Past Seminars
Spring 2013 Schedule
February 15 – “Has fear of terrorism robbed America of its soul?” with Robert C. Gottlieb, Esq., Managing Partner of Gottlieb & Gordon and former defense attorney for Adis Medunjanin Time: 3-5p Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
March 1 – “Engendering Counter-Terrorism: Gender and Human Rights Perspectives on National Security” with Jayne Huckerby, recent co-editor of the Routledge volume, Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives Time: 3-5 pm Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
March 22 – “The Politics of Israel, Terrorism, and Pathways to Peace” with Carlo Strenger, philosopher, existential psychoanalyst and public intellectual; Professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University Time: 3-5 pm Location:John Jay College, 524 West 59th Street – Room 9.64
April 5 – “Radicalization: The Journey of a Concept” with Arun Kundnani, writer, researcher, currently teaching at John Jay College and author of several books including Spooked! How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism (2009) Time: 3-5 pm Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
April 19 – “Dominant violent non-state groups in a competitive environment: Insights from the Israeli and Palestinian experience” with Barak Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College Time: 3-5 pm Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
FALL 2012 Schedule
September 21 – “Nuclear terrorism and the dynamics of contemporary violence” with Brian Jenkins, senior adviser to the president at the RAND Corporation.
Time: 3-5pm
Location: L2-84, New Building, 524 W 59th Street
October 5 –“Police legitimacy and its threats: International terrorism, illegal immigration and cyber crime“ with Ian Warwick Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, QPM, a retired British policeman who held the position of commissioner of police of the metropolis from 2005 to 2008 and was the highest-ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service.
Time: 2-4pm
Location: John Jay College, New Building, 524 W 59th Street – Room L-63
October 12 – “The Koranic basis of jihad and war” with Sohail Hashmi, Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke. Sohail Hashmi’s work straddles Western and Islamic moral and political philosophy.
Time: 3-5pm
Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
October 26 – “Wrong turn: America’s deadly embrace with counterinsurgency” with Col. Gian P. Gentile, US Army Officer and Professor of History at the US Military Academy.
Time: 3-5pm
Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
November 9 – “The health consequences of the ‘War on Terror’: An agenda for the future” with Victor W. Sidel, M.D., Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Time: 3-5pm
Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
November 30 – “Prevention strategies against crime and terrorism: Practice and prospects” with David Kennedy, Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College, and Naureen Chaudhury Fink, Senior Analyst, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, New York City, and as Chair, Peter Romaniuk, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director, Center on Terrorism, John Jay College.
Time: 3-5pm
Location: John Jay College, Haaren Hall, 899 10th Avenue – Room 630
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