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2013/14 Schedule of Events

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Fall 2013

Date

Event

Speakers

Organization

Location

Room

Time

9/4

The Austin School Organizational Meeting

NA

Austin School: ACC Chapter

ACC: Pinnacle

504




6:00 PM

9/11

A Reconsideration of Modernity

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500




6:00 PM

9/17 (Tues)

The Right to Security: Gun Ownership and the Interest Principle

Matthew Watkins (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013



6:00 PM

9/20

Observation of International Day of Peace: Focus on Syria

Jason Brownlee (UT)
Jeremy Suri (UT)
Sarah Kaiser-Cross (UTg)
Roy Casagranda (ACC)

ACC Conflict Transformation
and Peace Studies

ACC: Eastview
                          

8500

9:45 AM

10/2

Purple Texas: Demographic Change and the Future of Party Politics

Cal Jillson (SMU)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500




6:00 PM

10/16

An Overview of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

504

6:00 PM

10/23

Peace is War: Negotiations, Israeli settler colonialism, and the Palestinians

Joseph Massad (Columbia)

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500




6:00 PM

10/30

Why We need a Second Giant Leap

Zack Kopplin (Riceu)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500



6:00 PM

11/6

Democracy in Latin America: Lo Bueno, Lo Malo y Lo Feo

Henry Dietz (UT)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

504


6:00 PM

11/13

Nowhere News

Bob Jensen (UT)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

504



6:00 PM

11/20

The Brazilian Spring

Kenneth Knowlton (Southwesternu)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013


6:00 PM

12/4

A Panel on Revolution: Part 1

Matthew Korn (Texas Stateg)
Kenneth Knowlton (Southwesternu)

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500

6:00 PM

Spring 2014

Date

Event

Speakers

Organization

Location

 

 

1/29

Europe and the Middle East in the 11th Century AD: Unified by a Sea, Divided by Ideology

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013

6:00 PM

2/5

A Panel on Revolution: Part 2

Eric Selbin (Southwestern)
Banafsheh Madaninejad (Southwestern)
Roy Casagranda (ACC)                       

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500

6:00 PM

2/12

2016 Presidential Election

Brian Smith (St. Edwards)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013

6:00 PM

2/19

The Devolution of Texas Education Policy in the Texas Legislature

James "Bill" Haley (Texas Senator & ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013

6:00 PM

2/26

The Very Modern Ancient Egypt

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

610

6:00 PM

3/5

Film Screening: The Square

Elizabeth Bishop (Texas State)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500

6:00 - 8:30 PM

3/19

The US and Iraq

Roy Casagranda (ACC)


Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500

6:00 PM

4/2

News as Entertainment: Seduction or Distraction

Kris Seago (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

610

6:00 PM

4/9

Unions in Texas?

Ken Zarifis (President of Education Austin: A Merged Local of the AFT and NEA, Representing AISD Teachers and School Employees)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

610

6:00 PM

4/16

The Egyptian Counterrevolution

Jason Brownlee (UT Austin)

Lecture Series

ACC: Eastview

8500

6:00 PM

4/23

The Intake Side of DFPS

Stephen Black (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

610

6:00 PM

4/30 - 5/1

Fifth Annual Austin School Conference

TBA

Austin School Conference

ACC: Pinnacle

1013


6:00 PM








Summer 2014

7/16

Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013


6:00 PM

7/23

An Overview of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Part 1

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013


6:00 PM

7/30

An Overview of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Part 2

Roy Casagranda (ACC)

Lecture Series

ACC: Pinnacle

1013


6:00 PM

 

u: indicates an undergraduate student
g: indicates an graduate student