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Environment
February 2012
Earth Sciences Seminar: Reconstruction of Holocene Climate Variability in Western Asia
Environmental Studies Seminar: Water Resources Variability due to Changing Climate in East Africa
January 2012
Basin Management for Meeting Global Water Management Challenges
July 2011
“Demographic Effects of the Earthquake in Haiti”
May 2011
“Windows for Disaster Risk Reduction? Constructing Event Meanings”
“2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction”
“The Illusion of a CNN Effect? The Effect of Stochastic Policy Environments on Foreign Disaster”
April 2011
“Promoting Alternative Energy Technologies in Developing Countries”
March 2011
“Japan in Crisis: An FIU Teach-In”
February 2011
“Global Energy Outlook to 2030”
January 2011
“An FIU Teach-in: Haiti One Year Later”
December 2010
“Religion, Conflict, and the Dying Jordan River”
November 2010
“Gas and Renewables: Building a Cleaner Energy Bridge to a Sustainable Fuels Future”
September 2010
“Mission to Haiti: The Role of the U.S. to Reconstruction”
May 2010
“An FIU Teach-in: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Crisis”
April 2010
“Creating a Global Green Economy”
December 2009
August 2009
“Challenges to a Low Carbon, Alternative Fuels Future Workshop”
Identity
March 2012
Latin American Jewry: Identity and Gender
February 2012
Post Blackness in Contemporary America: Touré
Dances of the African Diaspora (Afro-Haitian)
January 2012
Immigrant Religion in the EU: From Refuge to Recognition
November 2011
“Conference on Zen Master Dōgen”
“Crossing The Sahara and Back: African Feminisms in Dialogue”
July 2011
“The Media in Haiti: Enhancing Coverage and Strengthening Capacity”
May 2011
“Strategic Culture Workshop: Costa Rica”
April 2011
“Vision of the Conqueror - Jain Art”
March 2011
“Islamic Secularism: A Contradiction in Terms?”
“Is Religion Good for the World?”
“An Expanding Vision of Pluralism in America”
February 2011
“In Search of Lost Tribes in Asia and Africa”
“Spirituality and the Growth of African Judaism”
“The Bible and its Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
January 2011
“Why the Chinese Are So Interested in the Jews”
“The Geisha Influence on Kimono Fashion”
December 2010
“Cuban Jews of Pedro Pan: The Lives of Three Men Bound by History”
November 2010
The Piano in Expressions of Cuban Identity: Stylizing Fold and Popular Music
July 2010
“Gender Issues and Women in Society”
“Trauma, Identity, and Nation in Music of the Cuban Community of the US”
May 2010
“The Issue of Identity vis-à-vis the Emergence of European Islam”
“Under Vine and Fig Tree - 500 Years of Turkish Jewish History”
April 2010
“The Piano in Expressions of Cuban Identity: Stylizing Fold and Popular Music”
October 2010
“Emergence, Evolution and Nature, Lecture by Ursula Goodenough”
“The Dark Side of Spirituality – Nazism and the Occult”
November 2009
“Who is the Dalai Lama? And What is a Mandala? and Construction of Sand Mandala”
“New Vision for a New World Reality: Prospects for the Anglophone Caribbean”
“Rethinking Cuban History: Cubanidad in the Context of the Americas”
“The Faith and Practice of the Hare Krishna Movement”
October 2009
“Spirituality and Entrepreneurship: East Asian Perspectives”
“Apartheid, Art, and ‘Grey Areas’ in South Africa”
September 2009
“Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age”
“Qué Pasó con el Bolero en Cuba en la Década del 60?”
July 2009
“Religion in Haiti and the Diaspora”
Security
March 2012
Changing Patterns of Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Immigrant Accommodation in the 21st Century
February 2012
Access, Boundaries and Cooperation: The ABCs of North American Security
Transatlantic Relations in a Turbulent Time
January 2012
Criminal Violence, Political Transitions and Democracy in Latin America
June 2011
May 2011
“Spain in the European Union: the First Twenty-Five Years”
“MEUCE Seminar: The European Union and the Hispanic Media”
April 2011
“South Asia, Security and Religion: The US between Pakistan, Afghanistan and India”
“Venezuela’s Petro-Diplomacy: Hugo Chavez’s Foreign Policy”
“Institutions Count: Their Significance in Latin American Development”
March 2011
“The Wars of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Human Survival and Social Change Amidst Devastation”
Neoliberalism, Globalization, Grassroots Resistance to Militarization and Border Violence in Mexico”
“Latin American and Caribbean Presidential Elections Roundtable Series: Haiti”
“The Arabian Peninsula in the Shadow of Revolution”
“The Legacy of Punishment in International Law”
“Internal and International Migration in Mexico: 1995-2000”
February 2011
“The New Inter-American Law: Human Rights and Constitutional Practice in the Americas”
“Poland and the World in the Age of Globalization: Values and Challenges”
“Women as Political Leaders in Postwar Iraq”
“Faultlines on the Rhine: A Euro Crisis”
“Egypt in Transition: An FIU Teach-in”
“E.U. and U.S. Policy Towards the Middle East”
“U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Challenge of Hezbollah”
“U.S.-Mexican Relations: From Globalization to Interdependence”
January 2011
“The US-Israel Relations: A Historical and Personal Perspective”
December 2010
“From Lula to Dilma: The 2010 Elections in Brazil”
“The Cuban Puzzle: Church Mediation and Political Changes”
“Postwar Japan and Germany in the Context of the EU External Relations”
November 2010
“The Obama Middle East Policy: Bridge to Peace or Nowhere?”
“Why Democracy Needs the Humanities”
September 2010
“The Rise and Fall of the Implied Warranty of Habitability”
“The British Elections and Their Impact on the EU”
August 2010
“Japan–U.S. Relations: Challenges Ahead”
April 2010
“Immigrant Rights, American Values & Global Citizenship”
“Darfur, Congo, and the Steps to Peace”
“Zimbabwe: A Country on the Precipice”
“Low-Intensity Democracy in Colombia”
December 2009
“‘The Sugar Babies’: A Documentary Film about Sugar Plantations, Children, and Human Rights”
“Democratization in the Middle East: Charting a Course for America”
November 2009
“What Ever Happened to the War on Drugs in Latin America?”
“Hezbollah: Local, Regional and Global Dimensions”
“Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Europe”
“21st Century Competitiveness in Latin America: The Role of Education?”
“Between East and West: Turkey’s Role in the Middle East and EU Accession Efforts”
October 2009
“The Internal Palestinian Conflict: Implications for Israel and America”
“Global Issues: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics since 1989”
“Debate or Catharsis? Critical Thinking in the Public Sphere in Cuba Today”
“Populism and Foreign Policy in Iran and Venezuela”
October 2009
September 2009
“After the Crisis: Emerging Challenges and Political Stability”
“Violence and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean”
“Reflections on the German Elections: A Roundtable”
Governance
March 2012
MEUCE Conference: Nationalism in a Globalized Europe
February 2012
50/50: The Road to Independence: Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
March 2011
“The European Union as a Global Actor in the Post-Lisbon Period”
November 2009
“A Question of Residence: Early Modern Court Society and the Urban Texture of Contemporary Vienna”
