Ilankai Tamil Sangam
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From Passion to Politics

What Moves People to Action?

"If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act: Psychic Numbing and Genocide"

2007 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
April 21-22, 2007

Friday, April 20, 2007

10:30am-12:00pm

Opening Plenary
"Social Bases of Political Action"

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Larry Bartels, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelist:

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies, Princeton University
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; Acting Director, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University
Robert D. Putnam, Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

1:00-2:30pm

"The Demands of God: Perspectives from the Evangelical Movement"

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: The Rev. Paul B. Raushenbush, Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, Princeton University
Panelists:

The Rev. Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Allen D. Hertzke, Director of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Oklahoma
E. Anne Peterson, M.D., Senior International Health Advisor, World Vision International

2:45-4:15pm

"Access to Antiretrovirals for HIV: How Activism Has Translated into Political Action"

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Christina H. Paxson, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:

David Barr, Executive Director of The HIV Collaborative Fund, Tides Foundation
João G. Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Jennifer Kates, Vice President and Director of HIV Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Evan S. Lieberman, Assistant Professor Politics, Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor, Department of Politics, Princeton University

4:30pm
Keynote Address
"If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act: Psychic Numbing and Genocide"

Paul Slovic, President, Decision Research; Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

Introduction: Daniel Kahneman *78, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

Saturday, April 21, 2007

10:30am-12:00pm

"Taking Office to Take Action"

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: James Leach '64, former Congressman from Iowa, John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Co. Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelist:

William H. Frist, M.D. '74 P06 P10, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
(R-Tenn.)
Eliot Spitzer '81, Governor of New York

1:00-2:30pm
Keynote Address
"The Power of Collaboration in Trans-National Action"

Jody Williams, Campaign Ambassador, International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Introduction by: Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

2:45-4:15pm

"Humanitarian Intervention"

Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall;
Simulcast to Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Gary J. Bass, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:

Barbara Demick, Beijing Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Ferris Professor of Journalism; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University
Peter Maass, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch