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UCI School of Social Sciences

The School of Social Sciences presents the inaugural lecture of the 2014-15 Expert Speaker Series

"Emerging Global Conflicts: Is the World a Mess?"

featuring Daniel Brunstetter, UC Irvine Political Science | Heidi Hardt, UC Irvine Political Science | Jennifer Ramos, Loyola Marymount Political Science | Brandon Brown, UC Irvine Health Sciences/Public Health

November 20, 2014
6:00-7:45 p.m.
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Daniel Brunstetter, UC Irvine Political Science
Brunstetter’s research focuses on dilemmas regarding humanitarian intervention amidst conflicts in Libya, Syria, and ISIS in Iraq. He will focus on the ethical concerns related to using (or not using) force in these instances, while critically examining the U.S. role in starting, fanning, and maybe even resolving these conflicts.

Heidi Hardt, UC Irvine Political Science
Hardt focuses on international organizations (e.g. UN, NATO) and how different factors affect their responses to past and ongoing conflicts. She will briefly discuss current and upcoming Fulbright research on improving our understanding of how organizations learn (and fail to learn!) from their interventions.

Jennifer Ramos, Loyola Marymount Political Science
Ramos will focus on the controversial U.S. use of drones in Pakistan, Yemen and beyond. She will explore the political, normative and strategic issues related to drone use, and take aim at the worry norm regarding the preventive use of force the U.S. may be setting that may make the world a more dangerous place should other states follow it.

Brandon Brown, UC Irvine Health Sciences/Public Health
Brown’s research focuses on ethical issues faced by healthcare workers in the Ebola epidemic. He’ll discuss ethical issues related to the use of experimental drugs during the Ebola outbreak and the impact of Ebola misunderstanding on black market treatment and stigma.

Moderator: Mike Moodian, Chapman University
Moodian is a Southern California–based writer and educator who has served on the faculty of Chapman University since 2007. He has released two books, including Contemporary Leadership and Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009), an edited volume that examines the application of cultural comprehension to organizations and the measurement of intercultural competence.

For further information, please contact Rosemarie Swatez,
rswatez@uci.edu or 949.824.2511.

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