Scott Snyder is senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. The program examines South Korea's efforts to contribute on the international stage; its potential influence and contributions as a middle power in East Asia; and the peninsular, regional, and global implications of North Korean instability. Snyder is co-author of The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States (Columbia, 2015). In this talk, Snyder will isolate competing notions of national identity as the main obstacle to a productive Japan-South Korea partnership. Through public opinion data, interviews, and years of observation, he argues that incompatible, rapidly changing conceptions of national identity in Japan and South Korea have complicated territorial claims and international policy. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/snyderscott

Ali Çarkoğlu is professor of international relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research focuses on voting behavior, party systems and political parties, religiosity, social capital, public opinion, and Turkish politics. Since September 2013, he serves as the dean at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics. In this presentation, Çarkoğlu uses election panel survey data to account for vote choice in Turkey, aiming to contextualize the election storm for the larger shape of Turkish politics. How do the bases of electoral support change from one party to another? Are short-term economics more relevant than long-term ideology in shaping party preferences? Read more and register at go.osu.edu/carkoglu

Jacob Shapiro is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and co-directs the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. His active research projects study political violence, economic and political development in conflict zones, security policy, and urban conflict. He is author of The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations, winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from the Mershon Center. The book is the first to systematically examine how terrorist groups are structured. Using agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own documents, Shapiro discusses the managerial challenges terrorists face and shows how their political goals interact with the operational environment. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/shapiroj

Sarah Snyder is assistant professor of history at American University, where she specializes in the history of the Cold War, human rights activism, and U.S. human rights policy. Her first book, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Cambridge, 2012), analyzes the development of a transnational network devoted to human rights advocacy and its contributions at the end of the Cold War. Her second book, Dictators, Diplomats, and Dissidents: United States Human Rights Policy in the Long 1960s (Columbia, forthcoming), explores the development of U.S. human rights policy during the 1960s. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/snydersarah

Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, one of 24 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position. He is based in the Department of Government and serves as director of the Institute for Qualitative Social Science. King develops and applies empirical methods in many areas of social science research, focusing innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application. His more than 150 journal articles, 20 open source software packages, and eight books span most aspects of political methodology, many fields of political science, and several other scholarly disciplines. King's work is widely read across scholarly fields beyond academia. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/kingg

Gro Harlem Brundtland earned her medical degree from Oslo University and a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. She later worked with the Ministry of Health in Oslo and focused on children's health. She also served three terms as prime minister of Norway, from 1981 to 1996. In addition, she served as Norway's Minister of the Environment, where she focused on issues of public health and the environment. Later, she served as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998-2003. In 2007, she was appointed as a UN Special Envoy for Climate Change. She is a founding member of the Elders, a group of 11 global leaders called together by Nelson Mandela, and chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to contribute their wisdom and integrity with the goal of conflict resolution of the world's problems. Read more and register

The Ohio State Global Gateways invite you to attend a workshop: Fostering International Programs: Study, Research and Internships on Wednesday, September 30 from 1- 4 p.m. in 156 Thompson Library. 

This workshop will consist of four sessions. Capacity is limited at the sessions and it is not necessary for you to attend all, but rather those most relevant to you. We ask that you please register for each session separately using the links below: 

1:05 - 1:35 p.m. - Initiating International Partnerships
1:40 - 2:25 p.m. - Research Partnerships
2:30 - 3:15 p.m. - How to Develop a Study Abroad Program
3:20 - 3:50 p.m. - International Internship Panel 

Following the completion of the workshop, you are invited to join us on the 11th floor of the Thompson Library from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. for a Global Gateways reception. 

The reception will be a great opportunity to learn more about the Global Gateways and the programs and services they offer.  A selection of appetizers from each of the Global Gateway regions (Brazil, India, China) will be available for you to enjoy. 

Phoebe You (China), Ratnesh Bhattacharya (India) and Luke Barbara (Brazil) will be on hand to share recent developments from the Global Gateways.

The World Climate Exercise, developed by Climate Interactive, is a mock-UN role-playing event that engages participants in a simulation of the international climate talks that will take place in Paris in December 2015 (COP 21). During these talks, leaders from around the world will meet to reach a consensus that will address the global issue of climate change. Their goal: limit temperature increases to below 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2100. Participants in this exercise will take on the role of negotiator and will experience first-hand the obstacles in reaching an international climate deal. Andrew Light, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University, will be speaking to the participants about their experience with the simulation. As staff climate adviser in the Office of Policy Planning in the U.S. Department of State, Light has served on the senior strategy team for the UN climate negotiations and will help consult for the State Department during the upcoming talks in December. Read more and register

CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 70 cities throughout the United States. The 2015 program will feature a live webcast panel discussion with Robert Rubin (left), secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton; Sheldon Day, mayor of Thomasville, Ala.; Daniel Rosen, founding partner of the Rhodium Group; and Stephen Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The panel will discuss Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States. The webcast will be paired with local presentations at venues across the country. At Ohio State, the presenter will be Rian Thum, assistant professor of history at Loyola University, and author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard, 2014). Read more at go.osu.edu/chinatowntall15.

Monowar Hossain is professor at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, where he has also served as head of the Department of Water Resources Engineering and faculty dean of civil engineering. Hossain has served on many high-level government committees in Bangladesh, where he is currently executive director of the Institute of Water Modeling. His talk will examine structural and non-structural solutions to managing flooding and drought in Bangladesh in the face of climate change. This event is part of the Hydropolitics Lecture Series. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/hossainm

 

Origins has published its new article: "Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina," by Carlos S. Dimas.

 

In the wake of the global financial collapse, the United States and other countries around the world have experienced historically low rates of inflation. Not so in Argentina. Although among the most advanced economies in Latin America, Argentina has been plagued for much of its history by sometimes unimaginable rates of inflation.

 

This month historian Carlos S. Dimas reviews the history of South America's third most populous country to ask why Argentina cannot seem to escape from the curse of inflationary cycles and their social dislocations. The whole article can be found at http://origins.osu.edu.

 

About Origins: Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective is a monthly ad-free magazine that features top scholars on today's most pressing topics. Published by The Ohio State History Department, its authors include National Book Award winners and world-renowned scholars. You can also explore reviews of popular history books on the Origins website as well as the new monthly feature Milestones.

 

The Office of Energy and Environment and the Environmental Professionals Network are hosting a film series designed to raise student awareness of climate change and the economic, health, political and environmental impacts resulting from climate change, on six Tuesday evenings this semester. Three evenings will screen episodes from the PBS series "Earth, A New Wild," and three evenings will screen episodes of the Showtime series "Years of Living Dangerously."

 

Each film is one hour in length, and a discussion session will follow hosted by a member of the Ohio State faculty. The film series is being offered as an independent credit course for students (ENR 4193 Section 35418) as well as open to anyone who would like to attend.

 

The film series takes place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. from October 20 through November 24 at U.S. Bank Theater in the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.  See the schedule here