Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Events

October 2008

Title	Date & Time	Location	Description	Sponsor
Palestinian Politics After Arafat: A Failed National Movement?	October 10, 2008 1:00 PM-3:00 PM	Texas Union Theater 2.228	In this talk, Dr. Ghanem attempts to understand the situation of the Palestinians and their national movement at the start of the twenty-first century. He will attempt to trace and analyze concrete aspects of the state of the Palestinian national movement in the post-Oslo era. What happened during the past decade to the Palestinians in general, and to their national movement in particular, led to the internal and external failure. Externally, this failure was manifested in the disintegration of the regional and international status of the Palestinian national movement. Concomitantly, the efforts to establish a Palestinian state and resolve the conflict reached a dead end because of the deep internal schism which had developed, and which is incompatible with national unity. As'ad Ghanem is head of the Government and Political Philosophy Department in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.	This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Government.
''Complex Systems Approaches to Budget Change in Dynamics: Model Frameworks for Institutional Decision Making''	October 14, 2008 2:00 PM-3:30 PM	Batts Hall 5.108		Department of Government
''Social and Political Rights in the New Latin American Constitutions''	October 21, 2008 12:30 PM	Batts Hall 5.108	Roberto Gargarella is Professor of Constitutional Theory and Political Philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He holds graduate degrees in Law and Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Master¹s degree in Political Science from the Facultad Latinomamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Buenos Aires, and a J.D. and LLM from the University of Chicago. He has conducted post-doctoral research at Balliol College, Oxford. Professor Gargarella has published extensively in English and in Spanish on Constitutional and democratic law and theory, with a special focus on economic and social rights. He has received numerous awards and scholarships for his scholarly work, including a Tinker Scholarship (2007), a Fulbright Scholarship (2007) and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship (2002-03). He was also named ³Best Professor² at Di Tella in 2006 and 2007. Professor Gargarella has lectured extensively throughout the world.