Date: The date is the second (2nd) Tuesday of the month.
- Tuesday, January 11, 2023. Registration Day & buy Briefing Books if they arrive in time.
- Tuesday, April 11, 2023
- Tuesday, May 9, 2023
- Tuesday, June 13, 2023
- Tuesday, July 11, 2023
- Tuesday, September 12, 2023
- Tuesday, October 10, 2023: China and America
- Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- Tuesday, December 12, 2023: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Migration
1:15-2:30 pm – Presentations are In-Person at Meadowood unless otherwise announced.
Topic: ENERGY SECURITY
Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Program: 1:15 – 2:30 pm (EST)
In-Person Location: Meadowood Retirement Community: Terrace Room
- Masks optional unless notified otherwise
Presenter: Dr. Justyna Zajac
Justyna Zajac, Ph.D., is Professor of Practice in European Security Studies in the Departments of International Studies (IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies) and Political Science (College of Arts and Sciences). Dr. Zajac is a Full Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Zajac is also the Director of the Polish Studies Center.
Dr. Zajac’s research interests are international relations with special emphasis on international security and foreign policy analysis. She focuses primarily on European security, broadly understood, and its Mediterranean and East-Central European aspects, as well as on Euro-Atlantic security and political cooperation in the context of global redistribution of power and on Russia’s revisionist policy in particular.
Dr. Zajac values analyzing problems at the crossroads of politics, policy, and science through public service. As such, she was appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland to serve as a member of the National Strategic Review Committee. She was also a member and Chairperson of the Council of Young Scientists of the Minister of Science and Higher Education and a two-term member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on International Relations, European Consortium for Political Research. Dr. Zajac’s most recent of her ten published books is Poland’s Security Policy: The West, Russia, and the Changing International Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
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WAR CRIMES:
What are They? How can They be Prosecuted?
Presenter: Dr. Timothy Waters
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Program: 1:15 – 2:30 pm (EST)
In-Person Location: Meadowood Retirement Community - Terrace Room
Masks optional, unless notified otherwise
Timothy William Waters is Professor of Law, Val Nolan Faculty Fellow, and Associate Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Maurer School of Law, IUB. He has also been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (2021), a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute (2012-13), and Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School (2002-2005). He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and UCLA.
Waters writes and teaches on the laws of war, international criminal law, secession, and changes in states’ borders. He is the author of Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale 2020), and editor of The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy (Oxford 2013). Waters is a frequent contributor to policy debate on international law and politics and has published extensively in leading journals of international law and international relations, including at Yale, Harvard, NYU, Virginia, Duke, Stanford, and George Washington. His op-eds on Iraq, Ukraine, the Balkans, and international justice, as well as gun rights and public discourse in America, have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Völkerrechtsblog, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Conversation, and The Atlantic.
Prior to becoming an academic, Waters worked as a consultant on legal system reform for the Open Society Institute, and on ethnic discrimination for Human Rights Watch; a researcher at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; a human rights officer in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; and a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary where he helped open a high school for Roma/Gypsies and founded a nationwide English-language drama festival.
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Politics in Latin America
Presenter: Dr. Patricia Basile
Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Program: 1:15 – 2:30 pm (EST)
In-Person Location:
Meadowood Retirement Community
- Terrace Room
Patricia Basile is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington. Her major fields of study and interests include urban politics, housing, land, community development, community economies, urbancommons, urban planning with a particular focus on grassroots initiatives and social movements confronting and resisting injustices, oppression, and displacement, and the historical processes and policies that have produced them.
Basile has published peer-reviewed articles in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Radical Housing Journal, Urban Research and Practice, and Habitat International, a book chapter in Community Land Trusts and Informal Settlements in the Global South: A Common Ground Monograph, and articles in popular media.
Basile is particularly interested in questions of how policymakers and social movements operate, interact, and challenge historical and ongoing inequalities and inequities. Such questions relate to the struggle for democracy in the political and socioeconomic realms worldwide, but with a particular focus on Latin America andBrazil.
