Please join us for the first Fall 2017 Foreign Policy Seminar Series talk!

"Nobody Knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America: Colonial Medicine, Militant Nationalism, and the U.S. Empire"

Daniel Immerwahr,
Northwestern University

Reception and refreshments at 4:30pm
Talk at 5pm

This event is free and open to the public.

Water – One of the 21st Century’s Biggest Challenges.

5 - 5:30 Cash bar
5:30 - 7 Discussion
Free to the public.
RSVP at Benton@Uconn.edu

Moderator: 
John C. Volin
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost
NRE Professor, Department of Natural Resources, UConn.

Panelists:  
Penny Vlahos, Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, UConn.

Veronica Herrera, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.

Chester L. Arnold, is a Water Quality Educator and Director for Outreach at the UConn Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) and Co-Director of the NEMO Program at UConn.

Prof. Richard Nielson from MIT delivers a lecture.

This inaugural symposium will launch UConn’s Abrahamic Programs in the Middle East/North Africa Region. The symposium will encourage and foster intellectual exchanges and presentation among participants.

RADHA DEVI JOSHI FOUNDATION LECTURE Marking the 70th Anniversary of India's Independence / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017 at 3:30pm

Keynote by KARUNA MANTENA, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She holds a BSc(Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a PhD in Government from Harvard University (2004). Her research interests include modern political thought, modern social theory, the theory and history of empire, and South Asian politics and history.

Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (Princeton Univ. Press, 2010), analyzed the transformation of nineteenth-century British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on political realism and the political thought of M.K. Gandhi.

Since 2011, Professor Mantena has served as co-director of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought. And she is also currently the Chair of the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University.

RECEPTION OF LIGHT REFRESHMENTS FOLLOWING Q&A

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