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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"The
French Elections"
April 27, 2007
Crawford Hall, Room 9 - The Inamori Center
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Christine Cano,
Ph.D. - Associate Professor of French Case Western
Reserve
University
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Vincent E. McHale, Ph.D. - Marcus Hanna Professor of
Political Science and the Director of the International
Studies Program at Case Western Reserve University |
Dear Colleagues:
The subject for the final
Friday Lunch discussion of the Spring is out of
today’s headlines.
Associate Professor of French, and
Vince McHale,
Marcus Hanna Professor of Political Science, will
lead a discussion on the upcoming French
presidential election. The brown-bag lunch
discussion will be on Friday, April 27 in
Crawford Hall, Room 9 from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m..
That is in the Inamori International Center for
Ethics and Excellence, in the lower level of
Crawford below the SAGES Café.
Coffee is provided by the
Office of University Communications, and cookies by
generous donors.
Usually I try to say
something clever to introduce the topic. But this time
I’ll leave it to the International Herald Tribune. The
stakes are high and the choice quite difficult for many
reasons.
Best wishes for a great
end of the term and Summer break. I’ll keep everyone
posted on plans for next year.
Best regards,
Joe White
More About Our
Guests
Christine Cano
(Ph.D. Yale University), Associate Professor of
French, joined the Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures in 1999. Prior to her appointment at
Case, she taught at Bates College and Virginia Tech.
An alumna of Smith College, she spent her junior
year in Aix-en-Provence and at the Sorbonne in
Paris. Her research interests are in the French
twentieth century, but she enjoys offering courses
throughout the language and literature curriculum.
Her book Proust's Deadline (University of
Illinois Press, 2006) concerns the relationship
between writing and real time. She is currently
researching the twentieth-century reception of the
works of the Marquis de Sade. Dr. Cano is an active
member of Case's chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa
national honor society, Alpha of Ohio.
Vincent E. McHale received his Ph.D. from the
Pennsylvania State University in 1969. Although his
dissertation dealt only with French politics, his
research and publication foci since then have expanded
to include politics, political systems, and
socio-political change in all of Europe, with his most
recent article being "Democratic Transition and the
Evolution of Mass Politics in Post-Communist Central and
Eastern Europe," Historical Social Research (XX:2,
1995). His books include Vote, Clivages Socio-politiques,
et Developpement Regional en Belgique (1974),
Evaluating Transnational Programs in Government and
Business (co-edited, 1980), and he currently is
revising his 1983 two-volume edited work, Political
Parties of Europe. Professor McHale joined the CWRU
faculty in 1975, served as department chairperson from
1976 to 2003, and has formulated and directed the
International Studies Program since 1991.
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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