|
Public Affairs Discussion Group
"What to Do in Iraq"
February 9, 2007
Crawford Hall, Room 9 - The Inamori Center
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
|
|
 |
Paul Schroeder, Ph.D. - Visiting
Lecturer in Political Science
|
Dear Colleagues:
Please join us on
Friday, February 9, to discuss the choices facing
the United States in Iraq. That is the topic of the
Friday Public
Affairs Lunch Discussion, which will meet
in Crawford Hall,
Room 9, from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. on the
Case Western Reserve University campus.
Paul Schroeder,
currently Lecturing in Political Science at Case
Western, will lead the discussion. Dr. Schroeder
spent 10 years as a newspaper reporter before
receiving his doctorate in Political Science at The
Ohio State University, where his research focused on
the development of Chinese business. He then worked
in China as trade representative for the State of
Ohio and in New York as corporate programs manager
for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Dr. Schroeder has also been managing director of
East-West Trade Development, Ltd., a trade
management firm with a focus on China. This past
Fall he taught our course on The United States and
Asia, and this Spring he is teaching The Politics of
Development in the Global South.
In the wake of the
August 2005 death in Iraq of their son, Marine Lance
Corporal Edward "Augie" Schroeder, Paul and his wife,
Rosemary Palmer, founded Families of the Fallen for
Change, a national non-profit organization devoted to
finding a responsible solution to American involvement
in Iraq. He has worked with Norm Robbins to develop a
proposal for American withdrawal from Iraq, and Families
of the Fallen has had written testimony accepted by the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. You can find
more information about those efforts at
www.fofchange.org.
The Friday Lunch is
open to all. Lunch is brown bag, but coffee, tea, and
cookies are provided thanks to the generosity of the
Office of University Communications and anonymous
donors. We are glad to be back on the lower level of
Crawford Hall. It has been remodeled a bit since we
last met there. Room 9 is within the Inamori Center;
you enter the Inamori Center and turn to the right.
Best regards,
Joe White
Spring Semester
Schedule
Beginning on February 2, the Friday Lunch will
move back to Crawford Hall, in ROOM 9. Room 9 is within
the Inamori Center, on the basement level of Crawford.
It is very kind of Bill Deal, Director of the Inamori
Center, to make this room available on a regular basis.
Thank you, Bill!
Room 9 seats 35, with a central table and also chairs
along the wall. It should be a better setup than
Guilford. If we expect a large crowd, we may be able to
open a partition and join up with Room 11.
There will, however, be a class in the room until 12:20.
Therefore it will not be possible to get there much
before the lunch begins. On the other hand, people who
are a bit early should be able to hang out in the
Tomlinson food court. I believe the underground passage
from Tomlinson to Crawford will be restored when
construction is finished.
Coffee will be provided from the SAGES Cafe'. Which
should mean very good coffee.
The tentative schedule of speakers, so far:
January 26: Phil (Perkins Professor of
Physics-Case Western Reserve University) and Sarah
Taylor, Wind Power and All of It's Aspects -
Environmental, Energy, Economic, Aesthetic, and
Maybe More.
February 2: Ken Grundy, Marcus Hanna Professor
Emeritus of Political Science, on subject to be
determined
February 9: Paul Schroeder, Visiting Lecturer in
Political Science and from Families of the Fallen for
Change, on what to do in Iraq
February 16: Mark Turner, Professor of Cognitive
Science, on cognition and politics
February 23: Mel Goldstein, Professor of
Anthropology, on why the Chinese are winning in Tibet
March 2: Susan Helper, Professor of Economics, on
strategies for American workers within the current
global competition.
March 9: Baiju Shah, President, Bioenterprise
Corporation, on the new economic prospects in Cleveland.
March 16: Break
March 23: Mike Aronoff of Cuyahoga County on the
evaluation of sexual predators for the courts―are they
really dangerous, and can we predict if they will reoffend?
March 30: Barbara Morrison, Assistant Professor
of Nursing, on how current patterns of care for Moms and
newborns deny them the peace and quiet and bonding they
need.
April 6: Open
April 13: Marixa Lasso, Assistant Professor of
History: Drugs, War, and Coffee in Colombia
April 20: Mark Joseph, Assistant Professor,
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences: Mixed-Income
Development as an Approach to Addressing Urban Poverty
April 27: Christine Cano, Associate Professor of
French, on the French elections (this date falls between
the first round and the runoff election)
Parking: For
those people who seek to make special arrangements about
parking, the contact person now will be Fay Alexander.
Her phone number is 368-4440, and her e-mail is
fabrienne.alexander@case.edu.
|
