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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"Drugs,
War, and Coffee in Columbia"
April 13, 2007
Crawford Hall, Room 9 - The Inamori Center
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Marixa Lasso Ph.D. - Assistant
Professor of History at Case
Western Reserve University
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Dear Colleagues:
This Friday's public affairs discussion will give us
a chance to learn about a situation that lurks
constantly on the edge of the headlines - the
situation in Colombia, in which American
policy-makers frequently show an interest not only
because of the usual set of corporate and
ideological concerns but as part of the "drug war"
in the United States. Because of drug politics there
is little chance that U.S. policy-makers will
understand the situation in its own terms, but we
have a chance to do better, with help from Marixa
Lasso.
Dr. Lasso is Assistant Professor of History at CWRU.
A national of Panama, where she earned her BA, she
earned her M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh and
then her doctorate at the University of Florida in
2002. While pursuing her graduate studies she was
awarded both Fulbright/Hays and SSRC fellowships. A
historian of nineteenth-century Latin America, Dr.
Lasso has published several articles, including one
last year in the American Historical Review, and is
revising a book manuscript on the relationship
between race and republicanism during the Colombian
wars of independence. In short, Marixa brings to our
campus expertise in Latin America that was sorely
needed, and I'm very much looking forward to
Friday's discussion.
Our discussion on Friday, April 13, will be in the
Inamori International Center for Ethics and
Excellence, Room 9 of Crawford Hall, from 12:30 to
1:30 p.m.. Hot beverages are kindly provided by the
Office of University Communications, and cookies by
generous souls.
The final two topics of Spring semester - same time,
same place - will be:
April 20: Mark Joseph, Assistant Professor, Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences, on mixed-income
development as an approach to addressing urban
poverty, and
April 27: Christine Cano, Associate Professor of
French, joined by Vince McHale, Professor of
Political Science, on the French elections.
All the best,
Joe White
More About Our
Guests
Marixa Lasso
is an Assistant Professor of History at Case Western
Reserve University. A national of Panama, where she
completed her B.A., she received her doctorate at
the University of Florida in 2002. A historian of
nineteenth-century Latin America, with a focus on
Colombia, she has written several articles on
Afro-Colombian politics during the independence
period and an article about the Cadiz debates over
the citizenship rights of people of African descent.
She is currently revising her book manuscript "The
Harmony of War," which analyzes the relationship
between race and republicanism during the Colombian
wars of independence.
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: Lewis R. Katz,
John C. Hutchins Professor; Director of the Master
of Laws in U.S. and Global Legal Studies program at Case
Western Reserve University,
on the Ups and Downs of Running for
Congress.
April 6:
Horst von Recum, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering; Insoo Hyun, Assistant Professor of
Bioethics; and Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University on Stem Cell Research.
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: Normally 6 parking spaces are reserved in
the CWRU visitors lot off of Euclid Avenue for the
Friday Public Affairs Discussion Group lunches.
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