Listed below is the Speaker Series for the Program for the Study of Democracy, Institutions and Political Economy.  It is our desire to provide valuable information and contacts for our audience.  If there's a topic of interest to you, please mark your calendar and plan to attend.  It's free and open to the public.

• September 10, 2001 - Professor Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University - 224 Carpenter Board Room, Perkins Library - 6:30pm - 9:00pm - "Multicultural Accommodation, Citizenship Rights and Muslim Women in India"

• September 21, 2001 - Professor Iris Young, University of Chicago - 204 Breedlove Room - 3:30 - 5:30pm - "Power, Violence and Legitimacy: A Reading of Hannah Arendt in an Age of Police Brutality and Humanitarian Intervention"

• October 3, 2001 - Professor Thomas Spragens, Duke University - 204 Breedlove Room - 12:00 - 2:00pm - "Civic Liberalism: Reflections on our Democratic Ideals" - Faculty "Brown Bag"
• October 12, 2001 - Profesor Katri Sieberg, Texas Technical University - 223 Carpenter Board Room - 12:15 - 1:45pm - "Resistance is Futile!: The Collective Action Problem and Successful Dissent"
• October 19, 2001 - Professor Joel Hellman, The World Bank - Room 226 Perkins Library - 12 noon - "Intervention, Corruption and Capture: The Nexus between Enterprises and the State"
• October 24, 2001 - Professor Jerry Hough, Duke University - 204 Breedlove Room - 12:00 - 2:00pm - "The Balance Principle and the Creation and Disintegration of Parties in Ante-Bellum America" - Faculty "Brown Bag"

• November 14, 2001 - Professor Chris Tucker, Duke University - 223 Carpenter Board Room, Perkins Library - "Contractarian Democracy: A Strategic Rational Choice Justification of Constitutional Democracy" - Faculty "Brown Bag"

• December 5, 2001 - Professor Romand Coles, Duke University - 204 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library - 12:00 - 1:30p - "Contesting Cosmopolitan Currencies: The Nepantilist Rose in the Cross(ing) of the Present" - Political Theory Colloquium

For more information, contact Doris Cross, 328 Perkins Library, 660-4328, dcross@acpub.duke.edu