Schedule for Weekly Lectures

Schedule for Weekly Lectures

“American Studies Institute of the US Embassy”

US Embassies – Baku, Yerevan, Kyiv

April 2014

Topic: Social Movements and Political Change

Week	Speaker	University / Department	Topic
Tues, April 1  9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST	Dr. Robert Schaeffer http://www.k-state.edu/sasw/faculty/schaeffer.html	Professor Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Kansas State University	Social Movements and Global Social Change: The Rising Tide
Thurs, April 3 9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST	Dr. Philip N. Howard www.philhoward.org	Professor, University of Washington Professor, Central European University	Democracy’s Fourth Wave?: Digital Media and the Arab Spring
Tues, April 8 9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST
Thurs, April 10 9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST	Dr. Eric Selbin http://www.southwestern.edu/departments/faculty/faculty.php?id=eselbin&style=politicalscience	Professor, Professor of Political Science and University Scholar, Southwestern University	The Power of Story in Social Movements
Tues, April 15 9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST	Dr. Erica Chenoweth http://www.ericachenoweth.com/	Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Associate Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)	Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Thurs, April 17  9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST	Dr. Clifford Bob http://www.duq.edu/academics/faculty/clifford-bob	Professor of Political Science, Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair in International Relations, Duquesne University	The Marketing of Rebellion
Tues, April 22 9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST
Tues, April 29 9:30AM EDT 4:30PM EEST  5:30PM AMT 6:30PM AZST	Dr. Will Jones https://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/jones.htm	Professor Department of History University of Wisconsin Madison	The March on Washington: Civil Rights in the United States