Albright Institute for Global Affairs
by Wellesley faculty, alumnae, and guests
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Description
Wellesley College proudly unveils the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. The Albright Institute educates women to fulfill leadership positions, strengthen the role of women in international relations, and inform policy discussions and academic thought in global affairs. Integrating the academic resources of Wellesley and the research capabilities of the Wellesley Centers for Women with the insights of global thought leaders, the Albright Institute will enhance the academic community of Wellesley, and students will take this knowledge into the world. The lectures below from Wellesley faculty and prominent alumnae provide insight into various global policy issues.
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What Is To Be Done When There Are No Global Leaders? Global Problems, Global Citizens, and Global Governance | Craig Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, gives a lecture arguing that global leadership is necessary to manage transnational issues including the environment, organized crime, and the international financial system. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Improving Global Food and Nutrition Security: Opportunities for Action | Rajul Pandya-Lorch '85 heads the 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment initiative at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She speaks about the current state of global food security and outlines a plan for future improvement. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change as a Perfect Storm: Complex Science, High Stakes, and the Age of Information | Alden Griffith, a fellow at the Wellesley College Botanical Gardens and assistant professor of Environmental Studies, gives a lecture on the complexities of predicting climate change. Griffith discusses the ways scientific knowledge is filtered through public opinion to create environmental policy. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Eurozone Crisis: How, Why, What Next | Professors Akila Weerapana and Joseph Joyce (Economics) join Rebecca Braeu, macroeconomic analyst and portfolio manager at Standish Mellon Asset Management, in discussing the history of the eurozone, its position during the recent global financial crisis, and the potential future of the euro. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Coup d'Etat: From Renaissance Theory to Contemporary Practice | Sarah Wall-Randell (English) traces the rise of pragmatic politics in Machiavelli’s The Prince, while Hélène Bilis (French) contextualizes the initial development of the term "coup d'etat" in 17th century France, and Donna Patterson (African Studies) discusses the coup d’etat in post-colonial Africa. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Imaginative Literature and Global Affairs. Or, Does Literature Have Any Authority Here? | Larry Rosenwald, the Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature and the co-director of the Peace and Justice Studies program at Wellesley, discusses the effect of literature and the arts on global affairs. Rosenwald argues for access to the arts as an international development goal, both as a method to understand human societies and as an essential human need in its own right. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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America's Future Global Challenges | Nicholas Burns, professor of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, served in the United States Foreign Service for twenty-seven years, including as the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008. Burns discusses the future challenges facing American foreign policy, arguing for a need to reemphasize diplomatic negotiation and share global leadership. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Religion and World Politics: Defining the Relationship | J. Bryan Hehir is the Montgomery Professor of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. In this talk, Hehir discusses how the public effects of religion have recently become an important factor in interpreting world politics, and suggests patterns for how this previously marginalized topic of knowledge might be further integrated into the study of global politics. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bridging the Gap: The U.S. Military, Leadership, and Foreign Policy | Vice Admiral Ann Rondeau, United States Navy; President, National Defense University Major General Angela Salinas, United States Marine Corps; Director, Manpower Management Division Vice Admiral Patricia Tracey (ret.), Vice President of Industry Development, HP Enterprise Services Patricia Young, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, United States Air Force Moderator: Stacie E. Goddard, Assistant Professor of Political Science | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transforming Perceptions Through Technology: Africa as a Case Study | Teresa Clarke, Chairman and CEO, Africa.com Leapfrog Technology; South Africa’s Access to Telecommunications; Sahara Reporters; Ushahidi’s Subsequent Uses; Kenya leads US in Mobile Payments | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whose Truth, Whose History? Truth, History, and Social Reconstruction after Large-scale Communal Violence | Lidwien Kaptiejns discusses three episodes of mass violence (Somalia, former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda) and the commonalities of those episodes. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Role of the Private Sector in Development | Rachel Robbins '72, VP and General Counsel for the International Finance Corporation, describes the relationship of corporate social responsibility to sustainable development and financial results. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission-Driven: One Alumna's Perspective on International and Domestic Opportunities to Enact Change | Rhonda Zapatka '94 describes her work as the Senior Director of Individual Giving at Trickle Up. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mending the Gap: From Scientitic Knowledge to Global Patient Care | Julie Levison ’98, MD, MPhil is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an infectious disease clinician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Her current projects evaluate the impact of viral resistance on HIV clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of drug resistance testing to guide the management of treatment failure in South Africa. