This UConn Foreign Policy Seminar will feature Professor Manfred Berg who is the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Berg's lecture is titled “'For the Liberation of All Peoples, the German People Included’: Woodrow Wilson and the German Revolution of 1918-19”.

Professor Berg is the author of several books, including a 2017 publication of "Woodrow Wilson: America and the Reorganization of the World."

The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 5:00 pm.

Discussion of Prof. Fred Lee’s book Extraordinary Racial Politics: Four Events in the Informal Constitution of the United States with Lisa Lowe (Yale) as discussant

Are you a Political Science major considering studying abroad? Join academic advisor Suzanne Waterman and education abroad advisor Valeire Nightingale, for a session to learn more about the process, program options, financial aid and more!Register via Nexus as space is limited https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnexus.uconn.edu%2Fsecure_per%2Fevents%2Fevent_registration.php%3Fser%3D1401%26rc%3D6804545127&http://data=02%7C01%7Cvalerie.nightingale%40uconn.edu%7Ca8e07112e0714728a43808d6b20f38de%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636892175819148931&sdata=CYHIUaxntDW8vPLG6Mtf1YHX1khFZFDt9GM9wI818nM%3D&reserved=0

Screening and discussion of film FANON: YESTERDAY, TODAY with director Hassan Mezine and Professor Nigel Gibson.

Nigel C. Gibson is an expert in the fields of Africana thought, postcolonialism and African Studies and is recognized as one of the leading scholars on Frantz Fanon. He has presented his work in Africa, Europe and the Americas, as well as speaking at the UN and appearing on the History Channel. He is author of Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (2011) and Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003 [which won the Caribbean Philosophy Association prize]) and co-author (with Roberto Beneduce) of Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (2017). He is the editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999), Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006) and Living Fanon (2011) and co-editor of Contested Terrains: Contemporary Africa in Focus (2002), Adorno: A Critical Reader (2002), and Biko Lives (2008). He is currently the editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Hassan Mezine has worked as a photographer and film maker with anti-colonial filmmaker Rene Vautier and with Leila Morouche and Oriane Brun-Moschetti (Algeria Twists/Turns, 2004). Since 2016, he works as director of photography for Delou, a Nigerian TV series directed by Souleymane Maharanee. He teaches digital photography and multimedia in Paris.

Colloquium: Ideology or Interests? Explaining Support for Social Policy in China (Kerry Ratigan (Amherst College), Alex Jingwei He (Education University of Hong Kong), Jiwei Qian (National University of Singapore)

Come learn about the MPA fast track program and how it can fit with the POLS major plan of study! Presentation and Q+A

This Wednesday Workshop will feature Dr. Katherine R. Jewell and her talk, “The Square Origins of the 'Left of the Dial': College Radio and Student Protest Movements, 1969-1973”.

Dr. Jewell is a professor at Fitchburg State University in Economics, History, and Political Science. She currently is a UCHI Fellow. In 2017, she published "Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century" with Cambridge University Press.

In Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, widely considered a foundational text of the Indigenous Sovereignty Movement, Vine Deloria, Jr. devoted an entire chapter, as well as several asides, to consideration of “The Red and the Black” or of how to understand the distinct and related circumstances of Indigenous peoples and descendants of enslaved African people in the United States. He argued against both collapsing understandings of distinct historical situations into a singular analysis and treating them as incomparable. At the same time, he stated unequivocally that Indigenous activists, among whom he clearly counted himself, were most sympathetic to Black power movements rather than those that sought civic inclusion. This was because the former used the language of peoplehood, nationalism, and self-determination and urged “peoples to find their homeland and to channel their psychic energies through their land into social and economic reality.” Processes for doing so, he contended, might have been accelerated and strengthened had Black U.S.-Americans been placed on reservations where they would have interacted directly with a federal government that would have had to recognize their status at the Constitutional level and their own elected leaders.

This public discussion seeks to build on and update Deloria’s earlier insights. We will do so by considering questions including the almost complete absence of indigenous Africans in increasingly global Indigenous thought and politics; how it is that people, especially New World Black people, become indigenous to territories outside of the African continent and the potential liberatory effect of such an understanding for Afro-political life; how mental health and well-being for members of the Africana diaspora, as a third space between indigeneity and displacement, requires not only psychological interventions but also political change; and what an American hemispheric approach to settler colonial studies can reveal about what is due by way of freedom of movement and educational opportunity to the “undocumented” Indigenous.

Fuqing Li, "Chinese Intellectuals and Interpretations of the Mission of the May Fourth Movement: The Case of Li Shicen"

Xueke Zhang, "Power and Knowledge: Research on the Official Textbooks Publishing in Modern China"

Meina Cai, "Government Debt, Land Financialization, and Distributive Justice in China"

Yuting Yao, "Subnational Decentralization in China: Evidence from Compensation Policy for Loss of Land"

Discussion moderated by Professor Peter Zarrow.

Frames of Reference: Secularism, Religion, and Terrorism in the 21st Century

Network with site supervisors and students from popular POLS internship sites. Open house style - come with questions!

Research Excellence in Political Science poster session and reception

12:15-2pm in Oak 408

How Democracies Die featuring Prof. Steve Levitsky (Harvard University).

5pm in Oak 101. Sponsored by the Gerson Foreign Policy Lectureship Fund and the Department of Political Science

The Grapes of Development's Aftermath: Climate Change, Displaced Persons, and Conflict

Modernity’s Undertone:
On Reconceptualizing Political Speech

The Department of Political Science will honor its students at the annual Awards Ceremony and Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society Induction.