Basile holds a Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment focused on Urban Planning and InternationalDevelopment from the University of Virginia, a Specialization Degree in Building and Urban Sustainability from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, and a Bachelor of Architecture and Urban Planning from the same university. Before moving to the U.S., she worked for several architectural and urban planning firms, including Davis Brody Bond.
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Topic: War in Ukraine: An Update From IU
Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Program: 1:15 – 2:30 pm (EST)
In-Person Location: Meadowood Retirement Community: Terrace Room
- Masks optional, unless notified otherwise
Presenter: Dr. Robert Kravchuk
Dr. Robert Kravchuk, Ph.D., professor in the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow, is an internationally recognized expert in public administration, public finance, and political economy with special emphasis on Ukraine and Russia. At SPEA, he taught the former Ukrainian Minister of Finance, now the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S., so his presentation will be both professional and personal.
Kravchuk frequently writes and lectures on public budgeting and finance, administrative reform, and fiscal capacity building. He and co-authors completed the ninth edition of the textbook
Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics and Law in Public Sector, the most widely adopted public administration text in the U.S. He is on the editorial board of
Administration & Society and the
Journal of Public Budget, Accounting and Financial Management. Currently, he is writing a book on applications of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to U.S. federal finance. His long-term research projects include an exploration of the root concepts of American administrative theory and a comprehensive history of Russian public administration from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.
Kravchuk has served as a member of numerous U.S. Treasury Department expert missions to former Soviet and Eastern European countries. His administrative posts have included: service as U.S. Treasury Resident Budget Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine; appointment by the U.S. Secretaries of State and the Treasury as Financial Advisor to the President of Bosnia-Herzegovina; and Under Secretary (deputy state budget director) in the Connecticut State Office of Policy & Management.
Topic: Iran at a Crossroads
Presenter: Dr. Hussein Banai
Time: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Program: 1:15 – 2:30 pm (EST)
In-Person Location: Meadowood Retirement Community: Terrace Room - Masks optional, unless notified otherwise
Hussein Banai, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of International Studies in the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is also Faculty Affiliate in the departments of Political Science, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Central Eurasian Studies. Banai is also a Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies at MIT.
Banai's research interests lie at the intersection of political thought and international relations, with a special focus on topics in democratic theory, non-Western liberal thought, diplomatic history and theory, US-Iran relations, and Iran’s political development. He has published on these topics in academic, policy, and popular periodicals. He is the author of
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2020); co-author of two volumes on US-Iran relations:
Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) and
Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012); and co-editor of
Human Rights at the Intersections: Transformation through Local, Global, and Cosmopolitan Challenges (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023).
Banai is Lead Book Editor of
Review of International Studies, the flagship review journal of the International Studies Association. From 2018 to 2020, he served as an Associate Editor (for Social Sciences) of
Iranian Studies, the journal of the Association for Iranian Studies. In addition to his scholarly work, he frequently comments on Iran-related issues in the media. His interviews and comments on current events have appeared in
The Washington Post, The New York Times, Voice of America, Time, NPR, NBC News Online, CNN Online, BBC News, BBC Persian Service, The National Interest, Persia Digest, U.S. News & World Report, Inside Higher Ed, and
The Huffington Post.
Topic: China & America: Back to Future?
Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 Program: 1:15 – 2:30 pm (EST)
In-Person Location: Meadowood Retirement Community: Terrace Room
- Masks optional, unless notified otherwise
Presenter: Dr. Yu Shen
Yu Shen, Ph.D., is Professor of History and International Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany. She was born and raised in Beijing, China and completed her doctoral work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Shen is particularly interested in the histories and cultures of China and Japan, as well as foreign relations between the United States and East Asian countries.
Her goal over the past 20 years at IUS is to expand East Asian Studies offerings. With a grant sponsored by the U.S. Government’s National Defense Education Act (NDEA), she is currently converting some of her traditional face-to-face courses into online courses. The NDEA was originally passed in the wake of the Soviet Union’s successful launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1958 to encourage U.S. educational programming that enhanced our competitiveness and defense systems. Today, additional reasons exist for this funding connected to those original goals, including supporting students’ understanding of foreign languages and creating a globally competent workforce.