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Apocalypse of Hope: Is There Justice in Political Violence? | Nicolas de Warren, Associate Professor of Philosophy. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global HIV/AIDS Policy After Three Decades of An Epidemic: An Update on the U.S. Government Response at Home and Abroad | Jennifer Kates is Vice President and Director of Global Health Policy & HIV at the Kaiser Family Foundation, where she oversees the Foundation’s policy analysis and research focused on the U.S. government’s role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. Widely regarded as an expert in the field, she regularly publishes and presents on global health issues and is particularly known for her work on analyzing donor government investments in global health; assessing and mapping the U.S. government’s global health architecture, programs, and funding; and tracking key trends in the HIV epidemic, a area she has been working in for more than twenty years. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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President Obama and the Future of American Foreign Policy | R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of Diplomacy and International Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University R. Nicholas Burns served in the United States Foreign Service for twenty-seven years until his retirement in April 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the State Department’s third-ranking official, during which time he led negotiations on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement, worked on a long-term military assistance agreement with Israel, and was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program. | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The National Security Council: Decisions in National Security | Katrin Katz served as the Director for Japan, Korea and Oceanic Affairs on the staff of the White House National Security Council from 2007 until 2008. Prior to her NSC appointment she served as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for International Organization | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The United Nations at 65: Adapting to a Changing World | Angela Kane has had a long and distinguished career in the United Nations. In addition to her substantive assignments, she has held various managerial functions, including with financial responsibility. Since December 2005, Ms. Kane had been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, a core function related to the prevention and resolution of conflicts. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Public Goods: What They Are and Why We Need Them | Joseph P. Joyce is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. At Wellesley he teaches courses in international macroeconomics, the economics of globalization and macroeconomic theory. | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Community-Based Approaches to Global Health - Earthquake in Haiti | Ophelia Dahl is the Executive Director of Partners in Health, and has worked as an advocate for the health and rights of the poor for over twenty years. A graduate of Wellesley College and a writer herself, Ms. Dahl also serves on the board of her family’s foundation to honor the work of her father, the late writer Roald Dahl, and is engaged in philanthropic works in the United States and her native England. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tackling World Hunger: Challenges and Opportunities | Rajul Pandya-Lorch is head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)'s 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, a global initiative that seeks to identify solutions for meeting world food needs while reducing poverty and protecting the environment. She concurrently serves as Chief of Staff in the Director General's Office. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tackling World Hunger: Policy Dilemmas for the United States | Robert Paarlberg is the Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Several of Professor Paarlberg's courses in the political science department draw upon his current research and consulting interests, which are in the area of international food, agriculture, and science policy. His most recent book, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trafficking in Persons in the 21st Century | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Women, Health, and Health Care | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Nuclear Challenge | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coping with Global Environmental Change: Lessons for the Future | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science without Boundaries in a Changing World | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All Models Are Wrong, Some Models Are Useful: Facts, Theories, Models, and Perturbations of the Global Climate | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Easy to Find, Hard to Believe: Information Reliability in Cyberspace | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rule of Law: Rhetoric and Substance | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Advancing Equal Rights for Women in Post-Socialist Countries: China, Eastern Europe and Central Asia | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can International Law Prevent Genocide? | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of Antigone—An Overview of the Concept of Citizenship | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emerging Economies and Power Politics in Trade | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russia - The Saudi Arabia of the North: Implications for the West | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leadership Lessons from Alexander the Great: Why History, | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Governance through Private Voluntary Initiatives | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Governance and the Problem of Social Justice | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MDG Progress? Theory & Application | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Journeys Toward a Global Ethic on Poverty and Social Justice | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Care About Global Poverty? | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 44 Episodes |
