Winter 2012

January 18, Professor Tara Zahra, Department of History
"A 'Psychological Marshall Plan'" and "Renationalizing Displaced Children," chapters 3 and 4 from her recent book: The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II Discussant: Charlotte Walker-Said, postdoctoral lecturer in the Human Rights Program

February 8, Rachel Feinmark, PhD Candidate, Department of History
" 'A House United': Labor Rights as Human Rights at the U.N.", a chapter from her dissertation, "Look For the Union Label: The American Federation of Labor and the Jewish Labor Committee's Partnership for Economic Justice and International Human Rights, 1933-1955." Discussant: John McCallum, PhD Candidate, Department of History.

February 15, Alfred McCoy, J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Selections from Torture and Impunity (forthcoming) Discussant: Professor James Hevia, Department of History

March 7, Laura Dickinson, Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at George Washington University
Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Policy Discussant: TBA

All meetings are held in SS 401 at 4:30 p.m.