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PACS Seminar Series

The Spring 2024 PACS seminar series will meet in person in Uris G-08 from 12:00 PM-1:15 PM on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted. Authors will lead a discussion of their works by delivering a formal talk followed by a Q&A.

Readings for the seminars can be accessed here (Cornell Net ID required).

Fall 2024

August 29
Is International Law Relevant to Today’s Wars?
Panelists: Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School; Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, Cornell University; Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University; David Cortright, University of Notre Dame. Moderator: Jens Ohlin, Dean of the Cornell Law School

August 29
Kathryn Sikkink and Averell Schmidt, Harvard Kennedy School
Peace through Law?

September 5
Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto
Tracking Digital Surveillance and Repression: Insights from the Research of the Citizen Lab

September 12
Guy Ziv, American University’s School of International Service (SIS)
Netanyahu vs. The Generals: The Civil-Military Rift in Contemporary Israel

September 19
Keith Gessen, Columbia Journalism School
Thinking about the Russia-Ukraine War

September 26
Reid Pauly, Brown University
The Assurance Dilemma in International Coercion

October 3
Benjamin Wilson, Harvard University
Strange Stability: Metaphors, Money, and the History of Arms Control

October 10
Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation

October 17
Marcus Board, Howard University
Invisible Weapons: When Uncontentious Politics Undermine Democracy

October 24
Kaitlin Findlay, Cornell University
A Humanitarian Vision Lost: North American Practices of Forced Displacement, Detention, and Humanitarian Oversight in the 1940s

October 31
James Patton Rogers, Cornell University
Killing Precisely: A History of Drones and Precision Warfare

November 7
Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University
A “Nuclear Umbrella” for Ukraine?

November 21
Ambassador Cohen 
TBA

December 5
Peace Puzzle Hackathon Presentations


Peace and Conflict Studies involves a wide range of scholarly topics. For a broader sense of what interests researchers and graduate trainees at the Reppy Institute, watch our recorded seminars here

A list of our previous seminars can be found here.