21st Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics & Public Policy:“Seeking Peace in Wartime; Opposing War in Peacetime”
Time and location Thursday, April 30, 2015
4 p.m. Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium, University of Notre Dame.
The historian Mary Dudziak, in her 2010 book, describes the current epoch as “War-Time.” From the Ukrainian war to the violent outcome of the Arab Spring to the ISIS takeover of parts of Iraq and Syria — nothing that has happened since softens this perspective.
The United States has been involved in conflicts for most of its history. But what is unique to the current epoch is that we are making war in what is legally a time of peace, and fighting against non-state actors in conflicts that elude the laws and practices of war.
These wars in peacetime have had contradictory effects on the peace movement, a movement that was formed to seek peace in wartime. This lecture will explore these contradictions and propose a path for the American peace movement to oppose war in peacetime.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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Sidney G. Tarrow
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Sidney Tarrow (PhD, Berkeley, 1965) is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University. Tarrow has his BA from Syracuse, his MA from Columbia, and his PhD from Berkeley. His work has covered a variety of interests, beginning with Italian communism (his first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967), then shifting to comparative communism in Communism in Italy and France (Princeton 1972, ed., with Donald L.M. Blackmer. In the 1970s he made a long foray into comparative local politics (Between Center and Periphery, Yale 1978), before, in the 1980s, turning to a quantitative and qualitative reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, in Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989), which received the prize for the best book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements from the American Sociological Association. His most recent books are Power in Movement (Cambridge, 1994, 1998), Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Cambridge, 2001), Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig, Rowman and Littlefield 2001), Transnational Protest and Global Activism (with Donatella della Porta, Rowman and Littlefield 2004), The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge 2005) and Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly, Paradigm, 2006).
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tarrow has served as Program co-Chair of the American Political Science Association Annual Convention and as President of the APSA Section on Comparative Politics. Recent work that can be viewed through this website are: “Contention and Institutions in International Politics” (2001), “The Dualities of Transnational Contention” (2005), “Rooted Cosmopolitans,” (2005), all three of which draw from his New Transnational Activism, and “Identity Work” from Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics (2006). Tarrow tries to justify the many twists and turns in his career in “Confessions of a Recovering Structuralist” (2006), and has recently bolstered his flagging energies by co-authoring articles with Tsveta Petrova (“Transactional and Participatory Activism”, 2007), Jennifer Hadden (“When Barking Dogs Whimper: What Happened to the American Global Justice Movement After Seattle,” 2007) and James Caporaso (“Polanyi in Brussels”). His most recent books are Transnational Protest and Global Activism (with Donatella della Porta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge, 2005), Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly, Paradigm, 2006), Power in Movement (third edition, Cambridge, 2011), and Strangers at the Gates: States and Movements in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2012).
http://government.arts.cornell.edu/faculty/tarrow/
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