," featuring S. Paul Kapur, associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and Sumit Ganguly, professor of political science and the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, November 18, 2009. Co-sponsored with the Student Foreign Policy Intitiative and the Center for the Study of Global Change.


• Public symposium on "The Future of Nuclear Weapons," featuring Robert Jervis (Columbia University), John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago), Stephen Schwartz (Editor, Non-Proliferation Review), and Gideon Rose (Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs), October 29, 2009. Co-sponsored with the India Studies Program.


• Policy seminar on "The Future of Nuclear Weapons," involving Robert Jervis (Columbia University), John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago), Stephen Schwartz (Editor, Non-Proliferation Review), Gideon Rose (Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs), IU faculty, and IU graduate and undergraduate students, October 29, 2009. Co-sponsored with the India Studies Program.

2008-09 Academic Year

• Supporting and participating in a conference on the history and development of Indian foreign policy organized by the India Studies Program. The proceedings of this conference will be published in 2009 by Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

• Hosting Professor Thomas Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, for a reception following one of his Patten Lectures at IU.

• Participating in the International Homeland Defense and Civil Support Symposium sponsored by NORTHCOM and NORAD, Colorado Springs, CO, October 30-31, 2008.

• Sponsoring a speaker, Charles Savage, to participate in a symposium on the “Expansion of Presidential Power from Lincoln to Obama,” organized in February 2009 by the ABE (Lincoln) student organization as part of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial events at IU.

• Co-sponsoring with India Studies, Jewish Studies, and Turkish Studies a symposium on “From Mumbai to Gaza: Indian, Turkish, and Israeli Perspectives on Global Terrorism,” April 15, 2009.

2007-08 Academic Year

• Sessions on the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks against the United States at the 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium & Fair of the IUB Hutton Honors College (April 2008).
• Presentation by Stephen Flynn of the Council on Foreign Relations on the challenges the United States faces in the area of homeland security, co-sponsored by CAGS and the Center for the Study of Global Change (April 2008).
• Seminar on "Crisis in Pakistan: What is the End Game?", sponsored by CAGS and which featured Rafia Zakaria, IU doctoral student and weekly columnist for the Pakistan Daily Times; Aqil Shah, Columbia University doctoral candidate and University of Chicago Visiting Scholar; and IU Professor of Political Science Sumit Ganguly, Director of the IU India Studies Program and Director of Research for CAGS (November 2007).
• Roundtable on the "Burma's Political Crisis: Fate of the Saffron Revolution," co-sponsored by CAGS, India Studies, the Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, and the Research Center on Chinese Politics and Business (October 2007).
• Conference on "Business and Security: Challenges for Global Trade, Investment, and Finance," sponsored by the IUB Kelley School of Business (presentation by CAGS Director David P. Fidler on "Towards a Biodefense Industrial Complex? Bioterrorism and the Global Pharmaceutical Industry" (September 2007).