Professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Rouen, Raphaëlle Branche has worked extensively on colonial violence, focusing on French Algeria. She examines issues of illegal violence such as rape, torture, summary executions mainly from the point of view of the perpetrators. She has also addressed more specifically the issue of prisoners during the French-Algerian war (1954-1962) and acts of violence committed by the Algerian civilians and combatants during the war of independence as well as during the 1871 uprising. In this event, Branche will discuss amnesty laws passed in the 1960s to quell violence. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/brancher

Realism is the oldest theory of international relations. Given the primacy of the realist approach and its compelling explanations of state behavior and the dynamics of the international system, does realism consistently provide the most reliable guidance for statecraft? More fundamentally, what precisely is realist foreign policy? How do we know it when we see it? The purpose of the conference is to assemble a "dream team" of realists to hammer out the elements we should expect to see in realist foreign policy. The goal is to develop a set of baseline expectations on a range of important issues for realist foreign policies that distinguish them from the liberal alternatives. Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, will be the keynote speaker. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/realistfp

Jonathan Kirshner is professor of political science and international studies at Boston College. He is the author of Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power, and Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War, which won the best book award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. He has also edited the volumes Monetary Orders: Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics and Globalization and National Security. His most recent books include Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society and the Seventies Film in America, and American Power after the Financial Crisis. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/kirshnerj

Richard John serves as Research Theme Co-Leader for Risk Perception and Communication at the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and associate professor of psychology at University of Southern California. His research focuses on normative and descriptive models of human judgment and decision making and methodological issues in application of decision and probabilistic risk analysis. He will discuss experiments on how well people can recognize false posts to social media following extreme events such as natural disasters and terror attacks. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/johnr

Jennifer Lind is associate professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College, a faculty associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and a research associate at Chatham House, London. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell, 2008), which examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation. In this event, she will discuss some emerging great powers successfully move into the great power ranks while others fail. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/lindj

During the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Mexico City acted as a nexus of radical artists and intellectuals -- from Mexico and abroad -- who met, organized, and created their works in this lively city. This talk analyzes the complex interactions of these folks from different parts of the world and the ways they shaped Mexico's post-revolutionary cultural and political environments. In addition to Mexico's leading artists, including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, this presentation will consider the photographer Tina Modotti (from Italy); the founder of the journal Mexican Folkways, Frances (Paca) Toor (from the U.S.); the printmaker Pablo O'Higgins (from the U.S.); the controversial arrival of Leon Trotsky (from the Soviet Union); and others. Register here (pdf)

Zara Anishanslin (left) is associate professor of history and art history at University of Delaware. She will speak on art and material culture in the American Revolution. John Lear is professor of history at University of Puget Sound, where he specializes in Modern Latin America. His talk will focus on Diego Rivera as an artist/political figure in the Mexican Revolution and the Cold War. Byron Hamann, associate professor of history of art at Ohio State will provide commentary. Co-sponsored by History of Art and the Center for Latin American Studies.

Brendan Nyhan is professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy of the University of Michigan. His research primarily focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care. He is a contributor to The Upshot blog at The New York Times and a co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a watchdog group that monitors the status of American democracy. In this event he will discuss evidence showing that consumption of fake news in the 2016 and 2018 elections was concentrated among a small group of people with heavily skewed information diets. Read more and register