Whose Legal Empowerment? Donor Funded legal Aid and Experiential Learning in China

Veronica L. Taylor - School of Regulation, Justice, and Diplomacy - Australian National University
Friday March 4 - 12 Noon - Ballantine 004

This talk presents the results of a three-year project funded by the U.S. State Department in which we delivered Legal Aid funding and training in three impoverished regions in China: rural Hunan, rural Chongqing and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Alongside the project, we surveyed 1,800 households about their attitudes to rule of law and their experiences of family,land, labor and personal injury disputes. This is the most robust evaluation of a rule of law project conducted in China to date. On the basis of these results, we point to some important paradoxes in the way that donor legal assistance is designed and delivered and explain how we changed our project design to better accommodate local conditions.

athways for Mutual Respect and Yale University's Center for Faith & Culture Summer Institute

Pathways for Mutual Respect and Yale University's Center for Faith & Culture are hosting our 3rd annual Summer Institute, entitled Islam & Intercultural Collaboration: Leadership Amidst Controversy. This year's Institute focuses on leadership development and a limited number of FULL scholarships are available. Successful applicants may choose from two session options, each one week long. Questions, or to nominate someone for a scholarship, please call or email me: Jennifer Hartley, 203-737-0841 jennifer.hartley@pfmr.org

The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program Faculty-Graduate Workshop Series, Spring 2011

• All My Life A Musician : The Art, Contexts and Aesthetics of East European Jewish Traditional Musical Performers - Michael Alpert Paul - Artist in Residence - Borns Jewish Studies Program - Friday March 4 - Distinguished Alumni Room - 12:00 Noon
• Challenging Particularity: Jews as a Lens on Latin American Ethnicity - Jeffrey Lesser - Professor of History - Emory University - Friday March 25 - University Club President's Room IMU - 12:00 Noon
• This Land is My Land, Your Land is My Land: Dueling Narratives Within Israel and Palestinian Jerusalem Amy Horowitz - Dept. of Comparative Literature - Mershon Center - Friday April 22 - University Club President's Room IMU - 12:00 Noon

Interrogation in the Era of Non-Traditional Combatants

"Interrogation in the Era of Non-Traditional Combatants" Tuesday, March 1, 2011 7 p.m. Greg Hartley Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Memorial Library Auditorium Greg Hartley 's expertise as an interrogator, interrogation instructor and resistance to interrogation instructor first earned him honors with the United States Army. More recently, it has drawn national level intelligence organizations and international media to seek his insights about "how to" as well as "why." He graduated from the United States Army Interrogation School, the Anti-Terrorism Instructor Qualification Course, the Principle Protection Instructor Qualification Course, and Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) school. Hartley has trained government agencies, private investigators, human resource representatives, lawyers, and finance experts to read people and detect deception. He has worked as a business consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and consulted with international clients. Hartley is also the author of seven books. Register Now! 2010-11 Global Studies Speaker Series Sponsored by: Two-Part Series on "Torture and Interrogation in an Age of Terrorism" Tuesday, March 1, 2011 7 p.m. Greg Hartley Interrogation in the Era of Non-Traditional Combatants Thursday, April 14, 2011 7 p.m. Peter Brooks Ethics, Interpretation, and the Torture Memos Register Now!

The Challenge of Being the Majority: Intra-Jewish and Multicultural Issues in Israel

Talk by Prof. Tamar Arieli, Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies, this coming Sunday, Feb. 27, 7 PM, om "The Challenge of Being the Majority: Intra-Jewish and Multicultural Issues in Israel" at Congregation Beth Shalom (near the corner of Third St. and Smith Rd.). 


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Branigin Lecture by Christopher Melchert

Dear friends/colleagues,Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study presents a Branigin Lecture by

Christopher Melchert

Agreeing to Disagree (or not): The Shaping of Islam In the Early Middle Ages

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 4:00 p.m. - Wright Education Building, 1120 (201 N. Rose Ave.) IU Bloomington

The Sunni community formed in the ninth and tenth centuries CE around a series of agreements to disagree. Multiple texts of the Qur?an were accepted, multiple collections of sound hadith, and most importantly multiple schools of law. In the area of piety, Sufism evolved so as to avoid offence to the legal-minded, although tensions here have persisted to the present. Agreement was even more elusive in the area of theology, although with diminishing effects in time except as to the Sunni-Shi`i divide. Probabilism was the most important mechanism for keeping the peace: one felt sure that one?s own way was the closest to what God wanted but recognized that there was a certain chance that other ways were actually closer.

Christopher Melchert is University Lecturer in Arabic and Islam at the Oriental Institute and a Fellow of Pembrook College at the University of Oxford, England. He is one of the leading experts on Islamic law, focusing on the formation of Islamic legal traditions and on the early Hanbali school. His 1997 book, The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. has already become a modern classic.

U.S. Policy and Strategy in Afghanistan - What Next?

The Center of the Study of the Middle East announces the upcoming lecture

"U.S. Policy and Strategy in Afghanistan - What Next?"

by Larry P. Goodson, Professor of Middle East Studies U.S. Army War College

Friday, February 25 at 5:30 pm
India Studies House

For additional information see attached flyer or contact:

Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program
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This lecture is made possible through the support of The Indiana University India Studies Program, The Center on American and Global Security, and The Center for the Study of the Middle East.